School: Valleymount
- Location:
- Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Cochláin
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- (continued from previous page)his dream he saw the hidden treasure and told him to go home and dig under the gooseberry bush in his garden. The Wicklow man returned home and dug under this gooseberry bush and there found a pot of gold and written on the side of the pot was "As good on the other side". He then dug on the (other side) of the bush and found another pot of gold.
- There was once a man who dreamed three times of Gold been hidden in a cave in Glanding.
One night he got up out of his bed and went to the cave in Glanding.
When he got to the cave it was open and he saw the three barrls, one full of Gold and one full of silver and one full of copper.
He was so delighted that he went for Captain Brown's horses to draw the money home.
When he came back with the horses he could find neither the cave or the gold.
It was said after that if he had touched it with(continues on next page) - Collector
- Cassie Cullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigacurra, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr J. Cullen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 38
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Carrigacurra, Co. Wicklow
