School: Piltown (B.) (roll number 6189)
- Location:
- Piltown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Maolchaoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0842, Page 297
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- My grandfather told me a story about hidden treasure. He said the treasure is hidden near the tower. It is hidden in four sieves under a bush. People went to look for it by day but could not find it. The old people say that the treasure is only there by night. They say that a fairy comes early in morning and takes the treasure away and hides it somewhere else. No one know where the fairy hides it by day. Some people went to look for it by night but one field near the tower was guarded by soldiers and no one was allowed to enter that field by night. Anyone could enter it by day.
- Collector
- John Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Piltown, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Simon Tobin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Tibberaghny, Co. Kilkenny
