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1. A Hidden Treasure

   

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   About eighty years ago a Glenmore man when travelling on the mountain not far from his home, saw something shining at a distance. He went towards the glittering object and found a candlestick almost covered with soil. He took the candlestick home but attached no great importance to his find, until one day he had a visitor from Newry, and this visitor admired it very much. The Newry man asked his host if he would sell it and the latter consented and accepted a trifle for it. The Newry man had it examined by an expert and it proved to be pure gold. He presented it to the Dominican church in Newry and if it remains there yet I cannot tell. The same Newry man afterwards came to Glenmore and asked the man whom he bought the candlestick from to show him the exact spot where he found it. The spot was shown to him. It was at a small cave, and a small distance away there was another cave. The two men removed some of the soil with their hands and they found a stone with this inscription on it, "A large treasure lies concealed between these two caves." The Newry man got a spade and began digging. He was not long digging when he suddenly collapsed. He was taken down to a house in Glenmore, and afterwards brought home to Newry. He did not regain consciousness and he died in a short time afterwards. The old people have a superstition that it was not right to interfere with the treasure. Nobody ever interfered with it afterwards.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
         1. folk belief (~2,535)
            1. treasure legends (~7,411)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick J. Ferguson

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Castletowncooley, Co. Louth

   Informant

   Anna Mc Cann

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Glenmore, Co. Louth