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   “Gold is hidden in the townland of Loughananna (parish of Kilbehenny) in a gorge beside the lodge at the western entrance to Galtee Castle occupied by Michael Keane.”

   

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   Gold is hidden in the townland of Loughananna (parish of Kilbehenny) in a gorge beside the lodge at the western entrance to Galtee Castle occupied by Michael Keane.

   

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2. Guarded by a Headless Horse

   

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   A great grand uncle of mine dreamt that three nights after one another that there was a crock of gold under a white-thorn bush in the Blackroad. On the fourth night he got a bottle of holywater and went to the place where he thought the gold was. He sprenkled the holywater around in a ring and began to dig inside the ring. He dug about five feet down and he struck the pot and he heard a noise and and he thought the Galtees were falling down on him and he looked up and he saw a white horse without any head running around the ring of holywater. He stopped digging and when morning came the horse vanished and the man went home. When the farmer got

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
         1. folk belief (~2,535)
            1. treasure legends (~7,411)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Con Crotty

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   49

   Address

   Coolagarranroe, Co. Tipperary