School: Newtownmount Kennedy
- Location:
- Newtown Mountkennedy, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Ida Hutchinson
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0927, Page 172
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- (continued from previous page)dropsical complaint, Lieutenant Edward Hempenstall, of the 68th Regiment, some time back an officer in the Wicklow Militia - A gentleman whose intrepidity and spirit during the Rebellion rendered much general good, and himself highly obnoxious to traitors"A celebrated Dublin wit once suggested that if the grave of Lieutenant Hempenstall were ever found his epitaph should be inscribed upon his headstone in two lines:
"Here lie the bones of Hempenstall, judge, jury, gallows, rope and all".
