School: Coracrin
- Location:
- Corracrin, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Ní Dhuibhghlinn
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- (continued from previous page)had tried to please everybody and had pleased nobody and had lost the ass into the bargain.
Annie Kelly Emyvale.
- Bully McKenna
There was a man the name of "Bully" McKenna. He was a very strong man. And there was some crowd that was against him and his son. They put an apple on his son's head and they made him shoot at the apple three times so that he would shoot his son, but he hit the apple three times and did not hit his son. He lived near Glaslough Station.
The shooting is supposed to have happened about sixty years ago.
McKenna got the name "Bully" because he was very strong.
He was killed at the battle on Drumbannagher hill, a buired in Donagh graveyard.
Teresa Fields Cornacrieve, Emyvale. - Collector
- Teresa Fields
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornacreeve, Co. Monaghan
