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School: Scoil na mBráthar (roll number 16741)

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New Ross, Co. Wexford
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Aindrias Ó Caoilte Br Ó Cinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0897, Page 100

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    This is a story of Hidden Treasure. This story was told to me by my Grandfather who is aged 89. It happened when he was about 20 years of age. There was a woman who employed my Grandfather after his work to draw in corn. The weather was very good at the time and the moon used be shining bright.
    This night my Grandfather and four other men went to draw in the corn. They started at about 8 o'clock in the evening.
    At about 12 o'clock they were about going home, when the woman called them in. They did not feel the time passing. The woman was telling them that she used see an armed soldier on the night of the 6th of June in the corner of her garden. The men then said the would dig the place where the soldier used be seen. My Grandfather said that he would stay with the woman while the others dug. Shortly there was a terrible scream from the men. They ran as hard as the could into the kitchen
    One of them fainted with the fright. The other men told the story to my Grandfather then. He said that he a soldier come up the hole they were digging. The flag under which the gold was hidden is still to be seen if you dig half a foot down. There is a large iron ring in it.
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