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School: Ráth Dairbhe (roll number 10001)

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Radeerpark, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Henry Mc Kenna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0950, Page 435

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    build their nests, add to the place a ghostly appearance. On the fourteenth of February in the year eighteen hundred and twenty eight a man named Burke was buried in the graveyard. A few nights after he was taken up again from the grave, and hung up by the neck with a very strong straw rope, from one of those trees that still remain there.
    It could not be found out what persons did this terrible deed. So there was a reward offered by the Authorities of that time of £1,000 for information that would lead to their arrest.
    Peter McDonnell
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
          1. graveyards (~2,501)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peter Mc Donnell
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Susan Mc Donnell
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    42
    Occupation
    Farmer's wife
    Address
    Ellinure, Co. Monaghan