School: Borris (C.)
- Location:
- An Bhuiríos, Co. Cheatharlach
- Teacher: Bean Uí Loinneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0904, Page 431
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- (continued from previous page)associate with the Black and Tans. One night as he stepped outside his own hall-door in company with Michael Dempsey a solicitor from Enniscorthy, he was riddled with bullets and was dead when friends rushed to him; his companion too was mortally wounded but lingered in pain for about 24 hours. It is locally believed that a Flying Column of the I.R.A. was responsible for the shooting & was acting under orders from the Sinn Féin leaders who had been informed that Kennedy was a spy. The Borris people never believed that their townsman was an "Informer".
A friend of Kennedy, Jack O'Brien an excise man escaped Kennedy's fate by fleeing from his home & country on St. Patrick's Day.
We had some big fires in our district from time to time: during the Anglo-Irish war (1920) the R.I.C. Barracks was burned & during the Civil War 1922, the Courthouse & Borris Lodge were burnt & the Step-house was unroofed by the Republicans. In 1930 a long row of outhouses including a boiling house, a piggery, a cow house & stables the property of Major Kavanagh, went up in a blaze(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Delia Deegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Bhuiríos, Co. Cheatharlach
