School: Ballybunion Convent (roll number 13233)
- Location:
- Ballybunnion, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. Aodán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0400, Page 181
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- (continued from previous page)parties but, he raised his hand before them. They entered the strand with the stones and drove the Lawlors two miles back to the sandhills except twelve men of them who held the strand.
When the Cooleens were out of stones, they turned and fled and the stones they brought killed and drowned twenty nine of them. None of the Lawlors were killed in battle but twelve of them were carried home with broken jaws, hands and legs, almost beyond recognition. One of the leaders, Ahern was got next day buried to his hips in the slab at the point of Rohonnah. It was 3 weeks later before the last of the dead were fished in. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa O Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballybunnion, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Michael Griffin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Ballybunnion, Co. Kerry
