Scoil: Newtown, Borris
- Suíomh:
- An Baile Nua, Co. Cheatharlach
- Múinteoir: Tomás Ó Broin
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- Situated on our land, and adjoining Patrick Doyle's in Newtown, Borris, Co. Carlow in a small corner of a field is a small bunch of high large hawthorns. In this place are buried three priests. The story of those priests was told to my father as follows.
In the year of '98 two English soldiers visited Graiguenamanagh, and it seems the priests there fled in terror out to the County Carlow. They ran from place to place through Coolyhune, and were hotly pursued by the soldiers. At last they reached Lennon's field, which at that time was a large field of high furze, and bushwood. Here they hid, evidently thinking they were safe from the enemy.
The British soldiers suspected they were hidden here, and they surrounded the field, and set fire to the bushes, The poor priests ran out at this point, where their bodies now lie. They were immediately shot down, and there bodies left there.
Whether the people of Newtown, or the soldiers buried them there no one knows, but the old people say that without a doubt their bodies lie there. Some men sowed three(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)- Bailitheoir
- Bridget Lennon
- Inscne
- Baineann
- Seoladh
- An Baile Nua, Co. Cheatharlach
- Faisnéiseoir
- James Lennon
- Inscne
- Fireann
- Aois
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- Seoladh
- An Baile Nua, Co. Cheatharlach