School: Kilbeg (roll number 11039)
- Location:
- Robertstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Duibhgeannáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0709, Page 171
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- There lives a man in this parish named Path McGrath Draknath and there was another man named Paddy Ginnity who is dead now. One day as they were working in Harry Dyas’s ochard Mc Garth saw Harry walking through the cattle in the ochard. Dyas owned another farm in Bolton also and he was living there. The same day he was supposed to be at home in Bolton which is several miles away and the same day he died. The two men got afraid and they went and called Matthew Flanagan and when they came down to the ochard, they could not(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggie Carpenter
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Castletownmoor, Co. Meath
