School: Mulhuddart (roll number 16675)
- Location:
- Mulhuddart, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Broin
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- (continued from previous page)Collier's Corner.About three hundred yards west of the village on the lands of Huntstown there is a corner on the road known as Collier's corner. It is so called because the famous highwayman named Collier used to wait there for the mail coaches and rob them as they passed byBlair's Wall.Near Collier's Corner there is a wall called Blair's Wall. It is situated on the lands of Huntstown. It is so called because a man named Blair who was a captain of a body of yeomen was quartered on the people of the village. They began to get impudent. One stormy night they were driven out the village and they camped at a wood about 3 yds from the village. The wall is level with the wood and they camped alongside of the wood where the wall is
- Collector
- Patrick Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Damastown, Co. Dublin