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School: Johnstown (roll number 877)

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Johnstown, Co. Meath
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Miss H.C. Hickie
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0687, Page 124

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    “Found Patrick (Pasie) at 5 on an April afternoon putting in the cattle.”

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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Patrick Moore
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    99

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    He is hazy about secret societies but recalls how servant girls accused of or suspected of "whispering" or giving secrets away were often dragged from their beds at night and "Carded" that is stripped and tortured by having their skin scraped with the wire teeth of the flax carders. A horrible punishment for "blabbing".
    Remembers Major Myles O'Reilly of Knock Abbey to have led the Papal Zouaves. Plenty of young men from Walterstown went but "didn't fight".
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