School: Athy (Christian Bros.) (roll number 16705)

Location:
Athy, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Br. Ó Fiacha
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0782, Page 044

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0782, Page 044

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Athy (Christian Bros.)
  2. XML Page 044
  3. XML “Hidden Treasure”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. One day a man named Paddy Shephard was working at Kilkea Castle. The day was very hot so he sat down to have a rest. He took out some bread and was about to eat it. When a dwarft appeared before him. And said, in this castle, behind some stones in a bolt hole there is hidden gold. Come and get it. But Paddy said wait until I get a ladder. But then the dwarft said I have to go. And goodbye to you". With that he vanished from sight of Paddy.
    Paddy often said he would go to get it. But he could never go. The gold is there yet and nobody could get it neither can they get the spot where it
    (continues on next page)
    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
    Hugh Mc Entee
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Athy, Co. Kildare
    Informant
    Mr Mc Entee
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Athy, Co. Kildare