School: Tulchán (roll number 10097)
- Location:
- Tullaghan, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Guidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0190, Page 142
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- (continued from previous page)two bad to leave him this whiskey and took the bottle and "says" I will take a glass. And when he had the glass taken he finished the whiskey. Then he fell a sleep and the boy got the horse and went to the landlord with the horse and the landlord gave him the two hundred pounds. The landlord said he would give him a hundred pounds if he would steal the sheet from under himself and his wife and if he saw him coming he would shoot him. That night he went to the graveyard and dug a dead body and brought it to the landlords window and the landlord look down his gun and fired two shots at the dead body. The dead body fell and he went out and buried it behind the house. When he was burying the body the thief came in and said to the wife lie over there a piece I am perished out all nig-(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Pat Kerrigan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Agharroo, Co. Leitrim
