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From: "Mary Heaphy" <>
Subject: [IRL-TIP] 11-4-1836 Clonmel Advertiser.
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 21:33:05 +0100


11-4-1836 Clonmel Advertiser.

Lord Mulgrave's Sturdy Yeomanry.

The Tipperary boys were "up and doing". Last Sunday night fires blazed on
all the numerous hills between Duharrow and Keeper, and from Gouig, in the
County of Limerick, to Ballywilliam. The first light appeared on Durrow, of
outrage celebrity, which was quickly responded to by similar signals on
Ballinahinch, Lacken, Gouig, Bushfield, Kilmastulla, at one time were
counted 100. The wild yells of the Duharrow boys, the brilliancy of the
illuminations, and the stillness of the night, produced a strange and
indescribable scene. The object of the hills being lighted remains a secret.

On Monday a man named John Tobin was stopped near the Chapel of Powerstown,
within a mile and a half of Clonmel, where he was coming to get possession
of a farm, from Lord Clonmel's agent, by a man armed with a blunderbuss, who
ordered Tobin to give up the farm, the ruffian told him to turn back, as
there was six men in waiting for him, who would not deal so mercifully as he
did.

On Wednesday night last two sheep, the property of John Maher, Esq. of
Tullamaine, were killed on the lands of Ballygamane, within two miles of
Thurles, where his furze had been maliciously consumed a few days since.



Mary

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