School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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- (continued from previous page)horse-dung. He had broken the enchantment that night.
(Similar type two pages back) - Once upon a time a man caught a leprauchan. He would not let him go till the leprauchan told him where the gold was. The leprauchan brought the man to where a thistle was growing in a field near by. He told the man to go next day with a spade and dig it up. The man tied a piece of cloth on it so that he would know it the next day. The man came next day with a spade to dig up the money, but there was a bit of cloth tied to all the thistles in the field, so that he could not get the right thistle where the gold was.
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- Joe Comaskey
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- One time when Pat Duncan and his sister Bride were coming home from a dance a big black dog came behind them at the "butt" of Knock Hill. Bride looked back and saw it. She told Pat to look back but he could(continues on next page)