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School: Faythe Convent, Loch gCarman (roll number 11361)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0881, Page 428

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  1. Old Ruins and Hidden Treasures

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    In one of our fields there are the ruins of another small chapel and long ago there was a man called Finigan digging a trench to build up a ditch about twenty yards from this church. He said when he came to this place he got weak and sat down.
    After an hour or so he got up again and began to work but the spade would not go down in the ground any further than eight inches, the sixth turn came and each time he put the spade in the ground he said that he hit six crocks of golden guineas and
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Morris
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drinagh North, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Mr J. Morris
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drinagh North, Co. Wexford