Anthony Daly was a meber of the Buachailli Bana who later became known as the Ribbon Men. Owing to the huge increase in Ireland's population in the early nineteenth century, there was a great competition among tenants for available land. Many landlords could therefore charge high rents and evict tenanats as they knew that others were crying out for land. Tenants felt very frustrated by all these problems and some decided to take the law into their own hands. They formed secret societies. Members of these socities attacked landlords, damaged their property and mained their cattle. They also destroyed buildings and crops of those farmers renting the land of evicted tenants. They always carried out their activities at night. The most famous of these societies was the Buachailli Bana.

Daly was brought to Galway jail and put on trial. The judge Burke, who then owned St.Clearans ruled against Daly and sentenced him to hang. On the 8th o f April 1820, Daly was brought out from Galway on a horse and cart sitting on his own coffin to Seefinn Hill. In the past the monument erected to commerorate the hanging of Anthony Daly fell and broke in a thunder storm. Anew monumnet is in it's place now.