School: Cluain Mór (1), Baile an Droichid
- Location:
- Cluain Mhór, Co. Cheatharlach
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Laochdha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 135
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- (continued from previous page)10.) After the battle of Hacketstown the road leading from the bridge into the town was strewn with dead horses, cattle and men and was there without being butned for a fortnight.
An old man used to tell about a corpse of a poor pikeman that fell into a slough at the river and there it was sitting on its backside with the pike across its knees the whole summer, no one ever buried it. It was down Kilmacart hill the rebels came to attack the town and it was down there the yeos met them. 11.) There is only three families that was named about here that fought in the rebellion that bears the same name by descent- John Dallon of Ballyshoe some of the Byrnes of Knockatomcoyle and the Byrnes of Kilquiggan. Of course there is families on their mothers sides that was in it- but those that was in the yeos is nearly all around us. Bid Dolan
12. Dom Wybrant's father (old Bob Wybrant) used to tell about him working in Porien's bog- now Peter Byrne's- when he was a chap when word went through the bog that the famous Bid Dolan who got all the men hung and shot in the rebellion(continues on next page)
- Informant
- James Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- An Gabhal, Co. Chill Mhantáin
