School: Drumakill (roll number 6365)
- Location:
- Drumakill, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Florence Harrison
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0943, Page 019
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- Andrew Thomas Lord Blayney was a very famous hero who once ruled over this district. He formed a regiment of well trained soldiers and they were called the Blayney Bloodhounds. They fought in the Napoleonic war. Andrew was taken a prisoner and kept for years by the French government as a ransom for some of the United Irishmen who were in England prisons. A many called Sharp Delaney who was born in this neighbourhood went out to America and took an important part in Philadelphia at the time of the American Revolution.
- Collector
- Peggy Mc Creedy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Longfield, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mr W.G. Grey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Longfield, Co. Monaghan
