School: Ballycumber (B.), St Ciaran's
- Location:
- Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: G. Ó Súilleabháin
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- About two miles from my house there is a cave in the land of Tinnamuck.A good many years ago a woman was passing this place on her way to a field to tie up her goat when she was two crocks of gold outside the cave. She stood to examine them. Suddenly she heard a noise, when she looked again the gold had disappeared. She heard music and song in the cave.Some years after, a number of men started to dig for the gold. They dug for about a month, when one day one of the men more adventurous than his comrades when further into the cave than the rest and (his) a strange thing happened to his face and eyes. When he came out his comrades did not know him. As his head was swollen(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Geraghty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mr Bernard Colgan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Moorock, Co. Offaly