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School: Naomh Pádraig (B.), Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 14784)

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Dunmanway, Co. Cork
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Seán Young
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    while they suspected the collar and they took it off and then they hanged him. One night some men went to dig for the gold and a big bull came and hunted them away.
    On the banks of the Sally river there is gold hidden under a white-thorn tree and when some men went to dig for it but the owner of the field hunted them away.
    There are three firkins of gold buried beneath a white-thorn tree in Clais-na-Gile wood. A man dreamed of it and he and two other men went to dig for it but a bull hunted them away.
    It is also said that there is gold buried underneath a white-thorn bush in the round ditch west of Fanlobbus grave-yard. Dan Lordan's grandmother dug for it but failed to get it. It is said that the gold is there always.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Florence Hurley
    Gender
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    Address
    Ballyhalwick, Co. Cork