School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)
- Location:
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: D. Ó Riada
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- (continued from previous page)Cromwell's soldiers. He went into a house and got his face blackened with pitch. When Cromwell's soldiers came to the house they were told not to go near the man because he had Black Fever. Cromwell and his soldiers fled from the house in case they should catch the fever, and the man was saved.Cromwell and his soldiers were chasing a man. They shot at him and he lay down and pretended to be dead, so the soldiers went away.
- It is said that the father of the '98 man who died at the "Cocker's Bridge" used to come to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Robert Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moyhora, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Miss Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Moyhora, Co. Kilkenny