School: Corra Cluana (roll number 14054)
- Location:
- Corracloona, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Caomháin
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- Informant
- Thomas Keany
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Laghty Barr, Co. Leitrim
- There is supposed to be a treasure hidden in the townland of Corranbuidhe, Glenfarne. An old man of the name of McLaughlin lived there. When he was getting old, he bought a stick "with a "boast' heart" (hollow inside), a steel ferrule and a screw-on top. He changed all his money into sovereigns and put them all into stick, which he always carried with him. He lived with an old woman. One day he came back without his stick. She asked him where it was. He said that he hid it and that he could see where he hid it from(continues on next page)