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School: Dunlavin (B.)

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Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
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Mícheál Ó Gogáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 131

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    towards Dublin when an informer named Hawking who was among them informed the Baltinglass garrison and the soldiers captured the rebels at "Saunder's Grove" an estate about one mile from Baltinglass it is owned by a wealty landlady named Miss Tynte.
    The men were brought to Dunlavin and imprisoned in "The Marked House" for one night under guard. The next morning without trial, they were shot on the "Fair Green" in cold blood, kneeling in four. Hawkins being shot along with them
    Only one man excaped named, John Mc Guinniss. The shots happened to miss him he lay down, pretending to be dead and when the soldiers left, he crawled away, and thus excaped.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Carey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow