School: An Pháirc (roll number 13115)

Location:
Park, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mícheál Mac Cathmhaoil
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    In the year 1798 the Yeomen raided every village in the locality trying to find out the man wrote false stories about the Yeomen.

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    out of the room when the man's friend came along and accused them of not been able to catch the man. He got a sledge and broke the lock of the door he then ascended the room but the man thinking that it was of the soldiers coming up to catch him got the tongs and struck the man on the head. The man fell to the ground unconscious the soldiers rushed around the man thinking the man in the room was killed. The man in the room ran out and across the fields and the Yeomen after him. The man ran as far as Ballina where he got aboard a merchant ship and he sailed to France. The man never returd to
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. 1798 (~642)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Proinsias Ó Céirín
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lack West, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Séamus Ó Céirín
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lack West, Co. Mayo