School: Míleac (roll number 4974)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Brighid Bean Mhic Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0055, Page 0261
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- (continued from previous page)Your cursed jelly face, of the perjury the race
May fiercest hellhounds chase you round from pole to pole
May Old Dick Horseman die the death of Gilderoy
Upon the gallows high, in frienzy without hope!Destruction gaping wide his guilty corpse bestried
And sink him in the tide of satan's fury yoke,
Destruction at a call, may seize villians all,
And prove their complete downfall, who swore his life away
And let us here in paid our sorrow to complain.
In troubles liquid main until the day we die".
(Gilderoy was hanged for stealing a sheep). It is said that the Horsemans and Kate Molloy may have fully deserved all that have been said about them but nothing can justify the terrible imprecations used in the lines quoted. Mr. Glynn gave them because it would be a pity to pass over(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brighid, Bean Mhic Aodhgáin
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Eyrecourt, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Glynn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Occupation
- Clerk
- Address
- Kilmachugh, Co. Galway
