School: Carrickvallen, Dundalk
- Location:
- Carrickavallan, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Dobhaileáin
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- Collier the Robber stole a chest of gold from a mail coach. This was supposed to be the rents which the landlord collected.
When Collier the Robber stole the gold he took a slate from the back of a certain house. He buried the treasure behind this house betwee three trees an ash, an oak, and an elm and then he covered it and put the slate on top of the chest of gold.
Soon the soldiers got on his track but they never succeeded in catching him or he never returned fot the gold for very soon after this he took ill and died.