School: Cratloe (C.)
- Location:
- Cratloe, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shitric
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- Collector
- Miss M. Setrite
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Soloman O' Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Cratloe, Co. Clare
- Long years ago Cratloe Wood were so thick that people were afraid to pass through them after dark. During this period te country was swarmed with robbers or highway men. Many an evil crime was committed under the cover of darkness in the lonely wooded roads. One of the most daring of all the robbers was a man called Morrissey. One of his favourite hiding places was on the Meelick road on the boundary of Watson's Wood. As travelling was very slow in those days(continues on next page)