School: Faughalstown (roll number 9622)
- Location:
- Faughalstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 554
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- (continued from previous page)English soldiers at Pakenham Hall kept by Captain Pakenham. These soldiers wanted to kill the friars of Multyfarnham. There were also Irish soldiers at the Crooked Wood who had a fort at Ard na h-Earraidhe. To get to Multyfarnham the English men had to ford the Móinín river but the Irish soldiers never let them ford it.
An English spy told the English soldiers to go round by Streete and come up behind the Irish soldiers. But the Irish heard of this plan and went to meet them. They met them at Bunbrosna where the Irish were defeated. When General Bardon saw that they were been defeated he ran.
Some poet heard this and made this rhyme.General Bardon at the battle of Bun
Took off his boots the faster to run.
The English soldiers were stopped somewhere be-(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Bruton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ringstown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mrs Bruton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ringstown, Co. Westmeath
