Anna Mór Ní Chonghaile

Anna Mór Ní Chonghaile, aka Big Anna Conneelly, Irish criminal and murderer, fl. c. 1820s/1830s.

Ní Chonghaile lived with her sister and brothers at Teach Leath Bhealaigh near Derrycunlagh, County Galway. The family are "said to have committed many murders at some period before the Famine". Their names are given as Kathsha (her sister) and her brothers Columb and Breen Dharag ("Red Brian"). The family were criminal associates of Liam Dearg Ó Mainnín, robbing and/or murdering passers-by with him. They were said to have disposed of the corpses in the lake or about their house. Ó Mainnín was murdered by a fellow-thief, Sean na gCannai Ó Labhraí, and at some point afterwards Ní Chonghaile and her siblings were arrested and charged. The siblings' ultimate fate is unknown.

Sources

Listening to the Wind (2008) by Tim Robinson, pp. 42–46; ISBN 978-1-84488-065-2

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