School: Taney, Dundrum
- Location:
- Dundrum, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: E. Costello
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0797, Page 107
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- Treasure is supposed to have been hidden at a place called "Soldiers' Cave."
People say foreign soldiers fled from a war with their ammunition and valuables of gold and other valuables.
They came to Dublin and walked to Ticknock.
The soldiers dug big rooms to hide their valuables in, to sleep, and to live in.
While they were there a storm arose and lightning happend to strike the bank and put it sprawling all over the place but where the soldiers entered was not knocked very much out of order.
People say at night there is a man with half of his body, and half of his left arm, with a lamp in his right hand guarding the entrance, so that nobody would rob anything belonging to them.
It happend that the soldiers were eating when the storm(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alfred Tracey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Woodside, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Mr Thomas O' Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 60
- Address
- Woodside, Co. Dublin
