School: An Gort Mór (roll number 8984)

Location:
Gortmore North, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Máire Nic Cárrain
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  1. About three months ago men were engaged cleaning the Anne Lower river near Clones and they dug up a coin which was made in the seventeenth century. It was almost two hundred years old. It was made of copper and it was value for twenty pounds.
    Near the same spot they dug up they horns of an Irish elk. These horns measured about five feet in width. It seems that these animals roamed the forests of Ireland in early days but there are none of them alive to day. They were about the size of a large deer with large branching horns. I believe these antiques are to be seen in the Museum in Kildare Street, Dublin.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    2. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ellie Mulligan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Aughnacloy, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Jimmy Briesley
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    30
    Occupation
    Feirmeoir
    Address
    Aughnacloy, Co. Monaghan