School: Carrigans (B.)
- Location:
- Carrigan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Dochartaigh
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- (continued from previous page)a tall poper bush over the place. It is called the lone bush.
- There is a tall white thorn bush in Peter Smith's field of Carrigan. It is a very big field along the river Erne. It is said by all the old people that there is a pot of gold and some old spears of the Danes hidden under it. No one made any attempt to get it. All the people are afraid to dig it up out of the ground. It is said by all the old people that they were put there by the Danes long ago. Thomas Smith told me that one night when he was coming home from Cavan at half-past eleven o clock that he saw the bush falling to the ground and then rising up again.
- Collector
- Matthew Mc Gahern
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Brusky, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Thomas Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brusky, Co. Cavan
