School: Tara Hill (roll number 13689)
- Location:
- Kilcavan, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Fhlannchadha
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“I remember one day I was working in the public work.”
72I remember one day I was working in the Public work. There was an old man named Charlie Noctor a pot lifter. One windy day we went up to Ask quarry to drink the dinner. When I was getting the water for tea, Charlie went to get some sticks for the fire. He came back with an armful of sticks and a hoop thirty inches in circumference. He used it for a "boley". After a time it broke and he found out it was a collar of gold belonging to Malachy the King. He brought it to Dublin and sold it for £150. If he knew what it was before it broke it would have been worth £2,000. I dreamt one night that a witch went into a farmer's house and she said that if he gave her dinner she would tell him where there was a collar of gold.
So what I dreamt was true.Colm Connolly.Above from
Mr. Chris Peters Gorey.
Co Wexford.
- Collector
- Colm Connolly
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Chris Peters
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gorey, Co. Wexford