School: Walshestown (roll number 3245)
- Location:
- Walshestown North, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhuibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0736, Page 310
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- (continued from previous page)been hidden by a certain familly and no one knows for what purpose. Only one man is all who made an attempt to find that treasure. A man named Tuite.
The people of the neighbourhood had told him the danger of venturing to dig for it. He paid little heed to them.
Nothing would satisfy him but that he should dig for it.
He set out one day with a spade and went towards the hill. When he reached the hill he began digging.
Soon he heard some queer noise and he looked round and to his surprise he saw a tremendous fish. He threw the spade on the ground and made in haste to a neighbour near by.
It is said that he never fully recovered from(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomena Healy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Slanestown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mrs Healy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Slanestown, Co. Westmeath
