Limerick
Gazette 10 December 1804
Tragic Murders
at Lisarow
On the night of Friday, the 2nd ult., a most cruel
murder and robbery was committed at Lisarow, near Ardmore, Co Waterford, on the
bodies of Darby and Daniel Hearn, farmers (father and son), by three armed men,
who broke into their house about an hour of 12 or one o’clock (many more
remaining outside) and having procured a light, they immediately commenced a
search for the above unfortunate persons, and on finding them vied with each
other who should commit the horrid deed – which they did by shooting the son
through the head, and killing him on the spot; they then fired at the father,
but only wounding him in the thigh, they compelled him to take a draft,
supposed to be poison, as he died shortly after in great agony. The villains
then robbed the house of cash and bank notes to the amount of £120 and burned promissory notes and bonds to the
amount of £350 more; after which they deliberately sat down
to the fire and smoked some tobacco, and before they departed bound the
remainder of the family, by oath, to quit the farm in three days.
