School: Breac-Cluain (B.) (roll number 16217)

Location:
Brackloon, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Séaghdha
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  1. There was a man in Ballinclare long ago. Once he employed a servant boy and the boy only stayed a month with him. About a week after he going, the man was going to Cork with the butter. In the road between Cork and Kerry two robbers came out from inside the fence. They were taking his butter and his money from him. One of them said to leave him alone so the other stopped. I know now he said, are you the man I was employed by so he rose up his mask and the man recognized him. He carried the man to a terrible robbers house. At that time there was Five pounds for his head. The man went to bed in the corner and when the robber came in he did not like to see him in his house but all the same he went. When he went to bed the servant boy started to redden an iron. He drove it through the robbers heart. He cut off his head and put it into a bag. The man and servant boy had a good day out of the price of the head.
    Told by Patrick Casey to his son John. Patrick heard it from his father,who died about eleven years ago, aged about 65. He was a small farmer. Never left native place. Taken down 1-2-'37.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people
        1. robbers (~423)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Casey
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Patrick Casey
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male