School: Dubhthrian (Diffreen) (roll number 6680)
- Location:
- Diffreen, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: (name not given)
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“There was a man living in Glencar one time and he dreamt if he was beyond on London Bridge he would get a pot of gold.”
(continued from previous page)man told him and got a pot of gold. At that time there used to be poor scholars travelling the country and they sometimes got alms. There came one day to the house of the man that got the pot of gold and asked the vanithee where she got it. She told him it wasn't his business, but he said "whereve you got it there's the same the other side of the bush." This was written on the side of the pot but nobody except poor scholars could read at that time.
When her husband came home the vanithee told him what had happened. He then went out, dug the other side of the bush and got another pot of gold.
- Informant
- Mrs Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 78
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Tawnamachugh, Co. Leitrim