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School: An Clochar, Uachtar Árd (roll number 13439)

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Oughterard, Co. Galway
Teacher:
An tSr M.S. Iognáid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0065, Page 405

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    is surrounded by a high wall twelve feet high four feet thick with niches in the wall for guns incase of attack at the entrance of the cashle.
    In the centre of the cashle is the green room which took its name from a green mantlepiece. In each room there was a trap door and through them traps men were lowered into the river and never seen again.
    Ó Flaherty had a standing army he had judges.
    Within its walls there was a Graveyard for the dead also a chapel with gothic windows and cut stone.
    Ó Flaherty was shot by one of his own soldiers and buried
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    2. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Dixon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Oughterard, Co. Galway