School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 019
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- (continued from previous page)week. The pot was made of clay he got in the fort in his own townlandThere was a man by the name of Mc Phillips who lived in Liscumiskey. He went to pick at a stone. A spark came out of it and put out his eye. So that stopped the moving of the stone.There is supposed to be a treasure of gold in Liscumiskey. There a glen between Liscumiskey and Corbyfinn. The gold is hidden in that glen in Hackett's farm.
One night a man named Pat Kierans of Corbyfinn, who is now dead dreamt of this gold. The next morning he went down to the glen and he began to dig for it. He came to bars in the ground. When he touched them he heard a bull roaring in under them, so he stopped digging.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- James Kierans
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Corleck, Co. Monaghan
