School: Killadangan (roll number 4854)

Location:
Killadangan, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire Bean Uí Domhnaill
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  1. An old man told me a story about two men who were imprisoned, when his father was alive. here is the story.
    Two men who were imprisoned tried to escape, by coming from their cell, through a window, to the roof. A colonel at the prison had an ornamental emerald called, "Death's Eye". One of the men wanted the emerald, and stole it from the (con) Colonel's room. They ran for their life, across roads, fields, and bogs, till they came to their own country, but before long one was in prisoned again. The other fled and went driving a women around the country, she found out who the divil of a
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maud Gannon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Streamstown, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Martin Heraty
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    84
    Address
    Streamstown, Co. Mayo