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School: Empor (roll number 941)

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Emper, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
P. Gallagher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 064

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    the guinea and started to a farmers house near the garden and sold it to him. She told him the whole story about the way she had dreamed.
    The man started to the garden along with her and the stood digging a whole day and found no gold.
    People said that if the woman had kept on digging and tell no one she would get the gold guineas.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peter Nugent
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Peter Mc Cormack
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Emper, Co. Westmeath