School: Rathcoyle, Kiltegan
- Location:
- Rathcoyle Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0920, Page 138
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- (continued from previous page)They also exhanged horses and asses with the people of the district. Sometimes strange families of traveling folk pass through the neighbourhood.
- Some few days after the Wexford men surrendered at Tara in the year of 1798 three Wexford men carrying pikes called at Mr Byrne's grandfather's house. They asked him for three mugs of buttermilk and some oatmeal. They put the oatmeal into the three mugs of milk and drank them. Then they went on their way to Wexford.
- Informant
- Patrick Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Kilcarney Lower, Co. Wicklow
- After the rebellion of 1798 Michael Dwyer was taking refuge in the Wicklow hills from the yoemen. One time when he was in the townland of Farbrague he saw a number of yoemen coming towards him. He put hats on the tops of some stones, so that when the yoemen came near they thought that he had an army with him and they fled.
