School: Largy (roll number 10509)
- Location:
- Largy, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Tadhg Mac Conmara
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0192, Page 271
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- (continued from previous page)fired and rushed as they thought on a helpless people but some of the men who were braver than others, with a few of their followers fired and some of the Redcoats fell. The priest and people escaped but the gallant Archie Hawksby a Protestant farmer and owner of the land on which the rock stands and who raised the alarm of the approach of the Redcoats, did not escape. Knowing the danger he was in and his wife having died at the birth of the child, he entrusted the care of the child to a neighbor, and fled himself for security. In a few months time he arranged to a safer place and an(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Sheehan
- Informant
- Mr James Mc Gurrin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Cartrongibbagh, Co. Leitrim
