School: An Cnoc (B.) (roll number 16122)

Location:
Knock, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Riain
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    Beatty and she went round to some houses during the day and if she saw a few good geese or turkeys or chickens she would say to the woman of the house to bring them to her house that night. She was very cruel and she treated the people fiercly and on that account the people hated them. There was a man in Coogue and one night he went round to each house in the district and got one or too men out of each house. When he reached the house of Beatty he had about one hundred men and each man had some kind of a weapon a scythe blade or a forke and some of them had revolvers. Some of them then went into the
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Byrne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloontarriff, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    John Egan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    76
    Address
    Cloontarriff, Co. Mayo