School: Dromakeenan

Location:
Drumakeenan, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
C. Ní Fhallamhain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0818, Page 144

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0818, Page 144

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    protestants were going to build a church. When they were digging they got a skull. This protestant said he would bring it home. Another protestant said that he should not touch the dead but he did not believe him. He took home the skull and the house after that was full of rats it stayed like that until the man died and then the skull was put back in the grave again.
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  2. Ely O'Carroll was a large landlord and he also kept a large number of workmen, and any of his tenants or workmen who disobliged him in anyway the punishment he gave them was death by hanging them out of a large oak tree which is known by all the people around as the Hang Man's Tree.
    This stands on a hill on the South side of the road. He sometimes got them
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Frances Boyton
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    John Riordan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40
    Occupation
    Farmer