School: Arklow (B.)
- Location:
- Arklow, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Gearóid Inglis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0924, Page 70
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- (continued from previous page)these men Rossiters tried to return home when the Battle of Arklow was over.
One of the brothers James was very badly wounded from a bayonet thrust in the stomach, and his brother , and some other men from his own part were helping him home, moving secret by at night, from a house on South of Arklow where he had lain since the day of the battle. The use of a cart to take him past Arklow was out of the question, and therefore his friends carried him, while he attempted to walk.
They had reached a spot in the sandy fields of Ferrybank when the wounded man, unable to stand the strain, died from the hardship of his journey.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Mullett
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- William Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Arklow, Co. Wicklow
