School: Dillonsbridge (roll number 8501)
- Location:
- Philpotstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: A.B. Ní Chumhaill
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- (continued from previous page)Tuesday. Eggs were eaten on Easter sunday and meat was eaten at Christmas. Naggins were used in the district before cups became common.
Written by Brigid Smyth, Lismullen, Navan.
- Soldier hill was in olden times called Dillon's hill. Old Sir William Dillon ran the mail coach from Dublin to Cavan. On one night as it arrived there from Dublin Michael Collier the robber accompanied by twenty imitations of soldiers which were made of sticks and dressed in soldier suits stood outside the dyke with decay guns. On the arrival of the coach which was heavily loaded with gentry and great sums of cash. Collier stepped forward shot the leading horse and ordered all hands down. He said to the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Kierans
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lismullin, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Richard Kiarans
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lismullin, Co. Meath
