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School: Mullinavat Convent

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Mullinavat, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Sr M. Lorcán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0851, Page 068

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    Ballyhale by twelve men who found him guilty and condemned him to death. They took him out to an out house tied his hands behind his back put a rope around his neck put him standing on a box and then tied the rope to the rafters and then pulled the box away he was hanging for a short time when a man named Tierney found him he cut the rope and saved him not a moment to soon. The mark of the rope was on his throat till the day he died.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Foskin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lukeswell, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Dorothy Ryan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lukeswell, Co. Kilkenny