School: Hollyfort (roll number 12523)
- Location:
- Ráth an Chuilinn, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Mabel Vaughan
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- (continued from previous page)and brought him home. Some of the soldiers began to laugh and mock at the poor woman. But the captain of them said "The next of you who laughs at this poor woman, I will shoot him dead, because she has suffered enough. So Muilrea's wife buried him in the old grave-yard of Kilcashel near Barnadown
- Long ago when Oliver Cromwell was robbing and killing in Ireland, he was riding one day into Arklow. He met a man on the road, and asked him his name. "My name is Oliver Kearney," said the man. "Well," said Cromwell, "You are the first man of my own mame I met since came into this country. Go out(continues on next page)
