School: Scoil na mBráthar, Doon (roll number 16713)
- Location:
- Doon, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Cathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0519, Page 292
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- (continued from previous page)with ribbons, & she was led back to Doon in triumph. When "Druimionn" (as the cow was ever after named) died of old age many people in the parish asked for a relic of her.
But from the day of the auction Mr. Coote found life in Doon very unpleasant. "Boycotting" so effective in the land was as a disciplinary or punitive measure, was not unknown much earlier in Doon, so Mr. Coote was very severely boycotted. Friends were warned that if they visited him they would be treated as the Cootes were. People were forbidden to speak tot he Protestant clergy & placards were put up through the neighborhood "that no one should work for Mr. Coote on the pain of death."
Some men of his congregation who went one morning to the bog to cut turf for him, suddenly about mid-day, saw crowds of men crossing the bog shouting & shooting as they advanced. The workmen fled, leaving their coats & implements behind. The crowd of men came up, & having torn the coats to ribbons & broken the implements, retired as the came, shouting and discharging fire-arms. On another occasion a poor fellow who worked for Mr. Coote was attacked & only escaped death by pretending to be dead.(continues on next page)
