School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ní Chróinín
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- (continued from previous page)were obliged to lie down and put crow-bars, picks and spades over them to keep themselves from being blown away. When the storm grew calm, they being so terribly frightened made the best of their speed home; and so the crock of gold still lies at the lone bush. This bush is on our farm.
- There were two men, father and son who lived in the townland of Arwark about eighty years ago. They worked very hard on a large farm and were very greedy for making money, early and late. They owned a fort just above Tattenclave School.
One day they had to build eight stacks of corn on the field that the fort is in, and it being a heavy day's work, they were late finishing. When they had all built the son had to leave the father to go on his ceilidhe.
The father, thinking that it looked(continues on next page)
