(From O’Sullevan’s Hist. Cath., p. 294)
THE murder of Sir Patrick Purcell, knight, worn out by old age, is well known.
In his eightieth year, he was accused of having entertained at supper, in Elizabeth’s time, a Catholic knight who was fighting on the side of the Catholics.
He was hanged, and cut down when only half dead, and his bowels were cast into the fire, at Fethard in the year 1612.
He was known to be a patron and protector of priests.
