Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Location
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0216
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- (continued from previous page)crooked at them or they would ram you into prison. They were very hard on the poor. If you were a penny short on the rent, out you went and often too when the rent was paid, bedad.They'd drive on top of you if you didn't keep out of the way. They planted al the trees in Dundrum and built the great house where the nuns are now. They'd only allow one public house in Dundrum and one shop of any kind - one smith, one carpenter, one tailor and so on, and the publican couldn't put up his own name Furlong. He had to put 'Haywarden(i) & Arms' over his door instead of his own name (Furlong) The 'Rookeries ' of the estate were famous until the time of Sir Thomas Maud, the Maud who grew a tail."' MAUD, MOLL DUNLEA and JACK LONERGAN
Maud was on the jury that found Father Sheehy guilty. The priest was arrested for swearing in Whiteboys but that was only a mar dheadh of a story. They wanted to do for him at any costs and they rigged up that charge against him but he was as innocent as the child unborn. Moll Dunlea was a common woman of the roads and Jack Lonergan was a young foolish lad. These were the 2 principal witnesses against Father Sheehy. They got Moll married to Jack to make a respectable married woman out of her. So she appeared in the witness-box as Mrs Jack Lonergan .[(i) One of the Mauds became Lord Haywarden]
"Haywarden &Arms" perhaps.(continues on next page)
