School: Killadangan (roll number 4854)
- Location:
- Killadangan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Bean Uí Domhnaill
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- An old man told me a story about two men who were imprisoned, when his father was alive. here is the story.
Two men who were imprisoned tried to escape, by coming from their cell, through a window, to the roof. A colonel at the prison had an ornamental emerald called, "Death's Eye". One of the men wanted the emerald, and stole it from the (con) Colonel's room. They ran for their life, across roads, fields, and bogs, till they came to their own country, but before long one was in prisoned again. The other fled and went driving a women around the country, she found out who the divil of a(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maud Gannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Martin Heraty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Mayo