School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. Emerentia
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- The old people of my locality are very fond of telling stories of old times. There is one in particular that has a great effect on everyone that hears it.
It was an old man named John Heslin that I first heard telling this story and I thought it a very witty one.
The story was about a man named Connell who lived in an adjacent townland. He had a large amount ofmoney and he was a great miser so he resolved to bury the money in a bog nearby. He got a large pot and having put the money into it he went off under cover of night and buried the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maise Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female