School: Bansha (B.) (roll number 11964)
- Location:
- Bansha, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Peter Horgan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0575, Page 160
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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. - About thirty year ago the Keoghs lived very near a fort. One night one of the Keoghs dreamt they would find gold in the ditch of this fort which was in Lisgibbon Bansha. They went to a fortune teller in Clonmel and she told them that they would find this gold but that they would lose a life after getting it. They went home and the next day they began to dig and in the evening they reached the flat stone. They had a servant boy working with them digging the gold. When they reached the flat stone they said it was too wet to work that evening and they gave him a ten shilling note and told him to go into Bansha and have a few drinks for the rest of the evening. When he had gone they found the gold. When he came back they had the gold. A short time after their sister died ; she turned black when she was dead. What the fortune teller told them came true.
