School: Urhan (B.) (roll number 12259)
- Location:
- Urhin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0275, Page 137
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- Morty-Óg lived in Eyeries Beag. It was Morty-Óg that shot Puxley near the gates of Dunboy. He was fighting in the battle of Culloden. He was not married at all. But there was a man living in the house with him. His sur-name was Harrington. When he shot Puxley there was a man with him. Puxley was on horseback when Morty shot him. Out through an old window of an old cabhlac he shot him. Puxley was passing on the horse when he shot him; the soldiers heard that Morty shot Puxley and they came the next day across the hill and down to his house. Harrington was in the house when the soldiers surrounded them, he ran out the back door and down across a field. He jumped across the river and the next moment his(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Súilleabháin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coulagh, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coulagh, Co. Cork
