School: Ceathrú (Carton) (roll number 15339)

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1. Story of Francis McGann as Told by Owen McGann (continued)

   

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   and for digging up the pass which led to the "House of God"
   The meeting was summoned by [?] and was very large.
   Francis addressed the people and told them that he was there to meet the Intelligence, the genuis and the mind of Kiltubrid and to denounce Minor Peyton a tyrannical brute, a disgrace to humanity who not content with burning Drumcollop, he now tears up the pathway which leads to the "House of God" But he continued the sum of his glory is set; and to-day he is like the remnants of a melancholy wreck having nothing but tradition to point to his former grandeur and greatness.
   Francis was a land

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. schools (~4,094)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   J. Flynn

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Address

   Drumdart, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Owen Mc Gann

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Killamaun, Co. Leitrim