Scoil: Ardcath (uimhir rolla 1903)

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   “In 1930 there was a very wet Summer and the only day for haymaking was 12th October (Sunday)”

   

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   There was a regiment of Soldiers, and Black and Tans at Bellewstown Races July 7th 1920. The Tans took up positions on the roads leading from the Bellewstown when the Races were over and searched people as they passed.

   There were three men hanged at Cocklesbridge on 20th April 1812 fro stealing a few clothes. value 5/9. There names were Duff Carroll & Lambe
   Collected by [?] Smyth Per Richard Dunne, Rath

   A cock of hay and Pat Malone's House were burned on Sept 2nd 1931. The Church doors of Ardcath Church and entrance piers were also tarred

   The Sacking of Ballriggan by the Tans at which Lawless and Barten were murdered was on Monday night 20th September 1920.

   James Kelly and Thomas Murphy were arrested by the Black and Tans on February 15th 1921.

   (The Tans called to Walls house Hawkinstown earlier that day and arrested Thomas Wall. They then visited Ardcath cemetery at about 9.30 a.m. They searched the graveyard and emerged carrying a breastplate. A noted Tan named Brockertin called to me in the school and asked for chalk with which he wrote "Up the I. R. A." on the breastplate. They had Tommy Wall in the lorry and tried to make him hold the breastplate. J. J. D.)

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   Bartramstown, Co. Meath