School: Gort Sceithe (roll number 13062)
- Location:
- Gortskehy, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0105, Page 222
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- (continued from previous page)At last the owner of the hotel had barrels of tar put round it. Away go the hags loaded with money, but poor Jack got captured in one of the tar barrels. In the morning the hotel keeper found the robber! Jack was sentenced to be hanged from the shaft of a sidecar. He asked one request before being hanged - leave to put on his red cap.
The hangman got on the car. "High over to Ireland," said Jack. At once Jack, car and hangman were all flying to Ireland. As they were passing over the English Channel Jack gave a cuff to the hangman. He himself landed home safe and sound to his mother in Connemara, but the hangman went to the bottom of the sea.
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- Collector
- Tomás Ó Cléirigh
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Annefield, Co. Mayo
