School: Scattery Island
- Location:
- Scattery Island, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Nóra Ní Cholgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0630, Page 216
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- (continued from previous page)mother about what she heard and her mother said that it must have been the clog óir she heard.
Shortly afterwards Mary married a Mr. Collins, who lived near Kilkee. She was (only) married only seven weeks when her husband died. A son was born to her afterwards, and when he was about a year old, Mary married a second time. Her first son grew up and was tended with loving care by his step father. Nevertheless he hated that father, and at the age of twenty-three he did his utmost to clear both his poor mother and step-father from the (father) farm. The case was brought into court. The boy did not succeed in evicting his parents, but instead he had to(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Melican
- Gender
- Female
