School: Castleplunkett (roll number 15545)
- Location:
- Castleplunket, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0245, Page 106
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- There is a townland in the parish of Baslic named Gortnasella. An old blind man named Thomas Scott who lived near Castleplunkett used to say that Gortnasella got its name from a plantation of young ash trees which once grew there. There was a good number of the men of Baslic in the United Irishmen, and every man had a pike head hidden waiting for the signal to rise. When the news of the French landing at Killala reached the district the young ash planting at Gortnasella disappeared in one night. Each United Man had a young tree marked as a handle for his pike and only cut it when the word came. Thomas used relate the following also.
O'Connor of Milltown was a local landlord and turned Protestant to save his estates(continues on next page)
- Collector
- S.S. Ó Dómhnaill
- Gender
- Male
