School: Ballycumber (B.), St Ciaran's
- Location:
- Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: G. Ó Súilleabháin
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- There once dwelt in Endrim an agent for a landlord. The agent's name was Kage. One saturday the agent planned to evict 113 houses. The next day as he rode to church he was shot. The men who shot him were two Claffey brothers. Before he came up the men agreed that eldest was to shoot him. But when the agent came up hands started to shake and he could not shoot him. But the younger brother took the Acrobes[?] and shot him. The steward who was with Kage mounted Kages' horse and started to Ferbane for the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brendan Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr J. Egan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Kilnagarnagh, Co. Offaly