School: Johnstown
- Location:
- Johnstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Doherty
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- My father often told me that at Billistown about three miles from this school, in the middle of a field stands the ruins of an old castle which I have often seen, in the interior of which a scillet of gold coins is believed to have been hidden.
People have ceased to make attempts to discover the treasure as it is supposed that the hider laid a curse on the place and that he who searched for it, would never have luck.- Collector
- Margaret Foxe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Killulagh, Co. Westmeath