School: Ballinacree (B.) (roll number 13965)
- Location:
- Ballynacree, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Connachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 107
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- Many years ago when Ireland was in horror and distress there lived in a cave in Moat people called faries
One night it is said that were fairies coming from the Danes' fort. They went astray and on to a hill which is at the back of Ned Alwill's house they settled
The dug up the ground and hid something in the hole. When Ballinrink was divided Ned got the hill where the lump was hidden. He opened up a sand hole on the side of the hill.
When he was after taking a few loads of sand away he saw a pot he dug round the pot and got it out of the hole.
He held it before the sun and it began to glare, then he knew that it was gold. He wrote away to Dublin and experts came and brought it away, it was sent to America and Ned was compensated with a hundred pound.
- Collector
- Padráic Mac Tíghearnáin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Moat, Co. Meath
