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School: Ballyglass (roll number 14642)

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    chest where the tools were. Now she said you’ll have to lean in for it yourself. He bent in for the tool and when she got him in half way over the box she pushed him in and said you’ll stop there until my husband and his father return.
    The news was sent back to England and at that moment the two of them were let home. When they went in home they let out the messenger and that is how Goban and his son came safe from being killed.
    The man that told me this story is Michael Howley
    Cloughroake
    Ardrahan
    Co. Galway
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Howley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloghroak, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Michael Howley
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloghroak, Co. Galway