School: An Carraigín (roll number 13836)
- Location:
- Carrigeen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Oireachtaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0255, Page 049
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- There is an old lone bush standing at the mouth of the bog road which leads to Larkfield Bog.
This bush is called Ratchy's bush, and got its name from a man who is buried beneath it. This man lived during the troubled times of 1798. He was an Irish man, and a Catholic, and of course he was looked upon as a rebel by the English.
The English soldiers got to know about him, and they were always in pursuit of him and in search of him, but for a long time he escaped from their clutches.
One day he was flying from them - the Red Army of England, and they after him, across Larkfield Bog, when they came in sight of him they fired, and he fell mortally wounded at a certain spot, where the lone Bush is growing. He was buried there by some friends at the dead of the night.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
