School: Tigh Molaga (C.) (roll number 12457)
- Location:
- Timoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shíthigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0318, Page 188
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- Hidden GoldAbout sixty years ago, a couple named Hart bought a fairly old house in the Ballinascarthy district, the northern side of Timoleague parish. The local people said that a crock of gold was hidden in the house, and that the fairies took care of it, and for that reason it was unoccupied for years - until this couple bought it. The greater part of the house had to be altered, including laying new flag - stones around the kitchen fireplace. As the workmen were removing a large flag, they found the crock of gold. The couple bought a farm a few miles from where the gold was found, with their share of the money. Their descendants are living happily on the farm to-day. It is still a mystery who placed the gold in its hiding-place, it was probably put there before the house was built. Nearly every person jumps to a different conclusion; some say a miser owned the house once, and that he put the gold under the flag-stone.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Airt
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Timothy O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Worker
- Address
- Timoleague, Co. Cork
