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School: Rathnew

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Rathnew, Co. Wicklow
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D. Ó Drisceóil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0927, Page 010

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    they knew that those men belong to the medical prosition. In that time the men that were belong to the medical prosition were always were armed.
    As a rule with the people of each parish in those times had to watch a new bureal till a new one releved them as those men used to rise fresh corse for the innocence. Terrie or his two comrades were not hit with the shots that was fired at them. So those men thought that they were digging a new grave or buring a new corse. So Terrie or his comrades never got any gold after walking that long journey to look for the gold.
    That was in the year 18/15
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nancy Byrne
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Rathnew, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    John Byrne
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rathnew, Co. Wicklow