School: Tullaroan (C.) (roll number 3530)
- Location:
- Tullaroan, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Eidhin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0867, Page 150
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- (continued from previous page)she would have nothing more to do with it. It was never dug for afterwards.
- Long ago there was gold, and silver hidden in Tullaroan.
It is supposed that there was a treasure hidden in Mr Dillon's field. One time there was a monastery in which lived a lot of monks. The people of the parish gave them all their gold to mind, because they had no banks in which to put it. The monks heard of Cromwell's army coming from the neighbouring counties. They hid all their gold in a well, and covered it with a big bar of iron. They covered the bar of o iron with green sods and clay. When Cromwell's army came they did not get the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Hoyne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr James Maher
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Tullaroan, Co. Kilkenny
