School: The Vale (An Gleann)
- Location:
- Leiter, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Brolcháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1010, Page 377
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- (continued from previous page)hundred pounds. In olden times there were no banks or places of safety for money, and the people used to hide it in old walls, or bury it in the ground. The person who buried this pot must have died or perhaps killed, and it remained there until this man found it.
- There is a hidden treasure in the townland of Crocknakattina. It is at the foot of a lone bush. There was an old woman about fifty years ago, on her death bed. She dreamt for three nights in succession that there was a crock of gold hidden under a lone bush and two dogs minding it. She said that there would be a life lost getting it. No-one has ventured to look for it yet.
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- The landlord long ago in Skeagh estate was Sir Robert Hudson. He was a very bad man.The people had to pay(continues on next page)
