School: Druim Snámha (roll number 14057)
- Location:
- Drumsna, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Haodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0213, Page 025
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- Last Spring there was a silver coin discovered in my neighbourhood, bu a man the name of Patrick Box, Borlara. The coin was four hundred years old. He discovered it while engaged at agricultural labour. The coin was found in a field beside his own home.
It was about the size of a shilling but was a fourpenny piece. On one side of it was the head of King David the II of scotland. There was also writing on it something that could not be understood. He sent it to England to a firm of auctioneers and got the sum of one pound fourteen shillings for it.
This coin was out in the time of the Roman Empire and the time and the time of the capture of Saint Patrick. I saw that coin myself the evening he found it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Hall
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumsna, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- James Gildea
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corralara, Co. Roscommon
