School: Hackettstown (St Joseph's)
- Location:
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: M. Ní Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 386
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- At the time of the Battle of Hacketstown, there was a blacksmith in Knockananna, his name was Kehoe, and he made pikes, for some of the men. He wanted to meet some of his companions to march into Hacketstown with him. On the evening before he took some tools from his own forge, and leading a lame horse, he went out along the road, and on his way, down along the road. He met Captain Hume, and the Captains horse was lame, and had lost a shoe, and he asked Kehoe if he would put a shoe on for him, which the smith done willingly. That same night some men were arrested in Hacketstown and Kehoe was with them. Captain Hume said that Kehoe could not be with them, as he put a shoe on his horse last night beyond Knockananna
- Collector
- Sarah Willoughby
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Brigid Willoughby
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 41
- Address
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
