School: Kilbeg (roll number 11039)
- Location:
- Robertstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0708, Page 141
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- The following story was told to me by a man named Matthew Flanagan of Drakerath:
While second covering potatoes in a field now owned by Thomas Reilly of Staholmog a man named Hugh Meehan of Horath saw something shining and when he approached it he found a golden coin, then he dug down further and found a lot of money and the shape of a purse. The treasure amounted to the value of eight pounds ten shillings.
Another man called Halpin dreamt that there was a treasure hidden in a fort in a field in Spandaw owned by Miss Mc Cormick. He went out in the middle of the night and he saw a light on the fort which he took to be a guide. He then drew nearer to the fort and commenced to dig, and when he went down into the ground about two yards he struck upon a little tin box and when he opened it he found that it was almost full with coins and precious(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Matthew O' Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drakerath, Co. Meath
