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School: Newtownmountkennedy

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Newtown Mountkennedy, Co. Wicklow
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Tomás Ó Caoilte
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0928, Page 053

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  1. Michael Neale of 1798

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    Michael Neale lived with his father in Newcastle. Soon after the battle of Newtown he was suspected of murdering a yeo officer. A party of yeos went to the house and asked his father where he was. His father said he was not there. The yeos then began to manhandle him and threatened to hang him out of the shafts of the dray when Michael heard this he jumped from a straw rick were he was hiding. He was tied to the stirrup of one of the saddles and dragged to Newtown. He was then brought before a court martial. The yeos in the court house gammed him and stuck bayonets in his eyes to make him talk. During the trial Neale felt some weights under his feet. Mad with
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Sinnott
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Killadreenan, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    Andrew Byrne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Newcastle, Co. Wicklow