School: Urhan (B.) (roll number 12259)
- Location:
- Urhin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)and gave them to the soldiers. The soldiers told him that they would give him anything he asked. He asked them to take down his father’s head off the spike and they did.
When the soldiers shot Harrington it was not long before it when the priest cursed him. One Sunday the two of them were coming from town and when they were coming, Mass was going on in a little Church near the bridge, near John Lynch’s meadow and they sat on the fence outside laughing at the people. There was an old man outside the door praying and Harrington put dirt into his gun and fired at the old man and burnt all his hair. Then the people were laughing and after Mass the priest asked the people why they were laughing and someone told. Then the priest cursed in(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
