School: Gallbhaile (roll number 1316)
- Location:
- Galbally, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mícheál L. Mac Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0902, Page 006
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- (continued from previous page)Parish of Glynn, owned by James Larken, Killurin, Glynn, Co. Wexford.
The treasure consists of gold, and there is a Soldier guarding it. Every hundred years that soldier comes out.
This Soldier will tell the first one that passes by with a horse and cart to pull in and he will load it with gold.A man named James Sinnot Corlican, Killurin, Co. Wexford was going home from town one night with a load of coal at twelve o'clock, and he spied a man standing in the lane-way. He found it was a soldier and the soldier said : "Pull in your cart and I will load it with gold," but Sinnot said he had to go home to unload the coal, and that he would bring back some-one with him. The soldier said he would be too late. Sinnot went home and he and another man by the name of John King, Corlican, Killurin, Co. Wexford, came back, and when they came back the soldier was gone in. That was sixty years ago, and within forty years time the soldiers will be out(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Shannan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Galbally, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- John Cosgrave
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Lambstown Great, Co. Wexford
