School: Cluainín, Granard
- Location:
- Clooneen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)hanged. The hangman's name happened to Farrelly to, and when the hangman heard that his victim was Farrelly too he said he would not hang him. So Harry Farrelly was set free.
Comma Hill was used in those days as a place for hanging prisoners.
This is how prisoners were hanged there.- There was a cart for the purpose and the rope was put round the prisoner's neck and the cart was heeled up.
Some locals took part in the rising. Rogers and Hanlon both from Derrycasson. When the English were marching from the Battle of Ballinamuck towards Granard these two set out to join the Irish at Ballinalee. They arrived at the home of a Hamilton man in Aughakilmore. They asked him to go with them. Hamilton said he had no clothes. They promised to give him the clothes of the first man who(continues on next page)
