School: Cnoc Aoibhinn (Mount Pleasant) (roll number 13500)
- Location:
- Mountpleasant, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Longáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090, Page 097
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but he got away. They ran towards Partry and the pedlar followed them. They came to a small stream and the priest tripped over a briar and Sean fired at him but it did him no harm. Then the pedlar shouted to the priest "An sgian, An sgian." Then the priest thought of the dagger and flung it at Sean and it stuck in his neck. Sean told the pedlar to draw it out but the pedlar drove it farther in and killed him.
When Bingham heard Sean was dead he sent his soldiers to bury the body in Ballyheane grave yard. The soldiers did not think it worth their while to carry his body so far so they buried him in the first graveyard they came to which was Ballintubber.
Pupil - John Burke
Carrahall,
Ballyglass
Teacher:- Michael Looskan (55)
Rathnacreeva,
Ballyglass(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowhall, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Looskan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Rathnacreeva, Co. Mayo
