School: Portarlington (Presentation Convent)

Teacher:
Sr Imelda
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0802, Page 069

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0802, Page 069

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: Portarlington (Presentation Convent)
  2. XML Page 069
  3. XML “The Hidden Treasure of Lea Castle”

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. (continued from previous page)
    then, that any further attempt to recover the treasure would be useless and determined never to interfere with it again.
    A couple of years ago when dredging operations were in progression the Barrow, Mr,McGuire was anxious to see what would take place at the pool, so he managed to be there when the engineers were examining that part of the river. To his disappointment, when they came to that spot, the engineers said it was deep enough and passed on.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Bráonáin
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr Mc Guire
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bracklone, Co. Laois