School: Mágh Rua (B.) (roll number 5880)
- Location:
- Moroe, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: John Maher
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- (continued from previous page)used to go there every Sunday to hear Mass. When the English authorities heard it they laid siege to the castle to catch the priest in it. He however dressed himself up in disguise and got safely away from the soldiers. Sir John escaped too but a few days after he was caught in a house in Carrick On Suir. He was tried for high treason and was found guilty. His life would be spared if he denied his faith but he wouldn't. He was hanged a short afterwards in Limerick and his remains were buried in the church yard of Saint Johns.
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