School: Rathnure (C.) (roll number 12480)
- Location:
- Rathnure Upper, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Bholguidhir
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- (continued from previous page)home, but did not put any seem in James. They thought he was only loitering behind. When Patrick O'Brien was a time at home sitting by the fireside with his mother, both got anxious about James, so Patrick said he would go meet him. Just in the act of going out by the doorway he saw James opening the yard gate and making his way home as best he could. When he reached the door, and just at the entrance he fell down in a swoon. Patrick lifted him up, brought him into the fire, and saw he was all black and blue and bruised and cut. When he came to himself he told the whole story to his mother and Patrick.
He went to bed that night, but never rose out of it. He died after three weeks from the shock and the beating he got.
Patrick O'Brien is still living in(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Patrick O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Grange Upper, Co. Wexford
