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1. Father Clowry (continued)

   

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   killed all the children before they were born by "dragging & tearing" the young woman "round the house". As she was lingering a little too long "for their taste, son & mother smothered her between the bed ticks. Then Clowry made the vitial blunder. He hastened to Tullow to get a death cert from Dr Kidd (splendid type of Protestant doctor, & a great doctor, too, though old fashioned, believing in hot irons, leeches, bleeding, etc) Whatever the doctor had seen, or heard or suspected, he reported the matter to the police.
   A Protestant funeral was a rarity in Carlow & all the Protestant "from far & wide" had collected on that bleak March evening of 1918. The cortege had only proceeded one quarter of a mile when it was stopped by the police & the coffin taken into the Green House, as the herd's house on the Castletwon estate is called. A cursory examination convinced "the authorities" that the young woman had been done to death. "My God," exclaimed Dr Kidd, "that explains what happened old Dick, too!"
   Than was fulfilled the prophacy of the poor old murdered priest as Protestants from every parish in N. Carlow & some from Wicklow & Queens Co accompanied mother & son to the waiting police-car whith showers of mud & stones & imprecations that "would make the hair stand on your head."
   They were accomodated with arm-chairs

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   History Edit

   Date

   1908

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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