School: Rathnure (C.) (roll number 12480)
- Location:
- Rathnure Upper, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Bholguidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0900, Page 232
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- (continued from previous page)intoxicated they went to the doors of the poor panic-stricken Catholics shouting out that"their Papish heads would soon be on the spike". They also commenced burning their property. Enranged by all these outrages, when the standard of revolt was raised at Boolavogue, the men of Gurrawn prepared to take the field. They joined with the other fine youths of the Parish and with John Kelly of Killanne as their leader, they fought at "The Three Rocks," Enniscorthy, Gorey, New Ross, and in all the battles in which their leader fought until he was mortally wounded and executed, his head struck off, and placed on a spike over the Courthouse in Wexford.
Very few of the young returned back to Gurrawn, all the rest fell in battle in different places - But their(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Blanche
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Garraun Upper, Co. Wexford
