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School: Ballylongford (C.) (roll number 11019)

Location:
Ballylongford, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Cáit, Bean Uí Bheoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0402, Page 057

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    About one mile from the village of Ballylongford are the ruins of an old church and graveyard called Aghavallin, situated on the road-side to Carrigafoyle Castle.
    The field surrounding it is now owned by Mr. Thomas Bambury, and it is supposed that a pot of gold is hidden there. One day the farmer owner of this field at that time, whose name was Mr. Wallace sent three men out digging it. There were no ploughs then, so all the work had to be done with spades.
    The men worked away
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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
    Maisie O' Connell
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mary Sugrue
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    75
    Address
    Ballyline East, Co. Kerry