School: Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (B.) (roll number 13631)
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: D. P. Ó Cearbhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0147, Page 129
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- (continued from previous page)again. He set off to look for work. He was going on the road at night and he came to a house and went in to see if he would get the nights lodgings. When he went in the man and wife were fighting. Then he thought of third advice. He left the house and he went to sleep in a stack of straw at the back of the house. At the dead hour of night the wife and another man killed the husband and put him under the stack of straw beside the other man. The man was not asleep and he had a snips in his pocket. So he took out the snips and he cut a piece of the mans coat that was putting the dead man under the straw. So the next morning the soldiers were on the look out of the missing(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardnaree or Shanaghy, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Boland
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardnaree or Shanaghy, Co. Mayo
