School: Ballintemple
- Location:
- Ballintemple, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Nic Eoin
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- Hidden Treasure
3-12-'37
About eighty years ago it was believed in the district of Carrigan, that a parringer of gold hidden in James McCabes garden, now James, having heard this tried to unearth it, but failed to succeed in his efforts. No lights have ever been seen about the treasure, the man's name who hid it is unknown.
This story has been told to me by,
Mr Ned McCabe
Carrigan,
Ballintemple Parish.
Ballinagh,
Co. Cavan.
Written by Bill Graham
Ballintemple N.S.,
Ballinagh.
Co. Cavan.
- Collector
- Bill Graham
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Ned Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigan, Co. Cavan
- Hidden Treasure
5-12-'37
There lived a man named Robert Brady on a small farm of land in the parish of Kilmore in Co. Cavan. He was very poor through no fault of his own. He was a very hard working man, he had often heard of people finding(continues on next page)
