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   bird minding it and if they would not kill the bird he would kill them. They began to dig and the bird began to flutter. But they shot him. A thought struck them that whichever of them would lift the gold would not live long. The fair man said that he would chance to lift it. He put a rope in the ear of the pot and lifted it up. He lived longer than the man that did not touch it at all. The man who got the gold was "Neddily" Cafferty who lived in the townland of Pottore, parish of Aughnasheelin, Co. Leitrim.
   Collected by Mary McGourty from her grandmother Maria McGourty (Maria McMorrow) of Aughrim, Co. Leitrim. She is nearly 80 years of age.

   

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2. Hidden Treasure

   

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   Thomas McPartlan Urbal Barr had a dream in which it was revealed to him that a treasure consisting of a box of gold and a box of silver lay buried in the North-west corner of the kitchen of his house. On three successive nights he had the same dream. And it was for him to get this treasure under the following circumstances. He was to ask the then Parish Priest to be present at the getting and digging for the treasure and another man whom he had never seen only in the dream was to be at the getting of the treasure. The next day when crossing Dowra bridge

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
         1. folk belief (~2,535)
            1. treasure legends (~7,411)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mr Sylvester Maguire

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Urbal Barr, Co. Leitrim