School: Gort na Léime (roll number 13012)
- Location:
- Gortaleam, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Corcoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0038, Page 0178
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- During the time of the "Blacken Tans" an ambush was organised by the Republican army at Poll-lee.
The teachers were told to go to school but not to come out again. Scouts were placed on Peak hill to give the signal when the lorries began to leave town.
A certain person got to town and told the curet or one of the priests. The priest went to the barrack and warned the tans, and therefore they were by Balinlough instead.
It saved a lot of blood-shed and people were very thankful to the priest.
The Irish stayed in Poll-Lee til three o'clock, till at length word arrived about the tans.
