School: Puttore (roll number 15149)
- Location:
- Pottore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Leanna Ní Ghafraidh (Cafferty)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0223, Page 229
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- (continued from previous page)His Lordship was so pleased with the ready wit and humour he found in Jack that he raised him to the highest place in his service and doubled his wages, and he dismissed the Informer. So in some time after, the informer fell sick and died and the following epithet was written over his grave. Stay Reader and Pause
For here it's said
It's under this stone
The sly informer is laid
He studied not all his life
His own misfortune wrought
And his neighbours ills
is what he chiefly sought.
Now if heaven is pleased
when sinners cease from sin
Or hell is pleased
when villains enter in
Or earth is pleased
when bodies they do crave
We all are pleased
For now the rogue is in his grave.
- Collector
- Leonna M. Ní Gafraid
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Cafferty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Seltanahunshin, Co. Leitrim
