School: Kilbeggan (Mercy Convent) (roll number 14491)
- Location:
- Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Sr Philomena
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- Sister M Antonia remembers hearing of her grand fathers house been burned down in the year 1798 by the Yeos in Ballinderry big and the butter kept in firkins flowed over the place.Some kind neighbours carried him as an infant to a place of safety.The animals rushed madly through the and were all destroyed and the place was left in ruins.
- Collector
- Mary Joe Hanlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinderry Big, Co. Westmeath
- The Distillery in Kilbeggan was burned about thirty years ago. It was one of the mills that was burned. It was caused by the explosion of a parrifin oil lamp. No one was injured or lost their lives. The flour mill in Coola was also burned some time after.