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1. Cistí Óir i bhFolach (continued)

   “Long ago a man lived in a big house in Ballacurra . . .”

   

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   he heard Murtach saying these words he went and asked him if he had killed his brother and he said he did.
   Just at that moment the ghost appeared to Murtach's cousin and pointed out a flag to him. He went to the flag and lifted it up and there he found a purse of golden guineas as new as the day they were put there. He took the bones of the murdered man and buried them in sacred ground, and the ghost never appeared again.

   

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2. Cistí Óir i bhFolach

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

   

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   Often and often I heard stories from my grandmother of hidden treasures, and from neighbours who visited our house occasionally and on the long winter evenings when all work would be over, nothing could be more pleasant than sitting around the glowing turf fire listening to

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
         1. folk belief (~2,535)
            1. treasure legends (~7,411)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peggy Forde

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Kilchreest, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Mrs B. Forde

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Kilchreest, Co. Galway