1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Drumshanbo (C.)

School: Drumshanbo (C.) (roll number 12873)

Location:
Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Margaret Flynn
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0207, Page 145

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0207, Page 145

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Drumshanbo (C.)
  2. XML Page 145
  3. XML “Coming of the French 1798”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Coming of the French 1798 (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    One day a soldier went into a house on Sliabh an Iarainn for a drink of milk. The woman of the house was pounding potatoes and she did not pretend to see him. He began to break everything in the house with his sword. He asked the woman again for the drink and she gave it to him. When he had the cup up to his mouth she took the pounder or beetle and hit him on the head and killed him. This was a woman that lived on Sliabh an Iarainn.
    About three years ago two skeletons were found near Ballintra Bridge and a man named Barney Mc Hugh who was working on the Shannon found a sword and when some of the men were dredging they found a sword and a canoe.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Phyllis Sissons
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Patrick Allen
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim