School: Gleann na gCreabhar (Anglesboro), Baile Mhistéala (roll number 10262)
- Location:
- Anglesborough, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Cadhla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0514, Page 031
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- (continued from previous page)help of his men and the tenants of his estate. The order was then taken over from the O'Callaghan man by the 2nd Baron Massy who dispossessed Croft. A son of this 2nd Baron Massy and one of his servants went to look at the place. They were standing on a big double ditch behind Stag Dale House when Croft saw him and fired at him but he missed Massy and killed the servant.The Massys made several attempts to put out Croft but he always managed to beat them off. At length Massy succeeded in gaining possession by a trick. He marched to Stag Dale with a body of men from Duntryleague and the surrounding districts. Some of the men made an attack on the front of the Great House while the others went ahide around the back.
Croft and his followers and servants(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick J. Kiely
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 29
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Mitchelstown, Co. Cork
- Informant
- William Casey Esq.
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Baurnagurrahy, Co. Limerick
