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School: Ballycumber (B.), St Ciaran's

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Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 007

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    About two miles from my house there is a cave in the land of Tinnamuck.
    A good many years ago a woman was passing this place on her way to a field to tie up her goat when she was two crocks of gold outside the cave. She stood to examine them. Suddenly she heard a noise, when she looked again the gold had disappeared. She heard music and song in the cave.
    Some years after, a number of men started to dig for the gold. They dug for about a month, when one day one of the men more adventurous than his comrades when further into the cave than the rest and (his) a strange thing happened to his face and eyes. When he came out his comrades did not know him. As his head was swollen
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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
    Joseph Geraghty
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mr Bernard Colgan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Moorock, Co. Offaly