School: Naomh Bríghid, Blackwater (roll number 7036)
- Location:
- Blackwater, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 026
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- "Mickel" Donohoe KillincooleyThis man was uncle to Mrs. OByrne's grandmother. He fought in the battle of Arklow 1798 and was severely wounded on the hip - a bullet wound.
He was brought home and nursed in a cabin in a field called Biddy Wall's field then as now.
A certain Dr. Green Ballinaclad Blackwater walked five miles of strand nightly until the wound healed. His method of keeping the wound clean was by pulling a clean white silk handkerchief through it. He is well remembered in Mrs. Byrne's family. Her mother often said that a curved leg of a certain table in the house was like Mickel Donohoes leg. It seems the poor fellows leg was not set properly perhaps and he was lame permanently.(continues on next page)
