As a second part in the series about my Great, Great Grandfather, Thomas McNulty, I will continue revealing his participation with the criminal justice system in Ireland. My brother, Mark, remarked, "Good or bad, at least he kicked ass!" Well, not really. On March 10, 1866, while on his way back home to Callow from the town of Swinford, he was "violently" assaulted on the road by Michael Walsh and Matthew Conway. Both were later sentenced to prison in the Castlebar gaol. Later that year, he was charged with allowing 15 sheep to trespass on a neighbors property and eat cabbage. As you can imagine, any type of vegetable was needed in post-famine Ireland. In the fall of 1872, apparently Thomas McNulty and his neighbor Michael Kenny were in a feud. There were five (5) different charges of each threatening each others life and preventing each from going to his tract of land in Doonmaynor. Times were tough, back then. Tomorrow, I will relate a story about our Great Grandmother, as well. Apparently, the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.
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