School: Liss, Ballycumber
- Location:
- Grogan and Corroe, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sarah Howden
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0810, Page 002
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- Many years ago when the times were better than they are now, there lived a man in this locality named big Jack Feehily, and one night he gave a scutching dance, and there was a girl there, and she was the nicest young lady that ever lived in this district.
There was a young man with red hair, at the scutching dance also, and he waw the nice young lady whose name was Katie Monaghan.
After a time the young man died, and his spirit came back to Katie Monaghan, and told her that he had hidden a chest of gold, and he gave the key to her. The treasure is hidden in a field at the back of Liss Church.
People searched for it once, but when they came to a flagstone one fainted and the hole was closed up.
- Collector
- Robert Cahill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Island, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Andrew Deehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 80
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
