Scoil: Piltown (B.) (uimhir rolla 6189)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Soldiers in the Park (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   In the year 1848 there was a rising in Ireland. People at that time had a bad feeling for Englishmen on account of the poverty and starvation that stalked the land. There was a strong organisation of the Fenian brotherhood in County Kilkenny especially around Piltown and districts. The planted protestants class around here did not join up in this rising as they did in 1798.Lord John Ponsonby asked the English Goverment to send an English garrison to protect the protestants in this district and the result was:-
   A company of four hundred soldiers called the Third Buffs arrived in June 1848 and erected tents in the park opposite the old church. At the same period a Sloop - 'O - War called the "Raven" with sixty blue-jackets anchored at Fiddown. She carried twelve heavy guns. However they got no fighting to do. Still they remained until May 1849. There were about eighty pikemen in this locality and some buried their pikes in boxes. They were never found

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   John Ryan

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   12

   Seoladh

   Baile an Phoill, Co. Chill Chainnigh

   Faisnéiseoir

   Thomas Cuddihy

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   50

   Gairm bheatha

   Clerk (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Baile an Phoill, Co. Chill Chainnigh