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School: Achadh na Sealbhaighe (roll number 15344)

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Aghnashalvy, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
T. Maguidhir
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    (continued from previous page)
    and who was at least six feet high gave as her explanation that he (the dead man) was a "Whitsun Boy" as she termed it. The young man who was killed on this occasion was known to me and is still well remembered in the district where he was a great favourite with all especially with the young boys of his own age who accompanied him in much the same fashion as we read that the boys around Knocknagow accompanied Mat Donovan.
    Mat too, as we read was killed but fortunately the killing of Mat was not nearly so tragic or real as in the case of the person about whom I write but whose name
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Maguire
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derryartry, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Thomas Maguire
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    56
    Address
    Derryartry, Co. Monaghan