School: Killough (roll number 9540)
- Location:
- Killulagh, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mary Lynch
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- (continued from previous page)carried out by members of the Archaelogical Society. The bones were I am told removed to Dublin.
- Convenient to this cave (described lastly at Renalagh) is an old tree the boughs of which overhang the road. This tree is known and called locally by the name as "the hang man's tree"
People in the neighbourhood say that the robbers hid in this tree and any poor victim who happened to pass the road with money was robbed, hanged, on this tree and their bodies were thrown into the cave near by.- Informant
- Paddy Mc Art
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dardistown, Co. Westmeath