School: An Scairbh (C.)
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Mhic Eoin
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- (continued from previous page)have him first and down with him and four were smothered before they could be taken up. The hole was ten feet deep and McNamara was gone. When Sir William found himself coming to the last he built a vault in Moynoe where he would be buried. He died before it was finished. There is a flag over him now and everything going the way is walking on him pigs, horses, cows and cattle and no one to pray for him. That ends the life of Sir William Reid.
- Collector
- Tessie Durack
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Scarriff, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mr Durack
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moynoe, Co. Clare
