School: Cluainín, Granard
- Location:
- Clooneen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0763, Page 155
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- (continued from previous page)him flogged & let him go. He was tied to a cart & and flogged down the public street. It was a woman who flogged him.
- Denniston lived in Prospect, Granard. He took a prominent part in the battle of Granard; when the Irish were defeated there he seized of the yeoman's horses mounted her & took the country to his home. Once he entered a field that was surrounded by a quick & an iron gate. The yeomen were hot on his heels & and they now thought that they had him ensnared. He put his horse to the gate & she crossed it. The horses of the yeomen however, failed to do so. When he got to his home he collected(continues on next page)
- Informant
- M. Kiernan
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Mullinroe, Co. Longford
