School: Caisleán Nua (C) (roll number 15772)
- Location:
- An Caisleán Nua, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Staic
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- In the village of Tysaxon the time of the Finanna rising in 1846 there lived a Saxon named Manus Tighe. He was a strong opposer of the rebels for that was the name that was given by the English land-owners to the Fianna. He had arranged with with the landlord Major Hall to meet him at a certain grove of trees between Tysaxon and Currantarimid, but he never got there for he was shot by Dermot Murphy of Tiaguin who was a steward at Halls and who heard of Tighe's prospect of going to meet the land lord and shot him.
- Collector
- Julia Cloonan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- An Chloch, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Informant
- Honoria Cloonan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Chloch, Co. na Gaillimhe
- The land league was organised by the bodies of each parish. The reason why it was organised was to support the(continues on next page)