School: Carrowbawn, Cill Dá Lua
- Location:
- Carrowbaun, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ghadhnair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0588, Page 157
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- (continued from previous page)spot they saw in their dreams and started to dig. After digging a hole about two feet deep they met a flat stone and they both said that the treasure was surely under it. My father got the point of the crowbar under the edge of the stone and was about to lever it up when a great noise as if the high stone wall at the upper end of the field was falling. This made the two men look up, and as they did so they saw John Dinan (who was in Limerick at the time) on top of the wall
My father said "Here is John Dinan Run or he will murder us for rooting up his oats."
They gathered up their implements as quickly as possible and cleared out of the field not daring to return.
On the following evening at nightfall who did they see returning from Limerick but John Dinan and then they knew they had lost a fortune.
Later in the harvest John Dinan met my father and told him how he found a hole dug in his field of oats and he could not know how it was done(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sara Long
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rahena Beg, Co. Clare
