School: Tulach Sheasta, Clochair na Trócaire
- Location:
- Newport, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Sr Bertrand
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0539, Page 189
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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
- (continued from previous page)steps homewards. Next morning when they again returned to the mysterious hole, it was closed up, as if nothing had happened.
It is said that money was hidden there by Cromwell, when he was on his way from Nenagh to Clare Glens. Tradition also tells us that wherever Cromwell hid money, that he shot two soldiers to guard it. It is thought that the swarm of bees and the black dog represented the two soldiers that were left on guard. The old people tell us that Cromwells hidden treasures can never be unearthed without loss of life.
- Collector
- Josie Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 17
- Informant
- Patrick Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Cragg, Co. Tipperary
