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School: Ballykelly

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Ballykelly, Co. Wexford
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Pádraig Mac Uadain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0873, Page 220

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    Long ago when the Danes came to Ireland they burned the monasteries and took anything that was valuable and buried it. One of them is said to have treasure in Aoldertan. Before he buried it an Irish chief went to fight him for it. Then the Dane gave it to his servant and told him to hide it and asked the servant if he were willing to guard it living or dead.
    Then he took his sword and killed him and buried him with the treasure. The servant's spirit guards it ever since. A neighbour had a dream about the treasure. He dreamt that the treasure was buried beneath a large stone. Then the man who dreamt about the treasure asked a neighbour would he go with him to look for the treasure and the man said he would.
    When they took up the large stone
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    B. Molloy
    Gender
    Unknown
    Address
    Whitechurch, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Mr Dunne
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Whitechurch, Co. Wexford