School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Tralee (roll number 16871)
- Location:
- Tralee, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. Bríd
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0439, Page 081
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- (continued from previous page)There was a huge big tree there also but it is knocked down since and it was on that tree that he hanged himself. The captain was a finished gambler and he went and he went over to England every year on his holidays.
He had much money but he was not lucky and in a short time he lost all but it was very hard on him when he put "The Great House" as a stake in a game of cards. He lost the game and he knew it would be hard on him to give up "The Great House". He was thinking and thinking and at last it went to his head. One day he went out and went up a tree with a rope in his hand.
He tied one end of the rope to a branch and made a running knot at the other and he put it around his neck. He jumped from the branch and he was choked. Hid body was found, taken down and sent to England.
- Collector
- Noreen Fitzgearld
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Prince's Street, Co. Kerry
