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School: Druim (2) (roll number 11108)

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Drum, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Francis Coleman
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 024

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    There are a good deal of stories told about hidden treasure in this locality. One of them is about the Quarry Lake. A crock filled with gold coins is supposed to have been thrown into this lake. It is said that the money was put there to hide it from robbers during one of the wars in Ireland. The only way of securing the money is to get four white horses, without a black hair growing on them, and tie chains around the crock, and it can be taken out. This was tried once and the money was pulled out into the shallow part of the lake, but just then the chains, that were fastened to the crock, broke, and the crock rolled back into the middle of the lake. Afterwards a black hair
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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
    Freda Bradshaw
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drum, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    F. Potts
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Drum, Co. Monaghan