School: Clochar Lughaidh, Carraig Machaire Rois (roll number 15329)

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1. The Wild Goose Lodge

   

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   There is a rock not far from Carrickmacross called "The Wild Goose Lodge". It is said that there was a hiding place under this rock where "The Earls of Ulster who were called Wild Geese, took shelter when flying to France

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   1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
         1. Theobald Wolfe Tone (~5)
   2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. Battle of the Boyne (~13)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mr Peter Connolly

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Mullylusty, Co. Monaghan

2. Wolfe Tone

   

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   Wolfe Tone
   When Wolfe Tone was being taken prisoner to Dublin he passed close to Carrickmacross. There is a meadow close to the town where men were drilled who fought at the Boyne and Aughrim. The great John O Donovan who visited Carrick in 1835 declared that the inhabitants were as Irish then as in the days of Owen Roe O'Neill
   At Lough afooka (Loch a' Phúca)

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