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School: Cnoc an Teampoill (B.), Ráth Luirc

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Freemount, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Domhnall Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0366, Page 003

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    In the time of the White Boys there lived in Freemount an old couple who amassed a considerable amount of money during their life time. They had a large extent of land, eighty acres, or thereabouts, and besides they carried on the business of bakery. The family was not large consisting only of two sons and one daughter.
    The house where this family lived was on the road leading to the Catholic Church from Freemount Village. It was a low thatched house, but was always neatly kept. The kitchen was fairly large with
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Nunan
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Tim John Browne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kanturk, Co. Cork