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   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.
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   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

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
         1. folk belief (~2,535)
            1. treasure legends (~7,411)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mattie Dunne

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   12

   Address

   Durrow, Co. Laois

   Informant

   Katie Dunne

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   45

   Address

   Durrow, Co. Laois