School: Caisleán Ó gConaing (C.) (roll number 9686)

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Castleconnell, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Bean Uí Uallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0523, Page 096

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  2. In the Penal Days, Captain Waller, a Protestant who lived in a castle near Newport, met a man who was Catholic and he pulled the nails from his hands with a pliers. One day he and his daughters were out driving in a car. He asked his daughter if she would like to see a man hanged. She said she would. He halted a man on the road and took the rein from his horse and hung the man. His daughter said to him "Father never hang a man again
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