School: Síolach (roll number 12266)
- Location:
- Sheelagh, Co. Louth
- Teacher: S. Ó Gnímh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0664, Page 073
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“A man named Matthews, a native of Shanmullagh, Dundalk was a carter on the road.”
(continued from previous page)on the job and did not do it and every night from that out the stones were being fired in at the door of their house. At the months mind the stones were being fired in too.
Eventually things got so bad that they sold the bit of ground and the house and cleared away to America. The house was knocked to the ground afterwards. On the top of Shanmullagh there are still a few stones to mark the place where the house stood.
- Informant
- John Sherry
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Courtbane, Co. Louth