School: Graystown, Killenaule
- Location:
- Graystown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Robert Hall
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0564, Page 279
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- (continued from previous page)the two bags as carefully in the hole as if they were two coffins. While the sons were down in the hole arranging the bags and trying to please the father, he drove a sword through their hearts and told them to guard his money there to the devil. He covered up the hole and in the morning no body could know the a hole was there because his cattle trampled through the gap and made it like any other gap in Springhill. The old man lost his senses after and was always raving about the money. When the soldiers did come the old fellow told them all so they dug up a lot of gaps in Springhill but found no money, then they killed the miser in vexation because they said he was making fools of them. So that is the end of the Springhill miser's story except that many a one in Killenaule dug for the money but no one ever got it. One man named Dinny Grainey nearly got it one night; he dug in the right place an all, but when he was halfway down a big black dog appeared to him, but this did not frighten Dinny who went on working. A second and bigger appeared soon after. Dinny was getting nervous now and he digging away when the third dog appeared, this was too much for Dinny he ran with his life home.
