School: Maolach Mór (roll number 12173)
- Location:
- Meelick More, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Mac Coisdealbha
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- (continued from previous page)4. Brown's FlagBrown was killed on that spot and on the flag is written"On this spot died
November the 21 1843
by the accidental explosion
of his gun
The honourable
Henry George Monk Brown
aged nineteen years."When he was going over the fence the gun was loaded and it exploded and he was killed but he was not buried there he was buried near his own house. He was brought up to where Nallys are living now first and the woman that was there got five pounds for keeping him there until his people were ready to bring him home to his own house.
One evening a woman was out walking out and when she came to Brown's Flag she saw a woman coming up the road who disappeared when she was about to meet her.(continues on next page)
