School: Walterstown (roll number 10356)

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   “Mrs John Reilly a school teacher who lived in my own house used to go every evening for a walk as far as the Five Roads.”

   

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   Mrs. John Reilly a school teacher who lived in my own house used to go every evening for a walk up as far as the Five Roads. This evening she went as usual. When she was coming home a strange thing happened her. At Brien's there is a water drain. When she came to this drain she could not give one step across it. She tried and tried but no good. She went up as far as the Five Roads again and she got people called Brien's (herds) who lived at it to leave her home. She got home all right. Never again did she go up that road.

   One day Peter Butterly was going to Navan. He had a round trap. He had a cat which he did not want. He put it into a basket and put the lid on it into a basket and put it at the bottom of the trap. What he meant to do with her was to drown her in the Boyne. Off her went. When he was at the little stone wall between Peter's house and Traynor.

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Florence Kavanagh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Walterstown, Co. Meath

   Informant

   Michael Byrd

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   50

   Occupation

   Road worker

   Address

   Walterstown, Co. Meath