School: Termonfeckin
- Location:
- Tearmann Feichín, Co. Lú
- Teacher: T. Ó Corcoráin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0675, Page 223
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Termonfeckin
- XML Page 223
- XML “Hidden Treasure”
- XML “Local Place Names”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)he started to dig in the place he dreamed he would find it. He dug down about six feet in the garden, when he found the treasure of gold.
There is an old treasure supposed to be hidden in Sandpit. People say that a light was seen at this place three nights. An old woman with a shawl around her, would be seen sitting beside the treasure a night. The people were afraid to search for the treasure.
- There are many local names of places, fields, wells and rocks. There are many of these in our district. These places were named long ago.
The name of a field on our farm is the Dry Hill. It got its name because there is a dry hill in it. There is a Well field on our farm. It got its name because there is a(continues on next page) - Collector
- Patrick Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Láithreach Minsí, Co. Lú
