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School: Ballystrang (roll number 15364)

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Ballystrang, Co. Donegal
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Seosamh Ó Cuinn
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    One time there was a man named Micheal Patton living in Aughkelly. He was building a lot of houses at the time of the landlords and he made a lot of money. He went away to America. When he was an old man and was going to die, he wrote a letter to James Brown and family or to Jim Patton and family if any of them were there and he said in the letter to go to a place called chalk-hill and to go into a tunnal with a lit candle; to go as far as the candle would stay lit and the would be rewarded for it. One time five or six men went to look for it. They took a lit candle with them and went into the tunnel and and they got a
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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
    Willie Kelly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cark, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    John Kelly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cark, Co. Donegal