School: Cnuicín na hAbhann
- Location:
- Knockeennahone, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dairmuid Ó Teangnaigh
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- (continued from previous page)not notice him he crossed a third time, Captain Meredith was a very good man and did not want to get anyone into trouble. but in order to save himself from the English soldiers he said, "We must see what this man has to say, he has come before us three time," They asked Nolan why his pants was stained with blood, he said, it was only the blood of calf that he had just killed, they took him to the Barrack and he informed in his companious and every man whom he had any personal spite against, Sixteen men were arrested around the parish of Castleisland Some of them not knowing anything about the raid. They were hanged in Castleisland Barrack and then their heads were cut off and put on spikes on the market place They were left there until the hair from the heads was falling on the butter that used to be weighed underneath.
The soldiers failed to arrest Grady and Daly. They lived at Cordal a few miles to the east of Castleisland. Grady had a wife and three children and had the grass of 70 cows there. They had numerous friends and they sheltered and watched for them at night. They got tired of this and after(continues on next page)
