School: Liathdruim

Location:
Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0107

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    in the murdered man's hand. Suspicion fell on Mc Hugo. His house was searched. The torn coat was found in his house and the piece found in the dead man's hand fitted exactly into the space of the torn out piece. In two trials for murder at the Galway assizes the jury disagreed. Later Mc Hugo was tried in Carrick-in-Shannon where the jury found a verdict of "guilty". He hanged in Galway prison. For years afterwards everybody who passed by the place where the victim's body was found would cast a stone on that spot. In a short time there was a pile of stones on the roadside as big as a house marking the scene of Breheny's murder. A few years ago the Galway Co. Council dug up the pile and used it as road material.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Denis Hardiman
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilmacrah, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Jack Grace
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    6
    Address
    Leitrim, Co. Galway