School: Camross, Mountrath (roll number 15933)
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifearnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0827, Page 070
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- There was once a man after coming home from a fair and after coming home he eat his dinner. He was after selling a lot of cattle and he had a drop of drink, in.He fell asleep beside the fire. There was a very small woman working with him. When she got him sleeping she got the hatchet and killed him, then she robbed him. She put him in a bag and she put an American knot on the bag and took him out the field and hid him under a hay stack.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Michael Phelan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Rossnaclonagh Outside, Co. Laois
