School: Fairche, Cill Dairbhre (roll number 6834)

Location:
Farahy, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Seán Mac Fheorais
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0373, Page 266

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0373, Page 266

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Fairche, Cill Dairbhre
  2. XML Page 266
  3. XML “The Foxy Cat”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. About seventy years ago the neighbours around heard there was gold hidden in a field of Jer Magner's of Shanballymore. All the people were indread to go searching for it because they feared a foxy cat. At last three men said they would chance it. They said if one of them got killed the other two could divide the treasure between them. After drinking a share of porter and whiskey to give them courage and taking a bottle of Holy water with them they started at night for the ould castle. They sprinkled Holy water around a large circle and began to dig with a spade and shovel. Having dug a few feet deep one of them cried "I have it." He had come to a large flag. Just at that moment the cat appeared in a very threatening manner. They couldn't bear the sight of him. His appearance was terrifying. Away they went home as fast as they could. A few days after one of the men died maybe with the fright.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie Mc Guire
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Waterdyke, Co. Cork
    Informant
    David Walsh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Graigue, Co. Cork