School: Baile Uí Ghrádaigh, Ceann Tuirc
- Location:
- Ballygrady South, Co. Cork
- Teacher: N., Bean de Róiste
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0365, Page 158
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- (continued from previous page)he stopped at the "Kaetra" to give a drink to his horse. As he stooped down his coat of mail lifted up, and a Cromwellian soldier stuck him in the back and killed him. He was buried under the "Chieftains Tree" in Rathmaher. But after a while his body was exhumed and placed in the O'Callaghans' tomb in Clonmeen graveyard. Lord Inchiquin's army camped in a field near Kilbrin on their way to Liscarroll. Ever since that time the field in which they camped is called the "Camp Field". Up to a short time ago the bones of the Irish were to be seen in Ballyheen. But a priest who was in Kilbrin gave it as a penance to the parishioners to remove the bones to Buttevant Abbey, where they are yet to be seen by paying a shilling.
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P.S.
- Collector
- Bridie O Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lackeel, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Jeremiah O Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Liscarroll, Co. Cork
