School: Adare Convent (roll number 9296)
- Location:
- Adare, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Mechtildes
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0505, Page 048
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Hidden treasure.About ninety years ago there were excavations in the abbey and castle in Adare. While doing this they used to dig trenches in different directions. Two men were working together at each trench, one man hack and the other shovelling. As they were doing it one man noticed a soft part in the side of the trench and decided to hack it out and when he did he found some valuable treasures of gold(continues on next page)
