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School: Ballyadams (roll number 894)

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Ballyadams, Co. Laois
Teacher:
P. Ó Bruadair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0836, Page 178

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    was a trap door over it. Underneath the trap door there was supposed to be a grinding machine of some kind with baiters like the baiters of a water wheel. When people he wanted killed came to the castle he invited them inside. When the walked on the trap door they fell into the grinding machine.
    He was very cruel. He usually went around among his tenants, being a landlord, on horseback carrying a long Pike. It was said he often stuck the Pike into the bodies of little children and held them up in front of the fathers and mothers on the Pike.
    He was killed by one of the O'Mores. This O More came to Ballyadams one evening. He killed a bullock belonging to Seán a Feeka. He lit a fire in a field called Bowl a Deoc about half a mile from the castle on the side of a hill and with in sight of the castle. Seáns herd saw the fire and came to
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joseph Hyland
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Parkahoughill, Co. Laois