School: Scoil an Chlochair, Dún Bleisce (roll number 14625)
- Location:
- Doon, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Regis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0519, Page 189
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- He was born at Felhard in Co. Tipperary. His parents were respectable and very good Catholics. He was sent to France to be educated so he became a teacher, then he became a priest. He was a very courageous ma n and had many a dispute with the Earl of Drogheda who was sent over to Munster as Landlord. Fr. Sheehy died at the young age of thirty three, being hanged by villains his head was exposed to view on the Clonmel Gates. His sister who was living in Clonmel succeeded in taking his head at midnight. After twenty years a friend of his composed the following:-I
Head of the martyr'd priest, I now can fold thee,
This to my lips and to my heart I hold thee
On Clonmel gates, while soldiers lay adreaming.II
Martyr'd to Erin's cause by men unholy,
Martyr'd like Christ his Lord, for justice solely
Dark, doom of grief to many a mother's daughter
From Knockmealdown to Shannon's wide-spread water.III
From Shannon of the ships all its holy islands
The Cashel of the Kings and its diocese of the high-lands.
Cahir of the ancient sword and pointed arrow(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Birrane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doon, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs Birrane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doon, Co. Limerick
