School: Míleac (roll number 4974)

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1. Katty Gallagher's Death (continued)

   

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   Eyrecourt and lost her way in Billy's Place, Kilmachugh. The poor woman, no doubt after repeated attempts to reach her home, lay down exhausted and found, dead, the following morning. When a boy Mr. Glynn used to give Billy's Place a 'wide berth' especially when the shades of night used to steal over the lovely spot. Many a time he ran across the Lough Field in the direction of home not daring to look to the right or to the left fearing that "a woman with a shawl over her shoulders" would appear in the distance.

   

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2. Murder at the Peeler's Bush A.D. 1835

   

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   Murder at the Peeler's Bush A.D. 1835

   The people in this part of Ireland are the most law abiding in the Island. No other outrage except the alleged "carding" at Mayour and that now about to be related, is known. The murder at the Peeler's Bush was one of the sensations of East Galway and is still remembered and spoken of as if it occurred only yesterday. At this early time the peasantry were not educated as they are at the present day. The horrors of '98 were then fresh in the minds of the people. They were strangers in their own land. No justice was to be got. To be a Catholic was a sufficient excuse for a bigoted magistrate, setting on an exclusively Protestant bench, to condemn the unfortunate peasants brought before him.

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Brighid, Bean Mhic Aodhgáin

   Gender

   Female

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Address

   Eyrecourt, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Mr Thomas Glynn

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   83

   Occupation

   Clerk

   Address

   Kilmachugh, Co. Galway