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1. Battle of Hacketstown (continued)

   

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   & they used to throw them up into there the same as a bag of oats & they had a horse at the pumps to trace up the load to the old sandpit at the church where they threw them & then they threw a ditch in on top of them & that was all the burying they got.
   Most of the bodies were Catholics - they all wore white flannel jackets "baneens" they used to call them - one weft of wool some of cotton; cotton in the reed & wool in the shuttle. I saw ould Jack Kelly sewing myself at Hare's Mill in Ballykilane. My great grandfather Pollard was called sean of the [?] & he was

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   • Thomas Ellis