School: Cluain Róiste (roll number 6959)
- Location:
- Clonroche, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Pádraig S. Ó Dubhghaill
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- (continued from previous page)when I was ferretting rabbits in Ballymackessy Wood I came across an old statue and on it was a horseman with a rifle.He then said when I reached home I told Granny Lynch and she said that a great battle was fought there in 1798.Another day I was digging a dyke behind the ditch where I found the statue I got some brass buttons and some heels of boots.The ground was soft there so I said it was a grave of a soldier. Granny Lynch's husband had his coffin
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- Informant
- William Carroll
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Clonroche, Co. Wexford