School: Cluainte (roll number 12404)
- Location:
- Cloontia, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Ní Riagáin
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“My grandmother says that she often heard her father and mother say that there was a treasure under a bush...”
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“My uncle told me that there was a pot of gold...”
My uncle told me that there was a pot of gold found by a man, Gallagher below at the foot of the hill of Doonmore in Doocastle
He had only a small farm and he was poor but he married all his daughters at home and gave them big fortunes. (no title)
“About eighty or 100 years ago...”
About eighty or 100 years ago there lived a man. There was a fort hear his home. One night he dreamt that he got a crock of gold under a bush that grey in the outer ring of the fort. The next night he dreamt the same thing, it is said that if you dream, three nights in succession you will get the gold, but he had not patience to wait and on the day of the third night he went out to search for the gold. The field in which he was digging was yellow clay soil. When he turned over the sods under the bush where he dreamt that the gold was he found black soil like turf mould he dug wider and deeper but he still got black soil in that spot. He was a very sorry man and he said that(continues on next page)