1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Ballivor

School: Ballivor (roll number 9380)

Location:
Ballivor, Co. Meath
Teacher:
T. Ua Conmhidhe
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 255

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 255

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Ballivor
  2. XML Page 255
  3. XML “Gold”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Gold

    Share Share Post
    About a hundred years ago two women from the County Wicklow dreamed three nights in succession about gold that was under a bush in Killaconnighan Church-yard. They logded in a house in Kilmer and the next evening they went to look for it and failed in their journey and they went back again to the house and remained there for the night. They started the next evening with their spade and shovel. Two men followed them to see how they would get on. When the two men went to the church -yard gate, they could hear them shoveling and again they went to where they were digging the two women disappeared and all the men could see was a big heap of dust.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    William Loughlin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    57
    Address
    Kilmur, Co. Meath