School: Camross, Mountrath
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifernáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0826, Page 182
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- (continued from previous page)The lady was afterwards killed by a man who was cutting timber. He made a grave for her with an axe.
- About the year 1810 there lived a man named Thomas Fitzpatrick who worked a still. He was situated on the banks of a stream, which runs down the Island mountain. He worked hard for a year at his still. At the end of a year he hired a man to take the produce to Dublin City. It was £50 worth of pure old mountain dew. The man he hired was an innocent man. They both travelled together to within twenty miles of Dublin City.
Fitzpatrick departed his man and walked on into the city to find a costumer. He told the man to wait at Rathcoole until the buyer's car would meet him. As Fitzpatrick feared protection if he reached the city with his log wheeled car, the man kept going on and forgot his master's orders. He never minder till(continues on next page) - Informant
- Joe Thompson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Srahanboy, Co. Laois
