School: Dún Gar (Frenchpark) (roll number 3961)
- Location:
- Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Mághnuis
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- (continued from previous page)dastardly cruelty of his own cousin, for Batteen was second cousin to him. I told the story when I went home, my father went immediately and told the sergeant. The sergeant spent the following day in the hotel with the murderer though John was by this time only suffering from a cold - it was pneumonia and he died three days after. Yes the sergeant spent the day drinking with him in the hotel and went home to enjoy the fine dinner
in the shape of a brace of pheasant that Bartholomew had provided him
with.There is a small sequel. After the sale of the estate our young
gentleman betook himself to other lands, and I heard nothing of him till
1925. One day in this year our parish priest received a letter from the "Southern loyalists association" in England asking for particulars of the said Bartholomew who it appears was so persecuted in his native land that he could not any longer reside there (even though he was residing elsewhere for over 20 years). I told him this story. But it is rather unfortunate the S.L.A. never heard it or anything else of our dear friend from the P.P. - The old Crafts and Craftsmen(continues on next page)