School: Pres. Convent, Drogheda (roll number 851)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Sr. M. Patrick
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- There lived a man over a 150 years ago named Collier, the robber who was a highway man and had a gang of his own men who went along the post roads from Dublin to Dundalk holding up the Coach drivers with the point of his pistol and robbing the travellers of all the money they had on them.
He was the terror of the country-side and all people when they heard that Collier was coming ran in and locked themselves in their homes and were afraid to leave them until they heard that Collier was gone.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Betty Bowden
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mr Bill Wissitt
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Francis Street, Co. Louth