Old Ruins
20th July 1938
There are three old chimneys in the north of this village, Townland of Prizon, Co Mayo. They are about three hundred years old.
It was Toby Bourke, who built Prison, where the three chimneys stand now.
One day a woman brought her son who was very cross to Toby to be quietened and he said; I will quieten him, and he hung the little boy.
A while after the woman came for her son and she found him dead.
It is only just the ruins of the prison that are now to be seen.
“INFORMANT: Mary Adams, Age 77, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo”