School: Crowenstown
- Location:
- Crowinstown Little, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: M. Ní Bhriain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0724, Page 169
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- (continued from previous page)to unearth it when they were cutting turf. They succeeded, and found silver to the value of eighty pounds.
The Danes are supposed to have hidden treasure in certain places, but no one has ever been able to find it or see it by eating certain food. Animals or super natural guardians are not supposed to safeguard it, and no lights have ever been seen where it is hidden.
- Treasure is supposed ti be hidden in Boxtown bog. It is not known by whom it was place there. Attempts have been made to unearth it by people in the district but no one succeeded. It is supposed to consist of money amounting to five thousand pounds. Buried gold or treasure has never been discovered in my district.
- Collector
- Rose Marshall
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Crowinstown Little, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mrs John Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath
