School: Tuar Árd, Áth Treasna (roll number 8893)
- Location:
- Toorard, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0353, Page 313
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - My Grandmother told me the following story. A man one time had a servant boy. The servant boy died and one morning when the man woke he saw the servant boy outside the window looking in. The man said "What do you want". The servant boy said, I will make you rich if you will do what I tell you. I will said the man, what is it. The servant boy said, there is gold hidden over in the fort and go tonight for it, but there is a woman minding it and don't go while she is there. How will I know if she is there said the man. The servant boy said, she goes away at a certain hour by night to another fort, and if you will stand at the door, you will see her going. "All right" said the man. When night drew near, the man watched the woman, and when he saw her going away he got afraid and would not go at all for the gold.
