School: Cluainín, Granard
- Location:
- Clooneen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)all his jewellery into a box and gave it to a man called McCabe who lived on the farm. He then mounted his horse & made straight to Drogheda. Here he shot the horse & fled to a foreign country where he remained for seven years. The yeomen burned his house & it never was repaired afterwards. It is said that the burning lasted three weeks & that the smell of meat could be scented about it for long after. When he returned after seven years he found his box of jewellery intact.
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