School: Scoil Mhuire, Béal Átha hAmhnais (roll number 11438)
- Location:
- Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: S.T. Ó Maolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 224
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- (continued from previous page)got up at five o'clock one morning about sixty years ago to look at a cow that was going to calve. It being Summer time she had to go up the fields. She looked back the Ballinlough road and saw a funeral coming. It turned up the Knockbrack road and into a Mr. Higgins field, there the people started fighting and shouting all round the fields.
When my grand-aunt saw this she ran home and told her father who said, "Go to bed a grádh and put the clothes up on your head."
Next day there was blood found on the ditches around Higgins, and in a few days after that an old man in the village di?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Joseph Cruise
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockbrack, Co. Mayo
