School: Durrow (B.) (roll number 3517)
- Location:
- Durrow, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Sabhaois
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- (continued from previous page)it and when they came they were digging and it was real calm when they came and a storm began to rise and till at last they were blown out of it and a mad bull started after them and they had to clear out of it on the minute . If there had to be a drop of blood shed they would have got it.
15. X1.1937
- Story told by Mattie Devine 12 yrs small farmer's son Durrow.
I heard the following story from my mother Katie Dunne (Walsh) 45yrs of age a native of Three Castles Co Kilkenny.
There was a very poor man who resided in a little cottage in Kilkenny, who had a badly tattered coat. He happened to hear that there was a treasure buried in a wood in Kilkenny called the Black-Abbey. On the following day he went off with a spade to dig up the treasure. A monk who was slain there by the Danes appeared to him, and asked him to tell him what he required the money(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mattie Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Durrow, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Katie Dunne
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Durrow, Co. Laois
