School: Butlerstown (C.), Portláirge (roll number 14679)
- Location:
- Butlerstown South, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Fhlannagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0650, Page 371
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- (continued from previous page)when Latouche came along, to see how the work was getting on. The agent asked some of the farmers what they would do to a man who would steal a cow, and a man who would steal a horse. They said they would put him to gaol. He then asked them what he would do to a man who would steal his daughter. They said nothing. "Well" said the agent. "I would bury him in that drain." At this the young man jumped up and caught the agent by the neck. "There's not a man from here to where you came from would do that to me. So in you go yourself" he said. He would have thrown in the agent only the farmer came to his rescue. From that day out the agent was afraid of the poor boy and a few days after he gave him a present of fifty acres.
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Foghlúda
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr James Power
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Butlerstown South, Co. Waterford
