School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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- (continued from previous page)in the murdered man's hand. Suspicion fell on Mc Hugo. His house was searched. The torn coat was found in his house and the piece found in the dead man's hand fitted exactly into the space of the torn out piece. In two trials for murder at the Galway assizes the jury disagreed. Later Mc Hugo was tried in Carrick-in-Shannon where the jury found a verdict of "guilty". He hanged in Galway prison. For years afterwards everybody who passed by the place where the victim's body was found would cast a stone on that spot. In a short time there was a pile of stones on the roadside as big as a house marking the scene of Breheny's murder. A few years ago the Galway Co. Council dug up the pile and used it as road material.
- The herbs that grow in good land are thistles, dog-leaves praiseac-buide, and dandelions. The dandelion would(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Denis Hardiman
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmacrah, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Jack Grace
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 6
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Galway
