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   Hidden Treasure Story 7 Oct 1938
   About a mile and a half to the south of the Town of Mullagh is a townland called Cloughbally Upper. The road leading from Mullagh to Virginia Road Station passes through the townsland. In the townsland lived a few generations of the name of Rochford. The residence was situated about twenty perches to the West of the main road passing through the townland and was approached from the main road by a double fenced avenue. In the early half of the nineteenth century the head of the house was Paddy Rochford an industrious well-to-do farmer with a thrifty well brought up family - two boys Thomas and Hugh and five or six girls - one called Brigid, another Margaret.
   Sometime before the Xmas of 1860 these brothers and the sister Margaret dreamt on different nights of a treasure to be found in the "small field" which is on the East side of the road right opposite the avenue entrance. According to the dream they had to dig for it on Xmas Eve night, they had to take a female member of the family and "wake her" right beside where the treasure was concealed. They were forewarned of the hazardous nature of the undertaking. When a certain stage in the digging was reached one of the brothers was to take up a position between the treasure and the sleeping girl. He was to provide himself with a gun charged with silver pellets and

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
         1. folk belief (~2,535)
            1. treasure legends (~7,411)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   John Fitzsimmons

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ardlow, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   John Gibney

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Mullagh, Co. Cavan