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1. Stories of '98 Recorded from Thos. Ellis, Ballasalla, Hacketstown (continued)

   

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   When they were near the place they met Smith [Slater] & told him their business & he was very sympathetic & said if they waited that he would help them to load the bodies & he did. When they were coming back by his house he told them to tell theit mother how sorry he was for their trouble & said to the boy "Come up to my house. I have a parcel for her" but when he got the boy into the house he locked him into a room & went back to the girl but I never heard what he done to her. Shot her I suppose but anyway the mare went home by itself & the bodies in the car

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   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Location

   Ballysallagh Upper, Co. Carlow

   Informant

   • Thomas Ellis