School: Ballinagore (C.) (roll number 16341)
- Location:
- Ballynagore, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Miss A. Heduan
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0734, Page 212
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- (continued from previous page)because he was drunk, and he was left there. The next morning the keeper found him in the cellar. He had no mercy for him. He was about to hang him from a cart when a blast of wind came and blew Bill and the cart back to Ireland.He never felt until he was on Knockmore hill with a cow-dung for a [pillow?]. That was the first time a cart with spokes came to Ireland.
II
There is a part of a field which belongs to a man named George Hacket called the Green Lane. It was here Barry Lowe hanged the priests. Barry Lowe was a priest hunter. There was one young priest he had shut up in a room to be hanged. His daughter asked him to let the priest go. He said "The devil blind me if I do" and he was struck blind.
III
There was a man in Cumminstown who had a horse. One evening he let him out after working. The horse jumped ditches to a field where there was a fort and the man(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Mangan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Pat Grehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Rahinmore, Co. Westmeath
