School: An Bhlárna (C.)
- Location:
- Blarney, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Winifred Scantlebury
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- (continued from previous page)in a faint. She forgot to put the cover on the well the water came rushing out. It got so high that the giant and his wives were drowned, But the lady and her husband were saved. One day a man tried to drain the present lake but he failed because the lake is a spring one.
They say that 22 white horses are necessary to get the gold. That once a man tried with twentyone horses. It got up to the bank but the strength of one other horse was missing and the bridle broke and the gold fell into the lake. Nowone ever tried cince so the gold is still believed to be at the bottom of the lake.
- Collector
- Peggy Wallace
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Pat Bradley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Blarney, Co. Cork
