School: Cratloe (C.)
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- Cratloe, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shitric
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- XML “Legend of Cratloe Woods”
- XML “Cratloe Woods”
- XML “Ballintlea Castle”
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- (continued from previous page)the engine driver was ordered to "back" the train to the spot where it was attacked. The "boys" in the meantime did not think it would return though they saw it returning, never suspected that it was the same train. They were trapped in the glen and had to retreat up a bare hill, leaving two of their leaders dead. They, bravely kept firing while they retreated though some of them, actually, left their rifles beside Morrissey's Rock and fled in terror. One, only, of that crowd is near Clare today. The others met violent deaths later in the Struggle and two are in the U.S.A.- they had to leave their own land through want of work or payment for their struggles in getting Freedom.
- Cratloe Woods. It is said King Brian Boru once hid in Cratloe Woods with his followers when overpowered by the Danes.
- The home and birth place of Donncadh Ruadh McNamara
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- Collector
- Miss M. Setrite
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- Soloman O' Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Cratloe, Co. Clare