School: Baile Meadhonach (roll number 10675)
- Location:
- Ballymanagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Micheal Ó Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)burnt in 1922. When the house was burnt every part of it fell except the chimney where the vestments were. The late Major W.A. Persse was a very refined gentleman and a man of good qualities. As far as can be known he was the first in Ireland who owned a motor car. Even though he was a protestant he often carried the scholars up and down to Ballymana N.S. if they had been on his way. Half the people on the estate at present are a hundred times worse than him if they had been in his place at the time. During the tighte war one of Persse's fore-fathers was attacked(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Roxborough, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Worker
- Address
- Roxborough, Co. Galway
