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School: Mountmellick Convent (roll number 7183)

Location:
Mountmellick, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Sr E. Clarke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0824, Page 037

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    About two years ago a peasant in the neighbourhood of Leix was cutting turf when he recognisied a basket in which there was butter supposed to be buried there since the Great Famine. It was a square block about 6" by 4" and ten lbs in weight. The man who found it distributed some of it among the neighbourhood and sent the rest to the National Museum in Dublin.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Dickinson
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr Dickinson
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Mountmellick, Co. Laois