School: Killadangan (roll number 4854)
- Location:
- Killadangan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Bean Uí Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138C, Page 01_014
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- Long ago there was a tax to be paid to the Landlord called 'Penalty Rent' It had to be paid either by money, or by giving grain.
There was a few neighbours living in a backward village, and they were poor, so they thought it too much to give anything to the Landlord but to keep it for themselves, and they resolved to kill him.
It is said a Rogue will always watch his chance, so they watched and they succeeded in killing him.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Salmon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Deerpark West, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- James Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Murrisk, Co. Mayo
