Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Location
![The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0220, Page 0186](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbe/CBE_0220%2FCBE_0220_0186.jpg?format=jpg&width=1600&quality=85)
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0220, Page 0186
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“I remember hearing a story about my own forefathers - the 'Butlers'. ”
(continued from previous page)by the neck." "Very well said" replied the rough master as he appeared from behind a large tree "If he is a villian hanging is the only cure for him." "Oh sir" cried the frightened woman "I only said that to frighten him as I was delayed too long and I lost my patience." "Oh you only say that now to get him off" replied the gruff gentleman, but that is not your own opinion, he was committing trespass on my land and property and hanged he must be." According to the way the story went he was hanged and the mother hanged herself a few days afterwards