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School: Ráth Ó gCormaic (C.), Carraig na Siúire

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Rathgormuck, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Eibhlín, Bean Uí Dhálaigh
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    put a heap of earth over it and no one can remove it. A man living in Feddins once thought to dig it up but failed, because as he dug the earth kept falling in so he gave up.
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    William Crotty was a highwayman who lived in the Comeragh Mountains about two hundred years ago. Before he died he threw a shoe of gold into a river in Kilballyquilty. He said the person who would live the longest would get it. It is said that a ghost is minding it. Nobody looked for it.
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