On Sunday May 11th 2008, the parish of Loughmore commemorated the wrongful hanging of the Cormack Brothers exactly 150 years to the date earlier in 1858, and the subsequent removal of their remains from Nenagh jail to be re-interred in a specially resurrected mausoleum in Loughmore Cemetery in 1910, by hosting a pageant in their honour. The pageant organised by a local committee, chaired by Mr. Seanie Gleeson, attracted crowds of over 3,000 to the small village to witness the parade, latin funeral mass and re-enactment. 
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My Great grandfather Thomas Long from Cloughjordan told his children that he was the actual murderer of John Ellis (actually) he just said he killed a land agent that someone else was hung for, He was in his late teens at the time and shortly after moved to Troy, Ny where he married Ellen Burke and many kids including my grandmother
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