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School: Abbey (Naomh Feichín)

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Abbey, Co. Galway
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Séan de Paor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0052, Page 0307

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    1. In upper Ballygown there was a soldier's coat and a arrel of a gun found about ten years ago. The foresters were making drains and they found it. There was a row of buttons down along it.
    2. There was a soldier riding down along the mountain and he was shot and he was buired there and this is how it came to be here.
    3. There were bones and bits of coffins found at the end of John Kelly's field.
    The people were buired there in the time of the famine.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Ballygowan, Co. Galway
    Collector
    Neil Conroy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballygowan, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Michael Molloy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballygowan, Co. Galway