School: Drummullan (roll number 13829)
- Location:
- Drummullin, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Oirealla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0249, Page 283
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“Once a boy fell in with two robbers. Now there lived near those robbers a man who was very rich...”
(continued from previous page)and let him go. The boy went straight to the wood where the robbers lived and saw them counting gold through the window. Then he made great noise outside and shouted "You go to the left and I go to the right and let none of them escape alive. When the robbers heard that they got afraid and escaped by an underground channel. Then the boy went in to the house and found a great pile of gold on the floor and he brought it away with him.
- Collector
- James Gormley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Commeen, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Lynda Shannon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Tansyfield, Co. Roscommon