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My ancestor James Higgins took refuge in a farmhouse in 1913 in deeply wooded Foilacluig Hollyford Co. Tipperary , where "Eamon an Cnoic " the infamous rapparee had used as a safe house whilst on the run from the tyrannical law 150 years earlier. "Ned of the Hills" stole from greedy landlords to give to the poor. He had a handsome £1000 price put on his head in 1762, only to be betrayed & killed by the house owner unknowing that the ransom had been lifted a few days earlier by Colonel Maude. Eamon had sneaked into Maudes bedroom in Dundrum House despite the armed guard to confront the Colonel over confiscating and selling a cow for rent arrears of a poor widow woman . Maude saw sense to award Eamon an immediate pardon at gunpoint to save his life and they subsequently drank a few duorums of poteen together before his sunrise departure and imminent death back in the safe house. See house later

History repeated in 1913 when James Higgins my ancestor took refuge in this farmhouse in deeply wooded Foilacluig Hollyford Co. Tipperary , where "Eamon an Cnoic " the infamous rapparee had used as a safe house whilst on the run from the tyrannical law 150 years earlier. "Ned of the Hills" stole from greedy landlords to give to the poor. He had a handsome £1000 price put on his head in 1762, only to be betrayed & killed by the safe house owner, unknowing that the ransom had been lifted a few days earlier by Colonel Maude. Eamon had sneaked into Maudes bedroom in Dundrum House despite the armed guard to confront the Colonel over confiscating and selling a cow for rent arrears of a poor widow woman . Maude saw sense to award Eamon an immediate pardon at gunpoint to save his life and they subsequently drank a few duorums of poteen together before his sunrise departure and imminent death back in the safe house.