School: Srón (roll number 9090)
- Location:
- Shrone Beg, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Carrthaigh
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- About a hundred years ago a man by the name of Dan O Connor of Shronebeg was fencing with his hired man. His name was Healy. They were tearing up an old fence for to make a new one and Dan O Connor the owner of the farm espied an old pot in the middle of the old fence they were tearing down. He got serious and thought of a plan knowing that the hired man did not see the pot. He wanted to find the contents of the pot without the hired man's knowledge so he ordered him home to his dinner. Discribing to him the path he would take to go home and to come back again the same way. When he went to O Connor's house Mrs O Connor asked him what brought him in He said he was sent by the boas to take his dinner. She called him ugly names and told him to go back again to where he had left as the dinner was not prepared as yet. He obeyed Mrs O Connor's order and went back to work to where he had left and to his great surprise Dan O Connor had disappeared. After digging up the pot and seeing it was full of gold he took a different path to go home beyond that which he had showed the workman. Dan O Connor told his wife why he had send the workman to his dinner and was delighted at the plan he thought of and so was his wife when she saw the gold in the pot and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hannah Scannell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shrone More, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Humphry Moynihan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Shrone More, Co. Kerry