| Intelligence has just reached Fermoy of a number of extraordinary
outrages which were committed in the vicinity of Castlelyons on Monday night last, when several farmsteads
were visited, no less than seven iron gates torn down, twisted out of all shape, and placed on the public road.
The first place struck was the residence of Mr. Patrick Aherne, poor law guardian, Farran, where an iron gate
was smashed and a quantity of glass broken in a greenhouse. At Mr. Patterson's three iron gates were
dislodged. A timber door was broken to pieces, and the gate leading into Mr. Patterson's corn field torn
down. At Mr. Garrett Verlin's, Mr. Brooder's, and Mr. Toohill's iron gates were smashed. At the latter place the
miscreants were busily engaged breaking a car in the yard when they were disturbed. At Miss Mahony's
two timber sheds were knocked down, one of them being iron roofed. The gate piers at Berry Hill were tumbled
down, and the thatch removed from a labourer's cottage, besides other property damaged. No clue has been
obtained to the perpetrators up to the present, but the police are making active inquiries. |