School: Corracharra (roll number 16407)
- Location:
- Corracharra, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Brian Mac Aodha
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- (continued from previous page)Catholics, and Protestants. The Protestants called it the fighting fair of Shercock, but the Catholics called it the murdering fair. The fight arose in a house called Wimps the Catholics had the best of it for some time, but that words went out to the yoeman. They were all armed while the Catholics had no guns. They shot them down like crows. It was said that where Shercock chapel now stands was filled with corpses, and that it never was known who they belonged to. One man escaped from the fair with a crock on his head. A yoeman fired at him, made smithereens of the crock but the man escaped.