Scoil: Baile Dubh (C.) (uimhir rolla 2493)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Clashmealcon Caves (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   of the ambush and next morning the Free State troops arrived to this cave accompanied by some of the men who were sheltering there during the Tan war. They took a neighbouring boy and a brother to one of the men in the cave with them as a hostage. They put him down the way before them and one of the soldiers followed close behind and when the soldier came opposite the entrance to the cave he was shot dead by the men in the cave. They called on the hostage boy and he went down into the cave with them. Next went down an engineer in a rope and he also was shot and the free state soldiers in top of the cliff fired at the mouth of the caves from every vantage point, they also got tar and hay and let it down and shook Petrol on it and then put fire to it in order that it would smother them in the cave. They also used mines which when exploded could be heard miles away. For three days and three nights

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Suíomh

   Clais Maolchon, Co. Chiarraí

   Bailitheoir

   Eileen Hussey

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   14

   Faisnéiseoir

   William Casey

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Ré na gCaorach, Co. Chiarraí