School: Scoil na Móna Fliche (Moanflugh) (roll number 10272)
- Location:
- Moanflugh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Deasmhumhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0326, Page 059
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- Seán Ó Súilleabháin better known as Shawn the Bard, was a very brave and daring man who lived in or around this district some years ago. One of the many of his daring deeds was the destruction of William Twohig's house, the Square, Macroom, by placing a stick of dynamite underneath the shop window on a fair-day night around fifty years ago. For this crime he was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. He was, as was called in those days, a famous moonlighter, and had a certain number of men under his command who helped him in such deeds. If there were any evictions about to take place within a certain radius of his own district Seán and his men went about warning certain people who were supposed to be interested in such lands not to interfere under penalty of death. Seán himself and his wife and 9 children were evicted at one time during these penal days. He was a short thick-set man, and very daring.
- Collector
- John O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 8
- Address
- Bawnmore, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Bawnmore, Co. Cork
