School: Achadh na Sealbhaighe (roll number 15344)
- Location:
- Aghnashalvy, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: T. Maguidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0952, Page 006
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- (continued from previous page)knowledge has never been on the county) that the men were waiting to get paid on a Christmas Eve and for some reason the paymaster who was the Rev. Father Gartlan PP of Clones did not come and as the men were practically starving they waited for some considerable time for the arrival of the paymaster and when he did not come the condition of the starving men may well be imagined. He used to tell how the men came into his Father's house which was and is still on the side of this bye-road and how some of them sat on the table others on(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Maguire
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derryartry, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Patrick Maguire
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrynacloy, Co. Fermanagh
