School: Kilcormac (Mercy Convent)
- Location:
- Kilcormac, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sr M. Finghín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0809, Page 031
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- Once upon a time there lived three brothers who had plenty of gold. These brothers put there gold into an iron box and buried the box. They went off to a foreign country. The people knew about the gold being hid but they did not know where it was.
After some time they found that it had been buried in a field in Clavin's in Derrydonley, because a girl who was living in the old castle saw them carry it some distance, but she did not see them bury it.
Two of these brothers died in a foreign country and the third brother came home. The people asked him where the gold was but he would not tell them. So they put him into a bog and burned him to death.
No one ever has discovered this iron box of gold.
- Collector
- Tessie Coughlan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcormac, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Michael Coughlan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyoran, Co. Offaly
