School: Cnoc an Teampoill (B.), Ráth Luirc

Location:
Freemount, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Domhnall Breathnach
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0366, Page 004

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0366, Page 004

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Cnoc an Teampoill (B.), Ráth Luirc
  2. XML Page 004
  3. XML “Hidden Treasure”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. (continued from previous page)
    flagged floor, and there were three other smaller rooms that were used as sleeping apartments.
    Banks were not as numerous that time as they are now, and besides the people of that time had no trust in those institutions, so they invariably kept the money themselves, and stored it in some hiding place. The place selected by this old pair was under the firestone flag.
    Now this flagstone proved a very effective hiding place, because during the life time of the old couple, no one interfered with it. That was all very well, but eventually the pair became nervous and whenever a neighbour went
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Nunan
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Tim John Browne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kanturk, Co. Cork