School: Loch Measca
- Location:
- Caherrobert, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire, Bean an Bhrúnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0103, Page 359
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- (continued from previous page)just when he had all his pockets full he cried out: -
"Thank God! I'm rich now forever."
He had no sooner said this than crash went everything. Life and sight left his eyes, and his brain became senseless. On the following morning, as if awaking out of a sound sleep, he found himself lying on the top of the Cairn, and what was best of all he found when he clapped his hands to his pockets that they were full of good hard cash. So up he got and started for home, but, as he was going along says Con to himself: -
"What came by the fairies may go by the fairies. If I stay here in this country maybe 'tis little luck or grace will come out of this money."
So Con set off for Derry, and took ship for New York, as he often heard it said for certain that fairies never go as far as America.
In New York he lived happily and died at the age of ninety, leaving his children and his children's children, who are noted for their richness to this very day.
- Collector
- Mary K. Casey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Creevagh Middle, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Martin Gannon
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Drumsheel Lower, Co. Mayo
