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| Wackerage Cairn | Wackerage Cairn | Mr. A. Thompson | on Sheet | This is the junction of three townships, | ||
| Wm Rodgerson | 19. 6 | there was formerly a cairn of stones here | ||||
| Estate Map. | to mark the junction – the name still | |||||
| applies – tho’ the cairn no longer exists – | ||||||
| having been used to build the walls with. | ||||||
| Tom Tallon’s Grave | Tom Tallon’s Grave | James Duncan | on Sheet | There was formerly a large Cairn of stones | ||
| (Site of) | (Site of) | Wm Rodgerson | 19. 6 | here so called, but it was removed to | ||
| Estate Map. | build the boundary wall with. | |||||
| Not a stone is left to mark the spot. | ||||||
| It is said that Tom Tallon was some | ||||||
| Warrior, & buried here – but the local | ||||||
| tradition is so faint that nothing | ||||||
| authentic can be gleaned respecting | ||||||
| him – except the name. | ||||||
| Robt Young Corporal Royal Engineers |
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