School: Mocollop, Fermoy (roll number 16348)
- Location:
- Mocollop, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Loingigh
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- (continued from previous page)hid a great amount of money in Gleann na Gad half a mile from Ballyduff. A man from the south side of the river Blackwater came to look for it and he could not find it. Many people came after that and they could not find it either because the glen is too deep and its all rocks and quarries.
These highway men were going around the country robbing all the wealthy people. When they were sentenced to be hanged, they were in court at the time, they asked if there was anyone from Ballyduff there. So one woman stood up and they said that they would not give a secret to any woman. They were a few men there from Ballyduff but none of them would show themselves because they thought they would be brought up with the highway men if they went to hear the secret. But the highway men told the secret before they were hanged that there were as much money hidden in Gleann na Gad as would make all the people in Ballyd-(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hannah Flynn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Toor, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- David Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toor, Co. Waterford
