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1. Hidden Treasure - How Hoey Got the Money (continued)

   

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   suddenly he met a man whom he did not know. This man asked him if he would sell the horse and Hoey agreed. The man said "Follow me". He went into a farmyard. The strange man beckoned to him to put the horse in the stable. Then he led the way into a house. The house was lighted up and in a big room there was a table on which there was a large pile of gold sovereigns. The two men sat at the table. The strange man told Hoey to take the worth his horse from the money. Hoey took as much money as he expected to get for the horse at the fair. As he was about to depart from the room the man said to Hoey, "Well you will be poor all the days of your life for you might have taken all the gold you required although I could not tell you to take it". The man shut the door and he found himself on his homeward road once a more. He often thought after who this strange man could be for there was neither house of farmyard near by.

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eibhlín Ní Conaill

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Delvin, Co. Westmeath

   Informant

   Mr William Conell

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Mulliganstown, Co. Westmeath