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School: Adamstown (roll number 3755)

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Adamstown, Co. Wexford
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Donnchadh Cuirtéis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0899, Page 416

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    When the rebels were going away after the Battle of Horetown, three of them went to hide behind a ditch.
    One of them was from Kilmore, and he was a great sportsman, and whenever he tried to shoot anything, it was sure to fall.
    When they were hiding for some time, they heard some yeomen coming.
    They were talking, and these men who were hiding heard the yeos saying "We'll follow those dirty Irish brutes and kill them all."
    This young Kilmore man who was hiding said he would kill the captain of the yeos.
    He killed him with the first shot
    The other yeos started to try to shoot their rivals, but the young men fired on them until their guns were empty.
    He killed thirty of them.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. 1798 (~642)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Cleary
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Doonooney, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    John Cleary
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    52