School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)
- Location:
- Riverstown, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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- (continued from previous page)Church, but it does not make half as loud a sound as it did when the Catholics had it. Tawnagh is now kept as a grave-yard.
In a field near Riverstown there is a monument of John Stenson. he was working with a man named John Mellican of Rusheen. At that time the people were driving cattle off Ardcumber as they wanted the land to be divided. On October 29th 1908 he and a large crowd of people were driving off the cattle. The police fired shots from the Carrick and shot Stenson dead. The monument is in the very spot he fell. - In Riverstown there is a monument erected in honour of John Stenson. it is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Agnes Higgins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ross, Co. Sligo