School: Clochar na Trócaire, Dún Drongáin (roll number 7232)
- Location:
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 092
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- (continued from previous page)he refused to do. Then they set fire to the house which was a thatched one, and the whole family was burned.
The perpetrators were arrested after some time, and two of them - brothers named Maher were hanged publicly in Cloneen. The third O Gorman was hanged in Clonmel later on.
The principal witness for the prosecution was known as Jude the Cuneen. She kept a Shebeen on the mountain side where she sold poteen.
The men that committed the crime were drinking there that night, and she over heard the conversation, and followed them. She saw them set fire to O'Shea's house. She was of course well paid by the Government for her information.
There is a tradition that when the government had all the information they required of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josephine White
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathkenny, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Nora Anglim
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lismoynan, Co. Tipperary
