School: Dromakeenan

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1. Drumakeenan School (continued)

   

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   was no door between the rooms. (nor is there yet.)

   

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   “There is a place called Sentry Hill two miles from Borris-In-Ossory during the rebellion of 1798 and about five hundred rebels were executed.”

   

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   There is a place called Sentry Hill two miles from Borris-In-Ossory during the rebellion of 1798 and about five hundred rebels were executed there, and that was how it got its name

   On Tinderry Hill over the Holy Island, there is a large oak tree growing and from that tree it was the custom of Cromwell to hang his Irish prisoners, the place goes by the name of Gallow's Hill to the present day and the tree which is still growing is called "Hangman's Tree"

   There was a woman in the Holy Island who knew the monks hiding place and betrayed them to Cromwell, she was baking a cake at the time and she was turned into a pillar of stone and the cake was turned into stone also and placed on her

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peggy O' Meara

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Charlie Featherstone

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   c. 50

   Occupation

   Worker

   Address

   Roscrea, Co. Tipperary