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   “Rich Farmers around Oldtown and Kilcairne employed 50 labourers for harvesting.”

   

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   natives of this:-
   In the fateful year of '98 they sent ot the Croppy rendezvous on Tara a consignment of whiskey. The insurgents got drunk and fell an easy prey to the soldiers.
   Hence the Croppies grave on Tara Hill.

   James Neill remembers seeing Parnell address a meeting in Navan.
   Parnell was tall, thin dark wearing side whiskers and moustache.

   

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2. St Patrick's Boots Stolen

   

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   James Neill often heard the old people saying that when St. Patrick was on his way to Tara he sat down to rest on the Hill of Skryne. He left his sandals one side and when he woke up he hadn't them. They were stolen and sold in Tara for the price of a drink. Fr. Tiernan P.P. says they were stolen in Garlow Cross and on that acct there will always be a "rogue" in that locality.

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
         1. Charles Stewart Parnell (~6)
      2. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
         1. saints
            1. Patrick (~489)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   H. C. Hickie

   Gender

   Female

   Occupation

   Teacher

   Informant

   James Neill

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Oldtown, Co. Meath