School: Raharney (B.)
- Location:
- Raharney, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Ó Conmhidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0727, Page 092
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- (continued from previous page)cleaning wheat when the landlord called Brisco drove over it and upset it. The priest got into a great rage and swore that there would not be a Brisco alive in this parish after two hundred years now there is only a man and his wife alive of that family.
- When raising sand about twenty years ago in a hollow behind a cottage on my own land I came up on five human skeleton under a lone bush which was planted over them. It is said also where the cottage stands now wa a robers den and that the robbers were hanged out of the lone bush.
When I found them I threw them back again and they are there to this day. - Informant
- Thomas O Keeffe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Grange Beg, Co. Westmeath
