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School: Sonna (roll number 1422)

Location:
Kildallan, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Mrs O' Connell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 196

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    The hawkeen Garden. This garden is in Grangehall, and it is so called because people were hawked in it the time of the war. It is a three cornered garden.
    The cattle will not eat the grass on a certain place in it, as that is the place the people were killed.

    Seán Wella (bhealach) is a field belonging to Mr. Doyle of Ballynacroighy. There is a tree in this field, on which they used to hang people and they used to put a cart standing up on its end, and hang people out of it also in this field.
    Ballynacroighy means the townland of the hanging
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Location
    Ballyhoreen, Co. Westmeath
    Collector
    Michael Mulligan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13
    Occupation
    Schoolboy
    Address
    Grange, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    James Flood
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyhoreen, Co. Westmeath