School: Cill Chóirne (C.) (roll number 8829)
- Location:
- Kilcorney, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)at one of the brothers killing him instantly. The other fled for his life. Sir. Hyde took out his sword and cut off the dead man's head taking it before him to get it hung up on the spike outside the barrack wall in Killarney.
Callaghan who escaped watched Sir. Hyde coming back and took revenge for his brother by shooting him. A month after this he got from the ancestors of the present Denis Murphy, Carrigagulla a grey mare known as the Croppy Mare, which was captured from a Captain in the British Army at a skirmish in Carraig An Ime. Callaghan asked Murphy for the loan of the mare and riding to Killarney he put his hand under his dead brother's head, lifted it off the spike and placed it under his arm. While doing so he was fired at and closely pursued by the best cavalry in Killarney. He brought the head the whole distance and buried it with the body which he had previously buried n the present "Old Cemetry of Kilcorney. Callaghan lived an old man an escaped capture.
- Informant
- Dan Duggan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Kilcorney, Co. Cork
