School: Eanach Mór (roll number 13912)
- Location:
- Annagh More, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mártain Ó Braonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0142, Page 57
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“The soldiers came to a certain house looking for Father Sweeney.”
The seanachaidhe told me another story which I cannot give word for word but which was to this effect. The soldiers came to a certain house searching for Fr Sweeney. They had made a careful search but without avail and were about to leave the house, when one soldier took a hay fork and made a drive at some hay on a loft in the end of the house. On seeing this an old woman in the corner cried out "Oh a mhuire they have the poor priest killed" The soldiers then knew that the priest was on the loft and came back again. They found him and brought him away.It is a very bad sign to meet with a dead fish when you are going anywhere. The mor-(continues on next page)