School: Killenaule, Dúrlas Éile (B.)
- Location:
- Killenaule, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Muireadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0564, Page 189
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- The Story of Leatham the Tyrant.
In Helenpark House about a mile from Killenaule on the old road to Cashel where the Feehan family now live, lived a Planter named Leatham. He was so bad that the people called him Leatham the Tyrant. In Cashel Road at that time, lived two boys named Ryan with their widowed mother. Leatham had the two Ryans arrested and transported to Spike Island. After some time, the boys got a long plank and two bits of sticks and when night came they managed to swim into Queenstown. They made their way home & when they walked into their mother she almost collapsed because she thought it was their ghosts.
Leatham had a pack of foxhounds and there was a meet of the hounds at Laffansbridge. The two Ryans waited for him at the back gate of his house and when he came out, they jumped on him and tore him off his horse and shoved a blunderbuss into his throat. The tyrant roared and bawled for mercy, & said, "Ryans, Ryans spare my life & I will get you a kings pardon for ever."(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Danny Fogardy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Killenaule, Co. Tipperary
