1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór

School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór

Location:
Kells, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máthais Íde
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0702, Page 194

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0702, Page 194

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
  2. XML Page 194
  3. XML “Cromwell at Clonmell”
  4. XML “The Holy Family”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Cromwell at Clonmell (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    and let his soldiers in.
    O'Neill found out this and he put different men at both sides of the gate.
    Then at night the gates were left open and Cromwell's men stole in at their ease.
    There was a certain number of soldiers inside the gate, and they closed the gate, and O'Neill's men attacked and killed them all.
    Cromwell could not take town as long as O'Neill had ammunition, but when it ran out O'Neill sent the Mayor of Clonmel to Cromwell to make peace, while he himself and his men retired to Limerick.
    After that Cromwell went back to England.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit