School: Myrtleville (roll number 529)
- Location:
- Myrtleville, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0391, Page 013
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- There once lived a man up in Fountainstown named Edward Brady. He dreamt three nights in succession that there was money hidden under a tree in the Charity Road. At that time there were no banks and people used hide the money in jars. They used get men and make them swear that they would guard the money dead and alive but if they refused to guard it they were shot. Edward Brady knew where the tree was and in the middle of the night he got up and went with his son and his servant boy. It was about twelve o clock when they went there and they were digging until one. They were digging on and on until they came to a flat stone. At that moment they heard horses coming up the road. They jumped inside the wall until the people on the horses had gone by as they expected When the horses were going by instead of going on straight they went in over the wall to Edward Brady. The horses had no heads. There were(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seumas Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Myrtleville, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Noonan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Kilmichael West, Co. Cork
