School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lainn Chille, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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- (continued from previous page)being there. The man that owned the garden cut the bush, though his father told him not. His calves and some of his children died. His father told him to leave back the bush again, and he did so.
Two yanks were home nearby, who travelled the wilds of America, and feared nothing. They heard about the gold and made up their minds one night to go and dig it up, but they failed. It is supposed there would be a life lost if the pot was got.
I heard this story from
Mrs. A. Nolan, Knappabeg,
(aged 80) Westport, Co. Mayo.
- Collector
- Maureen Nolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Chnapach Bheag, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- Mrs A. Nolan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- An Chnapach Bheag, Co. Mhaigh Eo
