School: Cnapach
- Location:
- Knappagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Hionruaidh
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- In nearly every locality in Ireland there is, or was at some time or another hidden treasure or what some people call "buried goold"
The only treasure I've ever heard of to be the truth was in a field of Griffiths in the townland of Corcloughan where the huts were, but of which only crumbling walls remain. Mill workers lived in these. It was in the South-West corner of the field.
The story dated back about a hundred years. At that time coaches went from Dublin to the West of Ireland. One of the roads on which the coach travelled bordered one side of the field in which the treasure was concealed. In those days, gentry whose lands and belongings were all gone, took to highway robbery as an easy way of getting money. It was some of these men who robbed the coaches.
There being no banks then they had to be content with burying the treasure.
At that time Mr Griffith owned the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drokaghbane, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- John Crossan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Drokaghbane, Co. Cavan
