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School: Oylegate (roll number 5918)

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Oilgate, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Braoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 252

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  2. A Local Hero

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    A long time ago there lived a woman by the name of Mrs Flood of Bree in 1798. She was related to the present Floods of Garrenstacle. One day as she was boiling her dinner a soldier came in and stood over her. He stooped to get a lighting stick to light his pipe. She took a mallet from a box and hit him on the back of the head and killed him. She brought him out and buried him in the dung-heap. She had just covered him when a band of sodiers came down the road and asked her did she see their leader. She said she didn't "but she said he could be gone down the road a hundred times for me"
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