Volume: CBÉ 0481 (Part 1)

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1. Dowsley's Barn (continued)

   

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   'twould go too. Ross was a cursèd place for that kind of thing - the eye would be picked out of you there.

   

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2. Dowsley's Barn

   

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   There was a crowd of people burned there in '98 - and another crowd burned in Scullabogue.
   When the Irish were retreating from the battle of Ross they happened on a crowd of people inside in this barn and they burned them all - men women & children. They allowed that anywan that wasn't with them that time was again' 'em - when they weren't with them in the fight - and and they killed everywan they met.
   For years after 'twas said that people could be heard roaring in that barn, in the night - the roars of the people could be heard quite plain. I was often coming home at night late from Ross, and I used be afraid of me life when

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   Date

   January 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Location

   Dowsley's Barn, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   • Johny Hayes