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School: Cluain Fhiadh (B.), Carraig na Siúire (roll number 1857)

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Clonea, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Liam Ó Heireamhóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0654, Page 35

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    parishes. He was hanged in Waterford about one hundred and fifty years ago. The guards then went to capture his wife but it is said someone told her about it so she went up to the top of cliff and threw herself down whereupon she was mortally killed.
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    The only story I have been able to get was told to me by Thomas Cullinan of Kilnasbeg. It is about a hoard supposed to have been hidden in the Comeragh Mountains by William Crotty a famous outlaw of the district who was hanged on Ballybricken hill about a hundred and fifty years ago. On the day of his execution.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Thomas Cullinan
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Bishopstown, Co. Waterford