School: Kilmacoo, Avoca

Location:
Kilmacoo, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Bean Uí Chosgair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0925, Page 395

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  1. There is said to be some hidden treasure under a large stone on the spink and that a crowd of men went to look for it but they did not get it. In a few weeks a man name Dinnie McCann went to look for it and he found a small pot of bones but if he had got it in the night it would have been full of gold
    October 27th 1937
    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
    Winnie Doyle
    Gender
    Female