School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 169
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- There is a hill on the outskirts of Dangan and it is known as the Hill of the Gold. There is a (hill) room under the hill and a door leading into it and this room is said full of gold. But if anyone went to dig for it a spirit would be seen and the person who saw it would die. Therefore nobody ever tried to get the gold.
- There is a line of small hills called "The Shinakeens" between Dangan and Umberstown and it is told that there was a man who was searching for treasure in an old rockhouse. He was using a crowbar because it was all rocks but after a while when he had dug a bit out of the rock his crowbar slipped and then he heard it making a noise as if it had struck the floor of an under-passage. So then he gave up working. He then said if that passage was ever opened.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Summerhill, Co. Meath
- Informant
- John Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Summerhill, Co. Meath
