School: Ballykilmurry
- Location:
- Ballykilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Bean Uí Odhráin
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“About two hundred yards from our house there is a crossroads called the Rahan cross although it is three miles from Rahan...”
About two hundred yards from our house there is a crossroad called the Rahan cross although it is three miles from Rahan. My father told me that there was a priest hanged out of a tree there during the Penal days and that during the "Black-and-tan" time that tree was cut down to block the road. One night a man who was then living in Ballykilmurry was going home from town and as he was passing where the priest was hanged five men stepped out before him and said he would have to carry the coffin with them. When he came home next morning his wife asked him where he had been. He said nothing(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Daniel Leonard
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynasrah, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Daniel Leonard
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballynasrah, Co. Offaly