School: Kilbegnet (roll number 1327)
- Location:
- Kilbegnet, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0261, Page 210
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- The Fuinsion Treasure
Fuinsion is a bog situated between Fairfield and Moate in the Parish of Kilbegnet in the county of Galway in the barony of Ballymoe? There is a small bog road leading up to the bog from the main road between Creggs and Glenamaddy. About three quarters of a mile up this bog road there is a small wood on the West side. In it there was a box of money hidden by a Mayo robber who was on the run. The police knew he was stealing money from the people and bank so they tried to catch him. The robber hid it in a bunch of ferns in a part of the wood now owned by Mr. Kearney. He then stole off to a foreign country. He came back again to look for it but he could not find it.
Some people say that the man who hid this money was a robber + other people say he was a Fenian from Mayo called Murphy.
- Collector
- Máire Ní Eadra
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Crosswell, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Willie Curley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 19
- Address
- Skehaghard, Co. Galway
