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School: Mercy Convent

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    Hidden Treasure
    9-11-1937
    In the town of Belturbet, at the top of Deanery Street, just opposite the presbytery, is a field in which are a couple of mounds locally called 'banks'.
    It is said that there are crocks of gold buried in these mounds.
    The old people believe that it was the fairies that put them there and that in order to get the gold you would have to catch a fairy.
    Francis Morris,
    Barrack Hill,
    Belturbet,
    Co. Cavan.
    I heard the above from my grandmother – Mrs. Susan Blythe – who lives with us and who is now seventy-four years of age.
    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
    Frances Morris
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Belturbet, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mrs Susan Blythe
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    74
    Address
    Belturbet, Co. Cavan