School: Clarecastle (C.)
- Location:
- Droichead an Chláir, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Aoife Ní Mhíodhcháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0607, Page 480
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- Latoon Bridge was the scene of one of the Tragedies of '98.
A prisoner was dragged at the cart's tail from the bridge to the Yeomanry Barracks at Clare Castle. He uttered neither cry nor moan, but when they stopped the cart at Clare Bridge, the bullets he had in his mouth was as flat as a sixpence. He refused to give his companions names and was hanged in the Barracks.
"Oh what tales of joy and sorrow
Fill the Name of Ninety-eight."
- In the time of the celebrated Biddy Earley many strange cures were in vogue, some of them are practised yet.
A posthumous child was supposed to(continues on next page)
