Ballycroy and Beyond

Index

Locators in ‘bold’ denotes pictures; locators Ambrose (Dr), 136 with ‘t’ denotes tables. Ambrose, Henry (Tommy), 46 Amiens, The Treaty of, 25 A Pretty Peeler’s Portrait,350 An Gorta Beag, 1879, 585 Abbey of Staad, 564, 564 analysis of population Ballycroy, 245 Abbeyleix House, Princess Margaret, 105 Anderson, Maggie, 546 Abhorrence, assassination attempt Oram, Anglican Achill Mission, 460 388 Anglican Church of , 8, 198 Achill Church Mission, 167 Anglican Established Church, 168 Achill converts, 181 tithes to, 163-164 Achill Herald, report on religious violence, Anglican faith, conversion to, 178 198, 540 Anglo Irish, sub-culture, 5 , 39 Annagh (island), 135-136, 466 Achill Mission, 228 “Annals of Lough Ce, The,” 573 Trustees of, 134 Annseley, Lady Catherine 153 “Achill Herald and Western Annual visit landlord – letter Irish Times, Witness, The”, 174 319 Achill Mission estate, 134 anti-rent meetings, 471 Achill Missionary Herald, 170, 231 at , 584 front cover of, 176 Antwerp, holiday Caroline Clive, 14 Achill Petty Sessions, 496 Aranda, Martin de, 563-564 Achill scene, 180 Archer, Honourable Harriet, 8 Achill storm/drownings (Nicholson), 215 Ardilaun (Lord), 237 Act for the Settlement of , 466 “Armada in Ireland, The” (Fallon), 560 Act of Union, 169 Armada ships driven on Irish coast, active agitation, on Clive estates, 128 556 -575 Adams, Anne, and Thomas Joyce marriage, Armada ships, servants and , 549 184 Armada, attacked by fire-ships, 553 Adams, Dr Neason, 167, 173, 175 Armada, escape of battered fleet, 553 Adderley (District Inspector), 493 Armada, planned return route, 555 Additional Curates’ Fund Society, 232-233 Armstrong’s Hotel, 69 Advance party (15) landed at Fahy Castle, Articles of Kilkenny, 467 572 Arrest of John Conway (Threat Notice), Advance party Spaniards, abandoned, 572 479 Agitation against Clive landlords, 128, 488 Arrest of Pat Mulhern (Threat Notice) 479 Agricultural Association of Mayo, 69, 70 Arrival of The Rata in Tullaghan Bay, 570 Airey Commission, 42 Assault on His Reverence’s Cow, 333 Albert (Prince), 41 Ashbourne Act, 131 Amber, John Felton, 77

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Ashworth, John Hervey, 216-222, 248, 544 non-natives into, 464 “The Saxon in Ireland .in Ireland,” 1, 248 population of, 245-246 views of Ballycroy, 392-400 poverty in, 243 Associated Cesspayers, 374, 376 reasons for distress in, 260-263 Avaneini, Giovanni, 572 reasons for resettlement to, 466 sketches famine in,243 Back, Hackley, 41 sporting events in, 401-417 Bailiffs, armed (sent out), 376 story of the major’s visit, 390-392 Balfour, Alice, 78 Title to Sir Neal O’Donel,,468 Balfour, Arthur James, 78, 136 typical dwelling ,159 Balfour, William, 59 visitors’ views of, 389-400 Balla, 107, 108 “Ballycroy Bay & Mountains from Green Ballaveeney Bridge Cess Payers, 165 Hill,” 32 Ballina, 173 Ballycroy cesspayers, 163, 373-374 Ballina Crown Court, 132, 134 Ballycroy estate, 50 prosecution of rent defaulters, 132-134 break-down of, 85 Ballina Quarter Sessions, 109-111, 122, and the Clives, 84 137, 271 financial situation of, 84, 130-131 , evictions from, 502 Indenture of, 85 Ballinrobe Petty Sessions, 236 redistribution of, 146 Balliol, 43 sale of, 58 Ballycroy, 2, 19 Ballycroy lands, the (described) Lewis 1838, 389 government ownership of, 492-493 acquisition of land by Birch, 469 sale of, 52 acquisition of land by Clive brothers, 468 Ballycroy peasant girl, 81 area, division of, 463 Ballycroy Petty Sessions, and the Athletic sports, 401 Clagganmountain shooting, 588 Cess payers oppose Little claim,374 Ballycroy venture, Birch brothers and, 62- Committee for relief set up ,261 66 couple, “unmarried” by , 231 Bangor Trail/Bridal Road, 390 Cricket Club,410 Bangor-, Rev P O’Reilly, 427 description of, 463, 467, 574 Barkham (Berkshire), 27 early habitation, 463 Barrett, Anthony, evidence of, 384 efforts to alleviate distress in, 261-164 Barrett, Thomas, murder of, 486 estates purchased by CDB,492 Barri, Geraldus de, 419, 555 hardships in, 243 Barron, Lord Chief, 377 history of, 463-464 Barry (Mr), and Paddy Dorant court case, in the twentieth century, 268-269 112 land transaction in, 468-469 Barry (Mr), and Paddy Dorant court case, landlord / tenant relationship, 491 110-111 literacy in, 583 Barry, E., 135, 136 migration to, 464-465 Basketmaker and the barefoot girl, the, 67

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Beacon Tower on the Rock, The, 85 treatment of Spanish prisoners and, 560, Beaconsfield (Lord), 33 570 “Bealach Gorough,” 390 Bingham, George, 570 Bealacragher Brae, 80 Bingham’s Connaught, 570 Becker, Bernard H, “Disturbed Ireland,” Birch, Amy, 63 479-484, 542 Birch, Emmeline, 63 Becker’s Account Newfield meeting, 479 Birch, George Wyrley (son), death of, 63 Becker, Linda E, 31, 32 Birch, Henrietta, 63 begging box, the, 178 Birch, Henry William, 1, 62, 63, 436, 512 Bellaveeny Lodge, 107, 138 leasing of Homefarm, 74 arson and, 58 Birch, Lincoln, 63 Bellingham, Sir Allan, 337 Birch, Muriel, 63 Bellingham, Sir Alan E, purchase of land, Birch, Rebecca Katherine (nee Kyle), 63 469 Birch, Sybil, 63 Bellingham estate, 387, 490 Birch, Thomas Jacob, 1, 62, 63-64, 65 Bellinghams, the, 79 death certificate of, 73 Bellinghan estate, compulsory purchase of, death of, 71-72 492 Homefarm lease and, 74, 107 , description of, 254 leasing of Homefarm, 68 Belmullet, Davies, 479 and relationship with George Clive, Belmullet, Heraty, 479 63-64 Betharo, Sir W. 158, curious box response to death of, 318 Berry, Thomas, 128 The Rock House and, 67 and Paddy Dorant court case, 112 tablet in memory of, 72 Betjeman, John, 6 Birch, William John, 1, 107 Beytagh (QC), 377 land acquisition, Ballycroy, 469 Billington (Mr), 376 sale of land and, 2-3, 469 Billington, Benjamin, 272, 277 Birch, Wyrley Edwin George, 63 Billington, Thomas, 270 Birch, Wyrley (father), 1, 62 as respondent vs Catherine Cafferky, death of, 63 271-274 Birch, Wyrley (grandson), 63 Billington, Thomas - evidence of 271 Birch brothers, Ballycroy venture and, 62- Billington farmyard site, 271 66 Bingham, aware of presence of Rata, 574 Birch lease, 35 Bingham (Major), 390 Birrell (Mr), 130 Bingham, Arthur Shane, 487 Bishop of Down and Connor, 558 Bingham, Francis, 570 Black Horse and George, 111 Bingham, Sherriff George, 561 Blacksod Bay, 574 Bingham, Sir Richard, 556, 559-560, 569, Blake, Anthony Richard, 418 573 Blake, James, 574 and The Rata, 574 Blake, Richard Anthony, writings of, 418 and Sir John Perrot, 560 Bloody Mary, 555

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Bloody Mary’s phantom pregnancies , 569 Browne, Peter D, 512 Bloomfield, Sir Reginald Theodore, 63 Buchan, Jane, 104 Blosse, Sir Robert L, 512 Buckley, Ansty, 496 bodies, digging up of Fahy, Claggan, 248 Buckley, Anthony, 496 Board of Trade, 136, 137 Bueno, Don Alonso Guzman el, 551 Boheens, 154 Bull’s Mouth, 59-60 Boland, Father Patrick P (PP), 261, 439, Burial of Maurice Fitzgerald at sea, 570 440 Burke, Thomas Henry, 472, 476, 542 letter to The Irish Times, 261-263 Burke, William (of Ardnaree), 561 Boland, Father – long rambling letter, 261 Burke family, 82-84 Boland, Rev. Mr, 478 Busby, Henry Jeffrey, 469 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 25 Busby estate, 388 Boncompagne, Giacomo, 569 Bushby, H.N.B. (Mr), 121 “Book 1 Baptisms Marriages Burials,” 184 Bushby estate, compulsory purchase of, 492 booley (summer hut), 161 Butler, Hon. William – invite to Belmullet, Bourke, (Constable), and the 254 Clagganmountain shooting, 581 Butt (QC), 377, 378, 385 Bourke, F. (coroner), 512, 513 Buxton, Francis, 85 Bourke, Father Ulick, 471 marriage negotiations for Madelaine Bourke, Patrick, testimony to Lawrence, 53-55 Clagganmountain shooting, the, 580 Buxton, Madeline Lawrence, 53 Bourke, R. P., 272 death of, 55 Bourke, W.J., 272 Buxton, Thomas Foxwell, 167 Bourke’s (of Mayo), 560 Byrte, John, 575 Bowen , Elizabeth, 5 Brabazons, the, 79 Cafferkey, John, teacher Drumgallagh, 420 Bradley, Margaret, 493 Cafferkey, Neil, 119 Bradley, Mary, 133 Cafferkey families, 65 Brasenose College, Oxford, 8, 63, 72 Cafferkeys, the, 464 Brazen Nose College Oxford. see Brasenose Cafferky, Catherine, 270 College, Oxford breach of contract and, 271-277 Breaking-in on the Farm, The, 140, 141 Cafferky, Catherine – appeal dismissed 277 Brehon Law, 464, 559 Cafferky, John, 270, 276, 278 “Bridal Road,” 390 Cafferky, Mary, 284 Brigade Major, trip 1799 described, 390 Cafferky, Michael, 280 Brought Up and Brought Out (Clive), 6 Cafferky, Michael, assault on Malley, 364 Brown, Alison, 505 Cafferky, Owen, evidence of, 376 Brown, Howe Peter, 501 Cafferky, Pat (mason), 121 Brown, John (the Marquess of Sligo), 501 Cafferky, Patrick, assaulted by teachers, Browne, George John, 501-502 278, 283 Browne, Lord John, 69, 512 Cain, John, 545 Browne, Mr D, 70 Caine, Philip, 119, 121

XIX Ballycroy and Beyond

Calhoun, William, 63 in England, 555 Callaghan, Constable P, 102 Irish migration and, 456 Calvey, Thomas, and General Clive, 137 resurgence of, 169-170 Calvey’s Brae, 140 Catholics versus Protestants, 538-539. see Cambridge, Duke of, 42 also Protestants Cambridge, Marchioness of, 86 cattle, driving off, 140 “Cambridge History of English Literature” Cavendish, 476 (Saintsbury), 14 Ceide Fields, 463 Cameron (Dr), 586 Celtic Tiger era, 50, 269 Campbell, Catherine (Kitty), 496 slump of, 459 Campbell, Patrick, 119, 121 Census 1813-1911,244 Canadian High Commission, 14 Cessford, Joanna, 505 Cannes, Caroline Clive stroke at 23 marriage of, 545 Canning, Michael, 71 Ceullar, Captain Don Francisco de, 562- capacity of people to accept tragedy, 392 569 Carey, Martin, 540, 541 description of Lough Melvin, 566 Carleton (QC), 377 description of women of Lough Melvin, Carlton (Mr), 377, 384 566-567 Carlow Scots Church graveyard, 104 journey to Scotland, 565-566, 568-569 Carr (Sub-Inspector), 537 life on Lough Melvin, 566 Carr, Thomas P., 61-62 and the Spanish Armada, 554 Carroll (Father), 495 Cesspool, disgusting, creation of, 389 Carter, Henry T. Shaen, land ownership in Chantry, the, 40 Ballycroy, 469 Charlton (Mr), 382 Carter’s case, 487 Chartists, the, 31 Circuit Court, 62 Chartists Charter, 31 Castlebar Crown Court, 227, 364, 371, Christian conversions, in Africa and Asia, 377, 387 242 Castlebar Settlement, 236 Christian women, 52 Castlehill church, built 1850, 232 Christies, and sale of Clive’s assets, 51-52 Castlehill churchyard, 74, 100 Chrystal, John, Bailiff, 374, 376 Castlehill, new Church, congregation at, evidence of, 376 167 church notice (), 179 , attitude to education, Church Door Notice, Arrests, 479 432, 440 , 127, 167, 178, 184, 463 Catholic emancipation, 6 Castlehill, 50 Catholic hierarchy unconvinced, 418 Church of the Holy Trinity, 232 Catholic priesthood, restriction of, 168-169 Home Mission, 173 Catholic society, 170 church records, 184 Catholicism Civil War, 62, 146, 457 attacks on, 539 civil/public service workers, and the Irish effect on Ireland, 456-459 language, 458

XX Index

Claggan, 66 children of, 40-45 Claggan Cafferky, 464 law case over Ballycroy estate, 110 Claggan O’Donnell, 166, 464 note on property distribution, 38-39 Claggan O’Donnell Plantation, 58 will of, 37-38 Clagganmountain, 61 Clive, Anna Elizabeth (nee Spofforth ), 44 shooting at, 264, 388, 576-590 Clive, Anne Anysbella. see Clive, Ann shooting at, cause of, 582-583 Anysbella shooting at, report of RM Major AG Clive, Anne Sybella, 106 Wyse, 587 Clive, Archer, 2, 7, 8, 9-10, 11, 39 site of shooting, 577 on Colonel Clive’s death, 16-18 , ship wreck on, 560-561 death of, 24 Clarke (Head Constable), 386 and the death of his wife, 23-24 evidence of, 380-381 diary of, 11-14 Class of 1870 (Drumgallagh), the, 319 on father’s death, 18-19 Cleary (Junior), James, 261 land acquisition, Ballycroy, 468 Cleary, Anthony, wounded, 377 and the Louth estate, 19-23 evidence of, 380 Clive, Archer, wrote in Diary, 436 Cleary, Constantine, 379-380 Clive, Archer Anthony, 45 Cleary, Denis, 121 Clive, Archer F.L, wedding of, 86, 87 Cleary, Dr, 119 Clive, Archer Francis Lawrence, 85 Cleary, Edward possession of Caah/Cohil, Clive, Brigadier Archer Francis Lawrence, 158 56, 56, 57 Cleary, James, 79, 119, 121, 261 Clive, Captain Ned, 86 charitable efforts of, 264 Clive, Captain Percy A., 119, 492 Cleary, John F (Dr), 99, 447-448 evictions and, 121 Cleary, Margaret, indecent assault charge, Clive, Caroline, 11-14, 16-19, 19. see also 344 Meysey-Wigley, Caroline Cleary, Martin death of, 23 evidence of, 378, 379 infantile paralysis, 9 murder of, 377 Clive, Caroline (nee Packenham), 5 Cleary, Michael, assault on Carolan, 367 Clive, Cecily, and Kitty Clive, 141 Cleary, Michael, 119, 121 Clive, Charles, 64 Cleary family, 264 Clive, Charles Farquhar, 27, 39, 44, 44 Clifford, Colonel Henry Morgan, 27 Clive, Charles Meysey Bolton, 14 Clive, Alice, 14, 15-16 Clive, Col GH Windsor, and the Drumslide Clive, Alice Mary, 14 school, 439 Clive, Ann Anysbella, 16, 38, 95, 429, 492 Clive, Colonel Edward, 13 and prosecution of tenants for wrack death of, 16-18 cutting, 135-136 police protection of, 491 and Stephen Farr Prince, 95 response to EJ Corrigan letter, 488-490 Clive, Ann Sybella, 27, 30, 33, 34, 35, 51 Clive, Edward and Archer’s death, 43-44 death of, 30

XXI Ballycroy and Beyond as a French detainee, 25 children of, 40-45 Clive, Edward Archer Bolton (Ned), 46 death of, 27 death of, 85 and the Drumslide school, 438, 440 son of Lilla and Edward Henry, 46 education of, 26 transfer of Ballycroy properties to, 85 employees of, 68 Clive, Edward Bolton (father), 7-8, 7 health issues of, 30 death of, 18 and the Homefarm, 74-75 Clive, Edward George (Teddy), name Homefarm lease and, 68 change and, 14 land acquisition, Ballycroy, 468-469 Clive, Edward Henry, 34, 35, 38, 41, 45, police protection of, 491 46, 52 political appointments and, 29 attitude to tenants, 62 politics and, 31-34 death of, 51 and relationship with Thomas Jacob Birch, election of as MP, 31 63-64 and family’s debts, 50-51 response to death of, 318 letter to daughter Kitty, 61 and Rev. John Gilvarry, 429-432 marriage negotiations for George Sidney, The Rock House and, 67 53-55 sheep farm of, 26-27 military career, 42 support to Drumgallagh National School, obituary, 42-43 424-426 Clive, Edward (son), 8 views on female adult suffrage, 31-32 Clive, Edward (Teddy), 5 views on separation from Ireland, 33 Clive, General Edward Henry, 85, 106, wealth of, 34-35 108, 139, 424, 492 will of, 35, 106 attitude to tenants, 109-110 Clive, George Meysey, 14 and the Ballycroy estate, 50 Clive, George Sidney, 46, 47 Chantry,, 41-43 death of, 55-56 and John McHale controversy, 122-128, and family’s debts, 51 128 military career of, 55 law case over Ballycroy estate, 109-111 son of Lilla and Edward Henry, 46 letter about state of affairs at Ballycroy Clive, George Sydney, 106 estate, 130-131 Clive, Harriet Maria, 8 letter to daughter Kitty, 107 Clive, Henry, 27 military career of, 42 Clive, Henry Ambrose (Tommy), 49 and prosecution of tenants for wrack son of Lilla and Edward Henry, 46 cutting, 135 Clive of India, 5 v. Thomas Calvey and Pat McGuire, 137 Clive, Isobel Kathleen (Kitty), 46, 48 will of, 85 daughter of Lilla and Edward Henry, 46 Clive, George, 1, 2, 7, 24, 25-36, 65, 512 father’s letter to, 61 attitude in old age, 34 letters to her mother, 141-144 attitude to tenants, 28-29, 62 visit to Ballycroy estate, 141-144 business and, 28-29 Clive, John Edward (great grandson), 88

XXII Index death of, 89 Clive, Rock House Parties, guests at, 79 Clive, Judith Evelyn (Evie), 46, 50 Clive, Sir George Sidney, 85 daughter of Lilla and Edward Henry, 46 Clive, Sybella Farquhar, 7 Clive, Kathleen (Kitty), 39, 43, 50, 85 Clive, Sybella Harriet, 40, 78 visit to Drumgallagh National School, 424 Clive, Sybil Mary, 46, 47 Clive, Lady, 87 daughter of Lilla and Edward Henry, 46 Clive, Lady Mary Catherine, 5 Clive estates, compulsory purchase of, 492 Brought Up and Brought Out, 6 Clive family, tragedies and, 318 and the Ponds Cold Cream ad, 5-6 Clive of Scythe, 5 Clive, Laura Cecily (Cicely), 48 Clive-Ponsonby-Fane, Nicholas Brabazon, daughter of Lilla and Edward Henry, 46 85 Clive, Lieut. Col EH, 512 Clives, the Clive, Lieutenant General Sir George financial situation of, 50, 107 Sidney, 87 transportation of, 59-60 Clive, Lila (wife of General Clive), 85 Clive’s assets, fire sale of, 51-52 Clive, Lilla, 46 “Clives of Perrystone and Ballycroy, The ” wife of General Edward Henry, 46 (Clive), 25 Clive, Lt. Col. Percy Archer, 14 Clontarf rally, 457 Clive, Lt. Gen Sir G Sidney, 25 Cloona Castle farm, 502 Clive, Madeline, 51 coach and two/carriage, 58-59 Clive, Major Edmund, 10 Cody, Robert (Constable), and the Clive, Mark Anthony, 43-44, 43 Clagganmountain shooting, 589 Clive, Mary, 8, 10, 13 Coker, Robert, 570 Clive, Mary Kathleen, 44-45, 44 “Cold War” among Claggan neighbours Clive, Meysey, 14, 15 355 v. John J Daly, 584-585 Coll (Mr), 371 Clive, Meysey George Dallas, 5 Collaroy. see sheep-station Clive, Penelope, 28, 40, 54, 89 Colleran, Rev. M., 134 “The Clives of Perrystone and Ballycroy,” 25 Colony, The, 169, 173-177, 178 and John, 88 attack by the catholic clergy, 178-179 Clive, Percy Archer, 84 comments on by Mrs Hall, 198-204 Clive, Reverend Archer, 1-3, 5, 9, 10, 62, colony schools, and Martin Connelly, 181 512 “Colossal Joke, A,” General Clive’s response, and the Drumslide school, 438 123-124 journal entry of, 11-13 Columb, Captain Arthur M, 385 and a National School at Drumsleed Columbus, Christopher, 242 (Drumsleed), 428-429, 437, 438 Comerford – 600 Spaniards at Ballycruhie, purchase of land, 469 574 Clive, Richard Alfred (Dick), 46, 48 Comerford, Gerald, 574 son of Lilla and Edward Henry, 46 instructions on treatment of Spanish Clive, Richard Archer Bolton, 49 prisoners, 561 Clive, Robert (of Styche ), 8 commercial farms, 151

XXIII Ballycroy and Beyond

Como, Cardinal of, 550 478, 479 Composition of Connaught, 559-560 Conway, James (Tallagh), 121, 128 “Compossicion Booke of Conought,” 573 Conway, James (Thady), 122 Compulsory Purchase Act, 131 Conway, John, 477 Concannon (Father), 538, 541 evidence of, 374-375 Concannon, Fr, reaction to Hunter verdict, Conway, Michael, 128 536 Conway, Neal (Fahy), 121 conflict resolution, 323-336 Conway, Neil, assaulted by teachers, 278, Congested Districts Board, 14, 52, 58, 78, 290-317 84, 121, 127, 174, 468 Conway, Pak, assaulted by teachers, 427- dissolution of, 146 428 job creation and, 127-128 Conway, Pat, 119 land distribution issue and, 130, 133 Conway, Pat (Doona West), 121 purchase of land, 492 Conway, Pat (Shranamonragh), 121 Connaught, re-settlement of, 466 Conway, Rev Michael, 237-238 Connaught, territory of, 569 appeal for a school on Innisbigle, 237- Connaught Ranger, the, report on Michael 240 McManmon v Anthony Lenehan case, memorial tablet to, 238 496-499 Converts Achill, names of, 184-185 Connaught Rangers, 232 Conway, Mrs (Fahy) residence of, 396 Connaught Telegraph, The, 333, 414, 584, Conway, Patrick, scripture reader assault, 585, 586 427 anonymous letter, 487-488 Conway, Rose, 493 letter of Patrick V. McCormack, 490-491 Coolican, (Mr), 133, 137 report on murder of Barrett, 486 Cooney and Daly charged, 588 Conneelys, the, 560 Cooney, James, and the Clagganmountain Connolly, Fr. James, letters of, 179 shooting, 581, 586, 588, 589 Connelly, Martin, 178-179 Cormack, John, 121 and Rev relationship, Cormack, Patrick, 422 181-184 Corrigan, Alice (Lettra), 422 Connolly, Martin, 457 Corrigan, Bridget, 422 Conservative Party, 33 Corrigan, E. G., 479 Constable, Rev. John P, 233-234 Corrigan, E. J, 119, 122, 128 Constantine the Great, 337 Corrigan, Edward. G., 477 Conway, Alice, 493 Corrigan, Edward J, letter concerning Col Conway, Anthony, 286 Edward Clive, 488-489 Conway, Celia, 71 Cooney, James, arrested Smyth shooting, Conway, Ezra, 128 581 Conway, Father Michael (PP), and the Corrigan, John (James), 133 Drumslide school, 439 Corrigan, John T., 261 Conway, Hugh, 237 Coulter, Freda, 89 Conway, James, 119, 120, 128, 131, 477- and Helen Smith, 425

XXIV Index

Counties Louth, 11 association with agrarian crime cases, 590 County Court (Castlebar), 588 and the Clagganmountain shooting, court case, against a priest, 170-172 588-589 Court Journal, 36 Daly, Robert, 167 Court of Petty Sessions Ballycroy 1876, 323 Daly, Solr. Examined Parnell Commission, Court process Hunter v John O’Neill, 510 590 Court of Petty Sessions, 323 Daly, Thomas, owner gun found at scene, Court Tombs, 463 588 Cowan, Joseph, 33 Daly, Thomas, and the Clagganmountain Coxs, the, 79 shooting, 581, 588, 589 Crampton, JP, 374 Dandi Dinmont, 505 Crimean war, the, 42 Dane QC (Judge), 135 Crolly family Dark Lady Harbour & Boathouse, 61 burial place of, 241 “Dark Lady of Doona” (Maxwell), 573 remembrance tablet, 209 Dark Lady, the, 59-60 Cromwell, Oliver, 91, 92 Darwin, Emma, 27 Cromwellion re-settlement, 466 Darwin , Charles, 27 “Cromwellion Settlement of Ireland, The” Davidson, Sarah, 105 (Prendergast,), 465 Davidson, Walter, 26 Cross, Eric, “Tailor and Ansty, The,” 496 Davis, Dr James, 380, 512, 518 Crown Court, 1 Davison, A, 421, 427 Croy Lodge 1850 (described), 394 Davison, Alexander Clark, 77 Crystal, John, evidence of, 381 Davitt, Land League Meeting Newport, 584 Cuillaloughane, 469 Davitt, Michael, ticket-of-leave, arrested, Cullen, Archbishop Paul, 236 590 Cullum, Michael, 56 Davitt, Michael, 471-472, 472, 476, 485- Currigan (Mr), 376 486, 492 Curtis (), 8 anti-rent meeting (Swinford) and, 584 Cusack, Sir Ralph, 61 arrest of, 590 Cussen, JS, 442, 445, 447, 448-449, 453- order to arrest, 472-473 454 police report of arrest, 474 Cust, Sybil, 37 de Lesseps, Ferdinand, 27 De Vesci estate, 105 Daly and Cooney charged, 588 Deanery of Tuam, Resolutions of, 419 Daly, James J, 472, 475, 477-478, 487 Death Certificate Daly, John J of James Jolly, 104 anti-rent meeting (Swinford) and, 584 of Sophia Prince, 94 and the Clagganmountain shooting, 583, debutante, description of, 5-6 588 DeCeullar, Captain Don Francisco. see dispute over the Fahy farm, 584-586 Ceullar, Captain Don Francisco de Daly, Michael, 541 Declaration of the Council of England, 465 Daly, Patrick JB (solicitor) Deeds of Title, in Ballycroy, 467-468

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demonstrations, mass, 472 Doran, Paddy, and the Townasheffin lease Deflated Spaniards, executed captain, 554 case, 109-119 Department of Education, 457 Doran, Terance, Claim for lost sheep, 334 Derryveagh (Donegal) evictions, 236 Down and Connor, Bishop of, 558 Desmond rebellion (second), 559, 569 Down Survey, 466 Desperate Outrage, Freeman’s Journal, 576 Doyle, (Judge), 132, 134 Dhoolough Farm, 503, 504, 506 Drake, Sir Francis, 552 Difficulties of an Irish Landlord, 432 and Queen Elizabeth 1, 553 Dill (Dr), 172 Drew, Martha, 93 Dilworth, WJ, 278 Drew, Thomas, 93 Disassociation of League from outrage, 584 Drownings Achill – appeal, Dr. Adams 175 discrimination, favourable, 425 Drumgallagh Court Tomb, 463 D’Israeli, 10. see also Beaconsfield (Lord) Drumgallagh (old) school opened 1839, distress, relief of, 261 420-421 Disraeli, Prime Minister, 245 Drumgallagh National School, 50, 421, Distress in Ballycroy, 243 421-424, 427 District Court, The, in Ballycroy, 323 non-Catholic children at, 425 “Disturbed Ireland” (Becker), 479, 542 Observations of Visitors, 424 Dodman, Helen, and John Richard page of first Register, 423 Sheridan marriage, 184 roll book, 426 Dods, Alexandrina, 105 Drumgallagh school, 66, 86, 99, 108 marriage certificate of, 106 school fetes, 318-322 Dods, William Nesbet, 105 Drumslide National School, 278 Domesday Book, 4 Drumslide school, 318, 319, 435-459 Domville, Sir Compton, 147 application for, 429, 438 Doogue, Pierce (Constable), 493-494 controversy, 428 death of, 494-495 teacher problems, 439-455 Doona Castle, only significant structure, attack on, 435-436 399 dispute over, 428-435 Doona Fair Day Riot, 323 Inspector’s Register of, 438-455 Doona, evictions at, 436 and Rev. Clive Archer, 428-429 Doona, fertile soil, fields neglected, 398 and Rev. John Gilvarry, 429 Dooriel – Landholders, list of, 166 ruins of, 435 Dora (daughter of Jane Robinson), 86 “ 1916 – The French Connection” Doran, Bridget, 286 (McCormack), 456 Doran, Hugh Dublin Castle, 466 and the Clagganmountain shooting, 588, Dublin University, 508 590 Duff Gordons, Visit Archer Clive 13, letter of, 312 Duffy, James, 523 Doran, James, and the Clagganmountain Duffy, Patrick, 533, 537 shooting, 588 Duke of Cambridge, influence sought, 42 Doran, Moran case, farm sale dispute, 109 Duke of Medina Sedonia, and the Spanish

XXVI Index

Armada, 551, 554, 555 Eton College Oxford, 72 Duke of Parma, 569 evictions, 119, 236, 437, 471, 491-492, repatriated Spaniards, 569 500, 503 Duke of Wellington, Victor Waterloo, 6 from Ballinrobe parish, 502 Dunluce Castle, 566 from Ballycroy, 492 Dunquesa Santa Ana, the. see Duquesa Santa Ana, the Evictions by Marquis of Sligo, 503 Duquesa Santa Ana, the, 570, 572, 574 Fahy farm Dwyer (Father), 187 dispute over the, 584-586. see also Clagganmountain shooting, the economic war, 268 Fahy Strand, 552, 555 Edgeworth, Marie, 25 Spanish crew trip to, 570-572 education Fallon, Niall, 574 the church and, 456 “The Armada in Ireland,” 560 primary, 456 Fallon, Patt, 102 Ekins, Alexander, 172 Fallon – locals picked ship (Rata) clean, 574 Elizabeth I (queen), 550-551 family seats and the Spanish Armada, 554 Barry family, 147 victory Speech at Tilbury, 554 Birch, 63 Elizabeth II (queen), 56 Clive, 1-2 emigration, 269 O’Donel, 2 Encumbered Estates Act, 178, 468, 469, Shakenhurst, 9 502, 544 Famine – sketches Achill/Erris, 243 and indebted estates, 470-471 farmyard and house, 70 Encumbered Estates Acts, 504, 508 Farquhar, Ann Sybella, 7, 35-36 Encumbered Estates legislation, 174 before marriage, 36-37 English Anglican church, 168. see also Farquhar, Caroline Eliza, 35 Anglican Church of England Farquhar, Kathleen (Mary). see Farquhar, English Channel, 570 Mary Kathleen and the Spanish Armada, 552, 559 Farquhar, Mary Kathleen, 37, 38 English fleet trapped in Plymouth, 552 Farquhar, Sir Thomas Harvie, 35 Enriquez, Don Diego Farquhar, Sybella Harriett, 37 burial of, 565 Fatbhresail, Synod of, 463 death of, 562-563 favourable discrimination, 425 Enseleit, Gertrude, 56 Feeney, Tommaso (Bishop of ), 228 Erris, half-Barony of, 467 fence, building of, 139-140 Essays on the Human Intellect as Fender, Isabella Hope, 545 Constructed by God (Ferrol), 10 children of, 546 estate holdings, 58 death of, 548 estates, sharing out of, 492-493 Fenian movement, 236-237, 485, 504 Estates Commissioners, 121 Fenian Rising, 485 “ethnic cleansing,” 145 Fenton, J (District Inspector ), 442, 443,

XXVII Ballycroy and Beyond

452 family of, 460 Ferrol, George, 10 letters of, 460-462 Ferrol, Paul, Essays on the Human Intellect Funeral Fahy, disturbing description, 248 as Constructed by God (Ferrol), 10 “Ferry, The,” 146 Gale Days, 74, 77 Fiander, George, 23 Gallagher (Mr), 376 Finlay, Dr AM, and the Clagganmountain Gallagher, Peter, 119, 121 shooting, 581 Gallagher, Redmond, 568 Finlay, Dr. DM, 261 Gallaigh, massacre at, 557-558, 558 Finn, Anthony, 119, 121 Galloghly (Sub-Constable), evidence of, First World War, 14, 268 381 fish, poaching of, 373 Galway, blackest day in, 575 Fishery Boards, 373 Galway Bay, 560 fishing, 108-109 Galway, forgiveness of Pope, 575 Fitzgerald, Augustus Frederick (duke), 418 Gardiner-Best, 60 Fitzgerald, James Fitzmaurice, 570 Gardner, Charles Clement Best, 85 Fitzgerald, (Justice), 377 Garnerstone, visited by Archer Clive, 13 Fitzgerald, Maurice (son), 570 Garvey, John (JC), 110-111, 133, 137, 371 Fitzwilliam, Lord Deputy 4th Earl, 567 statement re General Clive and McHale’s Fitzwilliam, Sir William, 556-557, 559, 569 controversy, 126 Lord Charles Howard, 567 Gascoigne, Clifton Charles Orby, 85 search for Spaniards, 566 Gascoigne, Ernest Frederick, 85 Flacon Blanco Mediano, 560 Gate House, The, 143 fluke – “fluking”, 108 Geesala, Hennelly, 479 Ford Model T (Clive/Jolly), 127 Gentleman’s Magazine, the, 72 Foreign Missions, The, 242 George IV (king), 37 forty-shilling-men, the, 7 “Georgey Girl,” 24 Four Courts, 466 Geraghty (Father), 236 Fourth Lateran Council, Canons of the, 7 Gerald of Wales. see Barri, Geraldus de Fowley, Robert, 575 Gibbings, Reverend Richard, 508, 509, Fox, Edward, 38 510, 542 Foxe, Patrick, letter to Sir Francis Gieseler, Fraulein Augusta, 38, 39, 45 Washingham, 558 Gill, Patrick (Sub-Constable), evidence of, Foy (Constable), and the Clagganmountain 380 shooting, 589 Gillespie, Jimmy, 148 Franklin, John, 198 Gilvarry, Rev. John, 428, 436, 437, 439- Frederick, George William, and Sir Charles 440 Wood, 244 and the proposed Drumslide School, Free State government, 457-458 429, 434-435 Freehil, Maurice, curious box, 158 school boycott, 438 Freeman’s Journal, The, 62, 244, 485 Ginty, Mary, 133 Freer, Olive May Girona, the, 573

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Gladstone, William, 33, 35 guerrilla groups, 465 Glen Heather-lodge (Newport), 544 Gurteen Sedition charge, 475 Glendenning, Alexander, drivers of, 163 Gurteen Three, The, 473-474 Glendenning, George, 421, 426, 427 Guy Mannering or The Astrologer (Scott), application for school at Drumslide, 428 505 Glossillaun Island, 137 Gwynne James & Son, 34 Godley, Denis, 222, 227 ruin of house of, 227 Habeas Corpus, 559 Godley, RM, 79 Hagley Hall, 40 Gordon, Alice, 13 Hall, Mrs C S, 198-216, 205 Gordon, Georgey, 13 “Ireland, it’s Scenery and its Character,” 198 Gordon, Georgey Duff, 13 “Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger,” 205 Gordon, Lady Duff, 13 Halliday, William Patrick, 374 Golden Goose of Ruin Olden, 336 Hallows (Mr), 137 Good Old Times, 318 Hamilton, Captain HG, 26 Gore, Francis Arthur Knox, 507 Hamilton, Edward WT, 26-27 Grady, John, 513 Harvison, Alexander, murdered (), Gran Grin, the, 561 235 Grand Road -Ballycroy finished, heiress, discussion about, 52-53 390 Henan, Anthony, 438, 439 “Granny’s Letterbox,” 460 Henan, Mary, 439 Grant, Henry John, purchase of land, 469 Heneghan, James, 71 graves, reusing, 249 Henehan, A., 428 Gravleines, 562, 569, 572 Henry, Frederick, 38 Great Famine, 245 Henry II (king), 464 Great Hunger, The (Smith), 244 Henry Rev James, Catholic curate, Achill Great War, the, 86 re-conversion at Inisbiggle, 228-230 Greenway, Thomas, 38 Henry VIII (king), 168 Gregory VIII (pope), 569 Herbert, Frederick William, 38 and Sixtus (pope), 552 Herds – housing of, 162 and the Spanish Armada, 552 Hereford Journal, the, 23 Gregory XIII (Pope), 550 Hereford Quarter Sessions, 26 , the, 8, 41, 42, 56 Hereford Times, the, 31, 42, 43, 56, 66, Grey, Caroline Eliza, 41 destruction of Perrystone, 56 Grey, Earl, 41 Heron (QC), 377, 378, 382, 384, 385 Grey, Lord Deputy Arthur, 570 Herries Farquhar & Co, 36 Grey, Lt Col Hon Charles, 41, 42 Hervey, John Hervey, trip 1850 described Grey, Sir George, 30 393 Grierson (Mr), 134 Heston, John, 276 “grievances on benighted tenantry”,487 High wall (around farmhouse etc), 107 Griffith Valuation, 541 Hill (District Inspector), evidence of, 381 group by the sea (Dugort), 180 Hindley, Myra, 5

XXIX Ballycroy and Beyond

Hoey (Mrs), 85-86 540-541 Hoey, Jack, 86 dispute with turf cutters, 509 Holy Trinity Church, visitors to, 73 inquest into death of, 513-537 Home Rule, 128 jury members, 513 Home Rule movement, 485 lease Tieranaur farm, 507 Homefarm, 36, 67-68, 147, 151, 152, 436 murder of, 479, 500, 512, 544-545, 583 distribution of lands, 146, 151 murder suspects of, 513 leasing of, 68 Report of muder in National Archives, profitability of, 107 542-543 take-over of, 84 reward fund for finding killer, 512 and Thomas Jacob Birch, 65, 74 risidence of, 503 Honourable Society, The, 64 scene of murder, 502 Horan, John, 236 Hunter, James (grandson), 546, 547 house (used as church), 186 Hunter, Joanna, 507, 511, 542 Houses of Parliament, 31 life after Tieranaur, 545 Houston (Mrs), 80 quote and Simon, 508 on Hunter murder, 536 Hunter, Margaret Fender (Maggie), 546, Houston, Captain, 512 547 Houston, Matilda Charlotte, 537, 538, Hunter, Robert Fender, 546, 547 538-540 Hunter, Simon, 505, 507, 511, 542 “Twenty Years in the Wild West or, Life children of, 546 in Connaught,” 504 life after Tieranaur, 545 Houston, William, 504 migration to Canada, 546-548 Hovenden, Henry, 557 and wife Isabella, 546 Hovenden, Richard, 557 Hunter, Thomas, 512 Howard, Lord High Admiral Charles, 567 Hunter problem, the, 541 and the Spanish Armada, 552 Hynes (Mr), 371 Howard, Thomas character of, 581-582 Icoggy, Richard, 574 and the Clagganmountain shooting, 583, Immaculate Conception, doctrine of, 174 588 Indented Deed of Conveyance, 468, 469 inquest into death of, 581 Ineffabilis Deus, 174 Hughes (Father), 187-198 Infra-structural development, period of, Hughes, Frederick Bond, 7 243 Hunter, Bessie Johnson, 546, 547 Ingram, Dr. J Kells, 232 Hunter, George, 546, 547, 548 Inisbiggle (island), 237, 492 Hunter, Helen, 505, 511, 541-542 population treble, 228 life after Tieranaur, 545 reconverted by Rev. Fr. Henry,228 Hunter, Isabelle Hope, 546 school, 455 Hunter, James, 140, 501, 505-506, 509- Inishmuray island, 562 512 Inner Temple, 43 efforts to support ‘accused killers’ of, “Interest of Ireland in its Trade and Wealth,

XXX Index

The” (Lawrence), 465 report on the distress by, 266-268 intimidation, by Land League agitators, 486 reporting on the Clagganmountain IRA, the, 145 shooting, 581-582 activists, 140 “Irish Wedding,” (last Clive) 87 Ireland “IX Poems by V,” 14 population density, Disraeli, 245 English settlers, 471 James, Gwynne, 35 feared invasion of, 569-570 James I (king), 555 government of, 559-560 James VI (king), 555, 569 Ireland (19th Century) John (1st Baron Lawrence and Viceroy of Ballycroy in the, 153-162 India), 53 population census, 244-245 John, George, v. Sir Richard Annseley “Ireland, it’s Scenery and its Character” O’Donel, 468 (Hall), 198 John, William, 3 “Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger” (Hall), Jolly, Alexandrina 205 death certificate of, 150 Irish Aquarian Researches, Part 1, 158 death of, 149 Irish and Norman-Irish lords, land seizure Jolly, David, 108 of, 91 Jolly, James, 62, 104, 106-107, 108 Irish Army, the, 151 and Alexandrina Jolly, 145 Irish Church Act (1869), 184 birth certificate of, 104 Irish Confederate, 465 and the Clive/McHale controversy, 122- Irish Convention, 128 128 Irish emigration, 459 death certificate of, 150 Irish Famine, 244 death of, 149 Irish Free State, establishment of, 146 employment as land agent, 106-109, 132 Irish landlords, 464 employment at Santry House, 146, 147 Irish language in later years, 149 compulsory learning of, 457-458 law case over Ballycroy estate, 110-111 learning of, 458 management of the Homefarm, 138-139 preservation of, 458-459 marriage/marriage certificate of, 105, 106 Irish Language Dictionary, 175 motorcar purchase, 127 Irish Nationalists, 121 post-Ballycroy years, 151 Irish Republican Brotherhood, 236 prosecution of rent defaulters, 132-134 Irish State Trials, The, 7 prosecution of tenants for wrack cutting, Irish Times Land Commissioner, report on 135 Westport, 506-507 safety issues and, 139-146 Irish Times, The, 261, 460 uncertainties about employers, 140 Howard of bad character, 581 v. Thomas Calvey and Pat McGuire, 137 report of the arrest of Davitt and others, Jolly, James and Alexandrina, 109 475 Jolly, James (senior), 104 report April 1886 Ballycroy, 266 death certificate of, 105

XXXI Ballycroy and Beyond

death of, 104-105 Kincaid, Joseph, 23 Jolly, James William, 106 King v Michael Cleary, Assault, 367 Jolly, Jane (nee Buchan), 104 King v. Cath. Masterson, and others, 493 death of, 105 Kings Inns, 467 Jolly, Mary Aimee, 106, 148 Kinnagoe Bay, 556, 557 wedding of, 149 Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, 7 Jolly, Mary Buchan, 104 Knight, Patrick, engineer, 154 Jolly, Muriel A., 109 Knight, well-built houses, 158 Jolly, Sarah Davidson, 106 Knockmaoleen school, 420 Jolly, William James, 104 Knockmoyleen school closed 1846, 427 Jolly family, the, 107 Knockmoyleen Estate, 469 at Ballcroy estate, 106-108 Knockmoyleen, feeble old woman, 267 Jones, Anthony Armstrong, 105 Knockmoyleen Roll, 426 Jordan, Myles, 377 Knox, Charles Howe, 512 Joyce, Thomas, 235, 236 Kyle, Ven. Samuel Moore, 63 and Anne Adams marriage, 184 La Trinidad Valencera, 556-557 Kane, Randal, 513, 532 Lacy, Hugh de, 574 Kean, Thady, 511-512, 544-545 Lagduff Estate, 469 Keane, Marcus, evidence of, 384-385 Land Act, 127, 174 Keane, Michael, 513 rent fixing and, 586 Keane, Thaddeus, 514 Land Act (1870), 471 Keane, Thady, 427 Land Act (1903), 120, 127 Kearns, Sarah, 510, 537 Land Bill, new, 128 Keegan, Rev GS, 512 Land Commission, 146, 269, 492 Kells, Synod of, 463 land development, 68 Kelly (Father) memorial plaque, 284 land disputes, 486-487 Kelly (Major), 557 land distribution, 127-128, 146-147 Kelly, Ignatius, 222 Land League, 139, 140, 264, 590 Kelly, M. J., 135, 136-137 Ballycroy branch, 477 Kelly, Malachy, 130 campaign, 95-96, 583 Kelly, Rev. Father J., 119, 121, 422, 441 calls to be proscribed, 583 Kennedy, Charles Preston, 511 Clagganmountain shooting, 584 Kennedy, William, 177 lost of significance of, 492 Kennington Common, 31 meeting Newfield, 479 Kenny, Pat, 50 meetings, 477-479 Kilcommon, 464 origins of, 471-472 Kildare Street Society, failure of, 418 and terrorism, 485-486 Kildun and Lettra farms, land distribution land ownership, 464 and, 147 Landed Estates Court, 2, 508 Killen, James Bryce, 472 Landed Gentry, the, 5 Killybegs, 572-573 Langan, Joseph, 438

XXXII Index

Langan, Mary A., 438-439 Levantine Squadron, The, 552, 570 Lavelle, Father Patrick, Partry 235-236 Lewis, Arthur Gambell, 232 anti-Protestant views, 236-237 Lewis, Samuel assaults on others, 236 “A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland,” charges and convictions against, 236 389 Lavia, the, 562 views on Ballycroy, 389 law case over Ballycroy estate, 109-119 Lewis, Sir George Cornwall, 29-30 between General Clive and tenants, 109- Liberal Party, 33 111 Lincoln’s Inn, 26, 64 James Jolly’s evidence, 111-113 Little, Eileen Mary, 99 Lawrence, Col Richard, “The Interest of Little, Helen, ice-house of, 373-376 Ireland in its Trade and Wealth,” 465 Little, John Lowther Alexander (Jack), 99 Lear, Edward, 27 Little, Lowther Halliday, 99 Leech, Thomas, assault 170-172 Lofting, Edgar, 97 Lees, Thomas Orde, 468 “ and Australian Agency Company Leinster army, 467 Limited, The ,” 29 Leiva, Don Alonso Maartinez de, 551-552, “London and Australian Agency Company 570, 571, 572 Limited, The,” 29 death of, 573 Longford, (Lord), 5 and Sidonia de Leiva, 550 Lord Lieutenant’s Ball, 68 Leiva, Don Alonso Martinez de, 571 Lord Snowden, holiday Abbeyleix House, Leiva, Sidonia, 550 105 Lemass, PE, 278 Louden (Mr), 364 Leneghan, Joseph, evidence of, 376 Lough estate, 466 Leneghan, PJ, 119, 120, 121, 128 Lough Foyle, 557 Lenehan, Anthony, 496 Lough Melvin, 565-566 Lenehan, Bridget, 71 remains of castle at, 566 Lenehan, John, 71 Loughros More Bay, 572 Lenehan, Mary, 71 Louth, 1-2, 19, 339, 436, 469, 490 Lenehan, Thomas, 285 Louth estate, 20, 23 Lenighan, Anthony, and the Louth (Clive estate), 1 Clagganmountain shooting, 588, 589, “Love Ulster Parade,” 456 590 Low Hill, the, 58 Lennox-Boyd, Edward George. see Clive, Low House, the, 59, 62, 64, 138, 319, 320 Edward George (Teddy) takeover by Irregulars, 86 Lesseps, Ferdinand de, 27 lower classes, 53, 79, 163, 170 “Letters of Norah on her Tour through lower ranks, habitation of 154 Ireland” (McDougall), 582 Loyal National Repeal Association, The, 7 Letters of Kitty Clive 141-144 Lucan (Lord), 502 Lettra and Kildun farms 147 Lunacy Commissioner, 26 Lettra Farm, agitation, taking cattle from, Luzon, Don Alonso de, 557 493 Lynch (Mr), 374

XXXIII Ballycroy and Beyond

Lynch, George, 222 concerns about intermarriages, 231-232 Lyons, Dean John Patrick, 228 and social classes/mores, 53 Lyttelton (Lady). see Clive, Sybella Harriet Mary Queen of Scots, 555 Lyttelton, Lord George, 40 Masterson, Catherine, 493 Lyttelton, Margaret, 424 Masterson, Pat, 135 Lyttelton, Reverend Arthur Temple, 45 and seaweed stealing case, 136 Maurice Roche, Lord Viscount of Fermoy, Maamtrasna murderers, 236 467 Maartinez de Leiva, Don Alonso. see Leiva, Maxwell, The Rev William Hamilton, 164- Don Alonso Maartinez de 165, 165, 389 MacClancy, 565 “Dark Lady of Doona,” 573 retreat from Rosclogher, 568 “Wild Sports of the West,” 2 MacDonnell (sub-Sherriff), 510 Mayo Agricultural Society, 69 MacHenrys, the, 60, 65 Mayo Central Committee for the Relief of MacInaboe, Thomas Burke, 574 Distress, 243 MacMahon clan, massacre of, 573 Mayo Constitution, The, 170 Macmillan, W, 280-281 Mayo Criminal Sessions, 135 MacRanyll, Moilmory, 574 Castlebar, 135 MacTyrrell, Feriegh, 574 Mayo Estates, Official CDB Documents of MacTyrrell, Marcus Roe, 574 purchase of, 148 Mahony, William, 540 Mayo Evictions of 1860, The (Moran), 235 Mallaranny Hotel, 107 Mayo Examiner, 3, 64, 74, 513, 540 Malley, Alexander E, 374, 376, 388 reports in re parties, 320-22 sentencing of, 386 Mayo News, the, 119 Malley, Robert, 388 General Clive’s letter to, 122 Malley, Edward, assault on Cafferky, 364 General Clive’s response, 123-124 Malley, Manslaughter, Smithwick guilty, John McHale’s letter to, 46 386 John McHale’s response, 122-123, 124- Malleys, the, 79 126 Malone, Father Patrick, 270 reports on the United Irish League, 128- witness for Catherine Cafferky, 274-276 129 Malvern Hall, 8, 10 Mayo Telegraph, 228 Manchester Examiner, the, 432 McAndrew (Mr), 271, 374 Mannion (Mr), and Paddy Dorant court and the Clagganmountain shooting, 588, case, 112 589 Mansfield, Jane, 496 McAndrew, Anthony, 172 Many, Robert, 512 McAndrew, John, 166 March, Spaniards, Fahy to Tourane, 572 McBride (Mr), 144-145 Margaret (princess), 105 McBride Sean, IRA Commander, 144 Marquis of Santa Cruz, 551 McCabb, Melaghlen, 561 marriages McCall, Hugh, testimony to the Parnell in Ballycroy, 232 Commission, Herd - effect of threats, 583

XXXIV Index

McCormack, Bill, “Dublin 1916 – The 235 French Connection,” 456 support of Father Patrick Lavelle, 236- McCormack, Patrick V., 490-491 237 McDermot, Rev., 231-232 views on schooling for the masses, 419, McDermott, Rev., 243 455 and anonymous note, 477 McHale, John, 46, 119, 128 McDermott, Rev. Michael, 420, 427, 428 speech at United Irish League Meeting - McDermott, Rev. William, 374, 457 Ballycroy, 129-130 evidence of, 386 speech of, 119-120, 122 McDermott, Rev. William (PP), 421, 422 McManamon, Bryan, 121, 147 McDermott, William, 436 McManamon, John, 261, 479 McDonagh, 560 evidence of, 374-376 McDonnell, Sorley Boy, 558 McManamon, Pat, 376 McDonnell, Thomas, 512 McManmon, Michael, 496 McDonnells (Scottish), 557 McNeela, Bridget, 108 McDougall, Margaret Dixon McNeela, John, 147 and the Clagganmountain shooting, 582 McNeela, Martin (Dubh), and the “Letters of Norah on her Tour through Clagganmountain shooting, 580 Ireland,” 582 McNeela, Mary, 71 McGarvey (Mr), and Paddy Dorant court McNeela, Pat (Patch), and the case, 112 Clagganmountain shooting, 580 McGee (Sub-Inspector), 487 McNeela, Patrick, 119, 147 McGovern, Lawrence, 513 McNeela, Patrick (senior), 121 McGovern, Martin, 513 McParland, 400 McGovern, Pat, 513 McParland, Statistical Survey 154 McGowan, John, evidence of, 384 McTernan, H.J., 134 McGowan, Roger, 58, 60, 60, 119, 121, McThomine/ McTomine, Richard oge, 559, 143, 147 573 McGuinness (Dr), 495 Medina Sedonia, Duke of, 551, 554, 555 McGuire, Bridget, 422 Mediterranean heath, 393 McGuire, Bryan, 121 men, views of women, 52-53 McGuire, Pat, 121 Mendoza, Pedro de, 561 and General Clive, 137 Menin Gate Memorial (Ypres), 547 McGuire, Patrick, 128 Mercator Map (1570), 555 speech at United Irish League Meeting - Messrs Debenham, Tewson Farmer & Ballycroy, 129 Bridgewater, 51 McHale (Dr), 495 Meysey (son of Lt. Col. Percy ), 14 McHale, Archbishop John, 178, 228, 432, Meysey, Anna Maria, 9 538 Meysey-Wigley, Caroline, 7, 9-10 anti-Protestant views, 184 migration, due to religion, 456 opposition of, 419 migratory labourers, 269 the Partry-Tourmakeady area and, 234- Mildway, Humphrey, 40

XXXV Ballycroy and Beyond military service, compulsory, 559, 573 Rock House, The, 54 Mills, Jane Mary, 95, 96 to tenants, 269 Miningramarnad (town), 2 Moslem faith, 52 Minitonas graveyard, 548 Mostyn (Mr), 272 Model T Ford, 127 Mountain Pass/Bealacragher Brae, 80 “Molly Maguires”, 22 Moystyn, Mr Robert, 581 Monica (daughter of Jane Robinson), 86 Mrs Grant’s estate. see Busby estate mono culturelism, 456 Mulhern, Pat, 477 Monteagle, Lord, 503 Mulkerrin, Thomas, testimony to Montgomery (Field Marshall), 57 Clagganmountain shooting, the, 579-580 Moore, George Henry, 503 Mullany, Dr James, 486-487 support of Father Patrick Lavelle, 237 Mulranny, Conway, 479 Moore, Joseph, 77 Mulranny Athletic Sports, 414 Moore Hall, 503, 504 Mulranny Sports 1883, list winners, 416 Moorehall estate, purchase of, 178 Murder at Roger’s Hole, 373 Moran, Biddy, 512, 527, 537 Murphy (Inspector), Newport, v. Michael Moran/Doran, Townasheffin farm sale, 109 Cleary, 367-372 Moran, Dr. Gerard Murder of Thomas Barrett, 485 The Mayo Evictions of 1860, 235 Murphy, Judge, 109 A Radical Priest in Mayo, 235 Murray, James, 119 Moran, Francis, 119, 122 Murray, John, 121 Moran, James, 119, 128, 532 Murrevagh, Michael Carolan, assault case, Moran, John, 532, 535 367-372 Moran, Joseph, 71 Musters, Rev. William, 469 Moran, Martin, 513, 532 Myers, 458 Moran, P (Mr), 478 Moran, Pat, 541 Nangle (Mrs), memorial to, 212 Moran, Patrick, and the Townasheffin lease Nangle, Rev Edward, 167, 172-173, 198 case, 109-111 anti-Romanan Catholism, 174-175 Moran, Thomas, 71 and The Colony, 173-177 Moran’s Motors Mallaranny, 414 family of, 173 Morgan (Major), 466 letter to parish priest, 230-231 Morning Mail, Howard Jurors threatened, mission in Anchill, 240-242 582 Roman Catholic priests and, 228 Morning Mail, The, reporting on the “A Short and Simple Explanation of the Clagganmountain shooting, 582 Book of Revelation of Jesus Christ,” 167 Morning Post, the, 33 and tablet of remembrance, 186 Moroney (RM), 477 Nangle, Rev Edward Walter, 167, 168 and the Clagganmountain shooting, 590 Nangle’s Achill Mission, 539 mortgages, 35, 269 Nation, The, 74, 77, 432, 437 Ballycroy, 50-51, 67 report on evictions, 492 Perrystone, 54 National Schools

XXXVI Index

Catholicism and, 418-420 trial of, 7 establishing, 418 O’Connell, Redmond, Rector, 266 National School system, 178, 539 O’Dogherty (chieftain), 556 in Ballycroy, 420 O’Dogherty, Sir John, 557 priests opposition to, 428 O’Donel, “Frances,” 95 National University of Ireland, 418 O’Donel, Sir George, 512, 518 nationalism, and education, 457 O’Donel, Sir Neal, 467 Needam (Mrs), 541 lease from Marquess of Sligo, 468 “New Clover, The,” 146 O’Donel, Sir Richard Annseley, 1, 2, 77, New York Times, Rory of the Hills, 576 173, 228, 248, 421, 426, 469, 502 Newfield 2013, 502 sale of land, 469 Newport, Moran, 479 O’Donels Newport, O’Boyle, 479 legacy to Ballycroy, 471 Newport House, 2-3 sale of family lands, 471 Newport Petty Sessions 3rd March 1908, O’Donels (tomb of), 470 367 O’Donels, the, 65 “Newry Examiner, The,” 179 O’Donnell, families, 65 Newry Telegraph, the, 230 O’Donnell, Bishop Patrick, 128 Newtown Castle, 565 O’Donnell, John, DC, 119, 121, 122, 128, Nicholson, Asenath, 198, 205, 205, 214, 131 249-260 O’Donnell, Michael (basketmaker), 65, 69, experiences in Achill and Erris, 253-259 71 troubled by Irish,249 O’Donnell, Michael (funeral of 12 year old Nimmo, Alexander, 155 boy), 222 Nixon, Claudius, 512 O’Donnell, Patrick, evidence of, 223-224 “No Rent” campaign, 264, 583 O’Donnell, R, 537 Noble, Sir Saxton, 63 O’Donnell, Thomas Non-Catholic children at school, 425 evidence of, 225 Norman feudal system, 464 riot and assault charges filed, 222-227 Norman landlords, 464 O’Donnell MA, F Hugh, 128, 573 Norris (Sergeant), 495 “Paraguay on Shannon,” 128 North African Desert, 56 O’Donnells, the, 464, 467, 557-558 Notice, Threatening , Church door, 477 O’Donoghue, John, 420, 427 dismissal of, 427 O’Boyle, Andrew, evidence of, 379 O’Flaherty’s, the, 560 O’Boyle, J, dismissal of, 421 O’Hara (Father), 441, 442, 445, 447-451, O’Boyle, Paddy, 71 494 O’Brien (Constable), 532 letter, 303 O’Brien, William Smith, 227 Old Age Pension, 127 O’Cahans, the, 558 Olton Hall, 10 Octagon, the 153 O’Malley (Mr), 527 O’Connell, Daniel, 6-7 O’Malley, John, 71

XXXVII Ballycroy and Beyond

O’Malley case, the, 235 Pall Mall Gazette, 485 O’Malley’s, the, 561 Gurteen Three, 475 O’Malley’s, the, 573 report of the arrest of Davitt and others, omerta (code of silence), 500, 541 475 O’Molloy, Captain Greene, 570 Palmer, Reverend Sir William, purchase of O’Morain, 511, 538, 545 land, 469 religious violence and, 539-540 Palmer, Sir Roger, 512 O’Neil, John, 510-511 Palmerston (Lord), 30-31 Ejectment Order against, 510 Papal Bull Regnans Excelsis, 554-555 O’Neill, 573 “Paraguay on Shannon” (O’Donnell), 128 O’Neill, John, 532, 535, 541, 544 parish priest, influences of, 128, 178, murder suspect, 513 228, 230, 237, 432 O’Neills, the, 557 “Parking Fees” at Knockmoyleen 1908, 411 O’Neill’s cavalry, 557 Parnell, anti-rent meeting (Swinford) and, Oram, Arthur, 102 584 Oram, John, 102, 140 Parnell, Charles Stewart, 472 evidence of, 382, 383 Parnell Commission, 583, 590 shot at, 388 Parsonage, The, 234 Orange Order, 222 Partry-Tourmakeady area, 178, 234 Orange Lodge at Ballycroy, 410 Pearse, 457 Oranmore (Lord), 512 , The, 169, 170 Ordinance Survey maps, 65 and Catholic priesthood, 168-169 Ordnance Survey, 420 Perjury at Ballycroy Court, 590 for Ballycroy, 463, 467 Perrott, Sir John, 259-560, 559, 560 O’Reilly (Father), 421, 427 559-260, 558 O’Reilly, Rev. P, 427 Perrystone, 28 Ormond, Earl, 561, 573 artwork at, 28 Ormonde Butlers, the, 464 sale prospectus for, 51 Ormsby, Frances, 74 Perrystone Court, 27, 77, 107 Ormsby, William Frederick, 99-100 description of, 65 O’Rourke, Sir Brian, 565 destruction of, 56 Otway, Caesar, 390 rebuilding of, 56 Otway, Charles Caesar, 187 rebuilt, 58 “A Tour in Connaught,” 187 “Perrystone Papers, The,” 25 Owenduff, 469 Perrystone Papers, the, 34, 50, 51, 89 Owenduff river, 373, 377 Philip I (of Nalpes), and Mary I (of Oxford Alumni, 63 England), 551 Oxford St., compared with, 2 Philip I (of Naples), 552 Philip II (king), 550, 555, 575 Packenham, Lady Mary, 14 Phoenix Park assassins, 542 Packenham Hall, 5 Phoenix Park murders, 475 Paddock, The, 59, 140 Pike (JP), and the Clagganmountain

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shooting, 588 death of, 95, 106 Pike, William, 222, 496, 512 family of, 96-101 Pius IX (pope), 174, 178 and the Homefarm, 138 Place Names Commission, 463 police protection of, 139, 411, 491 Plantation of Munster, 569 and prosecution of tenants for wrack Plummer (Sub-Constable), evidence of, 386 cutting, 136 Plunket, Thomas, 176, 178, 504 Prince, Stephen Farr. see also Prince, Plunket estate, evictions from, 236, 504 Stephen poaching, 373 Prince, Wyrley, 94, 98 Pocahontas, 35 Prince Arthur of Connaught, 86 poets, women, 10 Prince family plot (Newport), 101 Police Tax, 538, 541 Proclamation Dublin Castle (Smyth case) Ponds Cold Cream ad, 5 576 and Lady Mary Catherine Clive, 5-6 Prospect House, 387 Poor Law Commissioner, 26 , 233-234 population Ballycroy analysis of, 245 Protestants population census (1841 and 1851), 246- “ethnic cleansing” of, 145 247t evangelisation in Ireland, 169 Portman, Penelope Isobel, wedding of, 86, versus Roman Catholics, 168-169, 174, 87 538-539 potato crop, failure of, 172, 585 Public Dances Halls Act, 367 Powell, Thomas, evidence of, 386 Public Records Office, 184 Prendergast (Father), 541 Prendergast, John P, “Cromwellian Queen’s Colleges, 418 Settlement of Ireland, The ,” 465 Queen Elizabeth I, “fatwas” against, 550 Prendergast, Rev Richard, 538, 540 Queen Mary, married to Philip II, 555 price fights, 401 Quinn (Mr), 478 primary education, 456 Irish language and, 457-458 Rabbit Cottage, 14 Prince, Alexandra Sophia, 94, 99-100, 422. rack-rent, 22 see also Prince, Alexandria Sophia Radical Priest in Mayo, A (Moran), 235 Prince, Emily Anne, 94, 96 Ragazzone, The, 552 Prince, Ernest Drew, 94 Rahill (Head Constable), 495 Prince, George Robert, 94 Ramsey, Rector WH, 261 Prince, Kathleen Charlotte, 94, 100, 422 Ramsey, Rev. WH Mr., Letter to Irish Prince, Rose Clara, 94, 97 Times, rebuttal to Father Bolland’s letter, Prince, Sophia 263 death of, 94 Rata, The, 549, 570 with Kathleen and Alexandra, 101 scuttled, abandoned, 552, 555, 572 Prince, Stephen, 62, 65, 68, 71, 74, 91-94, scavenging of, 574 102, 261, 422 site of, 554 children and Sophia, 95 Rata class (ship), 571

XXXIX Ballycroy and Beyond

Raynardson, Catherine Sarah, 1 Robinson (QC), 377, 379, 381-382, 384 RDS Dublin, 74 Robinson, Dora, 86 Rea, John, 475 Robinson, Jane, 86 rebellion, 457, 465-467, 471 Robinson, Monica, 86 Recantations, 184-185 Rock House, The, 26, 36, 62, 64-66, 64, Reconciliation Meeting at Achill, 241 78, 79, 90 Recorder of Wokingham, 26 annual parties for tenants, 318-322, 424 Redmond, JE, MP, support pledged, 121 building of, 65, 71, 469 Reform Act (1867), 31 description of, 3-4, 65 Reformation, the, the Irish church and, 168 and The Ferry, 86 Reformation, the Second, 169 visit of Clives to, 85-86, 88-89 Registry of Deeds, 3, 23, 507, 508 workers at, 71 and the Ballycroy estate, 85, 468-469 Rockcliffe, Lady Martha, 35 history of, 467 Roe, Rev WD, 512 and the Homefarm, 68, 74 Roger’s Hole for the Tipperary estate, 35 court case and, 377-388 Relief Committee, The, 172 murder at, 373, 377 religious issues, 163-168, 222 poaching and, 388 Protestants against Catholics, 538 Roger of Lifford – first (O’Donnell) settler, violence and, 235-236 156 rent defaulters Rolleston QC, Charles, 271 contested case and, 133 Rolls, Eliza, 544 prosecution of, 132-134 Roman Catholicism, and Edward Nangle, Rent dispute Daly/Smith, Fahy Farm, 584 167, 174-175 Resolutions Deanery of Tuam 1869, 419 Rooper, George, 469 “Return of Outrages,” report on the Rory of the Hills, 545 Clagganmountain shooting, 582-583 Rosclogher, events at, 568 return route map, Spanish Armada, 556 Rosport, description of, 257 revisionism, and Irish history, 457 Ross, Alexander, evidence of, 385 Reynardson, Katherine Sarah, 62-63, 72 Ross House, 504 Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 55 Ross-on-Wyse, site of Perrystone Court, 55 Ribbonism, 485 Rosturk Castle, 542 Ribbonmen, threats to tenants, 504 Royal Military College, 42 RIC Commissioner, 61 Royal School, , the, 167 Richards, JM, 584 Rump Parliament, 466 Richie, Leitch, landed at Kingstown 153 Rundell, Jean, 56 Rifle Brigade, 41 Ryder, Thomas, 427 Ringsend, Thomas Reid landed at, 153 Ritchie, Leitch, 153 Sackville St., compared with, 2 Roads Act (1920), 127 Saint Luke of Achill, The, burial place of, roads, Thomas Kitchen’s map 1779, 243 241 Robertson (Mr), 371 Saintsbury (Professor), 14

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San Juan, the, 562 Dodman marriage, 184 San Martin, The, 555 “Short and Simple Explanation of the San Pedro, The, 554 Book of Revelation of Jesus Christ, A” Sancta Maria Rata Encoronada, memorial (Nangle), 167 tablet and, 549 shraidheog (bed), 161 Sancta Marie de la Vision, the, 562 Shranamonragh (town), 2 Santry Demesne, 147 Shranamonragh National School, 426-427 Santry Estate, Jolly family moved to, 147 silence (code of), 500, 541 Santry House, 146, 147, 148 Simms, Nathaniel P, 512 Sarsfield, Patrick (2nd Earl of Lucan), 6 Simonds, Henry John, 233 “Saxon in Ireland .in Ireland, The” Simonds, William John, 234 (Ashworth), 1, 248 Simpson, James, 502 “Scholars”, the, annual party for, 319 Sixtus (pope), 551 School Attendance Act (1926), 458 and the Spanish Armada, 552 school attendance records, 444t Sligo (Marquess of), 130, 500, 512 school-fete/tenants party, 318-322, 318 and evictions, 503 scorched-earth policy, 465 lease to Sir Neal O’Donel, 468 Scots Church graveyard, 104 lease to Sir Richard O’Donnell, 135 Scott, Henrietta, 232 letter to George Henry Moore, 503-504 Scott, Walter, Guy Mannering or The sale of land, 469 Astrologer, 505 Smerwick, Papal force at, 569, 570 Screedagh Strand, 567 Smith, Cecil Woodham, The Great Hunger, seaweed, stealing of, 135-138 244, 245 Second Coalition, the, 25 Smith, Henry, 509 Second Reformation, The, 169 purchase of Tieranaur land and, 507 Second World War, 14, 269 Smith, Henry Chaloner, 42 secular curriculum, 419 Smith, John Sidney, testimony to Sedition, charges of, 7 Clagganmountain shooting, the, 578-579 Seekers, The, 24 Smith, Rev. purchase of Tieranaur Lands, Selwyn College, Cambridge, 43 507 serfs, 464 Smith, Sidney Edward (junior) Shakenhurst, Wigley residence, 9 acquittal of, 581 Shankill Castle, 104 and the Clagganmountain shooting, 588, Shari’ah Law, 52 588-589 Shaw, John, 506 testimony to Clagganmountain shooting, Shaw’s Authenticated Report, 7 the, 579 Shean Estate, the, 469 Smith, Sidney J (senior), and the Shean More school, 455 Clagganmountain shooting, 589 Shee, Henry, 561 Smith, Sydney, 140, 579 sheep grazing activities, problems with, 103 and the Clagganmountain shooting, 583 sheep-station, 26-27, 43, 51, 52 dispute over the Fahy farm, 584-586 Sheridan, John Richard, and Helen Smith, Thomas, 235

XLI Ballycroy and Beyond

Smithwick, Alexander, Bailiff, 376, 377, Sports, Ballycroy, history of, 401 388 Sports, first bicycle racing Doona 1901, 411 sentencing of, 386-387, 387 Sports, horse racing at Doona 1901, 411 Smyth (senior), and the Clagganmountain Sports, Mayo Examiner report 1872, 403 shooting, 581 Sports, Mayo Examiner Report 1874, 405 Smythe, Captain Nathaniel, 575 Sports, Mulranny 1883, report on,414 Snowden (lord), 105 Spring Show (at RDS Dublin), 74 Social Welfare, 127 Sproule, P.R., 134 Outdoor Relief, 260 squatters, eviction of, 503 Society’s Annual Dinner, 69 St Luke of Achill,” 173 Solihull, Archer Clive Rector of, 1 St Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle, 68 Soult (Mr), 36 Stanley, Lord Edward, Chief Sec, 418 Sound, Achill , 155 Stanuiel (Mr), 131 Spanish Armada, 549-553 State of Nebraska, The, 546, 547 alerts to Ireland, 556 Staunton, Richard, 540 captive officers of, 558 Stock, Rev Samuel, 166 casualties of, 555, 557, 560-561, 565 Stoney, Thomas Sadlier, 79-80 and fleeing Spaniards, 554-556 Stoney,(JP), and the Clagganmountain grounded ships, 572 shooting, 588 grounded ships and, 562, 574-575 Stoney RM, Mr Vesey, and the punishment of officers of, 554 Clagganmountain shooting, 581, 588 return route map, 556 Stoneys, the, 79 scavenging of shipwrecks, 563-565 Stratford, Lord, Survey of, 155 Spanish survivors of, 569 Streedagh Strand, 563 survivors of, 572-573 stripes, land, 95-96, 103 treatment of Spanish prisoners, 556-558, Stritch, AR (RM), 512, 537, 542 561-562, 567-568, 570, 575 Subscription List, 540-541 Spanish Lady, the, 59 succession, right of, 559 Spanish prisoners, 575 Sugrue (sub constable), and the massacre of, 575 Clagganmountain shooting, 590 Sir William Fitzwilliams and, 567-568 surrender and regrant, 559 treatment of, 556-558, 561-562, 564, “Surrender and re-Grant” process, 91-92 567-568 Suspects Hunter murder arrested, acquitted, Spicer, Walter (Watt), 102 513, 536 roof of house, 103 Sutton, Rev Thomas, 166 sporting events, in Ballycroy, 401-417 Sweeney, James, 121, 278 Sports 1871, program, 402 absenteeism, 442 Sports 1874, baton charge, 407 addiction to alcohol, 455 Sports 1875, winners, 407 appointment of, 441-455 Sports 1876, winners, 408 case of assault against Neil Conway, 290- Sports events, winners 1873, 404 317 Sports, at the Old Ground Lettra 1873, 404 case of assault against Patrick Cafferky,

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278-290 Tieranaur, 95, 402, 467, 477-484, 500, conviction 281 500-507 excessive punishment, 442 Tieranaur lands letter advising of school closure, 442 dispute and tresspass claims, 508 Sweeney, Terry, house, family, farm, 394 tearms of leases, 508-510 Swift, Jonathan (dean of St, Patrick’s), 6 Tighe, Pat, 136 Swiss Canton system, 128 tight lip syndrome, 513 Symes (Mr), 131 Times, The, 37, 77, 232, 432 Synod of Fatbhresail, 463 Times of London, 74 Synod of Kells, 463 Timlin, Rev Thomas, court case against, 170-172 taesther (bed), 159 Tipperary estate, 1, 35, 50, 51 “Tailor and Ansty, The ” (Cross), 496 Tirconnell (Ear of), 557 Talbot, Evelyn, 37 Tithe Applotment Books, 166 Tallagh National School, 427 tithes, 538 application for, 428 abandonment of, 166 Tallagh people, court case and, 493 to Anglican Church, collection of, 163- Tallagh teacher warned for violence, 428 166 Tallagh tenants driving off cattle, 493 thiable lands (Ballycroy), 166 Talleyrand (Mr), 36 totals (for Ballycroy), 166 tanistry, 559 “Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, A” Tarpy, Michael (Sub-Constable), 532 (Lewis), 389 taxation, complaints about, 466 Tories, 465-466 Taylor, David, 60 “Tour in Connaught, A” (Otway), 187 Taylor, James, 60 Townasheffin lease case, 46, 109, 111-119, Taylor, Jenifer, 60 123. see also Doran, Paddy Taylor family, the, 60 townlands, history of, 463 teachers, and punishment, 278 townlands, “stripeing” of, 95-96 Telegraph, The, 435 Treaty of Amiens, The, 25 tenants Trevelyan, Sir Charles, and Lord John grades of, 464 Russell, 246 and land ownership issues, 134-135 Trial of Suspects Hunter murder, 519-536 schedule of at the Homefarm, 74-77t Trillow, William, 23 tenants-at-will, 464 trimmers, 139 terrorism, 485 Trinidad Valencera, 573 “That cur in Innisbegil”,327 Truce, The, 141 “That famous Baynet Charge again” 331 Tuke, James Hack, 264 That famous thoroughfare (Cafferky), 336 Tullaghan Bay, 155, 549 Thomism, 52 Tullaghan Coastguard Station, 252 Thompson (Mr), 376 “Twenty Years in the Wild West or, Life in Thurles Synod (1850), 419, 428 Connaught” (Houston), 504 Threatening Notice on Church door, 477 Tyrawley Herald, The, 277

XLIII Ballycroy and Beyond

Tyrone (Earl of), 557 Weddell, Helen (Helen Hunter), death of, 545 Ulster army, 467 Weddell, James, 505 Ulthaigh, the, 464, 467 Wedgewoods (the), 27 unidentified group, 175 Wellesley, Arthur, 6 Union of Kilmore Moy, 163 Wellington (Mr), 6-7, 36-37 United Irish League, 119, 119-120 West Highland Bull, best, 74 committee of, 121 Westenra, Hon Richard, 232 officers of, 121-122 western democracy, pillars of, 559 resolutions passed by, 120-121 Westport, Grady, 479 United Irish League (Ballycroy), 128 Westport, Warelle, 479 committee of, 128 Westport estate/House, 501, 506 officers of, 128 Westport Poor Law Union, 502 resolutions passed by, 120-121, 131-132 Western People, 123 universal suffrage, 31, 32 Wetherell (Archdeacon), 8 upper classes, 5, 27, 34, 53, 163 Whately, John Hamilton, 469 Whitelaw, Frances, 100 Vaughan (Col), 544 Whitfield, 14, 16, 23, 24 Vaughan, Herbert Alfred, 544 addition to, 19 Vaughans, the, 544 Whitfield of Herefordshire, 4 Vestrymen at St Thomas’ Church, 177 Whyte, Edward, 560, 561 Victoria (queen), 41 Wigley, Caroline, 12-13 Virgin Mary, criticism of veneration of, 174 Wigley, Major Edmund, 8, 9 Virgin Mary, repulsive representation of, Wigmore, John, 38 198 Wilbraham, Hugh, 512 “Wild Sports of the West” (Maxwell), 2 wages, 71 Wilford Lodge, 93 Wallace (Resident Magistrate), 496 William Burke of Ardnaree, 561 Walsh, B., 428 William the Conqueror, 9 Walsh, Ellen, 236 Wilson, Ronald, 56 Walsh, JC, 374 Wilton, Rev. Mr., 43 Walsh, John, 503 Witchingham Hall, 63 Walsh, Joseph B, 478 Wodloke, George, letter to Mayor of Walsh, Rev. Mr., 427 Waterford, 561 Walsh, Rev Thomas, 420 Wokingham, Recorder of, 26 War of Independence, the, 50, 145, 457 women, views on, 52-53 Warner, Eliza, 167 World War Two, 63 “Watt’s House,” 102 Wormbridge, 17 Webb, Daniel Hale, 42 wrack, plots of, 134-135 Webb, Isobel Hale “Lilla,” 42 Wreatham Hall, 1, 63, 93 Weddell, George, 545 Wright (Justice), 371 Weddell, Helen, 505 Wyatt, James, 105

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Wyndham, Captain Alexander W, 102, 544 Wyndham estate, 544 Wyndhams, the, 79 Wynne Collection, 64 Wyse, Major, AG (RM), 579, 584 Report from 587

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