School: Coillíní Carrowkelly (roll number 7054)
- Location:
- Culleens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ó Brádaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 45
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- (continued from previous page)Victoria Terrace. As twelve struck there was great anxiety and silence amid the crowd. The man has his crowbar ready since eleven o'clock and kept looking into the air to watch. In a second he threw the crowbar but failed to hit his wife. Instead he broke two chimney pots belonging to the Moy hotel. The police came immediately and the next place the man found himself was in the barrack. The police thought the man was silly and sent for a doctor to prove it, the doctor ordered him to the mental hospital so there the poor man had to remain for the rest of his years. The man continually said that he saw his wife but no body else saw her.
- Informant
- Mrs M Doherty
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Kilmoremoy, Co. Mayo
