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School: Ballyfin, Mountrath (roll number 15537)

Location:
An Baile Fionn, Co. Laoise
Teacher:
S. Mac Giolla Fhionáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0834, Page 012

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    This pot of gold is hidden in Knox. It was put there some years ago by Cromwell. Sir Algernon Coote was trying to put a lake there. He sent ten men one day to shore away the water out of this pond. They got forty yards of a rope and five feet of a grub and let it down to the bottom. Suddenly a Shark jumped up out of the pond and it began to run the men. It had a bull's head on it. When it was half ways out in the field it lay there. The next morning
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. seánra
      1. creidiúint (~391)
        1. creidiúint choiteann (~2,535)
          1. ór i bhfolach (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Gilligan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Na Cnoic, Co. Laoise
    Informant
    Joseph Lalor
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Na Cnoic, Co. Laoise