School: Knockbride (2)
- Location:
- Cnoca Bríde, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: T.J. Barron
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1015, Page 377
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- (continued from previous page)the Old Church, and the Protestants had their service later.
Minister McWhidd, once minister of Knockbride Church, lived in Tullylurkin where Tommy Dean now lives.
- The Treasure in Knockbride Lake, alias Coroneary Lake, Tom Sullivan says divers once went down to the chest in the lake, containing the treasure, but for some reason they did not bring it up.From the "Money Hole" on James BcBrien's hill there are steps going down so deep in the ground that you could go down them, and see the chest on a fine day in the lake. Some people once went down but were "not right" when they came up again.
- Informant
- Tom Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Rúscaigh, Co. an Chabháin
- Tom Sullivan (71) Rooskey, says that before his grandfather's time there was forest which never was planted on the "Wood Hill" which extended from the lake to where are now McGreggon's Cross and Kavanagh's Cross Oak and yew gret in this forest and(continues on next page)
