School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Log na nGall, Co. Shligigh
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 237
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- (continued from previous page)They would not take the trouble of putting them in prison, but to shoot them.The bodies of the six men were brought down on a door nailed on a wheelbarrow.The bodies of the six men were blessed by the parish priest and then buried.Every year there is a meeting held on the mountain on the 21st September.
- III. Another Version of II. It happened during the Civil War in Ireland that a party of soldiers, on the Republican side, were crossing Ben Bulben mountain to seek safety for fear their enemy would shoot them. The names of the men were O. Carroll. J. Banks, James Devrin, H. Benson Langhan.They were going to Leitrim and they were inside an "ault" when they heard a shot fired at them.They all were shot to one man with the first shot, and this man shot two Free State Soldiers. The people in their house heard(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Frank O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Tor Mór, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- John O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- An Tor Mór, Co. Shligigh
