School: Mágh Rua (B.) (roll number 5880)
- Location:
- Moroe, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: John Maher
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- (continued from previous page)mound known as (Cuaim an Fhir Mhóir) The big mans grave and it is said that it was there that his body was buried.
- Long ago an old miser lived in a castle in Rath. He had a lot of gold and no one to leave it to. Himself and an old coachman decided on a place to bury it. He covered the croeks with tallow and dug a hole at the foot of a tree in a lis. They lined the hole with stones and put down the gold into it and put a large flagstone on top of it. He swore the coachman not to tell anyone dead or alive where it was hidden. He then shot him. The old miser died soon after and never told anyone where the gold was hidden. Some time ago a man was fencing and his spade struck the flagstone. He was unable to lift it himself and he went home for his wife to help him. When they came back to the place again gold and all were gone. Some three or four men went to look for it but as they were going to lift it a big bull chased them away from it. No one ever went near it since so it is buried there yet.
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- Jn. Daves