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1. Battle of Hacketstown (continued)

   

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   was fighting with the rebels. He died 3 weeks after & she saw him coming up the road & his sword & top boots & all strapped on his coffin & a troop of soldiers marching behind & before going to fire over him. He was buried at Hacketstown.
   That night a fellow who lay among the dead all day opposite the Barracks rose up & shouted "Boys of Wexford, have you the barracks taken" & the guards couldn't see him but they fired at the voice & killed him.
   The day after the battle my grandmother she was a girl of 16 then walked into Hacketstown.

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   • Thomas Ellis