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

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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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   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