Examination of Dan Morto Mahany

fol. 240r

1923

<2.> The Examination off Dan Morto Maghany aged forty fiue years or their Abouts being duly sworne and Examined saith,
Thatt at the beginging of the wars in musgraue he lived at a place called Pouldrike & that one Scott liveing at vppon the lands of killeneare the Irish driveing away the afforesaid Scotts chatles & [ ] within two dayes after he brought his wife children & houshould stuffe into the <A> Barrony of Musgraue to one donnough mc dermods house at Carricloth being Sarjant to the Lord of Musgraue & as the examinant sayth that he lived thereabout a month & from thence the sayd Scott remoued to the house of William Murphe vppon the next adjoyneing land, being at William Murphes the said Murphe sent away all his owne goods & the sayd Scotts goods vnto Castle Moore as both Scott & his wife tould this examinant. & within three dayes [ ] after the said Murphe goeing along with his goods leaveing Scott and his ffamily behind him there came into the sayd Scotts house some tenn or twelve men that tooke away the sayd Scott his wife & three daughters & carried them some halfe a mile from his house & there murdered them that <& put them in a saw pit> and this examinant sayth that two of the murderers was hanged by the Lord of Muskeries order which he knew & another whose name was Phillip ô Realy but since fled & what the rest of the murderers was this examinant knowes not & further sayes not

Daniell Morto [mark] Maghany
his Marke
September the 11: 1652

William Murphe dweles at Clonfacow & Donough mc dermod of Curryclough both in the parish of Killmury

fol. 240v

1924

about the Murder of
Scott & his ffamily
of John Woods
&Phillip Hill &c.
his 2 sons
& the Examinacion of Dan: Mortogh
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