School: Cnoc Aoibhinn (Mount Pleasant) (roll number 13500)

Location:
Mountpleasant, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Peadar Ó Longáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090, Page 098

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    The old people say Sean's corpse was covered with big "black-lads" while it lay overboard. They also say that on the night Sean was buried the people gather ed and dug up his body out of the grave and fired it into the little lake at the back of the old abbey.
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
        1. Seán na Sagart (~51)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Burke
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrowhall, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Michael Looskan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    65
    Address
    Rathnacreeva, Co. Mayo