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Extract from the Collooney Travel Guides:
The sight worth stopping for in the village of
COLLOONEY
, five miles south of Sligo where the N4 and N17 separate, is the
Teeling Monument
at the northern entrance to the village, built to commemorate Bartholomew Teeling, hero of the Battle of Carricknagat. The battle was fought nearby during the rebellion of 1798, when a combined Franco-Irish force - on its way from Killala in County Mayo, where the French had landed
, to Ballinamuck in County Longford - was held up by a single strategically placed English gun. Teeling charged up the hill and shot the gunner dead, turning the tid...
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