School: Tinnahinch, Mountmellick (roll number 9892)
- Location:
- Tinnahinch, Co. Laois
- Teacher: S. Ní Bhradáin
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- (continued from previous page)stole from the rich people and in some cases they paid the rent for poor widows. From time to time some of the robbers were captured. They hid in the den, they were daylight robbers and they robbed during the day as well as in the night.If a person were walking past the den he could scarcely see the den as the heather is all grown up over it. There is a ring of stones around the den. The den was dug by the robbers for their booty.Tourists go to see the robbers den.No one ever went to look for the gold since the robbers left it, The name of their leader was Captain Grant.Some of the robbers were hanged in Maryborough.
- Collector
- Annie Conroy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tinnahinch, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mr Conroy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tinnahinch, Co. Laois