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School: Lankill (roll number 16904)

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Lankill, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Cibhil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137F, Page 05_054

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    French. There was another man named Gibbons who lived in Drumin and he was hanged in Mill Street for the same thing. There is a flag up at the back of the Technical School in memory of him.
    There was another man named Fitzgerald who lived in Castlebar who cheered for the French when they came to Ireland. He got a reprieve from Dublin and Denis Brown had the reprieve in his pocket and yet he hung him. When he was hanging him the rope broke and he got another rope and it broke again. Then he got a third rope and it broke again. The rope broke
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
        1. Denis Browne (Denis of the Rope) (~25)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Keane
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballinlough, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mr Hugh Keane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinlough, Co. Mayo