School: Na Creaga
- Location:
- Creggs, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Breandáin
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- (continued from previous page)he do him a favour. So the Warder said he would if he could. So this poor fellow had the price of a cock and he told the Warder to buy one for him and bring it in alive, and this poor man killed it in his lonely cell and sprinkled the blood in the four corners, and did it in honour of St Martin. That night the gates of the prison were open for this man to walk out unmolested. It is supposed the gates were opened by St Martin
- Collector
- Desmond Clifford
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Creggs, Co. Galway
- Informant
- William Nicholson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Creggs, Co. Galway