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1. Some '98 Stories (continued)

   

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   croppies leaped on Brock and one of them took the horses fetters (?) off his shoulder and they beat him on the skull till his head was a mass of pulp. And that is how the notorious John Brock was killed the night of the Battle of Ballinamuc.

   There was a poem about it but my father could only remember the 1st two lines. It was my father that told me this story.

   George * wrote to red Lucifer
   Hell's gates to unlock;
   And the fire to kindle
   As a bed for John Brock.

   * George III King of England.

   
   I heard the old people say that the French soldiers when they had made camp in Cloone on the day of their arrival, went down to Annaughmacoolin lough and spent a lot of time looking for wild ducks nests and that they were searching round through the old rushes and marches below Cloone for hours, and that they had a lot of eggs back with them.

   
   Parson Eager

   Parson Eager lived in Drumsillagh near Carrigallen and his hobby besides roadmaking, was spotting suspicious characters. He kept a special eye on journey men and was gravely

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. 1798 (~642)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cloone, Co. Leitrim