School: Scoil na mBráthar (roll number 16741)
- Location:
- New Ross, Co. Wexford
- Teachers: Aindrias Ó Caoilte Br Ó Cinnéide
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- After the battle of ross in 1798 ,there were many valuable around ross in Bog -holes and small lakes.The valuables were hidden there by many rich people who were afraid that they would be robbed by soldiersWhen I was a boy of about ten years of age I found a parcel of solid silver spoons in under a big stone.I found them in a field along side a road named Boheen -na -slán . The stone under which I found the spoons was along side a small lake called the'Loch bhuidhe" There were several valuables found in this lake because it was considered a good hiding place by the people who hid them there.
When I found the spoons and as I was going home, some bigger boys say them and fought with me for them .Because they were bigger they took them from me me and ran away with them and I never say them again.- Informant
- Mr John Rice
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 87
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballymacar, Co. Wexford
- There is a pot of gold buried along side of a house in Lacken . A man named Freaney buried it . It is guarded by a(continues on next page)