School: Ceathrú na Laithighe (Brownsgrove) (roll number 12138)
- Location:
- Brownsgrove, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó hAnnracháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0530
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- (continued from previous page)It was supposed to consist of jewels and gold which was stolen by an Irishman from an English man while he was in that country.
The Irishman brought the treasure to this country but he was pursued by the man from whom he stole it and in order to save it he dug a deep hole under the holly-bush and buried the treasure in it. Later on he was killed but the Englishman never found the treasure and it is there to this very day and the "good people" or "sideógs" are supposed to be guarding it for fear anyone
would get it except the rightful heirs to it that is the Englishman's people.
Nearby a hundred years ago a man made an attempt at getting the treasure but he failed the reason being that "good people" were
guarding the treasure. He went to the town and bought tools and articles for digging up the treasure but the very night that he bought
them everything in his farm went half-mad.
The cart would turn up-side down and its wheels start whirling around at the rate of a mile a minute out in the street and the cattle that would be tied in the cowhouse at night would be twenty miles away from(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mc Gagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Beagh (Browne), Co. Galway
- Informant
- James Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Beagh (Browne), Co. Galway
