BURNING A CASTLE
IRISH IRREGULAR’S DEED. * -- ■ - UNBLUSHING AVOWAL. LONDON, June 14. Jeremiah Lee, an Irish fanner and landowner, has been awarded £9500 damages and costs against Lloyds’ underwriters upon a policy of insurance for £IO,OOO covering Ballyheigue Castle, in Kerry, which armed men hurneid down in 1921. A feature of the case was the evidence of an irregular, who admitted firing the castle. -the judge commented on the unblushing way in which this witness gloried in his action.
The jury found that the plaintiff was not bound to disclose tho fact that tho castle had boon occupied by Crown forces, or that Sinn Fein prisoners -had been interned there.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18902, 30 June 1923, Page 16
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