School: Béal Átha Feorainne (C.) (roll number 15653)
- Location:
- Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Áine Bean Uí Chuillin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271C, Page 22_010
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- (continued from previous page)Hidden Treasures
and close by are two other large raths. Under the high one there are supposed to be four rooms and in the fourth there is believed to be a cat guarding three barrels of gold. The old people believed that if a priest went down with his Stole and Mass Book and a blessed candle the cats power would be broken and he could the gold. (The) Three men of village went down one time and when they came to the first room the light they had was quinched and no one went down, since.
Corrections
buried buried buried
- Collector
- Annie Taylor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Castle Ffrench, Co. Galway
