School: An Aill (Aille)
- Location:
- Aille, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Maitiú Ó Críocháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0059, Page 0509
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- (continued from previous page)house and let it down the chimney. When the gentleman heard the corpse coming he thought it was the son that was coming and he got his gun and he shot the corpse. The wife then told him to go and bury the young man the way no one would see him. The gentleman put the corpse on his back and went to bury it. While he was gone the son went in and brought the sheet. When the gentleman came home the wife asked him where did he go when he came in before that. I did not come since I went out before. The gentleman searched round. The sheet is gone said he we are disgraced. So next day the gentleman and his wife went of into another country.
- Collector
- Seán Ó Ruairch
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Rourke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 39
- Address
- Cullenagh, Co. Galway
