School: Castlepollard (Infants) (roll number 11469)
- Location:
- Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Davitt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0721, Page 189
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“In the ruins of Mortimer's Castle - The Old Court - Faughalstown a treasure is supposed to be hidden...”
(continued from previous page)with field stones during the past fifty years because a heifer of Michael Fay RIP fell into it and was killed.
This treasure is guarded by a black cat, and lights which are seen sometimes in Faughalstown are supposed to shine from this cats eyes. The following story is told as a proof of the existence of the underground passage.
About forty years ago Larry Kelly RIP while loosening soil with a crow bar prior to second moulding potatoes loosened some stones and the srow bar slipped from his hands into the ground. He heard it tinkling as on stone beneath him.
- Collector
- Elizabeth Davitt
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher