School: Drumlease (roll number 15382)
- Location:
- Drumlease, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Tomás Diolún
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- When Hamilton the English tyrant was in pursuit of ORourke it is said that ORourke hid his treasures in a place in ORourke's table. This particular place in ORourke's table is called "Poll a Ding Dong". It is called Ding Dong, because if you threw in a stone into this hole you will hear the echo of it going down like "Ding Dong".
It is that there is a monster guarding below in bottom of "Pull a Ding Dong". One night a very brave man was on his way home and he said he would go down in "Pull a Ding Dong" to find ORourke's treasures.
This man's name was MacSharry. He plunged into the(continues on next page)- Collector
- John O' Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilcoosy, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Thomas O' Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilcoosy, Co. Leitrim