School: Tolerton, Ballylickmoyler (roll number 11321)
- Location:
- Towlerton, Co. Laois
- Teacher: L. Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0838, Page 166
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- (continued from previous page)bundle of furze and was bringing them home on his back when he fell into the gullet and was drowned. He was the same height as Patsy and the same build.
Patsy did not turn home at the usual hour and Margaret became anxious and informed the neighbours who proceeded to search for him and found him, as they thought, dead in the river. They brought home the corpse and waked him, thinking all the time that it was Patsy. Then they buried him and when all was over Patsy returned back.
A short time after on a Sunday morning the real Patsy arrived home Finding the door locked, he thought that his wife Margaret had gone(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bill Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Towlerton, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Bill Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Towlerton, Co. Laois
