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1. The Battle of Ballinamuck (continued)

   

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   the action and the Captain removed his body to the rear. Ó Catháin was not able to bring the body of his friend with him. Later he went to Captain Crofton of Lurragoe, brother of Duke Crofton, Mohill, and succeeded in getting a pass which enabled him to remove the body of his friend. Previous to this Captain Crofton, who happened to know the McGlawin family and see the dead body, had the ball which caused his death removed and sent, with the coat McGlawin was wearing, to the dead man's mother. The majority of those killed in battle were buried in dykes and holes without any mark to show where they fell. The poem about Gilheany P. explains itself.

   Matter came from various sources. Most of it came through my mother and my great-grand father who fled to Garaflaugh, Co.Cavan, after the battle. 26-1-'38

   I see by Mr. T. O Flynn's ''History of Leitrim that Fr Dunne was not the name of the then P.P of Cloone. Likely Mr Flynn was correct in that, but I don't agree with his theory about the chains.

   D. Justice Rice say.
   ''But dark despair struck hard at freedom's son, As roused they from their bivouse at Cloone.
   To find the iron harness of the guns Had vanished from beneath the harvest moon.
   Without their guns at Ballinamuck they stood, yet fierce the conflict ere the flag went down;
   No glory to the cowardly traitor brood, But to the vanquished honour and renown.''

   

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   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. 1798 (~642)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Seán Ó h-Eslin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim