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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0460, Page 0185

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  1. Buried Gold (continued)

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    her roost. The hen went off with herself but after some time the lads digging saw about twenty hends scratching in the clay into the hole. The kicked them all away the second time and they worked their best to get down to the money and begor they came to some wooden thing when all of a sudden about two hundred hens came along and started scratching in the clay and the men had to go away and leave the money behind 'em.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Date
    15 Nollaig 1937
    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    Béarla
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Gaelic script
    Informant