School: Scoil na mBráthar, Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Charleville, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Riabhach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0368, Page 249
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- (continued from previous page)came home he brought many jewels and precious stones with him. He had a big amount of them in the house. He kept his money also in the house because there were no banks at the time.
One night a stranger knocked at the door and asked for a nights lodgings. Patrick left him in and eventually they went to bed. In the middle of the night the stranger killed Patrick and his mother and took the money and the jewels. He buried them in a field a mile from the house, but the stranger never returned for them.
He became sick and confessed that he had murdered them. He was a Catholic.
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- Collector
- Patrick Hynes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Charleville, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs O' Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Charleville, Co. Cork
