School: Piltown (B.) (roll number 6189)
- Location:
- Piltown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Maolchaoin
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- (continued from previous page)and went home. The great friendship arose between the Co. Kilkenny family and the Co. Waterford family. It was then a terrible crime for any marriage to take place between families of two different counties, but on took place in the next generation between those two families and a small man came one night to waken the house-hold. He said, "On your holding are two large crocks of gold to be found in the future years by a member of the Tobin family for service rendered to my people. It shall be found when the family will be burying a valuable animal.
- Collector
- Cecil Rocke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Piltown, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Simon Tobin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Tibberaghny, Co. Kilkenny