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School: Ceann Tuirc (B.) (roll number 14052)

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Kanturk, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Liam Ó Caoimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0353, Page 548

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    Hidden Treasure
    On some nights I used to hear my grandmother telling us stories of hidden treasure.
    One of the stories is, that there was supposed to be a pot of gold about two on the west side of Kanturk in a townland called Ardrahan in the parish of Dromtariffe. Several people have seen a light rising near a small quarry and going on the course of a small stream.
    The pot of gold is supposed to have been put there by the Danes because when there were some Danes hunted the buried a pot of gold there,and since then a light is seen there every night. The value of the pot of gold is supposed to be two thousand pounds.
    Edward Thornton
    Paal West
    Kanturk
    Supplied by Mrs nora Thornton.
    Paal West, Kanturk
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Edward Thornton
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Paal West, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mrs Nora Thornton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Paal West, Co. Cork