School: Tulla (B.)
- Location:
- Tulla, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0589, Page 109
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- (continued from previous page)about twenty people who were already dead and all relations of his wife began to beat him.
He ran to his house with the people after him and they beating him with sticks. He knocked at the door but his wife was asleep and did not hear the knock. After a long time knocking she got up and let him in. She asked him what happaned him and he told her the whole story. He said also that at twelve o'clock the following day he was to die. She asked him to tell her the relatives of hers who were beating him. He named twenty of them and a girl was the worst. At a eleven o'clock the following day he got black all over his body and died an hour later as he had foretold.
- Collector
- Thomas J. Reidy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tulla, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Michael Reidy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tulla, Co. Clare
