School: Killasona, Granard (roll number 14300)
- Location:
- Killasona, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ghaithbheacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0764, Page 400
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- (continued from previous page)Billie got the horse. So the next morning his father went to the gentleman who said that Billie would have to take a horse with an armed man on him and two other men in the stable that night. So Billie set off that night taking two quarts of whiskey with him. He went into a pig-sty and lay around as if he was half dead. There was a sow in thee pig sty also which was making noise. After some time one of the men went to the pig sty and found Billie whom he thought was half dead and he brought him into the fire and put him on the hearth. They did not know who it was but they found the whiskey and it went round them and they all got drunk. The horseman fell off the horse and then Billie went off with his horse. Well to make a long story short the gentleman said he would have the sheet from under his wife and himself that night. The day before a man was buried and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Luke Blake
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killasona, Co. Longford
- Informant
- James Dunleavy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Killasona, Co. Longford
