School: Scoil na Móna Fliche (Moanflugh) (roll number 10272)

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1. Seán Riobárd (Shawn the Bard)

   

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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.

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
   2. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   John O' Sullivan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   8

   Address

   Bawnmore, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Mrs O' Sullivan

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   38

   Address

   Bawnmore, Co. Cork