Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Location
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0217
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- (continued from previous page)"The rope wouldn't hang him. There was something wrong with the rope until he fixed it himself.JOSEPH HAMMERSLEY, Toem, Carpenter, age 50:
"He made a súgán rope and that hanged him"MICHAEL RELEGHAN, Toem, Farmer, aged 54:
"No, he was hanged with a thread of silk"M QUIRKE(continuing): His head was cut off and stuck up on the goal gate in Clonmel. When the head was cut off old Maud said 'There is nothing to be done with the head now except to bring it to Dundrum and let the crows pick it'. A crow never 'lit' in Dundrum since as long as the Mauds were in possession. I don't think they ever passed over it. But they are back again since the nuns came to live there.
The head was stuck up on the gate with a company of soldiers guarding it by night and by day. There was no chance of getting the head. Father Sheehy's sister was a Rev. Mother and she kept watching for 3 days and nights trying to get the head. On the third day a carter came over to her and said "I see you here for the last 3 days walking up and down. Is anything the matter?' She up and told him the whole story 'Wait where you are' says he 'and I'll get you the head' He walked over to the gate and took down the head on the crop of his whip and they never saw him doing it although it was broad daylight. He brought her over the head(continues on next page)
