School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí
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- Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Olivia
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In the Penal days there was a priest going to be hanged outside the village of Cootehall, and a great crowd of soldiers gathered lest he might escape, and all the faithful gathered on the opposite hill.
They made up a plan that if they could get a good marksman to shoot the hang-man then they would rush in and free the priest.
It happened that one man came forward, he was more or less intoxicated, but he was a crack shot.
He took the gun and fired and killed the hang-man.
The enemy got confused and frightened and so they ran. Then the Catholics ran in and freed the priest
