In the early 1950s one of Liam Lynch’s biographers, Florence O’Donoghue, advertised in various Irish Newspapers asking for people’s memories of Liam Lynch.
One of the people who corresponded with Florence was Larry Clancy of Drangan. Clancy was also the officer in charge of the column that shot Lynch.
On the 18th of March 1952, Clancy sent a set of typed pages to O’Donoghue describing what occurred on 10th April 1923. In a handwritten post-script at the end of the typed pages, Clancy wrote that he was in hospital in Cashel and in an adjoining bed there was a man named Maher from Goatenbridge. Clancy asked Maher if he remembered the day Lynch was shot. Maher told he did as Lynch’s group was in his pub till midnight on the night before (8th).
Maher was also the publican that plied Captain Taylor with drink to slow him down before he went up the Knockmealdowns at Goatenbridge on the 10th and because of this, it was Lt. Clancy that led the column up the mountain.
Maher was also brother-in-law to the local Republican commander Sean Prendergast.
