School: Camross, Mountrath (roll number 15933)
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifearnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0827, Page 201
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“There lived long ago a very old man not very far from Clareen cross.”
(continued from previous page)During the Great War his father go shot by an English spy. John was only twelve years of age when his father died, so he said he would revenge his father's death yet. When he grew up to be a man he found out where the man that killed his father was living so he said he would go and kill him. One night as this man was going home from town he was met by Purcell, so he got the man and took him home with him. He had a little(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Clash, Co. Laois