OFFALY HERITAGE JOURNAL

Volumes 1-9

2003 – 16

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Offaly Heritage 1, 2003

Introduction Stephen McNeill Editor’s Note Rory Masterson Nollaig Ó Muraíle, ‘Uí Fhailghe, Uibh Fhailí, etc.: The Name of Offaly’, pp 9-13. Rolf Loeber, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber and Matthew Stout, ‘The Rare Survival of a Defensive Mud Enclosure at Castletown Clonyn Rahyn (Co. Offaly)’, pp 12-21. Deirdre K. McAlister, ‘Survey of Drumcullen (St. Barrind’s) Church, Drumcullen’, pp 22-30. M.J. Fox &Michael Colm Fox, ‘The Origins and Early History of the Sionnach Foxes’, pp 31-37. Rory Masterson, ‘St. Colmán and the EarlyMedieval Monastery of Lynally (c.600-1100)’, pp 38-50. Laurence Walsh, ‘Ballyskenagh’, pp 51-58. Joe Devine, ‘Armstrongs. From the Debatable Lands of Scotland to the 1798 Rising in Ireland’, pp 59-66. Mairéad Evans, “JKL” James Doyle, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin (1786-1834)’, pp 67-76. Jennifer Harrison, ‘Without Favour or Affection: transported Irish Constables, 1823-4’, pp 77-95. Tim P. O’Neill, ‘Cholera in Offaly in the 1830s’, pp 96-107. Michael Byrne, ‘The County Courthouse at and the making of a ’, pp 108-125. Stephen McNeill, ‘The Part of Curraghbee’, pp 126-134. Peter Burke, ‘Train Crash at Brosna in 1910’, pp 135-145. 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 Adrian Corcoran, ‘The Nature of Anglo-Norman Settlement in Western Offaly’, pp 9-23. Dr. Rory Anderson, ‘The Cistercian Abbey of 1150-1540’, pp 24-30. Dr. M. J. Fox & Michael Colm Fox, ‘The Sionnach Foxes during the Middle Ages 1170 – 1556’, pp 31-39. Theresa Abbott, ‘Quakerism in the Area 1673 –1831’, pp 40-54. Joe Devine, ‘Mulock Family History’ pp 57-64, John Kearney, ‘Social Conditions in 1800 –1850’, pp 65-73. Ger Murphy, ‘A Case Study of a Midland Settlement in West Offaly, Clonona Village circa 1800 –1860’, pp 74-89. Michael Byrne, ‘Tullabeg, Rahan Tullamore 1818-1991’, 90-111. Oliver Dunne, ‘Population change at Croghan 1841-1911’, pp 112-129. Peter Burke, ‘The Opening of the Railway to Tullamore –1854’, pp 130-136 Marian Keaney, ‘The Exquisite Life of Charles Brinsley Marlay’, pp 137-148. Margaret Hogan, ‘Suffragettes in the Midlands and in Tullamore Jail’, pp 149-155. Margaret White, ‘The Clonbrock Murder’, pp 156-163. Richard Egan B.A. H Dip Ed M.A., ‘Kevin O’Higgins, the Tullamore Realm Trial and the Ideas of a Complex Revolutionary’, pp 164-172. 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 Dr. M.J. Fox, ‘A Welsh Presence in early Uíbh Fháilí’, pp 5-9. Elaine Cullinane, ‘The Seventeenth Century : A study of the map of ’, pp 10-17. Ronald Cox, ‘John Killaly (1766-1832) Irish Canal Engineer’, pp 18-41. John Kearney, ‘A brief history of Daingean Reformatory and its former uses’, pp 42-61. Marian Keaney, ‘A memoir of Captain Kenneth Howard, R.A.’, pp 62-63 Marian Keaney, ‘Memoir of a Royal Artillery Officer by Captain Kenneth Howard, R.A.’, Edited by pp 64-71. Adrian P. Reynolds, ‘The man who walked off the map – Lt. Col. Charles K. Howard-Bury (1183-1963)’, pp 72-97. Frank Fennell, ‘Jack Williams: Son of Tullamore, an Irish Artillery Officer in the First World War’, pp 98-118. Michael Byrne, ‘The Provincial Press in the South Midlands: From Mission to Mammon 1831-2004’, pp 119-160. Stephen McNeill, ‘Decline of Non-Catholic Population of Lemonaghan’, pp 161-165 John Hume, ‘The Three R’s – One hundred years ago’, pp 166-168. Brigadier General James P. Cullen ‘The Crooked Road from Rahan to Chief Judge, U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals’, (Retired), pp 169-175. Notes & Queries. Paddy Lowry. ‘Knocknaman Poems/Songs from the Slieve Blooms’, ‘Irish words used in the area of the ’, pp 176-180. Ronnie Mathews, ‘Belgian Refugees in Portarlington 1914’, pp 181-183. Ronnie Mathews, ‘The Rev. Dudley Fletcher’s “Spot of Bother”, pp 183-184. Ronnie Mathews, ‘Further war-time news’, pp 184. Ronnie Mathews, ‘Eighteenth Century Dissenters or Unitarian at Ballybrittas’, pp 184-185. Paddy Heaney, ‘Gaelic Place Names of the Slieve Blooms’, pp 185-191 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

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 Fr. Patrick Conlan. o.f.m. ‘Franciscan connections with the diocese of Clonmacnois’, Pp 9-11 P.J. Goodepp ‘O’Dempseys in Offaly, some references in an Elizabethan document’, pp 12-20 Brendan Ryan ‘The Arma Christi’, pp 21-34 Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin ‘Some Offaly and Laois Wild Geese’, pp 35-54 Rolf Loeber and Magda Stouthamer-Loeberpp ‘Irish Subscribers to Poetry Published in Edinburgh in 1731’, pp 55-70 Tony Dawson ‘Offaly’s 1798 Rebels in Australia’, pp 71-94 Michael Byrne ‘Economic development in Offaly’s towns and villages in the eighteenth century and the Vallancey survey of 1771’, pp 95-166 Ger Murphy ‘A case study of a midland settlement in west Offaly: Clonona village circa 1800-1860’, pp 167-194 Anna White ‘The Bulfins of Derrinlough, Co. Offaly’, pp 195-201 Peter Burke ‘On To : The Extension of the Railway from Tullamore 1857-1859’, pp 202-208 Tim O’Neill, ‘A note on the Tullamore town improvements, 1860’, Pp 209-219 Paddy Heaney ‘Coolacrease – A Place with a Tragic History’, pp 220-227 John Hume ‘A Wistful Look at the Good Old Days’, pp 228-232 Ronnie Matthews ‘Some early car registration numbers’, pp 233-237 Fergal MacCabe ,’The Efficacy of Statutory Planning in the Development of Tullamore 1987-2004’, pp 238-254 John Kearney and Maureen Kincaid, ‘A list of Offaly Cemeteries and their records’, pp 255- 270 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

Offaly Heritage 5, 2007-8

Introduction Stephen McNeill Editor’s Note Rory Masterson

Heather A. King, ‘Two Early Medieval Cross slab fragments from Clonlyon, Glebe, Co. Offaly’, pp 7-13 Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin, ‘The Vocations of Lieutenant-Colonel Coghlan’s two Daughters’, pp15-44 Ciaran Joseph Reilly, ‘The Cartlands of Ballykillen and Lumville; landowners, middlemen, yeoman and magistrate’, pp 45-50 Michael Byrne, ‘The ‘Battle of Tullamore’ in 1806: The King’s German Legion Incident and the Growth of a Legend’, pp 51-71 John Kearney, ‘Offaly arms holders in 1832’, pp73-81 Brendan Ryan, ‘The Royal Irish Constabulary’, pp 83-116 Michael Byrne, ‘Judge William O’Connor Morris, 1824 – 1904; Gortnamona, Tullamore’, pp 117-146 Gerard W. Murphy, ‘Magistrates, Police & Downright Unruly, Social Relations in West Offaly: Rockite ‘Muscle for Hire’’, 1834 – 38 pp 147-172 Michael Goodbody, ‘The Goodbodys of Tullamore; a story of tea, tobacco and trade pp 173-184 Mary Pilkington, ‘The campaign for rent reductions on the Digby estate, King’s County 1879 – 1882’, pp 187-223 M.P.A. Moran, ‘Irish and Australian’, pp225-244 Joseph Reilly, ‘Edenderry and the First World War Ciaran’ pp 245-250 Philip McConway, ‘Offaly and the Civil War executions’ pp 251-274 John Hume, ‘A Hospital in Tullamore’ pp 275-282 Brendan Ryan, ‘The Poet and the Rose’ pp 283-296 A note on the Tullamore Town Improvements 1860: addendum pp 297 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 pp 2-13

Carmelita Troy and Susan Lalonde, ‘Bronze Age Bling’: Wessex gold in an Offaly burial’, pp14-24 Tom Janes, ‘Fulachtaí, Furnaces and Farmsteads: Archaeological Discoveries on the Tullamore by-pass’, pp 25-38 Rory Masterson, ‘Power, Politics and Parish Formation in the medieval cantred of Ardnurcher: 1172-1690’, pp 39-83 Bernie Moran, ‘From Lynally to Durrow...by boat? An exploration’, Pp 39-83 Alison Rosse, ‘ and the Parsons family in the first half of the seventeenth century’, pp 99-110 Brendan Ryan, ‘ From Kilcolgan Court to Ballindown; Tracing the lineage of Terence MacCoghlan of Kilcolgan Court through the Jacobite Oxburghs and Peys’, pp 111-127 Michael Byrne, ‘The Magawlys of Temora and the Banons of Broughal, County Offaly’, pp 128-177 Cathal Ó Háinle, ‘Outrage at Ballinahown, 1832’ pp 178-204 Michael Byrne, ‘The Life of a County Offaly landowner and high in 1868: being the diary of Maxwell Fox of Annaghmore House, near Tullamore’, pp 205-263 Pádraig Turley, ‘From Cluny, Saóne-et-Loire, Bourgogne to Ferbane, County Offaly’, pp 264-284 Ciarán Reilly, ‘Industrial disputes and tensions in 1930s Offaly: Senator Joseph Connolly and the closing of Alesbury’s timber factory’, pp 285-294 Michael Byrne, ‘County Offaly: The scene in 1909, 100 years ago’, pp 295-319 Peter Dunne, ‘Reminiscences of County Offaly people: on his career in the Irish Naval Service’, pp 320-331 Obituary: Daniel E.Williams pp 332-334 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

Robert Rovinsky, ‘A Ballyduff boy in the new world: my grandfather, Tom Daly’, pp 1-20 Fintan Walsh, ‘Excavation and conjecture of a late Bronze Age farmstead at Tober, county Offaly’, pp 22-45 Peter Harbison, ‘Tihilly : An exploration of the background, dating, interpretation and commentary on the Tihilly monastic site and high cross’, pp 46-69 Pádraig Ó Riain, ‘Tullamore and surrounding parishes in A Dictionary of Irish Saints’, pp 70-77 Michael Byrne, ‘The Ordnance Survey letters of King’s County: their place in the historical literature of the county’, pp 78-118 Brendan Ryan, ‘A world renowned Ferbane scientist: The Hon. Mary Ward (nee King), 1827-69’, pp 119-128 Michael Byrne, ‘The case of Alice Delin (Dillon) of : a death in gaol without due process of law’, pp 129-149 Jennifer Harrison, 'The years are passing overhead and passing dreadful quick': 150th commemorations for Erin Go Bragh arrival at Moreton Bay’, pp 150-159 Emma Burke, ‘Uncovering William Morris: Designs for , Tullamore’, pp 160-169 Ciaran Reilly, ‘The minute book of Edenderry Poor Law Union, 1895’, pp 170-188 Lorna Farrell, ‘The death of Jim Farrell: Community, society and mortality in county Offaly in the early 1900s’, pp 189-220 Stephen Callaghan, ‘The military burials at Birr: From the pyramids of Egypt to the beaches of Normandy’, pp 221-243 Fergal MacCabe, ‘The fall and hopeful rise of Tullamore town centre’, pp 244-256 Ron C. Cox, ‘James Thomas Jackson of Ballyoran, 1868-1938’, pp 258-271 Joe Deverel, ‘From Ballyduff to Langemarck and places in between: A report on research in progress on the Joughin family from Ballyduff, near Tullamore’, pp 272-276 Maurice & Jane O'Keefe, ‘Collecting oral history In county Offaly’, pp 277-282 Rosemary McCann, ‘The Nestors of Kilnagarnagh: The discovery of an ancestral family line’, pp 283-292 Book reviews pp 294-312 A review of the local newspapers, 1913 Michael Byrne, Heritage Office Report, 2010-12 Amanda Pedlow, Obituaries Joining the OHAS

Offaly Heritage 8, 2015

Editor’s Note Ciarán Reilly

Lisa Shortall, ‘The DeRenzys of Tinnycross’, pp 2-7. Robert Hartigan, ‘Good fences make good neighbours’: Fabricated crime and religious tension in pre-Famine King’s County’, pp 8-18. Caoimhe Merrick, ‘The design and management of a midlands town: The development of Edenderry, 1809-1845 and 2000-2010’, pp 18-42. Ciarán Reilly, ‘An introduction to sources for the study of landed estates in King’s County (Offaly)’ pp 43-53 Michael Goodbody, ‘Manliffe or Manly: a King’s County Quaker family at odds with its religion’, pp 54-75 Michael Byrne, ‘The Tullamore properties of the Manly family: a sidelight on the malting, brewing and distilling industries in a midlands town’, pp 76-115 Roisin Lambe, ‘The murder of William Ross Manifold, 1852’, pp 116-130 Padraig G. Lane, ‘A disaffected class: King’s County farm labourers in the early 1880s’, pp 131-138 Ruth Barton, ‘Haunted memories: Rex Ingram, Francis Hitchcock and World War On’, pp 139-144 Michael Byrne, ‘Patrick Kavanagh and his Tullamore connection: A lost genealogy’, pp 169- 189 Brendan Ryan, ‘The 1641 Depositions in King’s County’, pp 192-215 David Caldicott, ‘George Kennedy: King’s County Attorney and ‘a rare man of a different generation’, pp 216-218 Carthage Minnock, ‘Grave connection: Killafeen Cemetery and the Fetherstonhaughs’, pp 219-222 Paschal Sweeney,’ Railway Station, 1862-1963’, pp 223-225 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

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 203-226. Ciara Molloy, ‘The gallant old legion’: Cumann na mBan in county Offaly, 1915-1922’, pp 228-245. 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 247-256. James P. Cullen, ‘A retrospective military analysis of the 1916 Rising’, pp 258 -279. 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 322-326. Fergus O’Bracken, ‘Simply a Tullamore Man: A Stonemason or a British Gaol Bird, or an Offaly/Irish Rebel Leader?’, pp 327-337. Michael Byrne, ‘A Birr official [James Mahon] in : Experiences of the fighting of Easter Week, 1916’, pp 338-339. Michael Byrne,’ Henry Brenan, the King’s County Crown Solicitor, 1916-21’, pp 340-345. Michael Byrne, ‘A tale of two Kerry men drinking after hours in Hayes’ Hotel, Tullamore in 1916’, pp 346-348. Miriam Smyth, ‘The making of ‘Faithful Rising’’, pp 349-353. Michael Byrne, ‘The diary of Geraldine Fitzgerald, a Birr nurse working from Stephen’s Green during Easter Week 1916’ pp 354-360. John Joly, ‘An Offaly man based in Trinity College in 1916 and defending the Union’, pp 361-382. Extracts from the Midland Tribune Easter Supplement 1966 [Joe Doolan at Union and Man Kiernan Kenny in Distillery battle], pp 383-399 Breda Condron, ‘Mucklagh’s Seamus (Jimmy) Kelly’, pp 400-402. Breda Condron, ‘Lt. Joseph Wrafter’, pp 403-404 Section three Stephen McNeill [Obituary and photographic record], pp 406-434. Amanda Pedlow, ‘Heritage Office Review for 2015’, pp 435-444. Reviews and Notices, pp 445- 480 [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 481-483. Joining Offaly History, pp 484-487

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