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From: Scott Humphrey <>
Subject: Re: [IRL-TIP] 11-4-1836 Clonmel Advertiser.
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 14:03:32 -0700


Hi Mary,
Was anything political or unusual going on at the time of this report?

Happy Mother's Day,
Scott
On Sun, 13 May 2007 21:33:05 +0100 "Mary Heaphy" <>
writes:
> 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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