School: Gormanstown, Árd Fhíonáin (roll number 5615)
- Location:
- Gormanstown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Peadar de Mhóiréis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0572, Page 534
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- (continued from previous page)the scaffold. But the other four, it is maintained locally, were innocent.
It is local tradition that when the five were dead on the gallows, the guilty man was facing in one direction while the faces of the four innocent men were turned in the opposite direction.
The local landlord , Lord Donoughmore, was the most active agent in the prosecution and execution of these men.
The house in which Barry was shot is now owned by a Mrs. Reidy. The mark of one of the bullets is still pointed out on the parlour wall.
The farm known as the Sceach Ruadh is now in the possession of Mr. John Murphy, Ballyneety.
- Informant
- Mr James Mulcahy
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Grange More, Co. Tipperary
