School: Screen (roll number 9679)
- Location:
- Screen, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0885, Page 198
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- (continued from previous page)Screen (ruins of house still there)
He led an army of Yeos at the Battle of Oulart Hill.
On his way to the battle, he called at the house of a neighbour (Connolly, Ballyfarnogue.)
He was intimate with head of house, an old man, who was an invalid.
He told the son to have his father removed by the time he was returning as he meant to burn the house.
However, he had to flee to save his own life after the battle, so his plans were frustrated.
He, himself was killed on Wexford bridge, by his own stable boy, who was an insurgent. He is buried in the Protestant grave-yard, in Castlebridge.
(When the insurgents were planning to kill him, the stable-boy, whom he had flogged, volunteered to do so.)
