School: Geevagh (roll number 1213)
- Location:
- Geevagh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0181, Page 209
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- One day when the monks were saying their prayers an English soldier named Frederick Hamilton tried to force his horse up to the steps to attack and kill everybody inside. They had a rusty gun that was not used for years. Although there was no charge put in it, the Abbot gave it to a monk and told him to fire. A shot went off. Hamilton was killed, his horse tumbled down, and tracks of his shoes are still to be seen in the steps of the stairway.
- Collector
- Teasy Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Mac Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Geevagh, Co. Sligo
