School: Cill Phian
- Location:
- Ardnagor, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0142, Page 238
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- (continued from previous page)It was said that the ghost of her father was seen in the house. He was a wicked man.
One night she was in her kitchen when a man tried to shoot her. But her coachman (some say her servant - girl) was standing between her and the window, so the man could not take aim. The Government arrested a man named Frank Walshe and he was sent to a long term of imprisonment.
Miss Pringle lived with Miss Gardiner and after this attempt they lived in a room on the top story. A barrack was built near her gate and the police guarded her everywhere she went.
Miss Gardiner is buried in Rathru [?] Churchyard. The old people said that the ground refused her, because when the people were going to bury her the grave closed in. The Coffin(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Garvin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonaleedin, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Garvin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonaleedin, Co. Mayo
