School: Cullen, Tiobraid Árann (roll number 7245)
- Location:
- Cullen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seosamh Mainséal
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- Edward Griffin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Occupations
- Farmer
- Shoemaker
- Address
- Cullen, Co. Tipperary
- Mrs. OGrady (90) Attybreaga Cullen says there was a raid made on a house in Longstone in '66. The house belonged to a family married Kearney Ryan. A soldier home on leave went there to drill the local Fenians. his name was James Dillon. The house was under observation by a policeman named Dunne. He came to the windows but was seen from inside and shot. The local publican who lived at the 'Junions'* had to carry the dead man to his house across the fields. All the men whoever drilling had to go in their [?] Nearly all were later arrested and served long terms of imprisonment.
A monumnet is erected to those men in the local church yard. *The Junions is a public house in Lonestone.
