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School: Tullybrack

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Tullybrack, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
F. Maguire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0963, Page 001

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    We got this Composition to prepare about a week ago
    Since then I asked a good many old men, they told me that they had heard and read of Hidden Treasure in newspapers and books, but they did not know of any Hidden Treasure about this part of the country.
    Not long ago around this place it was a mountain waste, and, there are no old stories in this part,- ie stories of buried treasure

    All the children wrote this composition and all the compositions were the same as the above. When the old people
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    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
    Informant
    Philip Darcy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Altcrock, Co. Cavan