School: Cnoc Melleray (B.), Ceapach Chuinn (roll number 7311)

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1. The Buried Gold of Cnoc na Faille (continued)

   

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   treasure. He was immediately arrested and after a trial was transported to Australia.
   When he had spent some years in the penal settlement he was released and remained in the country where he married and had a daughter who in turn married a man named Smith.
   Before he died he must have told his daughter, Mrs, Smith, about the gold and how he had buried it beside a large stone on the side of Cnoc na Faille, The exact place is supposed to be in a field owned at present by a Mr. Prendergast who lives in that townland.
   When Mrs. Smith arrived in the district she hired men to look for the treasure but in the meantime the stone which marked its position had been removed to build Mr. Prendergast's dwelling house where it is supposed to be at the present time.
   The lady could not locate the exact position as the stone had been removed. The hired workmen remained a week digging on the mountainside but

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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

   Thomas Coffey

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   William Coleman

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   80

   Address

   Knockboy, Co. Waterford