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School: An Mhainistir, Cara Droma Ruisc (roll number 14770)

Location:
Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
An Bráthair Eoghan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 039

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    to look for the treasure and they found it after many difficulties.
    The hidden treasure consisted of gold. Its value is supposed to have been ten thousand pounds. About fifty years after, the monks left the monastery. The ruins are still there, even up to the present day. The treasure is hidden someplace among the ruins.
    Some strange man went looking for it twenty years ago and a horse appeared to him three times. Through the fright he got he died from his nerves. No one is allowed to go near the treasure now because they might also die.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alphonsus O' Driscoll
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Thomas Farrell
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon