Examination of Teig Cunnigane

Citation: TCD, 1641 Depositions Project, online transcript January 1970
[http://1641.tcd.ie/deposition.php?depID?=826065r070] accessed Monday 25th of September 2017 11:50 AM

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Date: 1652-10-06
Identifier: 826065r070

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1641 Deposition Item Type Metadata

County: Cork
Deposition Type: Commonwealth
Nature of Deposition: Multiple Killing
Commissioners: Henry Beecher
Deposition Transcription:


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<3.> Teige Cunnigane aged fivety five yeares or thereabouts being duely sworne and examined by virtue of his oath sayth;
<D> That about March 1641 Dermod Carty alias Glacke (with a great number of men in armes whome he commanded) assaulted the towne of Crookehaven and that a servant of his called John รด Conagh a Cooper killed an English woeman the wife of one William Allen as she was drawing of water.
He further sayth by virtue of his oath that the Inhabitants of <C> Crookehaven (being distressed by the said Dermod Glacke) sent a letter Eastward by a mayden, signifieing theire condition and that the said Mayden was Intercepted and hanged in a wood by the command of the said Dermod Glacke

Henrie Becher


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Examinacions of Murders
by Glack
H.B.
the murder of
the wife of William Allen
& a may mayden
X

Deponent Fullname: Teige Cunnigane
Deponent Gender: Male
Deponent County of Residence: Cork
Mentioned Non-Deponent Fullnames: Dermod alias Glacke Carty, John , William Allen
Mentioned Non-Deponent Roles: Rebel, Rebel, Mentioned