School: Kilnaleck (C.)
- Location:
- Cill na Leice, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Mrs. Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0994, Page 240
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- (continued from previous page)himself at the head of his men, his presence bringing them renewed courage and after a stubborn fight they were forced (the orangemen) up the Old Road. The Catholics kept pursuing them until on Tullyboy Bridge young Captain Galligan got a bullet which proved fatal in a few minutes. His sorrow stricken comrades sadly conveyed his dead body back to the village of Kilnaleck. He was waked in a house in the town now inhabited by Patrick Keogh. "The Peep of Day" Boys came to his wake and would go over to his corpse, catch him by the hair of the head and say in dension "Are you a defender now".
Captain Gosling gave orders that the funeral should take place at 2' oclock p.m. on the third day but the Catholics too well knew what that meant. The "Peep of Day Boys" would again congregate and massacre the Catholics they decided to convey the body to Ballintemple Old graveyard and have it buried in the early morning. Accordingly The Catholics conveyed the body to the appointed cemetery in the grey dawn of the early morning.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mrs Mary A. O' Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- Michael Galligan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 94
- Address
- An Chill, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Patrick Gaffney
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Historian
- Address
- An Chill, Co. an Chabháin
