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1. Cistí Óir i bhFolach (continued)

   “Often and often I heard stories from my grandmother about hidden treasure . . .”

   

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   if he would go and search for that stone. He then went one fine Sunday for a walk up the hill and he thought he would look around and see if he would find the treasure. He went by the directions she gave him and he found the well overgrown with brambles. He searched around until he found the flag as she had described it, but having no implements with him to dig around the spot, he left it for another Sunday. Some Sundays after he again went, this time taking a spade, but he never could find that stone, although he remained for hours looking everywhere. He returned home very disappointed in his vain search for the hidden treasure.

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2. Cistí Óir i bhFolach

   “The truest story that happened is about the thirty years ago a man named Patrick Hynes a road contractor in the townland of Ballyhea. One day while Hynes was breaking stones for the road he found a nugget or a round ball of gold . . .”

   

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   The truest story that happened is about this thirty years

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