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School: Birr (St. Brendan's)

Location:
Birr or Parsonstown, Co. Offaly
Teachers:
S. Ó Conchobhair R. Ó Huigín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0821, Page 080

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    this flag a crock of gold lies. The great difficulty in getting the gold is that even lives must be lost.
    Collection by: Michael Martin, Garrycastle, Banagher, Offaly.
    From: Thomas Holloway, Banagher, Offaly.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Waste Park is situated near Kilcamin Monastery on the lands of Peter Horan. An old man of the Horan's dreamt of this gold three nights in succession so he decided to dig for the treasure.
    The next evening just at dusk he started for Waste Park.
    When he arrived he started
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    P. Mulhare
    Gender
    Unknown
    Address
    Cloghan, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mrs Kate Mulhare
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloghan, Co. Offaly