School: Murher (C.) (roll number 13541)
- Location:
- Maigh Oirthir, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Chonaill
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- (continued from previous page)to the stile until she'd go up the steps to sit up behind him.
When she sat up she put her arm around the man to keep her hold. When she had done so she could find no substance in the man. She got nervous of him for she knew he was not a right man and she said to him "I miss something and I must go in for it". "Stop where you are you need not be afraid. I will bring you back safe again" he said. They drove off till they met a fort. The man took her off and told her not to eat anything till she'd come back to him.
She was taken then by two women in through the fort till they met a fine large room where there was a woman sick. A short time after going into the room the woman was delivered. They sat the woman down to the table. She refused to take anything, then they asked(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Maurice O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Maigh Mheáin, Co. Chiarraí
