School: Cill Moibhí (C.) (roll number 13081)
- Location:
- Kilmovee, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0114, Page 192
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- (continued from previous page)-wards because the old people say that a light is seen every night since the cat died. The people never believed that the cat had any gold until the young girl got a pot of it from him and they believed that there are hidden treasures in some castles in the district. It is said that this magic cat left some kind of a stick with magic in it in a hole in the ground before he died but nobody knows where he left it.
Told by: Mary E. Duffy, 13, Clooncara, Kilmovee.
Written by: Annie McDonagh, 14, Raherolish
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- Collector
- Mollie Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballyglass, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Maureen Hanley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Crunaun, Co. Roscommon
