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“Around the year 1755 a murder was committed in the village of Rathcoole.”

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Around the year 1753 a murder was committed in the village of Rathcoole. The victims were a Mrs Glennon and her grandaughter. A man name Patrick Sheil was arrested for the crime. He was tried, found guilty and sentenced to death. A scaffold was erected on the Windmill Hill, as it is yet called, and Sheil was there hanged publicly. His body was later taken down, and hanged on a gibbet, at the crossroads where it was erected for the purpose,
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