School: Collon (roll number 14579)

Location:: Collon, Co. Louth
Teacher:: Bean Uí Mhathúna

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under each arm, as easy as if they were half stones.
Saint Enda of Arran was born at Ashfield two miles from Collon.
The great Mc Clure who founded the North-West passage his ancestors lived beside the factory in Collon Drogheda Co Louth.
John Boyle O'Reilly the famous poet his father taught in Collon.

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“John Boyle O' Reilly is the only man in the locality who has won for himself a great name.”

John Boyle O'Reilly is the only man in the locality who has won for himself a great name.
Born at Douth Drogheda Co. Meath his father was a hedge school-master and John himself grew up to be a national school-master, as well as being a renowned poet. Later he joined the Fenians for which he was sent to Van Diemen's land, and from

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