School: Ráth Morgáin (roll number 15966)
- Location:
- Ráth Muireagáin, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Cholmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0130, Page 445
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“There was a poor man living near a gentleman. He had a little son.”
(continued from previous page)coming down. He fired a shot at the boy. The boy on top of the chimney let the rope go with the dead boy and the gentleman thought he had the boy killed. He got out of the bed to bury him before anyone would see him. When the boy got him gone he pulled the sheet with him and he went away. The gentleman was ashamed when the sheet was gone and he went away to another country.
- Collector
- Jack Conroy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ráth Muireagáin, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Pat Healy
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Na Fáilíní, Co. Mayo