School: Baile Uí Mheirigín, Merginstown
- Location:
- Merginstown, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Áine Ní Fhearrachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 343
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- (continued from previous page)memory of and so it is called "The Mysterious Cross"
- Long ago when the Danes were in Ireland they robbed a lot of houses and churches and took money and valuable articles away. Sometimes they hid a treasure but it never could be found.
Once a party of Danes were hiding a treasure in a field in this district when a man came up to them and boldly asked them what they were doing. They were hiding a treasure, one of the Danes told the man, and he could have it if he wished but only on certain conditions. They told him to go to the place that night a twelve o'clock and take another man with him. They were not to(continues on next page) - Collector
- Eddie Sinnott
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crehelp, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr James Sinnott
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crehelp, Co. Wicklow
