School: Tuar, Tulach Sheasta (roll number 15526)
- Location:
- Toor, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Síghle Ní Riain
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- (continued from previous page)the word made for him. He made a fine building and the gentleman did not want him to build one like it for anyone else. So he decided to kill the mason when the work was finished. When the mason found out that he was about to be killed he decided to get away. He said he had one of his tools left at the home and he asked to go for it, but the gentleman would not allow him but he sent his own son.
The mason gave him a letter to give to this wide the contents of which were head downwards and feet upwards. When the gentlemans son reached the masons house he gave the letter to his wife. She opened a large deep box and she told the young man to reach down for the tools. When he stooped down she pushed him into the box and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret O Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Toor, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Andy O Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toor, Co. Tipperary
