School: Garrdha Dubhlios, Pálás Gréine (roll number 10991)
- Location:
- Garrydoolis, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Nuanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0518, Page 114
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“I heard this story a few days ago and this is the way it begins:- There is a man in this district and when he was young a man named Thomas Hennessy took him to Tipperary.”
(continued from previous page)out with him to close the gaps.
It was about three o'clock in the morning and when they were closing the gap of the moat they heard grand music. They stopped to listen to it for some time and one of the brothers passed some remark when the music stopped. He then said. "We'll go home" because he knew they would be uneasy. When they arrived home, they went straight to bed and the brother who passed the remark fell sick.
When the father came home he got a terrible fright at seeing his son in bed sick when he was going to Limerick and it was the first sickness he ever got as he was a very strong boy. He harnessed the horse and car and made for Clare to see Biddy Eardley. Just as he was crossing the Westly Bridge the horse stambled from one wall to the other and in the end he fell.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mary O Donnell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Garrydoolis, Co. Limerick