School: Rathkenny (roll number 15483)
- Location:
- Rathkenny, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0714, Page 253
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- (continued from previous page)The Yeomen found them and surrounded the corn fields where they were hid. Anywhere the Yeomen saw the corn moving they would fire at that spot. In this way many of the Croppies were killed but their bodies were not found until the corn was cut. Three of the croppies were hanged on a gallows in the Big Wood of Tankardstown.
Some of the Yeomen camped on Mullagha Hill and spent their time in rounding up the Croppies in the district. This land was later tilled, and cinders, and ashes were found. These were tracks of the campfires. Some croppies were caught and hanged and were buried in Chamberstown Hill since then locally called "The British Hill".
- Collector
- Owen Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coghalstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Bernard Gibney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Coghalstown, Co. Meath
