School: Baile Dubh (C.) (roll number 2493)
- Location:
- Ballyduff, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brighid, Bean Uí Leathlobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0415, Page 228
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- (continued from previous page)of the ambush and next morning the Free State troops arrived to this cave accompanied by some of the men who were sheltering there during the Tan war. They took a neighbouring boy and a brother to one of the men in the cave with them as a hostage. They put him down the way before them and one of the soldiers followed close behind and when the soldier came opposite the entrance to the cave he was shot dead by the men in the cave. They called on the hostage boy and he went down into the cave with them. Next went down an engineer in a rope and he also was shot and the free state soldiers in top of the cliff fired at the mouth of the caves from every vantage point, they also got tar and hay and let it down and shook Petrol on it and then put fire to it in order that it would smother them in the cave. They also used mines which when exploded could be heard miles away. For three days and three nights(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Hussey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Informant
- William Casey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Sheepwalk, Co. Kerry
