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School: Brownstown (C.), Curragh Camp (roll number 16303)

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Brownstown Upper, Co. Kildare
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Bean Uí Dubhshláine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0777, Page 022

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    “Mr Kerins (aged 38) a native of Kildare Towns lives near Waverly. He says that it was believed long ago before he came to Waverly that a crock of gold was buried in the Mr Pallin's field, in Waverly.”

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    3. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Feard
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    60
    Address
    Ballysax Great, Co. Kildare

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    “Brownstown House is built on the site of a smaller house, occupied in the Penal Days by a woman whose son was a priest.”

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    Brownstown House is built on the site of a smaller house, occupied in the Penal Days by a woman whose son was a priest. Once when he was visiting her he was followed by soldiers and the mother hid her son in a chimney, (bricking up the opening?) The raiders failed to find the priest but after their departure the mother found her son dead. Since she (her ghost) is heard tearing at the stones of a fire-place in Brownstown House.
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