School: Lochán na mBan (roll number 7816)
- Location:
- Loughaunnaman, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Conghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0099, Page 262
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- (continued from previous page)harm him should he be innocent”. Cooke had a piece of bread in his hand and said, “that this bit may choke me, if I do not have him in Castlebar jail tonight”.
When he had finished he got up and started on his journey but strange to say that he fell dead about 100 yards from the door. There is a little bush (white thorn) growing there for years and it bears the name “Cooke’s Busheen”. In height it is about five or 6 feet it is a miserable-looking bush and there was no other tree near it for years children were afraid to pass by it late at night. The present owner, John Dillon made a plantation beside it about 20 years ago so it is not such an object of terror to children now.
- Informant
- Francis Prendergast
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 90
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Rockfield, Co. Mayo
