School: Killybrone (roll number 1798)
- Location:
- Killybrone, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Coyle
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0959, Page 208
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- Long ago, about three hundred years ago, there was a good deal of money hid on a hill in Killaslavin. The hill belonged to a man called Devlin.
There was a big day's sporting there on a certain day every year. There were a lot of rich people at it.
One day an invasion came on, and all the rich people were going to be raided. So they dug a deep hole and put their money in it and closed it in.
They did not look for their money for a few years. The man that owned the field did not know about the treasure and ploughed the field.
So, when the people came back to look for their money they could not find it. All that money is supposed to be lying buried some where in that field to this very day.
- Collector
- Bernard Sweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrygorry, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mr P. Devlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Favor Royal, Co. Tyrone
