School: Dún Mór (cailíní)

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   “In olden times there lived in Strawberryhill, Dunmore, Co. Galway a poor man who had but two goats and the people called him Bodach na nGabhar.”

   

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   to the Bridge of Athlone and next morning he arose early, milked the goats and set off. When he reached the bridge he walked up and down along it for three days and at last an old man approached him and asked him what he was doing there. Bodach na nGabhar told him the instructions he had received from the voice that spoke down the chimney to him. Then the old man told Bodach that a voice spoke to him down his own chimney and told him to go the house of Bodach na nGabhar in Strawberry hill, Dunmore, Galway and that he would get his fortune there. Bodach na nGabhar said nothing but went home. Next morning he arose early, milked his goats, ate his breakfast, got a spade and began to dig under the rock in his hut. After a while he got a pot which was filled with gold and a note in it saying that he would find luck on the other side. He then dug under the other side of the rock, there he found another pot of gold in which there was a note similar to that found in the first pot which he got and containing the same instructions. He was now a very

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   AT1645: The Treasure at Home

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eibhlín Ní Ailledéa

   Gender

   Female

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Address

   Dunmore, Co. Galway

   Informant

   James Mullen

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   71

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Dunmore, Co. Galway