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School: Ballinacarrow (roll number 13277)

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Ballynacarrow, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Duibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0175, Page 145

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    Owen Ford is now eighty six years of age. He told me the following story which he says is true. About seventy years ago a man the name of John Noone dreamt three nights about a hidden treasure at a Lone Bush in our farm in "Ranclevagh".
    In the dream he was told that there was a life to be lost and to bring his dog and gun with him, and also that there was something guarding it. He was to dig the sunny side of the bush, and he was in an awful way to know whether it was the dogs life or his was to be lost,but he
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dorothy Hall
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Templehouse, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Owen Ford
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    86