School: Ballybay (Hall St.) (roll number 12378)
- Location:
- Ballybay, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: C. Ó Maonaigh
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- (continued from previous page)memorial to his memory. There is another V.C. Private Duffy who lives outside Castleblayney. My Uncle Sergeant Major Robert Mc Bride won the Distinguished Conduct Medal, Military Medal, Midalle Militaire, Croix De Guerre and Legion of Honour. The Military Medal for bravery in the feild was won by Edward Jackson tailor Monaghan. George Nesbitt, Dunraymond Thomas Sommerville, Carrickatee and my father William McBride, Sunbeam Villa, Ballybay. I have heard the above from my father of the (snow) same address.
- Many years ago two men named Mills and Piccot were fishing in Bowelk lake in a boat. The boat caught in the weeds and was overturned. The two men were drowned before any of the neighbours knew what had happened. Another man named Duffy was in town one day. While he was in town he got drunk and when coming home he was so drunk he drove into a lake known as the White Lake. Some nights before, his father dreamt three times in succession that his son would be drowned. The night he went to town the superstitious father(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Emily Breakey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cumry, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mr Hugh Shelvey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cumry, Co. Monaghan
