School: Adoon (roll number 11152)
- Location:
- Adoon, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Charles Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 372
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- (continued from previous page)late and he sawa number of horses in a field near the fort, and men ont heir backs, and they were galloping up, and down the field (next). The man thought that there would be tracks of horses in the field next day, but there were none at all.
Long ago, the people saw lights, and heard music, and laughing in it. Some people say that there is a hidden treasure in the fort in Edergole. It is said that the treasure is hidden in a tin can in a cave under the fort, and there is supposed to be a pipe leading into the cave where the treasure is hidden. No body ever tried to get it, because they could not get the going into the cave, and the pipes is supposed to be down very far under the ground.
- Collector
- Mary Alice Mc Gowan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edergole, Co. Leitrim
