Neesy O'Haughan

Irish outlaw
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroIrish outlaw
PlacesIreland
wasOutlaw
Work fieldCrime
Gender
Male
Birth1 January 1691, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Death1 January 1720 (aged 29 years)
The details

Biography


Naoise O'Haughan (Irish: Naoise Ó hEocháin,), also known as Neesy, Ness and Nessie (1691–1720) was a highwayman in County Antrim, Ireland in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

The wild rolling hills of Antrim - Divis and Black Mountain - provided an ideal environment for O'Haughan. He is said to have hidden in caves at the Hatchet Field on the Black Mountain West of Belfast, before he was captured and hanged at 'The Three Sisters', the gallows green, near Carrickfergus Castle in 1720.

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