School: Cappamore (B.) (roll number 7480)
- Location:
- Cappamore, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: James McCarthy
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0520, Page 104
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cappamore (B.)
- XML Page 104
- XML “Hidden Treasure”
- XML “Hidden Treasure”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)On that night a horseman was guarding the entrance to the pit to keep out the diggers.
The next day they started to dig again, but after a while they saw a little red man in the pit, and he went in a little door that was his own size.
A week after that, a man went there digging, and a man came out and in ten minutes his beard was tipping the ground. He asked the other man what brought him there and the latter replied, "Where is the gold?" The old man said "In the ground."
- Transcription guide » 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.
- Collector
- John Merrick
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Turagh, Co. Limerick
