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School: Killyon (roll number 7120)

Location:
Killyon, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Brighid, Bean Uí Fithceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 470

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    distance from his house. The men dug down and found the missing man buried. According to evidence he was only a short time dead having died of suffocation. Seemingly the Ribbandmen carried him along and buried him alive for some small reason whom no one knew.
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  2. Story of How Ribbandism Was Put Down in Meath and Westmeath

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    One night a landlady named Miss Busby was coming home to Jigginstown with rent she had collected. She was waylaid by the Ribbandmen near Ballinaskeagh. They shot and wounded her and searched the carriage but they couldn't find the money as she had it hid under the foot mat. The coachman got a blunderbus and fired as they were crossing the hedge and wounded one of them on the hip. As
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    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
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