School: Clochar na Trócaire, Maghcromtha

Location:
Macroom, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Na Siúracha
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0341, Page 262

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0341, Page 262

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Clochar na Trócaire, Maghcromtha
  2. XML Page 262
  3. XML “Malachy Duggan's Victims”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. (continued from previous page)
    the gang was discovered near Killarney, and he was tried and also executed. Thus out of the fourteen who attacked the house of Colonel Hutchinson nine were capitally punished and two escaped by turning informers.; the remaining three got off to America.
    Malachy Duggan, obtained about three hundred pounds for having delivered up his companions and for generations yet to come his name will be in famous in the neighbourhood where he lived and died.
    So anxious was the magistrate to obtain information against Colonel Hutchinson's murderers that Malachy Duggan was treated with great concideration by some of them. One of the magistrates Mr S carried his partiality for the
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sheila Kelleher
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Macroom, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mrs John Buckley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Macroom, Co. Cork