School: Géag (C.), Baile na Muc (roll number 13306)
- Location:
- Géag, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: Máire Ní Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0758, Page 255
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- (continued from previous page)which is called the Croppy Gap, and it is supposed to be there a great many Croppies were buried.
At Kiltycreevagh cross roads my grandfather Patrick Dolan dug up two skeletons of men and three cannon balls The men were buried again. Those are supposed to have been there from the battle of Ballinamuck. they were very big men.
There is a monument erected in Ballinamuck to the memory of General Blake who was hanged. It represents a soldier with a broken pike in his hand. It was erected in 1928.
- The underwritten was contributed by Annie Larkin Gaigue Ballinamuck Aged 14 yrs mths
She heard those stories from her father John J Larkin Gaigue Ballnamuck Aged 52 yrs
Written here 16.1.'39(continues on next page) - Collector
- Annie Larkin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Géag, Co. an Longfoirt
- Informant
- John J. Larkin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Géag, Co. an Longfoirt
