1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Templeudigan

School: Templeudigan

Location:
Templeludigan, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Mhic Ghearailt
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0901, Page 042

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0901, Page 042

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Templeudigan
  2. XML Page 042
  3. XML “Hidden Treasure”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Hidden Treasure

    Share Share Post
    There was gold hidden in James English's Rath a long time ago. There is a hound minding the place where the money was buried.
    Some nights you would see the hound sitting beside the money and if you would go near it he would eat you.
    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
    John Lyng
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballygalvert, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Martin Quigley
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballindoney, Co. Wexford