School: Baile an Londraigh (B.) (roll number 14305)

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   would find him obedient for evermore.
   The poor woman was overjoyed and thanked Kingston but when she reached the yard there she found her son hanging from the shafts of a car cold in death. Take him now and I promise you he will never again give you any trouble said the tyrant.
   Kingston and his son rode their horses to water one fine morning. The son was a little in advance and he bent forward to give rein to his animal to drink. The father drew his sword and cut him through. When asked why he did such an unnatural deed he simply said the position was too tempting to let it go. (My grandmother told me this. She knew Kingston. Mrs Johanna Keane, Cullane, Ballylanders.)
   Kingston employed favourites for various jobs. One was haw gathering. They went through the country gathering the haws for planting but they also had an eye out for handsome girls for their master. The girls were taken by force to the Castle and there some of them dashed themselves to the ground and to instant death while others were liberated, after a short time, stark raving lunatics. The descendants of Kingston's favourites have the finest farms and buildings in the parish of Mitchelstown, especially in a place called Thorn-a-lawn to the N.W. of the town.

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   Language

   English

   Informant

   Edmond Hoare

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   c. 80

   Address

   An Spidéal, Co. Luimnigh

   Informant

   Mrs Johanna Keane

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Collán, Co. Luimnigh