School: Rooskey (roll number 4800)
- Location:
- Roosky, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Luke Caslin
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Mrs Mary Mc Loughlin 80 years now dead told me the following story.
She said one night her son was coming home from a fair. As he was coming along the road he came to a small little bush, and under it he saw a little man fixing boots.
The little man told him that if he gave him a penny he would change it into a lump of gold, and that he would never be poor again. The boy have him a penny and the little man told him to look at the lovely lady by his side. The boy looked and when he looked again the man was gone.
Florrie Hoare, Ruskey, Co. Roscommon
19 Jan. '38
- Collector
- Florrie Hoare
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Roosky, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
