School: Rosses's Point (roll number 12133)
- Location:
- Rosses Point, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Raighne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0158, Page 223
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- About seventy years ago, people dug for crocks of gold,in the Castle field, [a long field with an old Castle, in ruins] Because long ago the people believed that there crocks of gold buried there.
They met with bad luck for all they got was a long flat flag of stone But a lot of the old people say that a man the name of found it.
He was an Amadán and used to work as a servant boy for people of the name Can, he lost his job, and it is said that he slept in the castle for a couple of nights. A few days later he rented the Castle field itself, bought cows and horses and rented a house.
he then bought a big house and farm up the country. But a lot of the old people say that the gold is hidden in three different places, the places are known by the old people.
- Collector
- Eugene Gillan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rosses Point, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- P. Gillan
