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   “Philip D. Dennehy, aged 72, of Nohoval Upper, Knocknagree Co. Cork had some information on many topics.”

   

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   took charge. The inquest revealed that three different types of weapons had been used. A gun, which inflicted the morning wound but the cause of death was not a gun-shot wound but laceration of the brain - the man's skull was battered with a hatchet and to complete the dastardly deed his throat was deeply cut with a knife. The murderers were never brought to justice. Years have passed by but the people of the district very often see a reminder of the horror - a light hovers over the place where Quinn was shot one morning and where the hard-hearted murderers gave him his coup-de-grace the following night. (12) Féith 'ach Amhlaoibh - this is a vein in the Nohoval Bog to the east of Mr. Dennehy's house. Drainage has now made the place hard and dry but once a good crop of rushes grew there. The story is told that a poor man who wanted to thatch his cabin took his sugán and reaping-hook to Feith 'ach Amhlaoibh to get a beart of the rushes. He had only just started to reap when a voice spoke to him from the vein saying "Fág béal mo dhoruis."

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   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Collector

   Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Príomhoide

   Informant

   Philip D. Dennehy

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   72

   Address

   Nuachabháil Uachtarach, Co. Chorcaí