School: Mercy Convent, Granard (roll number 13846)
- Location:
- Granard, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Sr. Conception
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0764, Page 014
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- 14
A Local Shooting and Burning
3rd Dec; 1937. My uncle who is living in the townland of Killeen, in the Parish of Granard, Co. Longford, told me about a house which was burned in his neighbourhood by the "Black and Tans." The man who owned this house was Thomas Beglan aged 64 years, a poor man who lived all alone in the townland of Killeen, in the Parish of Granard, Co. Longford.
My uncle said that when the man was alseep a number of "Black and Tans" were going round on bicycles, and that they had an ambush near this man's house sometime before, and a few "Black and Tans" were killed. So the others went on to the man's house, and they asked to get in, and they got no reply, but they still knew he was there, so(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Fagan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Granard, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mr Michael Fagan
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Killeen, Co. Longford
