School: Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (B.)
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: D. P. Ó Cearbhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 595
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- (continued from previous page)house and went in to see would he get the night lodgings. When he went in the man and wife was (were) fighting. Then he taught of the third advice. He left the house and he went to sleep in a stack of straw at the back of the house. At the dead hour of night the wife and another man killed her husband and put him in under the stack of straw beside the other man. The man was not asleep. The man had a snips in his pocket. So he took out the snips and he cut a piece of the man's coat that was putting the dead man under the straw. So the next day the guards was on the look out of the missing man. Then the got the man under the straw. Then it was left on the man that was sleeping under the straw that night. So they brought to court the man that slept on the stack of straw. So he brought the piece of the other man coat out of his pocket and it fitted the man's coat that killed the other man. So the other man was free. So he went home and lived with his wife and son.
- Collector
- Patrick O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardnaree or Shanaghy, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Boland
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardnaree or Shanaghy, Co. Mayo
