School: Oulart (roll number 15419)
- Location:
- Oulart, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamus Ó hAilleacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 421
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- There was an old woman living in Kilmuckridge, Gorey, and she had only one cow.
There was a rate-collector named Handly who came once a week to collect the rates.Once when he came this woman had not the money to pay; so he seized the cow. The woman was very much annoyed and she followed him along the road.When they came to the next house there was a man standing outside the gate. This man knew that the woman was poor and that the cow was her only way of living. So he went up to the rate-collector and hit him so hard that he put him into a pool of water in the centre of the yard. The woman drove her cow home and the rate-collector never seized anything after.
- Collector
- Betty Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Wexford
