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School: Templeorum, Piltown (roll number 6289)

Location:
Templeorum, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
P. Hickey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0841, Page 065

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    A long time ago a man named Walsh lived in Oldcourt, Templeorum. County Kilkenny. Every fishing season he used to go to Newfoundland to fish. He earned a lot of money by fishing. He brought home some of it and he put it in a bottle and hid it away in a fence near his home. One year while he was in Newfoundland he took sick there and he was not able to return home. He wrote home telling them about the money and where he had hidden it. His people did not know the place where it was hidden. A
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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
    Dick Dalton
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Jamestown, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Michael Dalton
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Jamestown, Co. Kilkenny