School: Carragh (roll number 12527)
- Location:
- Carraghs West, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Cnáimhsighe
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- About fify years ago there lived a number of heroes in this district according to what the old people say. My grandfather tells me of a big faction fight which took place at Ballinlough when he was a young man. It happened on a fair day when two families of the Harts and MacDonaghs fought over a ladder. A man named Hart bought the ladder on the street. He went away on some other bussiness and in the meantime a man named MacDonagh bought the same ladder not knowing it was sold. He went to carry the ladder down the street and to put it on his cart and just then he met Hart man and he said "that is my ladder I bought it."
Then the two men started to fight and before it was finished there were a hundred men on each side. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Glynn
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- James Glynn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Foxborough, Co. Roscommon
