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School: Valleymount

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    fled but the soldiers began to overtake him and he knew that they would catch him. He did not want the soldiers to take the gold, so he pulled a sod off the top of a rock and found a split inside so he put the gold in the split and replaced the sod.
    The soldiers soon got near enough to shoot him and they wounded him in the leg.
    When he was in prison he told them if they wanted money to look in a split rock in Logstown Hill where they would find the gold he had hidden.

    May Quinn
    Valleymount

    Mr M Conway
    Contha
    Valleymount
    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
    May Quinn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    Mr M. Conway
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    54
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Carrigacurra, Co. Wicklow