School: Shrule (roll number 7795/7796)
- Location:
- Shrule, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- Two men and a woman were coming home from a fair in Shrule one time. These three were fighting all day. In the evening they had to come home the Dalgan road together and they never stopped arguing. One man had to go in the avenue. When he was ,gon, going in the other man's wife shouted "he is beating me". Her husband followed him in the avenue and the other man hid behind a tree. The woman's husband ,sa, saw him and struck him with a stone. He left him there dying. The man was bleeding badly until he died. Ever since that the tree is called the bloody(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Daniel Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dalgan Demesne, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Stephen Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dalgan Demesne, Co. Mayo
