School: Lisball

Location:
Lisball, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
S. O' Doherty
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    Shawn McMahon undertook to go to Ballina, in the County Mayo, to work up the society, he having learned that the French might land there.
    On the same evening he heard that hos forge at Shercock had been broken into by Yeomen that a search was made that Jukes [?] were found hidden under the hob, and that they were scouring the county for him......
    "From this on to near the end of the story we have an account of Shawn McMahon adventures in the West.
    Jack Gibson's men never essayed to rise in a body. Several attempts were made to arrest Gibson who lay
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