School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0290, Page 156
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- (continued from previous page)half of the men go at each side of it. Then she told them to insert their fingers in the split and to pull against one another. She then took out the wedge and the split closed gripping all their fingers. She then threw off her disguise and they at once knew her, They implored her to spare them but it was in vain and swinging the axe, she beheaded them one by one. This was now he revenged her husband's death and the Gobán was prouder than ever of his daughter-in-law.
- Collector
- Mary O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shantullig North, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mary J. Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drishane, Co. Cork
