School: Island View, Cill an Dísirt (roll number 14196)
- Location:
- Tonlegee, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cochláin
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“Long ago it was the custom in the country wherever a nice girl was men would come and steal her by night.”
Long ago it was the custom in the country wherever a nice girl was men would come and steal her by night. They came to the house of James Clancy to steal his sister as she was a nice-looking girl. He heard they were coming and he watched for them.
The first man that came in the street he fired a shot at him and he fell.
The men that were with him put him in a bag and brought him to the graveyard.
While they were marking the grave they saw some sign of life in him they waited for a while and saw he was not dead.
He lived for many years afterwards. There was a reward from the goverment to any body that would shoot these people.
But James Clancy would not take the money because it was blood-money.