School: Cloonsarn (roll number 16025)
- Location:
- Lisgillock Glebe, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peter Kilkenny
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- (continued from previous page)to the police there. OBrien galloped his horse the most of the way. Ryan the blacksmith took his way across the country on foot so fast as O'Brien was passing Ryan's forge in the village of Cloone. MulRyan or Ryan came to the door of the forge with a Red hot shoe (horse) held in his hand by a punch, and shouted to O'Brien. "I say Sir, your horse has lost a shoe." Though the law officers has suspicions that MulRyan was at the Robbery of Coehrane. That statement freed him. It was considered impossible that any man on foot could outdistance in a journey of (?) miles to Drumsilla-Cloone) so much as to be able to redden a horse shoe.
As to the money - the other two men came back with it to the Fort on Cloousare Hill halted there for some - and from there went to the fort on hisgillock hill nearby. It was believed afterwards that they hid the money at either of these forts and a further belief prevailed in the neighborhood that these men were so (?) that they forgot where they hid it. It was remarked at the time and afterwards that it was never noticed then, or afterwards that these men or their relatives were anything then Richer.
- Collector
- Peter Kilkenny
- Gender
- Male
