School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)
- Location:
- Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 035
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- (continued from previous page)And heard the dreadful moan
Its through the window he looked in
And saw them in their gore.
The carman then to the police went
And this to them did say
I have seen a dreadful murder
And make no delay.
The police then came with him
And the house they did surround
And they soon had me taken
And hands were strongly bound.
They marched me off to carberry jail
Each night in my lonely cell
A queer ghost appeared to me
Her blood in stream I saw quite plain.
To increase my misery
And its cruel whiskey I may blame
For my sad destiny
When the day of trial came.
Its on the bench the carman swore
A hatchet I had in my hand
When I gave her the awful blow
Tis then I was found guilty.
My sentence I received(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 91
- Address
- Knockmascahill, Co. Galway
