School: Gusserane
- Location:
- Gusserane, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Fheorais
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0871, Page 170
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- Hidden Treasure
There is a treasure supposed to be buried in a field in coolboy. The field is between two roads. There is a path crossing the field. Twenty yards down the path the gold is buried under a big flag stone. Nobody knows who placed it there or why it was placed there. It is certain that it was placed there long over forty years ago. It was about forty years ago when an old travelling woman went into a farmers house in Coolboy. Evoys owned the house. The travelling woman asked for something to eat, but the woman of the house said they had not enough for themselves let alone to give it away. But the travelling woman told her that they need not be so poor and money so near them and she told her where the gold was. Some days after four of the Evoys went to dig for it. They brought picks and shovels and spades with them. When they had dug down to about four feet they had come to a flag. They were afraid to lift it and they left it there. When the neighbours heard about it they came to look at it. One day the owner of the fields came to plough it. The next day the men went to dig again but they found no stone.
- Collector
- Michael Conway
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonagh, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Patrick Conway
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Cloonagh, Co. Wexford
