School: Convent Girls' School, Ballymote
- Location:
- Ballymote, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Sr. M. Patrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0183, Page 113
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- (continued from previous page)was safe, as the soldiers thought they had shot him.
They had found a poor tramp hiding in a swamp on the landlord's farm who resembled him so much that several people identified the corpse to be his. A few days after, the wrong man was buried, and I stood behind the hedge on the road-way and watched his funeral pass which was supposed to be my own.
That night after the Rosary he added a fervent "Pater Ave" and Gloria for the soul of the man who has personated him long ago.
Written by Margaret Coen Derroon Ballymote. Who heard the story From her mother Mrs. Kate Coen Age 48 years.
- Collector
- Margaret Coen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derroon, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs Kate Coen
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Derroon, Co. Sligo
