School: Tír na nEascrach
- Location:
- Tiranascragh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eamonn Ó Coigligh
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About 35 years ago a man named Johnny Madden employed two men to clear a "scrub" - a place covered with hazel bushes. The roots of each clumb a hazel has spread wide in the sand. When lifting one clump they found a skeleton underneath. As the graveyard was near they asked Madden to let them bury the bones there. He said he would not waste the time. He made a hole and threw the bones into it. In a week he was down with fever and in less than a fortnight he and his two brothers - the each(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John E. Bohan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tiranascragh, Co. Galway
