School: Longueville, Malla (roll number 11332)
- Location:
- Longueville, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Dhonnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0364, Page 280
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- DOnal O Keeffe was the chief of a band of Rapprees who operated in the barony of Duhallow robbing the rich helping the poor and harassing the English soldiers.
It may be the opinion of some persons that O Keeffe was a common highwayman. He was in truth a gentle-man both by birth and education, but was forced to live the life of an outlaw by the Redcoats.
He left his house and gathered a band of Rapparees and they took up their abode in the caves of Gurtmore.
Captain Holt, a (led) leader of the Redcoats laid many traps to esnare O Keeffe, but he always failed Cpt. Holt seeing that these efforts failed looked around him for a possible ally.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John Mullane
- Gender
- Male
