School: Dunboyne (C.) (roll number 15917)
- Location:
- Dunboyne, Co. Meath
- Teachers: Seosaimhín Ní Chonmidhe Uná Frinse
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“My grandfather if were alive to-day would be 85 years old.”
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- Molly Kelly
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- Patrick Kelly
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“There was a chapel in the far-green and the Yeomen burned it down...”
There was a chapel in the fairgreen and the Yeomen burned it down and the Dunboyne men took forks, scythes and anything they could fetch and at last a Dunboyne man was killed on Finglas Bridge. Maura Reilly's grandfather helped to make the pikes for 1798. Her brothers are still the smiths in Dunboyne. there was a monastery at Cushinstown and the monks stopped in it. There was an underground passage from that to Maynooth and from that to Wood Park and from that to Norman's Grove.
Edenmore where Mr Sean Boylan lives at present was the Priest's House at the time of the Priest hunting in Ireland. The Yeomen were coming to kill the priest when a protestant gentleman came from Dunshaughlin(continues on next page)