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School: Church Hill, Cuffe's Grange (roll number 5927)

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Church Hill, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0854, Page 159

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    About one hundred yards from my house there is a deep pit in the Bog Raod. It is said that there is a box of gold hidden there. It was hidden in the year eleven hundred and sixty by the Lords of Bally Burr, who lived in the Castle before the present one was built.
    Pirates were robbing the castles of the country. Four years ago my grandfather, my Uncle, and Richard Marnell Oldtown, and Paul Bourke Bally Burr, dug for it.
    They had gone down about six feet and they came on boards, lead,
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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
    Seán Marnell
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballybur, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Sean Mc Evoy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    61
    Address
    Baunlusk, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Patrick Marnell
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballybur, Co. Kilkenny