School: Holy Faith Convent, Newtownmount Kennedy
- Location:
- Newtown Mountkennedy, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Sr. Mechtilde
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- About three or four month's ago there were great celebrations all round County Wicklow commemorating the heroes of '98. The school master and the late Mr. C.B. Haslam arranged for the people of Newtown Mt. Kennedy to honour those great men and to erect a monument to one of them.
The man chosen was Micheal O'Neill he was a native of Newcastle which is about three miles from Newtown. He was executed at Newtown courthouse but before he was hanged the soldiers pulled out his eyes. While he was standing waiting to be hanged he caught up two weights and threw them behind his back and killed two of them. Many of his descendants live in Newcastle and Mr Andrew Byrne lives in his house. It is said that if you scratch his tombstone it will shed blood he was buried in Killadreenan Graveyard. My father told me the above
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