School: Brosna (C.) (roll number 13019)
- Location:
- Brosna, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhúnaighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0449, Page 417
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- About a mile from my house there is a treasure hidden near the river Feale. It is said that it was hidden there by a very rich king during a war in Ireland.
A man heard that it was there and he went to unearth it. He found a root of a tree and he carried it home. He put it in the fire and the moment he did a rat jumped out of it. He caught the tongs to hit the rat and it bent in his hand.
A few days later two men went ploughing over where the treasure was hidden. The next morning a big patch of grass was covered with blood.
The hidden treasure consists of a pot of a pot of gold. It is said that a person would see this hidden treasure by eating a certain sort of food, but this food has not as yet been discovered by any body(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hannah Riordan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Paddy Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 26
