School: Paulstown (B.) (roll number 8244)
- Location:
- Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Conaill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0862, Page 315
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Paulstown (B.)
- XML Page 315
- XML “Stair na hÁite - An Episode of the Black and Tan Days”
- XML “Stair na hÁite - The Days of '98”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- About sixteen years ago there were a lot of people around Paulstown and Shankill out fighting against the Black & Tans. One day they were passing along through Monemore and one of the men got afraid and he was running away like a coward and a bullet struck him and killed him dead. The spot is there to be seen yet with a little cross up over it at a place called Purcell's Bridge.
- Kilcumney is situated on a gentle eminence in the Borris-Muinebeag district on the borders of Kilkenny and Carlow. The insurgents camped here on their retreat from Castlecomer to their own County of Wexford when they were endeavouring to get back through Scollagh Gap. The story of young Teresa Malone whose hame is enshrined n the Ballad on P. 31(continues on next page)
