School: Sean-cheann tSáile (roll number 9649)
- Location:
- Old Head, Co. Cork
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- Pirates' GoldOne day about forty years ago my father John Dempsey of Ballymackean and another man were hunting hares in the southern part of the Old Head. About midday they reached a place where it was said pirates' gold was buried. They searched for the treasure and after a while they found a curious coin. They thought they were on the track of the gold but they found no more.They brought the coin home and nobody could tell them how much it was worth or to what country it belonged. My father kept it for a few years but he lost it in the end.It is said that when the pirates hid the gold the captain asked one of the men if he would mind it and he said that he would and the captain shot him dead and buried his body with the gold. When anybody go looking for this gold in the night-time a ghost is said to hunt them away.My father John Dempsey of Ballymackean told me this story.Peggy Dempsey
Ballymackean
Old Head
14 years
- Collector
- Peggy Dempsey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Ballymackean, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Dempsey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymackean, Co. Cork
