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   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.

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   Language

   English

   Location

   Rockfield, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Francis Prendergast

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   90

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Rockfield, Co. Mayo