School: Ballymahon (B.) (roll number 12690)
- Location:
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Eugene Conway
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0751, Page 260
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- I was out hunting on last Saturday with my father. I met a man named Paddy Reilly and he showed me a small meadow in which there were two lone bushes growing. He pointed to a bush in one corner of the field and said "there is history attached to that big bush" He said he had not time to tell me a story just then because it would take too much time. He said he would meet me in the town some night during the week. I met him last night and I brought him up to my house and he drew a map of the field. He said one year during the Black and Tan trouble Mike Stephens had no fire so he went to this bush to cut a branch off it. He was half way through when all of a sudden he began to vomit blood. He went home and remained in this state for a long time. After the trouble he went to a hospital in Dublin.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Walton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Paddy Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Rathmore, Co. Longford
