School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)

Location:
Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Foghlú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 215

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 215

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  2. During the Penal Days there lived in the neighbourhood of Goleen a man named O' Brien. The soldiers took him captive but he escaped from them. He went home and his people hid him in a turf rick.
    The soldiers found out his hiding place and they gathered around the rick and kept striking the rick with batons until in the end they put a dagger through his heart.
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    The soldiers had a great camp
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