School: St Peter's, Phibsboro
- Location:
- Phibsborough, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Ss. Breathnach
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- Norman Steel was a wealthy landowner who lived at Moynalty, Carickmacross during the '98 Rebellion and after it. He was a captain of a local corps of Yeomanry. Moynalty house in which he lived still remains. It is within a short distance of Ballymackey National School and is owned at present by the Board of Health who took it over some years ago with the object of establishing a County Hospital in it but the scheme has been dropped.Many stories have been told in the Farney district about Norman's career. He is said to have been a man of a sly cruel nature, and to have been a most bogoted opponent of Catholic claims.The following is a story told to me when a boy. It was told by Petie McEneany of Taplagh, Broomfield who went to his reward in 1927. The story illustrates Norman's gallantry. It is as follows:-One night a poor old tinker went to sleep behind a hedge along one of the main roads leading out of Carrickmacross.(continues on next page)
