School: Clonmacnoise

Location:
Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 195

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    alone and that is why the wemen went out also to fight. They used sticks and big rocks and blocked the roads with ash trees and they cut the roads in several places. So the soldiers had to go through the fields and bring their horses and waggons with them. In their retreat some of them got stuck in the bog and were nearly lost. There are many of the men and wemon still alive who were in this great fight.
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