Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)

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1. Bradle, Agent, Shot Dead in Tipperary

   

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   Michael Quirke (continues on being requested)
   Michael Hayes was a strong farmer living in
   Castletown just below Doon. It seems that he was a kind of an agent at one time himself but that he got broke. Father Hickey (1824-1874) P.P of Doon said at one time 'Hayes, Quinlan & Bradle will fall by each other' and his words came true. The three were always squabbling about the rent.
   Michael Hayes went in to Tipperary to pay his rent to Bradle, the Agent, in his office. He walked in, laid down his hat - a tall one, I suppose, on the counter. Bradle refused to take the rent. 'Well', says Hayes; if you won't take the rent, take this,' drawing the revolver out of his hat & giving him the contents. Dan Moore, the rent warner had a narrow escape the same day. He was in the office & the bullet hit the bolt of the door beside him.

   'Bradle lay mortally wounded
   Michael Hayes, he walked out in the street
   He made no alarum about it
   And no enemy there did he meet.' (Old Song)

   Hayes left the town safely & made in the direction of the Limerick Junction. There were men making hayin a field there & he got into a 'pike' of hay & they covered

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Date

   20 August 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informants

   • Michael Quirke
   • Daniel Mahoney