School: Coone, Leighlinbridge (roll number 5713)
- Location:
- Coan, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Éamonn de Paor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0865, Page 347
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This turn of events knocked all the courage out of the Protestants, who did not offer any resistance afterwards. The blood of the peasants was up, and they stood all day in the Square, shouting defiance at the Protestants, and daring them to come out and fight. The challenge was not accepted, and the disgusted Coone men marched home in the evening, disappointed, but victors at least in a moral sense. The system of tithes was unostentatiously dropped after this affray, as it was feared that if the ire of the Cooners was again roused that they would create more disturbance.
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- Collector
- Eamonn de Paor
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- Paul Kinsella
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coan, Co. Kilkenny
