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School: Scoil na mBráthar (roll number 16739)

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Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford
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An Br. M.N. Mac Oireachtaigh
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    (5) About half a mile from the Downs in County Wicklow there is a mound. It is about six feet high and flat on the top. The place where it is situated belongs to Mr. Fitzgerald. It is beside a wood, and when Mr. Fitzgerald was making little sandpit in the field where it was, they came to the mound and could not dig it.
    From that onwards the people said it was haunted, and that there is a chest of gold under the pit that no one can find. It is said that there is a light seen every night in the trees beside it, and if anyone touches anything on it something will happen to something belonging to them.
    Written by : Ernie Connolly
    Received from : Mr. Fitzpatrick
    Address : The Downs, Delgany,
    Co. Wicklow
    Occupation : Farmer
    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
    Ernie Connolly
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mr Fitzpatrick
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Delgany, Co. Wicklow