School: Nobber (B.) (roll number 4284)
- Location:
- Nobber, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Ristéard Ó Fithcheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0710, Page 226
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- (continued from previous page)(into Nobber) and begged of him to put his father back to where-ever he came from. The priest went back with him to where the father was. The priest said to old Cruice. "Will you go back through the way you came and he said "No", that he wanted something to bring (to bring) with him The priest then fired an old cat at him and he went out through a hole in the side-wall of the house, and there is a big opening in the wall since and no one inhabited that room ever afterwards. A few years afterwards, the Cruices were received into the Catholic Church
One of the sons who was Colonel Cruice led a Catholic army into Muff County Cavan where the Orange men had assembled for the murder of Roman Catholics. The Orange-force retreated and refused to face the Catholics force.
Poor Cruice died a Catholic(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Finnegan
- Gender
- Male
- Collector
- Peter Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Finnegan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Informant
- William Clarke
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
