School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gort an Bheithe, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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the reins of the English horsemen and stabbed them.All the horse men fell and got killed.Wee returned home and brought the news with her.Her husband told her that he would come home after some time but never.he was killed and buried in Wexford soil.
She had one son and one daughter.She struggled away until the famine got bad when she died of hunger.Then all the neighbours joined and gave the son and daughter money to bury her.So they got a few pounds Then they knew they had no other means of living only to bury her in a sheet and go off with the money to a foreign land.So the went and got a sheet and buried her.Her grave is still to be seen The son and daughter emigrated.
- Collector
- Michael Ó hAinnín
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ré na hIomána, Co. an Chláir
