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

   

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   Smith told the boy that he shot [Hume of Humewood] & that he would hang for it but the boy said he never knew or seen Hume except that he had heard his father speak of a Hume who lived up somewhere in the Wicklow Mts.
   He put the boy in a car & brought him up the hill where Hume was shot & tried to hang him. I never heard how he went about doing it but I suppose he tied him to the shafts of the cart & then jumped into the back of it himself. Howsomever the boy was only 11 years old & a stone

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   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Location

   Ballysallagh Upper, Co. Carlow

   Informant

   • Thomas Ellis