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School: Baltrasna (roll number 4086)

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Baltrasna, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Shuibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 265

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    Hidden Treasure
    Moate is a townland about 3 miles from Baltrasna - between that and Ballinacres. There is a house there called The Moat House - beside that house is a large Moat one of a ring of three or four others within a radius of 4 or 5 miles.
    In that Moat is a cave and some 30 or 40 years ago "an Altar stone and two brass candlesticks were supposed to have been found there. That cave is supposed to be connected with the caves of the other moats by an underground tunnel.
    Michael Muldoon,
    Moat
    Oldcastle
    Aged 87 years

    The same story teller also says that a crock of gold is also buried in that moat but no one can find it
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Michael Muldoon
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    87
    Address
    Moat, Co. Meath