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School: Trummera, Mountrath (roll number 15446)

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Trumra, Co. Laois
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Mrs Muldowney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0833, Page 255

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    This story was told to me by my father who heard it from an old neighbour named Kilbride who is dead about fifty years. About half a mile from our house there lives a family named Walsh and behind their house is an old garden in which a treasure is supposed to be hidden. The gold could be got only at 12 o' clock midnight. One night a party of men decided to dig for the gold. One man is supposed to hold a lighted candle in one hand and a bottle of holy water in the other hand while the others dug. They dug until they came to a large stone which was supposed to cover the gold but just then a gust of wind came and blew the candle and holy water from the man's hand. The men ran for their lives.
    The next night another
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Jeremiah Shiel
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rosskelton, Co. Laois
    Informant
    James Shiel
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rosskelton, Co. Laois