School: Coone, Leighlinbridge (roll number 5713)
- Location:
- Coan, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Éamonn de Paor
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- During the time of the Whiteboys, three brothers named Somers from the Lotts, were arrested for alleged complicity in the burning of a house belonging to a man named Lockett, who was grandfather to Mrs. Cavanagh, Coone. The two houses were close to each other, and the night of the burning the brothers were a short time absent from their home. This they admitted when questioned, and suspicion immediately fell on them. They we arrested and brought to Kilkenny, when they were tried. A girl, who was at Somers’ house on the night in question, was inadvertently the cause of their deaths.(continues on next page)