School: Kilnaleck (B.)
- Location:
- Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Máirtín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0994, Page 176
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- When the French landed at Killala they went as far as Ballinamuck where they were defeated by the Irish Yeomanry. Many of the Protestant Farmers from the county Cavan went to the fight. A party of Protestants from the Billis and Ballintemple went to fight and on their way home from Longford they drove all the cattle they saw before them and when they came to an old house between the townlands of Shannon and Bruskey they divided the cattle. There is an old tree that is still called the Jury tree.
Some of the yeomen went to there homes in Ballintemple and the others went to the Billis. On their way by this part of the country they took all the food they could get and the farmers used to take out the oatmeal and hide it outside until the Protestants passed by.
- Collector
- Edmond Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan
