School: Baile Ard
- Location:
- Ballard, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0627, Page 079
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- (continued from previous page)killed them; and those who escaped from the Church were murdered as they got out. The people who were at home in the village heard the murdering and they came out with pikes spades shovels and pitchforks and killed every one of the soldiers taking part in the murder.The village was called St John's lane, and it extended from the church to Dunmore Castle a distance of about a mile. The natives were helped in the massacre of the soldiers by McMahon's army from Doonbeg but soon the great joy raging was quelled by reinforcements to the enemy, who left behind a valley of death but their sacrafice was not without its reward for they blocked the enemy for the time and allowed Lord Clare O'Brien to escape to Carrigaholt where he got a boat to take him out into the Atlantic to Belgium. There was an auxiliary church about(continues on next page)
