hide them. The barrel was mounted on a cart and brought down to the shop and rolled and nobody was any the wiser except the few who were in the know. The barrel was put by itself outside the counter and marked 'SOLD - TO BE CALLED FOR'. But whether it was sold or not it didn't matter when Cromwell's men wanted it. It seems that a chandler going with the army was a new thing (=innovation).
When the war was over Damer got a big estate at Lattin and Shronell(1). He build a great house there, Damerville, the largest house in the British Isles at one time with the exception of Windsor Palace. Scotchmen he had building the mansion. He brought them over from Scotland and when the work was over he kept them to work on the estate. Their descendants are there still but of the great house there is no trace except the gable of a stable. Damer's grave is in one of the fields but I never saw it. He was the richest man in Ireland. There is nobody that hasn't heard "as rich as
(1) The natives of the place pronounce the "s" SLENDER.

Damer....When Damer got back to the camp he opened the barrel in his tent. He smelted the chalices and the other vessels as best he could and hid the gold in big lumps of wax and tallow. He carried it all about with him till he got a chance of hiding it in a safe place. He hid it in a hollow tree in Lattin or Shronell and that's why he selected land there when the divide was made. When men were cutting that tree years later after some lumps of gold OR coins fell out of it and there were some smaller pieces found in jackdaws' nests round the place. A jackdaw will carry off anything bright, a scissors, a thimble, a pair of specs or even a wedding ring. What happened the stones of the building, is it? They were carted all over the county to build chapels and churches, walls and houses.Note on pp38-9
During a visit to Lattin Sept 1937 the Scotch Bridge was pointed out to me - a little bridge cross a stream (in from the road on S side) and we succeeded in picking out 3 families with distinctive Scotch names. (The local N.T. Mr Keane was with me same evening). Grove: I shall get more information. I spent two months in 1935 trying to find any ref. to Damer in Nat.Lib. The Assistants were in the hunt with me. All we could find in the Nat. Library was Dean Swift dreadful satire on Damer:-