School: An Cheathrú Mhór
- Location:
- Carrowmore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Glacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 123
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- Hidden Treasure in Lissadrone Land 12.12.371. Name of the person I got the story from: John Mulloy
2. Address: Killogeary Carrowmore - Lacken
3. Age: 64 years
4. Occupation: Farming
5. Birth place: Killogeary
6. Where he spent his life: In Lacken
7. The date this was written 12.12.37The Story
There were two brothers long ago in Lissadrone and Pews were their surname. They owned a lot of Lissadrone land and they had a horse hide of gold.
There were a lot of robbers in it at that time and any one who had a lot of money would hide it. So those two brothers made up their minds to hide the horse hide of gold, and they went to the field they thought best to hide it. But they forgot to bring spades with them, and one o them sent the other in for a spade to dig a place for it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Mulloy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Mulloy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Killogeary, Co. Mayo
