School: Leatbeg (roll number 16146)
- Location:
- Leat Beg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mrs Peoples
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- (continued from previous page)plunder and carry away barrels.
When the soldiers saw this they made a ring round in the sand and told the people not to come inside it. They had their riffles and Bayonets in their hands.
My grandfather was a small boy taking notice of all when suddenly he saw a soldier go up to a man called Robert McElhinney who lived in the town land of Leatbeg who was a step or two inside the ring and told him to stand back.
The man refused to do this. He was bidden three times but still he refused. The soldier knocked him down and the people kept out side the ring afterwards.
A ship named the Wasp was wrecked on a rock near Tory Island. Soldiers were on this boat going into Tory to dispossess the tenants. The boat struck the rock and was broken and all the men were drowned.
The Tory men still hold their small bits of land from that day to this.
John Morrow.
Told by my father William Morrow, Leatbeg, Carrigart Lifford, Age 57 years. Born and reared and spent all his life in Leatbeg.
- Collector
- John Morrow
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leat Beg, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- William Morrow
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Leat Beg, Co. Donegal
