School: An Mhainistir, Cara Droma Ruisc (roll number 14770)
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An Bráthair Eoghan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 039
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- (continued from previous page)to look for the treasure and they found it after many difficulties.
The hidden treasure consisted of gold. Its value is supposed to have been ten thousand pounds. About fifty years after, the monks left the monastery. The ruins are still there, even up to the present day. The treasure is hidden someplace among the ruins.
Some strange man went looking for it twenty years ago and a horse appeared to him three times. Through the fright he got he died from his nerves. No one is allowed to go near the treasure now because they might also die.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Alphonsus O' Driscoll
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Thomas Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon