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School: An Mhainistir, Cara Droma Ruisc (roll number 14770)

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Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
An Bráthair Eoghan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 032

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    A valuable treasure is supposed to be hidden in a lake at the bottom of Shee Mor. The old people say that this treasure is a pot of hold worth two million pounds.
    One day Ferdia and Cuchulainn had a argument. Ferdia was on Slieve on Carraig and Cuchulainn was on Shee Mor. Ferdia had a big chest of gold with him, and losing all control of his temper, he threw is at Cuchulainn. It failed to hit him, and fell back into the valley below. Immediately it sank into the ground. A lake sprang up round the chest, sum because it was very heavy. The tradition is that this happened on the 15th August and on every
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Gray
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Tony Gray
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Leitrim, Co. Leitrim