School: Cill Críosta
- Location:
- Kilchreest, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0035, Page 0204
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Cistí Óir i bhFolach (continued)
“Long ago a man lived in a big house in Ballacurra . . .”
(continued from previous page)he heard Murtach saying these words he went and asked him if he had killed his brother and he said he did.
Just at that moment the ghost appeared to Murtach's cousin and pointed out a flag to him. He went to the flag and lifted it up and there he found a purse of golden guineas as new as the day they were put there. He took the bones of the murdered man and buried them in sacred ground, and the ghost never appeared again.
Cistí Óir i bhFolach
“Often and often I heard stories from my grandmother about hidden treasure . . .”
Often and often I heard stories from my grandmother of hidden treasures, and from neighbours who visited our house occasionally and on the long winter evenings when all work would be over, nothing could be more pleasant than sitting around the glowing turf fire listening to(continues on next page) - Collector
- Peggy Forde
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilchreest, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs B. Forde
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilchreest, Co. Galway