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School: Duxtown, Rathkeale (roll number 15943)

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Duckstown, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Agnes O' Grady
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0500, Page 334

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    In our garden there is a rock about 10 feet high. Gold is supposed to be hidden underneath it. My uncle Paddy, Uncle Stephen and my grandfather set to work one day to blast the rock. When they arrived at the rock they laid down the "jumpers" and while they were preparing, bells began to ring in the rock, and in the "jumpers". The men got frightened and went away, and they never attempted to blast it since and my uncle said they never will again. There is Ogam writing on the West side of the rock. In olden days there was a hole with no bottom at the south-west side of the rock, it is believed to be a fairy tunnel but it was filled up about seventy years ago when a large stone got caught
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eibhlís Ní Gráda
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Patrick O' Connor
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyea, Co. Limerick