School: Mocollop, Fermoy (roll number 16348)
- Location:
- Mocollop, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Loingigh
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- There was a Furnace in Glencullen at the south side of the Araglen river. The walls of it are still there. It was there in the time of Queen Elizabeth. In this Furnace they used to make all sorts of pottery. It is said that the people that owned the Furnace were very very rich. They hid their money under an apple tree in a small garden near a slate quarry.
Those people had a man working with them, and they got him sworn that he would do his duty dead or alive. When they got him sworn to do so they shot him and buried him with the two pots of gold.
No attempts have ever been made to unearth it. People are afraid to go digging because it was said that if a few went digging for it one(continues on next page)- Collector
- Hannah Flynn
- Address
- Toor, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mr David Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toor, Co. Waterford