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School: Cornagon (roll number 15690)

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Cornagon, Co. Leitrim
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Frank Heeran
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0212, Page 129

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    island with the intention of unearthing this treasure. When they reached the place they started to dig with spades. They were digging for some time till they came on a wooden chest. They got it out of the ground with some hardship and they were just going to open it when twelve pirates rushed in on they and took the treasure. The people ran away in fear and when some distance away they looked back and there was no sight of the pirates or of the treasure.
    Once upon a time two men heard that there was treasure buried five miles away in a piece of swampy ground. They started for the place and soon they reached it. When they reached it there was a man standing by the place where the treasure was buried. They thought there was something queer looking about him. Then he told them to go back and they fled in fear.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Madge Rourke
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Corrabarrack, Co. Leitrim