OFFALY HERITAGE JOURNAL

Volumes 1–10

2003–18

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The journal of the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society

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Offaly Heritage 1, 2003

Introduction Stephen McNeill Editor’s Note Rory Masterson Uí Fhailghe, Uibh Fhailí, etc.: The Name of Offaly Nollaig Ó Muraíle, pp 9–13. The Rare Survival of a Defensive Mud Enclosure at Castletown Clonyn Rahyn (Co. Offaly) Rolf Loeber, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber and Matthew Stout, pp 12–21. Survey of Drumcullen (St. Barrind’s) Church, Drumcullen Deirdre K. McAlister, pp 22–30. The Origins and Early History of the Sionnach Foxes M.J. Fox &Michael Colm Fox, pp 31–7. St. Colmán and the EarlyMedieval Monastery of Lynally (c.600–1100) Rory Masterson, pp 38–50. Ballyskenagh Laurence Walsh, pp 51–8. Armstrongs. From the Debatable Lands of Scotland to the 1798 Rising in Ireland. Joe Devine, pp 59–66. “JKL” James Doyle, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin (1786–1834) Mairéad Evans, pp 67–76. Without Favour or Affection: transported Irish Constables, 1823–4 Jennifer Harrison, pp 77–95. Cholera in Offaly in the 1830s Tim P. O’Neill, pp 96–107. The County Courthouse at and the making of a Michael Byrne, pp 108–125. The Part of Curraghbee Stephen McNeill, pp 126–34. Train Crash at Brosna in 1910 Peter Burke, 135–45. Offaly Heritage Books for Sale. Membership of Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society, 2002. Offaly County Heritage Plan, 2002–2006 Tullamore Dew Heritage Centre Lucienne Magee.

Offaly Heritage 2, 2004

The second issue of Offaly Heritage, the Journal of the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society has just issued. The journal consists of some 200 pages of articles on the history of Offaly from the Norman period down to the twentieth century. The articles include the following:–

Introduction Stephen McNeill Editor’s Note Rory Matterson The Nature of Anglo-Norman Settlement in Western Offaly, Adrian Corcoran, pp 9–23. The Cistercian Abbey of 1150–1540 Dr. Rory Anderson, pp 24–30. The Sionnach Foxes during the Middle Ages 1170 –1556, Dr. M. J. Fox & Michael Colm Fox, pp 31–9. Quakerism in the Area 1673 –1831 Theresa Abbott, pp 40–54. Mulock Family History Joe Devine, pp 57–64, Social Conditions in 1800 –1850 John Kearney, pp 65–73. A Case Study of a Midland Settlement in West Offaly, Clonona Village circa 1800 –1860 Ger Murphy, pp 74–89. Tullabeg, Rahan Tullamore 1818–1991 Michael Byrne, 90–111. Population change at Croghan 1841–1911 Oliver Dunne, pp 112–29. The Opening of the Railway to Tullamore –1854 Peter Burke, pp 130–66. The Exquisite Life of Charles Brinsley Marlay, Marian Keaney, pp 137–48. Suffragettes in the Midlands and in Tullamore Jail, Margaret Hogan, pp 149–55. The Clonbrock Murder Margaret White, pp 156–63. Kevin O’Higgins, the Tullamore Realm Trial and the Ideas of a Complex Revolutionary Richard Egan B.A. H Dip Ed M.A., pp 164–72. Reviews Offaly Heritage Books for Sale Membership of Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society, 2003 Liam Cox, R.I.P. – An Appreciation, Vera Hughes, pp 185–7. The Visitor Centre, Tullamore Dew Heritage Centre Lucienne Magee and Alison Dillon Notes to Contributors

Offaly Heritage 3, 2005

Introduction Stephen McNeill. Editor’s Note Rory Masterson A Welsh Presence in early Uíbh Fháilí Dr. M.J. Fox, pp 5–10. The Seventeenth Century : A study of the map of Elaine Cullinane, pp 10–17. John Killaly (1766–1832) Irish Canal Engineer Ronald Cox, pp 18–41. A brief history of Daingean Reformatory and its former uses John Kearney, pp 42–61. A memoir of Captain Kenneth Howard, R.A. Marian Keaney, pp 62–63 Memoir of a Royal Artillery Officer by Captain Kenneth Howard, R.A. Edited by Marian Keaney, pp 64–71. The man who walked off the map – Lt. Col. Charles K. Howard-Bury (1183–1963) Adrian P. Reynolds, pp 72–97. Jack Williams: Son of Tullamore, an Irish Artillery Officer in the First World War. Frank Fennell, pp 98–118. The Provincial Press in the South Midlands: From Mission to Mammon 1831–2004, Michael Byrne, pp 119–60. Decline of Non-Catholic Population of Lemonaghan Stephen McNeill, pp 1615 The Three R’s – One hundred years ago John Hume, pp 166–8. The Crooked Road from Rahan to Chief Judge, U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals. Brigadier General James P. Cullen (Retired), pp 166–8. Notes & Queries. Knocknaman Paddy Lowry. Poems/Songs from the Slieve Blooms Paddy Lowry. Irish words used in the area of the Paddy Lowry, 176–8. Belgian Refugees in Portarlington 1914 Ronnie Mathews, pp 181–3. The Rev. Dudley Fletcher’s “Spot of Bother” Ronnie Mathews, pp 183–4. Further war-time news Ronnie Mathews, p. 184. Eighteenth Century Dissenters or Unitarian at Ballybrittas, Ronnie Mathews, pp, 184–5. Gaelic Place Names of the Slieve Blooms Paddy Heaney, pp 185–91 Reviews. Offaly Heritage Books for Sale. Find your place in history. Membership Lists for 2004.

Rev. Raphael Kinahan OSF Shap (Patrick) Mangan. Implementation of Offaly Heritage Plan 2002–2006 Tullamore Dew Heritage Centre.

Offaly Heritage 4, 2006

Introduction Stephen McNeill Editor’s Note Rory Matterson Address by Tom Parlon TD, Minister of State at the Department of Finance, at the launch of the interpretative boards for Monastic Sites in in Aras an Chontae, Tullamore, on Monday 18 April, 2005 Franciscan connections with the diocese of Clonmacnois Fr. Patrick Conlan. o.f.m. O’Dempseys in Offaly, some references in an Elizabethan document P.J. Goode The Arma Christi Brendan Ryan Some Offaly and Laois Wild Geese Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin Irish Subscribers to Poetry Published in Edinburgh in 1731 Rolf Loeber and Magda Stouthamer-Loeber Offaly’s 1798 Rebels in Australia Tony Dawson Economic development in Offaly’s towns and villages in the eighteenth century and the Vallancey survey of 1771 Michael Byrne A case study of a midland settlement in west Offaly: Clonona village circa 1800–1860 Ger Murphy The Bulfins of Derrinlough, Co. Offaly Anna White On To : The Extension of the Railway from Tullamore 1857–1859 Peter Burke A note on the Tullamore town improvements, 1860 Tim O’Neill. Coolacrease – A Place with a Tragic History Paddy Heaney A Wistful Look at the Good Old Days John Hume Some early car registration numbers Ronnie Matthews The Efficacy of Statutory Planning in the Development of Tullamore 1987–2004 Fergal MacCabe A list of Offaly Cemeteries and their records John Kearney and Maureen Kincaid Book Reviews Offaly Heritage Books for Sale Joining O.H.A.S Membership of OHAS 2004–2005 Obituaries 2005 Heritage Office Work Programme Amanda Pedlow Tullamore Dew Heritage Centre Report–2005

Notes to Contributors

Offaly Heritage 5, 2007–8

Introduction Stephen McNeill Editor’s Note Rory Masterson Two Early Medieval Cross slab fragments from Clonlyon, Glebe, Co. Offaly Heather A. King The Vocations of Lieutenant-Colonel Coghlan’s two Daughters Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin The Cartlands of Ballykillen and Lumville; landowners, middlemen, yeoman and magistrate Ciaran Joseph Reilly The ‘Battle of Tullamore’ in 1806: The King’s German Legion Incident and the Growth of a Legend Michael Byrne Offaly arms holders in 1832 John Kearney The Royal Irish Constabulary Brendan Ryan Judge William O’Connor Morris, 1824–1904; Gortnamona, Tullamore Michael Byrne Magistrates, Police & Downright Unruly, Social Relations in West Offaly: Rockite ‘Muscle for Hire’ 1834–38 Gerard W. Murphy The Goodbodys of Tullamore; a story of tea, tobacco and trade Michael Goodbody The campaign for rent reductions on the Digby estate, King’s County, 1879–1882 Mary Pilkington Irish and Australian M.P.A. Moran Edenderry and the First World War Ciaran Joseph Reilly Offaly and the Civil War executions Philip McConway A Hospital in Tullamore John Hume The Poet and the Rose Brendan Ryan A note on the Tullamore Town Improvements 1860: addendum Offaly Heritage Books for Sale Joining O.H.A.S. and Membership of OHAS 2005–2006 , Heritage Office Report for 2006 Amanda Pedlow Cover Photo: Joseph Byrne

Offaly Heritage 6, 2010

Preface Stephen McNeill Introduction Rory Masterson Speeches by Mr , at the launch of the Calendar of the Rosse Papers: launch of Rahan Monastic Site Conservation Plan, and at the launch of Judging Lemass

‘Bronze Age Bling’: Wessex gold in an Offaly burial Carmelita Troy and Susan Lalonde Fulachtaí, Furnaces and Farmsteads: Archaeological Discoveries on the Tullamore bypass Tom Janes Power, Politics and Parish Formation in the medieval cantred of Ardnurcher: 1172–1690 Rory Masterson From Lynally to Durrow...by boat? An exploration Bernie Moran. and the Parsons family in the first half of the seventeenth century Alison Rosse From Kilcolgan Court to Ballindown; Tracing the lineage of Terence MacCoghlan of Kilcolgan Court through the Jacobite Oxburghs and Peys Brendan Ryan The Magawlys of Temora and the Banons of Broughal, County Offaly Michael Byrne Outrage at Ballinahown, 1832 Cathal Ó Háinle The Life of a County Offaly landowner and high in 1868: being the diary of Maxwell Fox of Annaghmore House, near Tullamore Michael Byrne From Cluny, Saóne-et-Loire, Bourgogne to Ferbane, County Offaly Pádraig Turley Industrial disputes and tensions in 1930s Offaly: Senator Joseph Connolly and the closing of Alesbury’s timber factory Ciarán Reilly County Offaly: The scene in 1909, 100 years ago Michael Byrne Reminiscences of County Offaly people: Peter Dunne on his career in the Irish Naval Service Obituary: Daniel E. Williams Book Reviews Offaly Heritage Books for Sale, 2010 Joining the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society Membership of the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society, 2009-10 Offaly Heritage Office, Offaly County Council 2009 Work Programme

Offaly Heritage 7, 2013

Editor’s Note Ciarán Reilly Notes on Contributors A Ballyduff boy in the new world: my grandfather, Tom Daly, Robert Rovinsky Excavation and conjecture of a late Bronze Age farmstead at Tober, county Offaly Fintan Walsh Tihilly : An exploration of the background, dating, interpretation and commentary on the Tihilly monastic site and high cross, Peter Harbison, Tullamore and surrounding parishes in A Dictionary of Irish Saints Pádraig Ó Riain The Ordnance Survey letters of King’s County: their place in the historical literature of the county Michael Byrne A world renowned Ferbane scientist: The Hon. Mary Ward (nee King), 1827–69, Brendan Ryan The case of Alice Delin (Dillon) of : a death in gaol without due process of law, Michael Byrne 'The years are passing overhead and passing dreadful quick': 150th commemorations for Erin Go Bragh arrival at Moreton Bay Jennifer Harrison, Uncovering William Morris: Designs for , Tullamore Emma Burke, The minute book of Edenderry Poor Law Union, 1895 Ciaran Reilly, The death of Jim Farrell: Community, society and mortality in county Offaly in the early 1900s Lorna Farrell, The military burials at Birr: From the pyramids of Egypt to the beaches of Normandy Stephen Callaghan, The fall and hopeful rise of Tullamore town centre Fergal MacCabe, From Ballyduff to Langemarck and places in between: A report on research in progress on the Joughin family from Ballyduff, near Tullamore Joe Deverel Collecting oral history In county Offaly Maurice & Jane O'Keefe The Nestors of Kilnagarnagh: The discovery of an ancestral family line Rosemary McCann,

SECTION TWO - FAMILY & ORAL HISTORY

James Thomas Jackson of Ballyoran, 1868–1938 Ron C. Cox

SECTION THREE – REVIEWS & NOTICES

Book reviews A review of the local newspapers, 1913 Michael Byrne, Heritage Office Report, 2010–12 Amanda Pedlow, Obituaries Joining the OHAS List of Offaly history lectures available to the community Membership list 2011–2012

Offaly Heritage 8, 2015

Editor’s Note Ciarán Reilly Notes on Contributors

The DeRenzys of Tinnycross, Lisa Shortall, pp 2–7.

‘Good fences make good neighbours’: Fabricated crime and religious tension in pre-Famine King’s County, Robert Hartigan, pp 8–18.

The design and management of a midlands town: The development of Edenderry, 1809–1845 and 2000–2010, Caoimhe Merrick, pp 18–42.

An introduction to sources for the study of landed estates in King’s County (Offaly), Ciarán Reilly,

Manliffe or Manly: a King’s County Quaker family at odds with its religion, Michael Goodbody

The Tullamore properties of the Manly family: a sidelight on the malting, brewing and distilling industries in a midlands town, Michael Byrne

The murder of William Ross Manifold, 1852, Roisin Lambe

A disaffected class: King’s County farm labourers in the early 1880s, Padraig G. Lane

Haunted memories: Rex Ingram, Francis Hitchcock and World War On, Ruth Barton

The scene in King’s County in 1914, Michael Byrne

Patrick Kavanagh and his Tullamore connection: A lost genealogy, Una Agnew

The 1641 Depositions in King’s County, Brendan Ryan

George Kennedy: King’s County Attorney and ‘a rare man of a different generation’, David Caldicott

Grave connection: Killafeen Cemetery and the Fetherstonhaughs, Carthage Minnock

Ballycumber Railway Station, 1862–1963, Paschal Sweeney

Book reviews ...... 228 New publications and articles on Offaly History in 2013–14 ...... 232 The Tullamore D.E.W. Distillery ...... 243 Report from Offaly Heritage Officer ...... 245 2013 Offaly History Annual Report ...... 251 2014 Offaly History Annual Report ...... 261 Offaly History Constitution ...... 273 Offaly History Membership List, 2013–2014 ...... 279

Offaly History Notice ...... 281

Offaly Heritage 9 Published 9 December 2016, 500 pp, softback, €15 and hardback, €25.

Editor: Dr Ciaran Reilly

Editorial Committee: Helen Bracken, Michael Byrne, Lisa Shortall

Contents

Foreword, Helen Bracken, p. ix Editor’s Note, p. x Section One Sean McEvoy, ‘The declining fortunes, strength, and influence of the Home Rule movement in Offaly, 1910 to 1916’, pp 3-17. Michael Byrne, ‘The by-elections in King’s County/Offaly in 1914 and 1918’, pp 19–87. Paul Hughes, ‘Prelude to rebellion: the 1916 “Tullamore affray” in context’, pp 89–109. Brian Pey, ‘Eamonn Bulfin of Derrinlough’, pp 111–143. Michael Byrne, ‘1916 and the politics of the Midland Tribune and Tullamore and King’s County Independent’, pp 144–166. Padraig Heavin, ‘West Offaly and the 1916 Rising’ pp 168–178.

Sean McEvoy, ‘The GAA and Nationalism in Offaly 1884–1918’, pp 180–201. Michael Byrne, ‘The Tullamore malt workers strike fiasco of 1916 and the malting industry in Tullamore’ pp 203–26. Ciara Molloy, ‘The gallant old legion’: Cumann na mBan in county Offaly, 1915–1922’, pp 228–45. Michael Byrne, ‘Another Decade of Centenaries, 1913–23: The Biddulphs, the Great War and the decline of the big house in King’s County/Offaly’, pp 247– 56. James P. Cullen, ‘A retrospective military analysis of the 1916 Rising’, pp 258 –79. Lisa Shortall, ‘Sources for the study of the revolutionary period in King’s County/ Offaly (1912–1923)’, pp 281–319. Section two Fergal MacCabe, ‘A Mere Boy’ [Thomas Holohan and his death at Gallipoli], pp 322–26. Fergus O’Bracken, ‘Simply a Tullamore Man: A Stonemason or a British Gaol Bird, or an Offaly/Irish Rebel Leader?, pp 327–37. Michael Byrne, ‘A Birr official [James Mahon] in : Experiences of the fighting of Easter Week, 1916’, pp 338–39. Michael Byrne,’ Henry Brenan, the King’s County Crown Solicitor, 1916–21’, pp 340–45. Michael Byrne, ‘A tale of two Kerry men drinking after hours in Hayes’ Hotel, Tullamore in 1916’, pp 346–48. Miriam Smyth, ‘The making of ‘Faithful Rising’’, pp 349–53. Michael Byrne, ‘The diary of Geraldine Fitzgerald, a Birr nurse working from Stephen’s Green during Easter Week 1916’ pp 354–60. John Joly, ‘An Offaly man based in Trinity College in 1916 and defending the Union’, pp 361–82. Extracts from the Midland Tribune Easter Supplement 1966 [Joe Doolan at Union and Man Kiernan Kenny in Distillery battle], pp 383–99 Breda Condron, ‘Mucklagh’s Seamus (Jimmy) Kelly’, pp 400–02. Breda Condron, ‘Lt. Joseph Wrafter’, pp 403–5. Section three Stephen McNeill [Obituary and photographic record], pp 406–34. Amanda Pedlow, ‘Heritage Office Review for 2015’, pp 435–44. Reviews and Notices, pp 445–80 [Archives Report; Museum objects Cataloguing Project 2015; Offaly History Trip to Germany, April 2015; Offaly History Library; Remembering Deceased Friends; New Publications in 2015; MacCabe drawings presented to the Society; Offaly History Annual Report 2015; Book Reviews and notices for 2015.] Members of the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society, 2015, pp 481–3. Joining Offaly History, pp 484–7.

Offaly Heritage 10

Published 24 September 2018, 464 pp, softback, €15.

Editor: Dr Ciaran Reilly

Editorial Committee: Michael Byrne and Lisa Shortall

Contents of Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 462, softback €15. Foreword, Helen Bracken, President Offaly History, ix. Editor’s Note, Ciarán Reilly, x Note on Contributors, xi

Section One Lorcan Harney, ‘Early Medieval ‘Monastic Towns’ or ‘Forts and Fields’: Reflections on the urban character of Viking Age ecclesiastical settlements in light of the emerging archaeological evidence’, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 2–20.

Muiris O’Sullivan, Michael ‘Bodhi’ Rogers, Denis Shine and Stephen Mandal, ‘Seir Kieran: Place, pilgrimage, and tradition in the monastic midlands’, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 21– 42.

Diarmuid Wheeler, ‘Good borderers or mean men advanced by service to great wealth? An analysis of two martial men in Elizabethan Offaly c. 1558–1582’, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 43–52.

Michael Byrne, Michael Molloy, the founder of the Tullamore Distillery, 1777–1846, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 53–84.

Michael Byrne, ‘Rahan Parish, county Offaly: The O’Brien-Sherlock estate and the founding of the Presentation Convent’, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 85–133.

Lisa Shortall, ‘Instances of death in infancy and childhood in the inquest casebooks of James Dillon, King’s County Coroner, 1836–1859’, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 134–67.

Tim P. O’Neill, ‘The Crown lands at Kinnitty’, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 168–84. Brendan Ryan, ‘The Workhouses of Ireland and their manifestation in King’s County’, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 185–228.

Jennifer Harrison, ‘ “One of the most picturesque of the early priests”: Father Patrick Dunne in Eastern Australia’ in Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 239–73.

Steven Egan, ‘Just another cog in the Revolution machine? .An Examination of the Dáil Éireann Courts of County Offaly, 1920–1922’, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 239–73.

John Gibbons, ‘Rural Electrification and the arrival of the “Electric” in county Offaly’, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 274–86.

Section Two Joachim Fischer, ‘Georg Heinrich Bacmeister (1807–1890): A forgotten son of Tullamore’, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 288–91.

Redmond O’Regan, ‘Denis Joseph O’Regan (1874–1941)’, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 292 –96. Rosemary Raughter, ‘Letters to Parsonstown, 1898–1901’, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 297–302.

Pádraig Turley, ‘Offaly’s Queen of Speedway: The career of Birr’s Fay Taylour’, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 303–28.

Section Three Book Reviews, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 330–44.

Michael Byrne, ‘Writings on Offaly history, 2016’, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 345–50.

Michael Byrne, ‘Writings on Offaly history, 2017’, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 351–55.

Launch of Offaly Heritage 9 and Tullamore in 1916, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 356–58.

Section Four Obituaries, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 360–81.

Amanda Pedlow, Report from Offaly County Council Heritage Office for 2016 and 2017, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 382–93.

Conferring of Honorary Life Membership on Fergal MacCabe, Celestine McNeill and Brendan Ryan, 7 December 2017, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 394–97.

Annual report on Offaly History for 2016, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 398–408.

Annual report on Offaly History for 2016, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 408–26. List of Members of Offaly History, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 427–8.

Gallery of photographs of events 2016 and 2017, Offaly Heritage 10 (2018), pp 429–51.

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