Scoil: Davidstown (uimhir rolla 9682)

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1. St John's - Davidstown Parish (ar lean)

   

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   a Church and a cemetery.
   It is claimed by residents that an After-Mass Meeting in July 1793 actually caused the first incident in the '98 Rebellion. The military in Enniscorthy got wind of the meeting, came out & arrested some of the leaders. These they brought to Enniscorthy bound as prisoners & immediately the people of the whole district rose and followed them, demanding their release, which was granted "for peace sake".
   Of the tree, the stump of which stands at the graveyard gate, it was said that a man named O'Brien of Toberona was hanged from its branches. He was a student & was hanged as a reprisal for the killing of three informers in the near-by sandpit (now used by Mr. Edward Kavanagh, St. John's to manufacture tiles for roofing) by the insurgents. They found him praying in the Church late in the evening, hanged him & left two soldiers to guard the body which they left suspended from the bough. These soldiers went to the public house then at Moneyhore Cross (owned by Cloney's of whome Gen. Cloney of '98 was one). Two women of the neighbourhood cut down the body & had it buried in the graveyard. In this graveyard is buried too, a man who fought all through the rebellion of 1798 & returned [to] his home when all was over.
   Davidstown Church is not on the list of burned churches of 1798, but it is said locally that a party of soldiers actually lighted a fire on the gallery, but after they had gone some distance, one of them, who was born a Catholic, returned & extinguished it. This is the scorched picture referred to, accounted for.
   In 1820 For. Doyle died & was buried at Courthoyle near Carrickbyrne.

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