School: Ballygar (C)
- Location:
- Ballygar, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eithne, Bean Uí Liatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0084, Page 027
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- (continued from previous page)hang her also. But Riobards wife pleaded for her and he did not hang her.
When the widow got free she went down on her knees and prayed in Irish that he would break his neck before the sun would set that evening.
So Riobard was going to a club meeting in Dublin called the Hells-fire Club and in Co West-Meath his horse frightened knocked him off and broke his neck just before the sun set.
- Informant
- Mrs Kelly
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonruff, Co. Galway
