School: Shrule (roll number 7795/7796)
- Location:
- Shrule, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0038C, Page 05_017
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“There was once a man living near Headford and he was building a new house.”
There was once a man living near Headford and he was building a new house. When he was digging the sand he dug up some bones and he gathered them up and brought them into the house. A tramp came to him in the evening and he asked lodging of him and he got it. In the middle of the night blood started to fall on him and he called the other man. When the man looked at him he was covered in blood. The tramp said that it was he who killed the man and buried him where the other man got the bones.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Gannon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shrule, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Martin Gannon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shrule, Co. Mayo