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School: Sliabh an Mhadra (C.)

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Slievawaddra, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Eibhlín Ní Chearbhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0416, Page 155

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    About 120 years ago a family of the Fitzgeralds lived in an old monument in Lixnaw and they had only one daughter. One day the girl and her father were standing outside in the road and her father said to her, you have everything you want seen. I have said she but one thing.
    What is that said her father I never saw a man hanging, said the daughter. The next man that will come along the road I'll hang him so who came on but a beggar man, they took him and carried him in and hung him off a branch of a tree.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy O Neill
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Causeway, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    James O Connor
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Causeway, Co. Kerry