School: Ráth Dairbhe (roll number 10001)
- Location:
- Radeerpark, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Henry Mc Kenna
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- (continued from previous page)build their nests, add to the place a ghostly appearance. On the fourteenth of February in the year eighteen hundred and twenty eight a man named Burke was buried in the graveyard. A few nights after he was taken up again from the grave, and hung up by the neck with a very strong straw rope, from one of those trees that still remain there.
It could not be found out what persons did this terrible deed. So there was a reward offered by the Authorities of that time of £1,000 for information that would lead to their arrest.
Peter McDonnell- Collector
- Peter Mc Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Susan Mc Donnell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Ellinure, Co. Monaghan