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From: Dennis Ahern <>
Subject: Re: Excerpts from Irish newspapers
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 15:09:15 +0000 (UTC)


From The Belfast News-Letter, 26 April 1800 -

Henry Stokes and Patrick Sheehan, found guilty by a General Court
Martial at Limerick, of the murder of Messrs. Boland, were on
Monday morning last taken form the new Barrack, under an escort of
the Lancashire dragoons, to the hill of Fedamore, where they were
hanged, after which their bodies were brought to Limerick and
thrown into Croppies'-hole at the new gaol.
Sheehan, on the morning of his execution, informed a gentleman,
that if he would give him his oath that his (Sheehan's) life would be
saved, he would give the most useful information, not only of
nocturnal rebel-meetings, and of the vast number of arms in their
possession, but of their intended robberies and assassination.
Same day Moriarty, for prevarication on the trial of the above
convicts, received 100 lashes at the foot of the gallows, in part of
his sentence.
Among the spectators who attended at the execution of the
murderers at Fedamore, on Monday last, a man of the name of
Patrick Haneen was recognized and brought to the county gaol,
against whom we are assured, there is positive proof of his being the
first person who set fire to the murdered and much lamented Mr. J.
Boland's house at Manister.

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