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   street. He called the priest and told him he was going to summon him for stopping traffic. The Dean told him that it was all right that the next time he passed he would not see it. The next day a police man gave him the summons and the Dean said "He is able to summon but he will not be able to prosecute." When the court day came the landlord drove in his carriage and near Gannon's corner his horses took flight and he was thrown out of his carriage and killed and the next time he passed the new building he was dead and going to be buried.
   There is another story told of a landlord who was driving from Roscommon in his carriage and two men who were unable to pay their rent planned to kill him. They hid in quarry near the Four-Mile-House and as he was passing one of them shot him and the horses came in to Strokestown and down to the Demense and the the door of the carriage house was opened and they ran in and from that day to this the carriage remained there and never was used again. They found out about the men planning to shoot him but the did not know which did it, so they hanged the two of them in Roscommon jail.

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Shaughnessy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Corboghil, Co. Roscommon

   Informant

   John Shaughnessy

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   57

   Occupation

   Feirmeoir

   Address

   Corboghil, Co. Roscommon