School: Irishtown
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Margaret McNally
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In the park near Ballynacargy there is a hole and it surrounded by large and small stones and near this place is a cave.
One time a man went to the hole that is near the cave and he managed to get get back the stones and he saw a shining thing down below. He got a silver brooch of the rock of Cashel. This place is called the fairies churn.
There is one particular and peculiar stone which he could not move. The old people say that there is gold and jewellry under the stones.
Collecte from Christy Gillen, County Council labourer dead about three years. Date 18th March 1938
- Collector
- Phyllis O' Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynacarrigy, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Christy Gillan
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- County council labourer
