School: Cluainteach (roll number 10298)

Location:
Cloontagh, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Seán Ó Buadhacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0755, Page 261

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  1. There is a crock of gold believed to be hidden in Cloonmorris graveyard, in the parish of Bornacoola about two miles from here by the way the crow flies. No one ever has found it. There is a big mound of earth inside the gate of the graveyard beneath a big tree. One night some of the people of the locality were returning from a neighbour's house about eleven o'clock and when passing the graveyard they heard sounds within as if
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