School: Moate (2) (roll number 10884)
- Location:
- Moate, Co. Westmeath
- Teachers: S. Ó Ruairc L. Mac Coiligh
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- (continued from previous page)it denotes that it is a man visitor that is coming to the house. If the leaf sticks with the second stroke, that is at "Tuesday", it denotes a woman visitor, and so on, Wednesday- a man, Thursday a woman etc. (Joe Flynn)
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- Collector
- Liam P. Mac Coiligh
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Dominic Claffey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moate, Co. Westmeath
- Once upon time there lived a man in Rooskey, Co. Roscommon who dreamed three nights that there was a pot of gold hidden a the bridge of Athlone, an this morning he started for the Bridge of Athlone, which he reached very early. There he met a stranger, to whom he told his story and the stranger told him that he, himself had dreamed of a house in Rooskey and that there was a pot of gold buried in the garden of this house. On hearing the description of the house from the stranger the Rooskey man knew that the house referred to was his own, whereon he retraced his steps home. When he got home he told his wife who advised him to go seek for the gold in the garden. He found a pot of it in the garden one side of a bush! On the lid of the pot was written something they could not understand. One day a tramp came in looking(continues on next page)