Tipperary Safe House

"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 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. "