School: St Columb's Moville
- Location:
- Moville, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Hamilton Stewart
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1119, Page 291
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Herden went home and showed them the money that he got for his old mother that they killed, all that money for old woman for gun powder and they had a mother each so they killed them and they went along the next day carrying them shouting, "Old people for gun powder," and the authorities got hold of them and made them bury them.
After burying them they returned home and got hold of Herden, put him in a bag, and took him away to drown him in a quarry hole. A hare jumped up and they ran after it, while Herden was sitting in the bag whistling, a drover came along and asked Herden where he was going? And he said I am going to Heaven.
The drover asked him would he change places and if he did he would give him all his herd(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nan Wylie
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moville, Co. Donegal
