School: Cloonlyon G. (roll number 12937)
- Location:
- Cloonlyon, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Annie Burke
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- (continued from previous page)or not and you after coming back. Before she could answer the mother said stop you fool stop talking.
In later years when the old woman was dying she told the young wife they got a man to kill her. They arranged the night + all were to go visiting + leave her alone. They brought the dog in case he would bit the man.
It was the murderers step she heard as she left the house coming stealthily to the door. He was only a few yards away. He looked in the window + found her gone + went back + told them.
That is how the daughter knew she was out.
She said it was the black cock that saved her life only for him she would not have left the house + she would be murdered. Until she died she never was without a black cock.
