School: Windgap, Thomastown (roll number 5698)

Location:
Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 080

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 080

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  1. In the Victory bridge and an old mill under Phelan's in Castlejohn there is a shoe of gold hidden. A robber hid this shoe which is supposed to be fill of gold coins. When the English soldiers were coming on him he ran out and hid the shoe between the rocks on the hill. The robber was hung in Clonmel. When he was on the gallows he asked were there any of the Quarry men there. The were some men there but they were afraid to speak. The robber was going to tell them where the gold was hidden.
    The workers of the Quarry are looking for the shoe of gold that is hidden for twenty years.
    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)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Houlihan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockroe, Co. Kilkenny