School: Cootehill (B)
- Location:
- Cootehill, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: W. Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1018, Page 132
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- (continued from previous page)on the grass outside the fort. Then he thought of his gold. He got up and went to the tree to get it. But it was gone. The fairies had buried it.
Sometime afterwards a man dreamt of the treasure. Next morning he went out to unearth it. After digging a considerable depth a big black cat jumped out spitting fire from its mouth. In a few days after the man took a strange sickness and died. Nobody ever tried to unearth the treasure after because it was guarded by the big black cat.
- I got this story from:- James Higgins Cavan Road Cootehill, Co. Cavan aged about 70 years.Treasure of great value is supposed to have been buried in a field of Henry Boyle's in Cabra the Barony of Tullygarvey. It was supposed to have been put there by Coote on of Cromwell's leaders and no attempts have been made to unearth it. It consists of chests of gold coins. It is said that if a blue flower is cut you will be able to see the treasure. Some of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Paul Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cootehill, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- James Higgins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 70
- Address
- Cootehill, Co. Cavan
