School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ros Mhic Treóin (roll number 967)

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   “A car was travelling from Kildare to Dublin.”

   

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   in luck to find the gold and silver. His master was very poor and he gave him the gold and silver.
   This man and his servant, became very rich.

   In later years as the men were walking across the field, they were knocked dead.

   

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   “Once upon a time there lived an old woman in a little house in the depths of the country.”

   

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   Once upon a time there lived an old woman in the depths of the country. She had plenty of money and it was a mystery to everyone how she got it because she never worked. The men of the district got anxious about her, and they said, they would rob her of the money. One night they crowded around the

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
         1. folk belief (~2,535)
            1. treasure legends (~7,411)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs O' Neill

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Chapel Lane, Co. Wexford