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   for many nights until the guards heard about it. They caught him one night and they made him give back all the money and he was put in jail for a year.

   

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2. A Story of Daniel O'Connell

   

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   My grandfather James Carroll who lived in Spa Boyle told me the folowing story When Daniel O Connell was coming from Sligo to Boyle he was met at the top of the Curlieus by the people of Boyle. A man named Multh Ganley made them his coach. He took the horse of the horses and pulled the coach to Boyle down on the old Coach Road down Spa up Easkey and down Green St. and they held their meeting on the Crescent. That was the time of the Repeal of Union before the Emancipation.

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Thomas O' Connell

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Boyle, Co. Roscommon

   Informant

   James O' Connell

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Boyle, Co. Roscommon