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1. Hidden Treasures - Lough Foughse Treasure

   

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   The Lough Foughse is pronounced Loc Foush with the s sounded like z.
   There is a lough in Knockroe by the name of Lough Foughse. A man once dreamt that there was some money hidden beneath a rock in this lough and three men went to seek the treasure.
   When they were digging for some time they discovered the rock but when the attempted to rise it, a bull came roaring and they fled and left the treasure there.

   

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2. Hidden Treasures - Foulkarath Treasure

   

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   There was once a man working in Foulkarath burning lime and he used to boil potatoes on the hill every day for his dinner. One day a little man appeared to him on the hill and he offered him some of the potatoes and when the man had his dinner eaten the other little man had disappeared. A second day he appeared again when he was prepairing his dinner and the man said to himself that he would watch where he was going away. To his surprise

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   James Downey

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Connahy, Co. Kilkenny