The Banner was the newspaper of the Presbyterian Church. As part of my preparation of the Diaries, I spent almost 2 years reading newspapers, mainly the Telegraph. This paper has much wonderful, never before printed information. The stories will change frequently. On the night of the 27th December, about eight o clock, William Stapleton, of Lorha, heard some person pulling off the thatch of his house, when he made a stab of a pitchfork through the part, at the same time ordering his son John to light a candle and proceed to the yard.
Land is the cause.
An inquest was held on the following day by Michael Cormack, Esq., Coroner. Michael Phelan has been fully committed for this offence.-Nenagh Guardian. The place where this awful deed occured is called Duntryleague, near the high-road between Tipperary and Mitchelstown.