School: Grangegeeth (roll number 2630)
- Location:
- Grangegeeth, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Seósaimhín, Bean Uí Dhubhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0714, Page 330
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- Mrs Gargan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Grangegeeth, Co. Meath
- Collier once shot a man for robbing the poor. "He himself robbed the rich to serve the poor." He died a very poor man himself in Narrow West Street, in Drogheda, and was buried in the Chord churchyard, in Drogheda, in the dead of night. This was about eighty years ago the year of the Cholera.
