School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Cromadh, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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- (continued from previous page)put her to sleep outside her daughter, so now the girl had nothing to do but sleep inside her in the bed and pretend to be asleep and this she did. The two sheep stealers came in and thinking from what their mother told them that the strange girl was outside, they killed the girl they found in that position and took away her body to bury it in the bog. As soon as they had gone the girl ran away and got into another house. When the two sheep stealers returned and found no sister in the house they thought she had run away with fright, never thinking they had killed her. They made inquiries about her but got no information. The body of the murdered girl was found and the two murderers were hanged and their mother was transported.
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- Collector
- Micheál O hArtagáin
- Gender
- Male
- Father Blake used to cross to fields when going to(continues on next page)