School: Clews' Memorial (roll number 15465)
- Location:
- Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire Ní Néill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0234, Page 070
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- (continued from previous page)She freed him from that fatal ball, her dear and only joy.
She is now in New York City, with her bold Tipperary boy."
- When the French landed at Killala the English passed over this way to meet them. On their way they raided houses. An old woman saw them coming, and she was supposed to have a pot of gold. She ran with it and hid it in Donach, but no one knows where it is. Several attempts have been made to find it, but they proved fruitless.
- Collector
- Thomas Mc Garry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Sheegorey, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Patsy Mc Garry
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 87
- In the time of the famine(continues on next page)
