School: Drumbibe (roll number 10765)
- Location:
- Drumbibe, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Tomás Searplaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0223, Page 294
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- (continued from previous page)objects and went into the tunnel and closed it on either side. They were never afterwards heard of and the place went to ruin.
Several attempts have been made in former times to dig through the tunnel and come upon the gold and previous objects, but each time the workers were compelled to stop after they had dug a certain distance beneath the surface, their advancement been prevented by an unpleasant smell that arose and caused sickness and headaches. The bell of St Caillen is still preserved in the church of that same district now known as Foxfield.
- Collector
- Kathleen Mc Teigue
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aughnasheelan, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Peter Dolan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Moher, Co. Leitrim
