School: Leixlip (C.) (roll number 2345)
- Location:
- Leixlip, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Mrs. Harty
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- Stories of Hidden TreasureYears ago there was a man named Bill Synnott and he had four hundred pounds in silver saved up. There were a lot of battles being fought at that time all round ireland, and he wanted to hide the money.He got a box and put the money in it. Then he tarred the box all round and put it under a little tree in a wood in Blakestown near Maynooth.After a week he died. People searched but could not find the hoard.A light is very often seen in the wood, but when people go near it disappears.Brigid Campbell
26th January 1938
Told by Grandmother
Kathleen Campbell aged 91- Collector
- Brigid Campbell
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Kathleen Campbell
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 71
- Some six hundred years ago there lived three old kings in a castle in a place called The Silescan in St.Catherine's Park Leixlip. The ruins of the castle walls are still to be seen. It is said that one day the eldest king took a pot of gold into the garden and buried it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Price
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Price
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Leixlip, Co. Kildare