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1. Ballellis (continued)

   

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   Only one Briton escaped & he craved that they take his eyes out to let him tell the tell so they took one of his eyes out & she used to sing a song but I forget it
   "at Ballellis wall where the Britons [got] a fall, & I was one out of them all" - as one of the devils poked his eye out he said. (Tom has heard his grandmother sing a lot of songs but unfortunately a line here & there is all he remembers)
   When Major [Chanbley] of Ballyrahan went home after the battle of Ballellis he said he would go for a walk down the lawn while his dinner was being cooked but there was 10 of the boys in the laurels & they rushed out & piked him against the wall. He died shouting "Orange & Blue, Orange & True"

   

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   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Location

   Ballysallagh Upper, Co. Carlow

   Informant

   • Thomas Ellis