School: Baile Uí Mheirigín, Merginstown
- Location:
- Merginstown, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Áine Ní Fhearrachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 344
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- (continued from previous page)speak a word to each other while they digging. At last the time came and the men brought tools and a hurricane lantern. Having arrived at the spot the men began to dig at once. They dug and dug and were about to give up when one of them uncovered a flag. Then they began to dig clay from around the flag and one of the men said, "We are getting at something now". Just then something was heard mooing in the distance but the men waited to hear no more but grabbed the lantern and went running to the ditch. When they were just after scrambling across the ditch when a bull came tearing madly across the field but was not able to cross the ditch. The men escaped and the next day they looked for the tools but could not find trace or tidings of them.
- Collector
- Eddie Sinnott
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crehelp, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr James Sinnott
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crehelp, Co. Wicklow
