School: St Canice's, Aghaboe (roll number 16939)
- Location:
- Aghaboe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Aine Ní Dhubhlaoigh
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The buried treasure consists of gold and silver. The value is thousands of pounds.
There is another treasure hidden near Mr Edward Whelan's House in Cuffsborough. It was placed there when Lady Cuffe died. Before she died she said "Bury me in my garden with my jewels." The people buried her and did not mark the spot where she was buried. No one could ever find the this treasure.
There is another treasure hidden opposite the front-door of the monastery in Aghaboe in a draw-well four feet deep, about eighty yards from the stile, leading to the Abbey. It was placed there by the monks who lived in Aghaboe about the seventeenth century, as they heard of Cromwell's approach and feared that he would destroy the monastery. The monks buried the sacred vessels of the monastery in a well before Cromwell came to Aghaboe. The water drained out of the well and the ground closed into the well miraculously.
When Cromwell came to Aghaboe, his soldiers made attempts to unearth it, but the people would not tell them where it had been hidden.(continues on next page)
