School: Cill Críosta
- Location:
- Kilchreest, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cléirigh
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- (continued from previous page)Virgin from the scaffold now I'm free
All in all the to Galway I was reared most tenderly
Convenient to Craughwell town
As you all now plainly see
I never injured anyone I knew in all my life
And for the shooting of Peter Doherty
I never did the crime
The night that Doherty was shot
I was lying on my bed
Although his sister swore i was behind the hedge
I needn't thank her for my life
It was the people's prayer
That saved me from the scaffold high
And from an early graveII
The day of the trial as I stood from the dock when I saw Muldowney there(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mena Fallon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Raheen Oughter, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Patrick Forde
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Raheen Oughter, Co. Galway