School: Inis (B.) (roll number 15042)
- Location:
- Ennis, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Fionnmhacháin
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- (continued from previous page)war he left a pot of gold there and he never returned.
4. There was a woman named Mrs. Barry and she dreamed four nights one after another about gold. She told her husband about it and she said it was at the side of a river and the husband said he would go out to that place and try it. He got up early in the morning and got his pick axe and shovel. When he came to the place of which his wife told him he began to dig and he only had about dug to the depth of a foot when about a thousand rats with light coming out of their eyes rushed out and ate the throat of the man.
5. There was a man named Fitzgerald who dreamed three nights in succession that there was gold behind a certain house in Upper Drumbiggle and he and other men went digging for it. A flock of flies came out and they had to run for their lives, and they died shortly after that.
6. Long ago went Cromwell was invading Ireland there was a wealthy man who lived in Ballycoree beside St. Joseph's well. One lonely night he took his chest of gold and dug a hole and was about to bury it when a soldier came on the scene. The soldier(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Heffernan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ennis, Co. Clare
