School: Baile an Londraigh (B.) (roll number 14305)

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1. The Men of '48 and '67 (continued)

   

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   influence of some brandy he soon revived and was able to continue his journey home to Kilfinane. This Bat Buckley was a small farmer in Carrighturk. Ml. Foley owns the farm now. He was father to John Buckley Sr. Ex. Clerk of Chapel. He was a courageous, brave man whose delight was to hamper the doings of the police and bailiffs. It was a frequent occurrence his beating four police and escaping from them. He was nearly always on the run except on Sundays.
   Clifford Lloyd and his men got a great reception from Lord Massey, at Massey Lodge near Anglesboro' on one occasion when he had evicted the whole country side.
   Townsend, the agent, Mrs & ladies, Popham Bell Frank's Agent, Mrs Bell & ladies and several other of the same ilk were there.
   The troopers got stupidly drunk. Their horses in the stables were surely safe, but the boys around the cross collectd, entered the stables stealthily, brought out the saddles and bridles and trappings and cut them up into very small scraps and piled them in a heap outside the Lodge Gates.
   When morning came they had neither saddles nor bridles. They rode bare back into the village and whipped, battoned and kicked

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs William Buckley

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   Over 80

   Address

   Curraghturk, Co. Limerick