School: Kinnitty
- Location:
- Kinnitty, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Ó Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)said he would give till the last day to pay and then he would have to pay.Colonel Bernard evicted forty families in Forelacka in one day. In the harvest when he would be threshing the people would come from Killoughy to help him and they would have to be there at six o'clock in the morning and if they were not there at six o'clock they would have to work for the day and get no money. Colonel Bernard is buried in a vault in Kinnitty and Colonel Drought is buried in Droughtville near Brophy's House and his horse is buried with him. There is a big iron flag and iron bars over and around him. His wife and his children are buried with him.Writer's name: Moira Grimes, Knockbarron, Kinnitty, Co. Offaly.
Informant's name; Mr. H. Grimes, Knockbarron, Kinnitty, Birr, Co. Offaly.
- Collector
- Moira Grimes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockbarron, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mr H. Grimes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockbarron, Co. Offaly
