School: Hackettstown (St Joseph's)
- Location:
- Baile Haicéid, Co. Cheatharlach
- Teacher: M. Ní Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 342
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- (continued from previous page)point deserted, damping the powder of their sleeping comrades previously. Not until the Battle of Hacketstown, which occured later, was the treachery of the deserters known. In years later enmity and hatred and fights between the Carlow, Kilkenny and Queens County men were enkindled to the cry of "Traitors you damped our powder at High Park".
- There was a farmer living near Hacketstown. This night he had a cow sick, he went down to see it. For the field he had to go down a lane which was said to be haunted. When going down he lost his whip. On returning he saw a man with the whip in his hand. He asked the man for it but the man told him he would have to fight him first. The clock struck twelve and the man told the farmer he would have to fight him on another night(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patty Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Richard Bulmer
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Baile Haicéid, Co. Cheatharlach
