School: Ballyfin, Mountrath (roll number 15537)
- Location:
- Ballyfin, Co. Laois
- Teacher: S. Mac Giolla Fhionáin
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- This pot of gold is hidden in Knox. It was put there some years ago by Cromwell. Sir Algernon Coote was trying to put a lake there. He sent ten men one day to shore away the water out of this pond. They got forty yards of a rope and five feet of a grub and let it down to the bottom. Suddenly a Shark jumped up out of the pond and it began to run the men. It had a bull's head on it. When it was half ways out in the field it lay there. The next morning(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Gilligan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knocks, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Joseph Lalor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knocks, Co. Laois