School: Baile Caisleáin an Róistigh (B.) (roll number 14107)
- Location:
- Castletownroche, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Luineacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0371, Page 198
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- (continued from previous page)yielded up their swords, thinking they had to deal with soldiers and men.
They did not know the blood-thirsty Inchequin. When he had them disarmed and helpless, he ordered them all to be butchered. The bones of over 4,000 men for many a year bleached on the bare hill-side, to testify to the completeness of the bloody end of the Southern Division of the Confederates.
Some charitably disposed persons removed the remains of the immense heap of slain to Buttevant Abbey in one night, where they still lie, a tribute to the beneficent rule of England over this land of hours.
