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School: Loughmoe (C.), An Teampoll Mór (roll number 7594)

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Loughmoe, Co. Tipperary
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Caitlín Ní Riain
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    The Mc Cormac brothers lived in Killahara in the parish of Loughmore. They were hanged in Nenagh jail for the murder of a land agent called Ellis, For this crime they were innocent but a packed jury found them guilty. This happened in 1858. Years later on the 11th May 1911 the remains of their bodies were brought out of the jail yard in Nenagh. They marched and drove from Nenagh to Loughmore. The drums and horses were draped in black and the bands played the dead march. When they reached Loughmore the priest preached an oration. The crowd was so big that they could not fit in the church and in the church grounds so that some of the people had
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    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Maher
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Loughmoe, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Thomas Maher
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Loughmoe, Co. Tipperary