School: Naomh Pádraig, Knockvicar

Location:
Knockvicar, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Ceallaigh
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    flag that was in the entrance. Then he pulled it away, went in and found a gun with gold triggers. He also got a flag and saw a pot. It is said that the Miner used to keep all the gold he could spy in this pot.
    Found by Tom Mac Dermott, Crossna, Knockvicar, Boyle. He got it from Charlie Martin, Woodfield, Knockvicar, Boyle.
    There lived beside the church in Geevagh about a hundred years ago a family named Devine. One night the father dreamed that there was a pot of gold under a rock behind his house.
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