School: Cluain an Iubhair (roll number 15213)
- Location:
- Cloonanure, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Háinlighe
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- Mr Peter Grey, whose address was Cloonticarn, Gurteen, Ballymote was an old Fenian in the penal days. He was renowned for his whistling and dancing. One day he was in Ballymote, and he was arrested by the Yoemen. Those men walked Grey through the town, and every nine steps he would go the "cat a nine tails" was used on him.
The Yoemen continued this till they cut the flesh off him. Grey then leaped up on a cart and danced a horn - pipe. Afterwards he was trans -(continues on next page)- Collector
- Jennie Scanlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clooneagh, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr John Scanlon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Clooneagh, Co. Sligo