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School: Gallow (roll number 8301)

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Gallow, Co. Meath
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Cáit, Bean Uí Mhuirín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0689, Page 444

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0689, Page 444

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  1. Cromwell in the District (continued)

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    the English advanced and surrounded Preston's army and defeated them. There is a mound in one of the fields near (belonging to James Manning) and the mound is pointed out by some of the old people as the burial place of some of the soldiers killed that day in 1647.
    Principal Teacher heard this account (above) from an old resident now dead 10 years.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Cromwell in the District

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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
        1. Cromwell (~315)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Elliot
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Agher, Co. Meath