School: Drumloughan (Dromlachan) (roll number 15665)

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1. Hudden and Dudden and Daniel O'Leary (continued)

   

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   shut so Daniel OLeary got his £200 and brought home his mother and buried her. When Hudden and Sudden saw Daniel OLeary so flush with money they wondered where he got it and he said that he killed his mother and brought her through the streets of the town and shouted "Old hags for gunpowder" and that he got £200 for her. So Hudden and Sudden killed their mother and went through the town shouting ("Old hags for gunpowder") But the soldiers arrested them and put them in jail. When they got out they said they would drown Daniel OLeary, so one day they caught him and put him in a bag and carried him to the well. They left him beside the well and went into the town for a drink. While they were away Daniel was singing "Going to heaven in a bag bag bag". There was a cattle buyer going past with a drove of cattle and heard Daniel singing so he said he would give him one thousand pounds and the drove of cattle if he would let him into the bag so that he could go to heaven. So the man opened the bag and Daniel OLeary got out and the cattle buyer got in and Daniel OLeary tied him up securely. Then Hudden and Sudden came back and threw the bag into the well and drowned

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   AT1535: The Rich and the Poor Peasant

   Language

   English

   Collector

   P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Biddy Gilchriest

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   72

   Occupation

   Farmer's wife

   Address

   Annaghmaconway, Co. Leitrim