School: Na Cnocáin (roll number 13150)
- Location:
- Knockanes, Co. Kerry
- Teachers: Bean Uí Spealáin Máiréad Ní Laoghaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0456, Page 333
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- (continued from previous page)Tralee. He was tried in Killarney and convicted.
Four members of Crown Coltsman family were in the Jury when they were passing out of the court the widow OLeary came on her knees and prayed that none of them would die in his bed no more than her own innocent boy.
And they did not. One was drowned another was choked at dinner a third was killed on the hunting field and the fourth dropped dead in the Castle yard.
- Collector
- Dominic Spillane
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs M. M. Spillane
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Knockanes, Co. Kerry
