School: Camross, Mountrath (roll number 15933)
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifearnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0827, Page 030
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“Years ago the big people has the shooting of the game on the Slieve Bloom Mountains.”
(continued from previous page)Fint Phelan was tramming hay in a field which a robin could not fly through. When the guards questioned him he jumped off a cock of hay and ran around the field and the guards after him.There was a very very big gate on this field so Fint Phelan could not spare time to open the gate. If he did the guards could catch him, and he topped the gate.Then the big people gathered alot of guards so that he could not escape. The ran him to the river Slaney(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Martin Lyons
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Srahanboy, Co. Laois