School: Baile Haodha (C.), Ráthluirc
- Location:
- Newtown Ballyhay, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mrs. Julia Herbert
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0374, Page 320
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- One night when we were sitting around the fire an old man named John Jones told us several stories. He said that there were three crocks of gold in a deep hole in Mr. Brassel's high field. There is also a fort near by and an old man named Pat Thompson was for three or four nights digging for gold in the fort, but he got none. I heard also that a light was seen in the Aglish and that a nun went through the gate of the Aglish.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyhay, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Jones
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Ballynadrideen, Co. Cork
