Category Archives: Louth

The Archaeological and Historical Society, Co. Louth

CONTENTS
Vol. III, No. 1
1912


Traditional Irish and Highland Airs.
Rev. Luke Donnellan, C.C. ……………………………………………………………..5

Patrick Dungin (note)
Fiachra Élgeach………………………………………………………………………….15

The Adventure of St. Columba’s Clerics.
Henry Morris……………………………………………………………………………..16

O’Neills Castle in Dungooly
Rev. Francis Carolan, P.P………………………………………………………………19

Some further Louth Souterrains
Harry G. Tempes…………………………………………………………………………21

Eibhlin a Rúin.
W. H. Grattan Flood…………………………………………………………………….27

A Faughart Monument.
Henry Morris………………………………………………………………………………29

County Louth Medals
James M’Carte……………………………………………………………………………29

Rathcoole, Úi Segain, Leire
Rev. Nicholas Lawless, P.P…………………………………………………………….31

Max Muller on the Destruction of Antiquities……………………………………….36

The stone and Bronze Ages in our Museum.
Henry Morris………………………………………………………………………………37

Faughart, Crioch Ross and Smarmore.
Rev. Nicholas Lawless, P.P. …………………………………………………………..47

Conan’s Grave.
Hugh Kelly………………………………………………………………………………..51

The Ancient Territories of Oirghialla, Úladh and Conaille Muirthemne.
Rev. Prof. L. Murray…………………………………………………………………. …32

Weaver’s Iron Candle Holders.
Henry Morris………………………………………………………………………………66

Bronze Ring-Pin.
Harry G. Tempest………………………………………………………………………..67

County Louth Depositions, 1641,
Rev. Thomas Gogarty, C.C……………………………………………………………..68

Failte do’n Tighearna Townsend.
Maurice O’Gorman……………………………………………………………………….80

Welcome to Viscount Townsend.
Henry Morris………………………………………………………………………………80

Drogheda Trade and Customs, 1683.
Joseph T. Dolan, M.A. ………………………………………………………………….83

Bellew Inscriptions
Harry G. Tempest ………………………………………………………………………105

Sepulchural Clay Urn……………………………………………………………………108

Notes and Queries………………………………………………………………………109
Pillar Stone at Belrobin, Barronstown.
County Louth Token Coninage
Wright’s “”Louthania”” and Boswell’s “” Historical Antiquities of England and Wales””
The Stone of Decapitation, Faughart
The Name Proleek
“”Letters to the Inhabitants of Newry “”
John D’Alton’s MS.
MSS. relating to the County Louth
Louth Place Names

CONTENTS
Vol. III, No. 2
1913

Some Phases of Celtic Culture.
Rev. P. MacSweeney, M.A…………………………………………………………………….133

Annaclogmullion. Rev. Charles Hurson, C.C………………………………………………..149

Dundealgain in the Eighteenth Century. Rev. L. P. Murray………………………………154

Muirtheimhne. Rev. Nicholas Lawless……………………………………………………….156

County Louth Depositions, 1641. Rev. Thomas Gogarty, C.C……………………………167

Eibhlin a Rúin. Rev. Luke Donnellan, C.C……………………………………………………178

Old Times in Dundalk and its neighbourhood. Rev. L.P. Murray…………………………181

Welcome to Primate Brian MacMahon, Archbishop of Armagh, 1738.
H. Morris…………………………………………………………………………………………..189

Notes and Queries
Cahir Cuchulainn or “”Cuchulainn’s House””, Co. Kerry………………………………………193
Stone Circle in County Louth. Viscount Townsend………………………………………….194
Diagram of the Inscription on the Bellew-Nugent, 1588 Cenotaph………………………195

CONTENTS
Vol. III, No. 3
1914

The Cross of Muiredach. Prof. R.A.S. Macalister, M.R.I.A……………………………..209

Omeath. Rev. L. Murray…………………………………………………………………….213

Gaelic Place Names in Omeath. Collected and Edited by Peadar O’Dowd…………..232
Woods and Trees of Ireland.

Professor Augustine Henry, M.A., F.L.S., M.R.I.A……………………………………….237

“”Cassidy’s Rag”” – The Growth of a Superstition. Henry Morris………………………..246

Magh Cloghar. Enda…………………………………………………………………………247

Exports from Drogheda in 1683.
Joseph T. Dolan, M.A. and Daniel Lynch…………………………………………………250

Seven Battles: Irish Danes and Anglo-Normans.
Rev. F. Carolan, P.P. Tullyallen……………………………………………………………259

County Louth Brewers and Retailers, 1683.
Joseph T. Dolan, M.A. and Daniel Lynch…………………………………………………261

Domhnall MacCiaigh, Easpog Dúin (Daniel Mackey, Bishop of Down, 1673)
H. Morris………………………………………………………………………………………267

The Roll of the Sovereigns and Burgesses of Carlingford, 1706-1828
H.G. Tempest………………………………………………………………………………..273

Carlingford Corporation, Notes on………………………………………………………..283

The Knights of St. George, Note on.

Rev. Francis Carolan, P.P. Tullyallen………………………………………………………287

Notes and Queries
Liathross – St. Fintan of Dromin……………………………………………………………301

CONTENTS
Vol. III, No. 4
1915

The Philosophy of Aodh MacDomhnaill.

Canon F. W. O’Connell, M.A., B.D………………………………………………………….311

A Louth Irish Manuscript in New York. Rev. Laurence P. Murray………………………318

Armagh, Cloghar and Louth. Enda………………………………………………………….323

Before Kinsale and After. Rev. Laurence P. Murray………………………………………330

The “”Ship Temple”” near Dundalk. Henry Morris………………………………………….. 339

List of Documents transferred from Armagh Dioscescan Registry to the
Public Records Office, Dublin. John Ribton Garston, D.L., M.R.I.A……………………..347

The Minute Book of the Corporation of Ardee (A.D. 1661 onwards)
Joseph T. Dolan, M.A…………………………………………………………………………..357

Seizures at Dundalk and Drogheda, 1795.

Joseph T. Dolan, M.A…………………………………………………………………………..363

Some Irish Superstitions. Henry Morris……………………………………………………..365

Poets and Poetry of the Parish of Kilkerley, Hagardstown.

Rev. L.P. Murray………………………………………………………………………………..369

The Ogham Inscription at Barnafeadog, County Louth.

Prof. R.A.S. Macalister………………………………………………………………………….385

Fáilte Maighistír Ió Pluinceat. Henry Morris…………………………………………………388

A Hosting at Castle Roche, 1561. H.G.Tempest……………………………………………394

Notes and Queries………………………………………………………………………………396
Dundalk Charter School
Church of Kilfursa
Owen or Eugene McMahon, Archbishop
Old Dundalk Names
Goal’s Castle
Warresgate
Loghloe
Moyle Castle

NOTE

I have no Contents indices for 1916, 1917 or 1918.

In 1920 the following preface was in the Journal:
“”The Council of the Society decided a year ago to save some of the greatly increased cost of printing by issuing no Journal in 1919, but supplying an enlarged number in 1920 to serve for the two years.
The members asked the editor to bring it out early, but it has been delayed, solely through his procrastination, to the end of the year, and while he has no grounds on which to excuse himself, he wishes to express his real regret for his neglect.
December 1920.””

The Index to the Contents of this volume also lists reports and balance sheets for the year 1916 which seems to indicate that there were no publications between 1915 and 1920, given the Preface above.

CONTENTS
Vol.
1920

The Trench or “”Wall”” of Ulster. Rev. canon H.W. Lett, A.M……………………………5

Armagh, Cloghar and Louth. Enda…………………………………………………………8

The County of Louth: Its Surface and Foundation Stones.
Grenville A.J. Cole, M.R.I.A., F.G.S………………………………………………………..14

Lecture on Irish Illuminated Manuscripts.

Rev. H.J. Lawlor, D.D., D. Litt……………………………………………………………..17

Some Notes on the Family of Warrens of Warrenstown, County Louth.
Hon. Mrs. Richard Bellew……………………………………………………………………26
(Note: Mrs. Bellew is the first lady contributor I have noticed in this journal or even in others from the same period Irish women got the right to vote in 1919 – Jane )

The Minute Book of the Corporation of Ardee (A.D. 1661 onwards)
Joseph T. Dolan………………………………………………………………………………35

Poets and Poetry of Kilkerly. Rev. L.P. Murray…………………………………………..42

An Ancient Cemetery, Mooretown, Ardee. R.A. S. Macalister………………………….61

The Abbey of SS Peter and Paul, Knock. Rev. T. Gogarty………………………………62

Lament for Brian, Son of Coll MacMahon. Énrí Ó Muirgheasa………………………….70

Some Extracts from Irish State Papers…………………………………………………….76

The Cathach of St. Columba. M. Esposito…………………………………………………80

The County Louth Ordnance Survey Letters, 1835-6.

John Ribton Garstin……………………………………………………………………………84

Ancient Inscribed Tombstones at Drogheda and Dunleer………………………………104

Find of Bog Butter. Aodh Ó Ceallaigh……………………………………………………..106

Notes and Queries…………………………………………………………………………..106
“”The Redshank’s Galleys””
Old Dundalk Names

In Memoriam – John Ribton Garstin, D.L., F.S.A.
Rev. J.B. Leslie, M.A………………………………………………………………………….125

The Genesis of the Diocese of Clogher. Rev. H.J. Lawlor, D.D………………………..129

SS. Donnchadh, Sodeb and Teca, &c. by Enda……………………………………………160

Some notes on Dundalk. Rev. J.B. Leslie, M.A……………………………………………162

St. Mary’s Abbey, Louth. Rev. Thomas Gogarty…………………………………………..169

Poets and Poetry of Kilkerley. Rev. L. O’Murray…………………………………………..190
(Note: In previous issues this article was written by Rev. L. Murray – here given that the Christian name still begins with an ‘L’ and the man is also a Rev., it is assumed that the two names refer to the same person. It is said in the literature that Irish families who had dropped the ‘O’ and ‘Mc’ in past generations took it on again after the uprising in 1916.)

Le Camestreet, Le Campstreet Lane, The Big Bridge, &c.

by Enda…………………………………………………………………………………………..199

Irish Annals. H. Morris…………………………………………………………………………202

Louth Ordnance Survey Letters (Continued)……………………………………………….205

Folk Lore. Captain R. Marlay Blake, M.D., R.A.M.C………………………………………..217

Fragments of a Lost Register of the Diocese of Clogher.

Rev. H.J. Lawlor, D.D………………………………………………………………………….226

Some Ulster proverbs. H. Morris……………………………………………………………..258

Louth Ordnance Survey Letters (continued)………………………………………………..273

The Late Mr. William Tempest………………………………………………………………..275

Some Episodes of the Civil War of 1641-53 in Louth.
W.F. Butler, M.A…………………………………………………………………………………277

Barnesvave and Barr Neava. Rev. N. Lawless (“”Enda””)……………………………………290

Poets of Kilkerley and Neighbourhood. Rev. L. O’Murray, C.C., (cont.)…………………292

St. Sillan of Imbliuch Cassain in Cooley.

Rev. N. Lawless, P.P. (“”Enda””)………………………………………………………………..298

Dromiskin Celtic Cross. Rev. Nicholas Lawless, P.P………………………………………..301

A County Louth Election of 1755……………………………………………………………..302

Disturbances in the County Louth, A.D. 1312.

By the Late Major-General Stubbs……………………………………………………………304

Gentlemen of County Louth, c. A.D. 1600.

By the Late Major-General Stubbs……………………………………………………………308

County Louth Representatives in the Irish Parliament, 1613-1758.
By the Late Major-General Stubbs……………………………………………………………311

Heating Stones. H. Morris……………………………………………………………………..318

Some Features of Bronze Swords. H. Morris………………………………………………..320

Louth, Armagh, and Cloghar. Rev. N. Lawless, P.P. (“”Enda””)…………………………….324

The Wolf’s Path in Cooley. Rev. N. Lawless P.P. (“”Enda””)………………………………..330

Louth Ordnance Survey Letters (Continued)…………………………………………………333

Drogheda and Boyne Pictures. Francis Joseph Bigger………………………………………340

St. Fintan, Abbot of Dromin. Rev. Henry Parlin………………………………………………341

References to St. Columcille in Louth…………………………………………………………344

The East Window of St. Nicholas’s Parish Church, Dundalk.
By the Late J.R. Garstin…………………………………………………………………………345

A Projected History of County Louth.

By the Late Major-General Stubbs…………………………………………………………….349

Stone monuments of Louth.

By the Late Major-General Stubbs…………………………………………………………….356

The Death of Patrick Fleming. Henry Morris………………………………………………….359

The Coronation of Edward Bruce. P.L. Macardle……………………………………………..367

Early Partitions of Ireland. Seosamh O Dolain……………………………………………….370

Louth Members of the Irish Parliament………………………………………………………..375

Blessed Oliver plunkett Church at Ballybrack.

P. L. Macardle……………………………………………………………………………………..387

Notes and Queries………………………………………………………………………………..387
Cloghafarmore Pillar Stone, Knockbridge
Mr. Garstin’s Manuscript Collections
Drogheda Pictures

Irish Journals: An Introduction

So many journals and so much information within their pages. Many ignore the likes of the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries in Ireland, what do genealogists want with an ‘Antiquarian’ journal. The first thing that spring to mind is archaeology when one thinks of antiquaries. The same can be said for all these journals lists as ‘Archaeological and Historical’ journals. What could possibly be in them that would be relevant to the family historian, the genealogist? History in school is always presented as facts and figures, so what would we find in an archaeological and historical journal?


A wealth of information – to those who went before the words ‘antiquary’ meant ‘about things past’ and that covered everything. They wrote parish histories, the gave lists and lists of names, they spoke of historical events – but not in the same way that we are ‘taught’ history in school. These were people who loved localities and topics with a passion and so they wrote about these places and these things. They wrote of folklore, traditions, customs, old words, meanings of words, placenames. It is in the older journals that we find the most information relevant to the genealogist. Todays publications tend to be more archaeological in content than in the past. Gradually, this web site will list the articles in these journals. Beginning now, with the first five years of ‘Seanchas’; ‘The Journal of the Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological and Historical Society’ and ‘The Journal of the Kildare Archaeological and Historical Society’. Two months from now, another five years will be added to each of these pages and a start will be made on ‘The Irish Ancestor’; ‘The Irish Genealogist’; ‘The Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society’ and ‘The Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society’.

Some of the journals listed here no longer exist, some may only have been published for a few years or a few volumes, some are the result of divisions of an earlier society, and some are the journals as named before that division. Some are produced by Historical Societies and others are simply published by enthusiastic local people on an annual basis.

Annelecta Hibernica

Archivum Hibernicum

Ardagh and Clonmacnoise Historical Society Journal

Ardmore Journal

Arklow Historical Society Journal

Athenry Journal

Bandon Historical Journal

Benbradagh – Dungiven parish magazine

Blackrock Society Proceedings

Bray Historical Record

Breifne

Breifny

Carlow past and present

Carlowviana

Carrickfergus and District Historical Society Journal

Charleville and District Historical Society Journal

Clogher Record – Clogher Historical Society

Cloughjordan Heritage

Collectiana Hibernicae
Cork Genealogical Society Journal

Craigavon Historical Society Review

Dál na gCais

Decies

Deenside

Derriana

Donegal Annual – Donegal Historical Society

Down & Connor Historical Society Magazine

Dublin Historical Record (Journal of the Old Dublin Society)

Dúchas Néill; Journal of the O’Neill Country Society

Duhallow Magazine (Seanchas Duhallow)

Dun Laoghaire Borough Historical Society

East Belfast Historical Society Journal

Eighteenth Century Ireland

Galvia (in Irish)

Glynns, The (Journal of the Glens of Antrim Historical Society)

History Ireland

Heart of Breifny

Historical Belfast Magazine

Irish Family Links

Irish Studies (publ. by the Irish American Cultural Institute)

In the Shadow of the Steeple – Tullaherin Heritage Society

Irish Family History Link to IFH Society.

Irish Historical Studies

Irisleabhar Muighe Nuadhad (Maynooth)

Journal of Irish Archaeology

Journal of the Ivernian Society (language, literature, music, art etc.)

Journal of the Bangor Historical Society

Journal of the Cork History and Archaeological Society

Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society

Journal of the Donegal Historical Society

Journal of the Dromore Dioscescan Family Historical Society (Seanchas Dhroim Mor)

Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society

Journal of the Galway Family History Society (Galway Roots)

Journal of the Glens of Antrim Historical Society (see Glynns)

Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society

Journal of the Kildare Archaeological and Historical Society

Journal of the Kildare Society

Proceedings/Journal of the Kilkenny and South East of Ireland Archaeological and Historical Society

Journal of the Mourne Local Studies Group (12 Miles of Mourne)

Journal of the North Munster Archaeological Society (North Munster Antiquarian Society?)

Journal of the Old Athlone Society

Journal of the Old Drogheda Society

Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society

Journal of the Royal Antiquary Society of Ireland

Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries in Ireland

Journal of the Shannon Archaeological and Historical Society (The Other Clare)

Journal of the Waterford & South-East of Ireland Archaeological and Historical Society

Journal of the Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society

Journal of the Westport historical Society (Cathair na Mart)

Journal of the Wexford Historical Society

Journals of the Butler Society

Kenmare Literary and Historical Society

Kinsale Historical Journal

Lecale Miscellany

Limerick Field Journal

Lisburn Historical Society Journal

Local History Review

Lough Gur Historical Society Journal

Mallow Field Club

Mizen Journal

North Irish Roots. Journal of the North of Ireland Family History Society

North Mayo historical and Archaeological Society Journal

Old Athlone society

Old Blarney

Old Kilkenny Review

Old Limerick Journal

Old Newry Journal

Oughtera

Rathdowney Review

Reportorium Novum

Riocht na Midhe

Saintfield Heritage

Seanchas Ardmhaca

Seanchas Chairbre

South Derry Historical Society Journal

South Mayo Family History Research Journal

Teathbha

The Carlowvian

The Drumlin, a Journal of Cavan, Leitrim and Monaghan

The Glynns (see Glynns and Journal of the Glens of Antrim Historical Society)

The Irish Ancestor

The Irish Sword

The Past – Wexford’s Past

Roundwood Historical and Folklore Journal

Sliabh Aughty – East Clare heritage Journal

Studia Hibernica

Tempests Annual

Times Past

Tipperary Historical Journal

Transactions of the Ossory Archaeological Society

Ulster Journal of Archaeology

Military Index, 1832

On the shelves in the National Archives of Ireland are some indices – books – and these books are indexed in a number of ways – the general title is ‘Index of Official Papers’. For most of the years, they have this title – but then for some of the years, there are Military or other indices with information separated from the general run of the mill official index for that year.


There is information in these as to the movements of various regiments – the simple fact of groups being overcome by cholera or some such gives us an idea of the times that diseases were present in certain places or all of Ireland. There are references to marriage records in here – requests from people for the effects of some other person, indicating relationships.

All the indices are indexed alphabetically – in the general indices then there may be a cross reference back to another letter of the alphabet in order to find the reference number.

The reference for any document is the number – what you see here has not been checked against the original and only covers items to ‘O’. As it stands, it simply gives you the researcher an idea of a resource that is not mentioned or rarely mentioned in lists of Irish genealogical resources.

Whilst the majority of th original documents may not be extant, the indices are still an extremely important resourse. To the best of my knowledge these have not yet been placed on microfilm.

Article: A

21. Anderson, John – Certificate of his services in 23rd Dragoons
45. Artillery Royal permitted to exercise in the Phoenix Park
79. Adj. Genl Depy. – respecting blank routes
011. Armstrong, Captn. – Soliciting appointment of District Adjt. At Cork
016 Artillery Royal – Passage to the Colonies of the Wives of Soldiers of.
114. Adg. Genl. Depy – Blank Routes
121 Adj Genl. Depy. – Requesting a list of names & stations of Yeom Brigade Majors
135. Armit & Boroughs – Franking of remittances &c.
319. Adjt. Genl. Depy – requesting a supply of blank routes
321. Antrim Mila (Militia) Jas. S. Moore, Esq., Junr., appointed Captain in.
332 Antrim Mila (Militia) Resignation of Ensign Di?ckey.
332 Antrim Mila – Appointment of A. Dunlop Esq., ?vied?

B

17 Bryen, Henry – Enquiry requesting Billets
30. Beard, Geo., a Deserter committed to the Bridewell at Newry
60. Brennan, M. D. Article in Tralee Mercury resp Mila allowances &c.
901. Benson, Lieut. – Representation respecting the 50th Regt.
104. Byrne, Mr. Gunpowder Vender – Robbery of
130 Beresford, Lt. Col., discontinued as Asst. Lr. Master General
133. Burdett, Mrs. Applying for copies of correspondence between her and Mrs. Goulbarn
144. Billeting of the Troops – Circular letter respecting
147. Billets to be provided by the Constables of Parishes
177. Bingham, M. Genl. Sir George to command the troops during Sir. H. Vivian’s absence
209. Brown, Mrs. Rebecca – Enquiry respecting the property of Capn. Phillips 44th Foot.
210. Brown, Mrs. Marriage Certificate of
212 Basworth, Private John. Attendance required at the Kilkenny Assizes
213. Brannon, Private, Thos. Sentence of transportation passed
227. Borehan, Mrs. Marriage Certificate of
241. Brereton, Private Martin, false information of, respecting Mr. Going’s murder
240. Boyle, Edwd. – Transported for Desertion
244. Brady, Lieut., respecting the delay in issuing his half pay
259. Burke, Bridget – respecting her son John Burke
261.Bulkankle, Jas. Sentence of transportation against.
267. Brannon, Private, Thos. – Struck off the ?52nd (or 32nd) Foot
2601 Blacke, Richd. Application for a commuted allowance &c.
2901 Brown, Private Fredk. Court Martial upon
305 Buchan, Major Gen. Sir John appointed on the Staff protempore
307 Bishop, Lieut. Respecting his Mila half pay in the event of his joining Don Pedro’s Service.
314 Bat?lie, John. Praying for a pension
327 Blakeney, M. Genl. Sir E. appointed to command the Troops pre temporare
347 Bishop, Mrs. Marriage Certificate of.

C

12 Campbell, Sir Guy 2nd Mr Genl. March of troops to Cashel & elsewhere
30 Corry, Trevor. Report respecting Geo Beard a Deserter
37 Carlow Militia. Arms to be conveyed to Dublin
301 Campbell, M. Genl. Respecting Mily accommodation at Carndonagh
43 Cavan Mila. Agreement for hire of accommodation of
50 Carlow Mila. John J. Cornwall to be Major in
51 Cork North Mila. Mr. Temple French Esq., to be Lt. Colonel in
91 Collins, Winifred. Praying for a passage for her husband a Soldier
99 Convicts. Escort for an Route to Kingstown
115 Callegy, John. Claim to a pension
119 Creagan, Eleanor. Praying for a free passage to her son at Woolwich.
120 Cork – Local inspr of the Gaol acknowledging Mutiny Act.
144 Circular letter respecting the billeting of the Troops – Mr. Bell
163 Carmichael, Jas. Claim against Thos. Sheridan Pensioner.
1014 Commissary Genl. Contracts for fuel and candles for Barracks
199 Cunningham, John. Enlisted and discharged without paying the smart money
200 Cope, Mrs. Marriage Certificate.
202 Chaloner, Rd. Conduct of Private Lavery, 28th Foot.
205 Caroll, Private ?Sth. Transportation of
206 Cooney, Michael Private. Transportation of
211 Cust, Mrs. Marriage Certificate of
224 cain, Private ?Stm. Sentence of – Transportation
229 Circular respecting Forage Allowances
231 Connell, Mary – Application for her husbands pension &c.
2401 Cowan, Wm. Respecting the sale of his half pay.
254 Chartrs, Mrs. Marriage certificate of
256 Cavan Mila. Appointments of Majrs. Thompson & Waring in
260 Carey, Capn. Tyrone Mila – Retired Allowance of.
261 Campbell, Robert – Sentence of Transporting Against.
276 Circular respecting Chelsea pensioners to Magistrates at Petty Sessions
277 Circular Respecting Chelsea Pensioners to inspr. Gen. Of Police
281 Clare Militia – appointment of a successor to Col. Sir J. ?Birtan
292 Cormick, Pat. Claim against the Officers of the S. Mayo Mila.
293 Campbell, ?Ds. William – Hospital Asst. Question respecting
302 Connolly, Michl. Claim to the effects of Pat & Ml. Connolly
304 Clare Militia – Reps. Cane & Co. appointed Agents to
3001Cole, Edwd. Sentence of Transportation against.
310 Chadwick, Lieut Peter – sale of his Commission in the Tipperary Mila.
311 Clare Mila. Conduct of Lieutenant Hodges
318 Cavan Mila. Mr. Thos. Young appointed Ensign in
320 Chelsea Hospital, Conduct of Elliott a Pensioner
329 Carter, Revd. H., Claim for officiating for the Troops at Carrickfregus
334 Clare Mila. Poole Hickman appointed Capt vice Griffin
S.G. Purdon do Patterson
Augustine Buller do Blood
Michl Finnucane do martin
3401 cane, Rd. Accommodation for paying Chelsea pensioners
354 Cheshire, Private Thos. Enquiry respecting
356 Circular – Suspension of the operation of that part of the Royal Warrant dated 14th Novr granting under certain conditions the discharge of Soldiers to pension at their own request.
359 Circular respecting the conveyance of Soldiers and their families by coasting Steam or canal conveyance.
365 circular respecting the rates for Fuel, Candles, Straw and Wood for the Troops in Ireland.
367 Circular respecting the rates of Allowance to general and other Staff Officers of infantry Regts in lieu of Forage for horses required to be kept by them.

D

19 Dowans, Edwd. Enquiry respecting his Son 23rd Welsh Fusiliers
22 Donnolan, Patk. Alledged debt due by 2nd Master Cooper Clare Mila
59 Drought, G.E.A. Soliciting compensation as a retired Billet Master
70 Down South Mila. Accommodation for Staff of
013 Down South Mila. Agreement respecting said Accommodation
0101Duggan, Mr. King’s duty on cart horses sold by
95 Darnly, Earl of. Acknowledging Circular respecting billeting of Troops
97 Dillon, Captn. Expenses incurred by as a magistrate &c.
104 Dillon, captn. Robbery of a Gunpowder vender at Tullamore
1001 Dunne, Geo. 32nd Foot. Enquiry respecting
125 Doherty, John – Debt of Lt. Curey, Tyrone Mila
129 Down Mila South – Arms and Accoutrements of
1401 Dalzell (Darbyell?) Saml. Schoolmr. Serjt. (Informations against)
156 Durneen, Eleanor – Applying for the Admission of her children into the Hibernian School
160 Doyle, C. Claim against the 60th Regt.
176 Daunt, Mrs. Marriage certificate of
192 Down North Mila. Appointment of Mr. Knox as captain
193 Daunt, Mrs. Marriage Certificate of
212 Duffy, Corporal – Attendance required at the Kilkenny Azzises
214 Darley, Ensign – Attendance required at the Kilkenny Azzises
221 Dublin Co. Militia – Baron de Robeck appointed Major of
2301 Dublin Co. Militia. Claim for the rent of the premises occupied by the Staff and Stores of
245 Dunphy, Edwd. Claim for acting as a Billet Master
247 Despard, Fras. Report on the conduct of the 28th Regt.
2501 Doherty, Sarah on behalf of her husband a soldier sentenced to be transported
261 Duggan Jeremiah Sentence of – Transportation against
Doherty, Dennis. Sentence of – Transportation against
280 Dempsey, Anne – Claim as a Relative of Miller, a Bandman
3001 Drake, John. Sentence of Transportation against
309 Down South Mila. E. Matthews appointed to Lt. Colonel
313 Dwyer, John. Claim as a Billet Master
316 Douglas, M. Genl. Sir. Jas. Placed on the Staff of Ireland.

E

33. Earl Robt, Wexford, Mila praying for a Pension
105. Early, John Enquiry respecting a balance due to his son a soldier.
10101 Eightieth Foot. Mssrs Cane & Co., appointed Agents to.
215Eighty First Foot or Eighty fourth Foot to be embarked from Liverpool to Dublin
246. Eighty First Foot. Mssrs. Armit & Co, appointed Agents to.
296. East India Co. Service – Question as to Pensions of the
320. Elliot, Robt., Pensioner. Refusal to take the oath of Allegiance.

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16 52nd Foot. Mssrs. Cane & Co., appointed Agents to.
28. 47th Foot. Disembarkation of
39.Forbes, Visct. Report respecting an attempt to rescue a Deserter.
40.FitzHarris, Thos. Application for Geo. Jephson’s discharge from the Army.
55. 43rd Foot. Mssrs. Armit & Borough appointed Agents to.
56. 47th Foot. Mssrs. Armit & Borough appointed Agents to.
67. 47th. Major Sadleir – Transmissoin of Routes & Returns.
131. 4th Dragoon Guards. Mssrs. Cane & Co. Appointed Agents to.
146. Finlay Private, 6th Dr. Guards. Maintenance of a Child sworn to.
164. Ford, Peter. Enquiry respecting his marriage.
1015. Fintown. Misconduct of the Innkeeper at in refusing to accommodate a Military Escort.
215. 14th Foot. To be embarked from Portsmouth to Cork.
250 14th Foot. Mssrs. Armit & Borough & Co., appointed Agents to.
251. Floyd, Edwd., Soliciting a Pension as a retired Corporal of Militia.
261. Filly, Denis alias Bourke alias O’Donnell sentence of transportation against.
266. Fannon, John. Claim to Pension negatived.
281. Fitzgerald & Vesey, Lord. Vacant Colonelcy of Clare Militia
291. Feeney, John. Petition of the Widow of.
296. Fenton, J. Conduct of Pensioners of the East India Co. Service.
341. Forster, Major Wm. F. appointed as Asst. Adjt. Genl. Vice Harris.
344. Fannon, John. Col. Lindsay’s Certificate returned to
364. Fraser Mrs. Marriage Certificate of.

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115. Gray, Saml., not considered eligible to a Yeomanry Commissoin
014. Gormley Revd., Mr. P.P. Claim for officiating in the Genl. Mily. Hospital
102. Griffith, Hugh. Private 66th Foot, application for relief.
161. Griffin, – convicted for having Fire Arms contrary to Law
161 also Gillespie, Joshua, recommending the disposal of said arms
167. Giddins, Thos. Applying for a Pension from the Chelsea Hospital
1016. General Order for granting Mily aid to Civil Power &C.
194. Griersan, Mssrs. Bill for ?Mutiny Acts &C.
196. Griffin, Mrs. Marriage Certificate of
257. Goodwin, Mrs. Rebecca – Claim to the Pension of
263. Galligan, Bridget. Enquiry as to her marriage.
279. Gore, Patk., late Pensioner – respecting his pension.
2016. Good, S. Pensioner – Conduct of.
289. Granard – Conduct of the Chief Constable at – Escape of a Deserter.
323. Gibson, Revd. A., Claim for officiating for the Military.
331. Galway Mila. Mr. C. Le Poer French appointed Captain in.
353. Gordin, Henry, Respecting Corpl. H. Gordins’ effects.

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23. Hanbury, SSm. Compensation as Billet Master in town of Galway
24 Hewt Corpl. 60th Foot. Enquiry respecting distribution of his effects
66. Hazlewood Geo.Soliciting compensation as a Militia Officer.
69 Hibernian School Excuse for Sir. Sm. Gossets non-attendance as a Governor of.
015 or 615. Hervey, Lt. 66th Foot, Claim for his Widow to a Pension
103. Heany, Robt. Claim for Rent due by a Pensioner
117. Heffernan Park. Claim for car hire for Provisions for 9th Foot.
152. Heyburn, John. Enquiry thro’ Recruiting Dept respecting.
153 Hemly, Captain. – Claim for expenses incurred as Magistrate.
165 Harvey, Lady. Case of as Washerwoman of the Royal Hospital
Hibernian School – Mr. Rays’ bequest to See. 110
1701. Hungate SSm. Enquiry respecting his being a Coll. In the Army.
1013 Hogan, Private, Henry – Confined for debt. – Liberated.
197. Hill – Jas. Claim as Billet Master of Kildare
206. Hawkins, John SSm. Private. Transportation of.
2001 Hall, Mrs. Marriage Certificate of.
222 Hughes John – Marriage of with Judith Robinson not considered legal.
225 Hales, Mrs. Marriage Certificate of.
264. Hart, Hugh – Certificate of his services required.
265 Hunt, Mrs. Marriage certificate of.
290 Hynes, Michael – Claim to pension
311 Hodges lieut. Ssm. Conduct of.
341 Harris Lt. Col. Asst. Adj. Genl. Succeeded by Major Forster
342 Hawkins SSm Trial before a Court Martial
343. Hizzard, Private Thos. Applicatino on behalf f the Son of.
350 Hare, Lt. Col. Military party required for the protection of Coroner & c.

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40. Jephson , Geo. Requesting an application for his discharge from the army
73 Joyce, David – claim to property left by 2nd Master Lynch
169. Johnston, Alexr Meml to be restored to the ensoins List
203 Irwin Mrs. Marriage certificate of
216. Johnston, Private John. Attendance required at Clonmel Assizes
223 Jones Rees B? Laudable conduct in billeting troops &C.
273. Jordan, Wm. Claim for arrears of pay & Clothing
2015 Jones, Private J. Case of pistols sold by
322 Irvine, Jas. Requesting the half pay of the late Ensign Frederick
355 Johnstone, Mrs. Marriage certificate of.

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7 Kerry Militia – Augmentation Major Crosbie proposed to fill vacant Majority
31 Kemmis ?Mssrs. Report respecting debt of J.L. right
72 Keehan, Ml. Petition to be restored to the Penson List
107 Kelly Thos. Late of 15 Foot. Enquiry respecting his Effects.
1101. Keown, Fids. Claim against John Lappan 64th Foot
147 Kinnegad – Refusal of the Parish to nominate a Billet Master at.
155. Kelly Troop 2nd Mr. 4th Dr. Guards – statements of his services required
190 Kenna Thos. Out Pensioner of the Queens Co. Militia – Complaint of.
206 Kitson, George Private, Transportation of
214 Kay, Robert Sergt Major. Attendance required at Kilkenny Assizes.
220 Kelly, Mrs. Marriage certificate of.

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14 Leslie, Major Cong. Bl. Rifles, requesting permission to parade in Lower Castle Yard
34 Lally, Edwd. 10th Foot. Sentence to Transportation
35 Lee, SSm 28th Foot. Sentence to Transportation
47 Leitrim Militia. Lodgement in Ordnance Stores of the spare arms of
74 Leitrim Militia. Escort for Swords to be returned into Store
701 Londonderry Militia. Imprisonment of a Drummer for debt.
017 Leitrim Militia, Charges against Adjutant Cox
90 Londonderry Militia, Liability of House hired for, to taxation
96. Larkin, Pat. Complaining of a Canteen for the Militia at Oughterard
110 Lappan, John 64th Foot, Claim of Fras. Keown against
122 Lamb, Rose. Praying for a passage to her husband serving in 75th Foot.
134 Lalor, Pat. 52nd Foot. Conduct of
202 Lavery, Wm. Private 28th Foot. Assault on a Police Constable
253 Lindesay, Mrs. Marriage Certificate of
284 Leitrim Militia. Claim of Serjt. Rutherford
286 Lorinan, N or M. Conduct of Good a Pensioner
301 Liddy, Patk. Claim to the effects of ?Timy Liddy, East India Co.
3001 Leitch, SSm. Sentence of Transportation against.
317. Lloyd, Mrs. Marriage certificate of.

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4 Murray, Revd. ?Wm. Additional Allowance granted to
5 MacLean Major Genl. To succeed M. Genl. Smith Bl. Artillery
11. McClintock, Lieut. Repost respecting debt alledged to be due by him
26 Mily Secy. Mily party required to attend a public whipping at Galway
44 McDonald, Bernard, respecting prize money due to his brother
46 M. Genl. MacLean recommended for vacancy at the Board of the Royal Hospital
48 Murray Michl. Memorial to be restored to his Situation in the Engineers Dept.
52 Monaghan Milia. Col. Madden to be Col. Commandant
57 Military promotions and appointments in Ireland since 3rd Jany 832
501 Military promotions and appointments since 24th Janey 1832
60 McCartie, Mr. Charge against respecting Mila Compensation
61 Moffit, John. A minor discharged from 84th Regt.
Mily Secy. Report from on the abovementioned subject (discharge of Moffit, John)
62 Mily Promotions and Appointments in Ireland since 13th Feby 1832
64 Mahan Margt. Claim on the Forage Contractor to the Troops at Athlone
65 McDonald B. Prize Money
601 Monaghan Milia. Accomodation for Staff
96 Mily Secy. Report respecting a canteen car at Oughterard
100 Molloy, ?Arthur, not entitled to a pension
106. McMahon, John. Enquiry respecting Captain Cradock
111 McDermott, Geo. Late Pensioner 1st Foot, applying for relief etc.
112 McCraith, Patk respecting an annuity granted on account of his mother
126 Mily Secy. Illegal marriages of Soldiers of 92nd Foot (See 143)
1201 Mily Secy. Subsistence &c. of Soldiers wives & Children attacked with Cholera
130 Mily Secy Discontinuance on the Staff of Lieutenant Cols. Vincent & Beresford
137 Mily Secy. Order for burning the clothing of Soliers dying of the Cholera
138 Mily Secy. Transmitting Reports from Major Menzies 68th Foot to Capt Dillon64th
141 Mily Secy . Inconvenience attending the billeting of 4th Dr. Gds. At Newry
142 Moore, Hugh. Requesting Act for guidance of Billet masters
143 Mily Secy. Prosecution of Mr. Allen for illegally marrying soldiers
145 Mily Secy Transmitting reports from Major Madden & Capt Des Veux 50th Regt.
149 Mily Secy. Accommodation of Soldiers wives and Children attacked with Choler
150 Mily Secy. Removal of Military from the Penitentiary at Cork.
1501 Mily Secy Respecting the circulation of the General Orders for aiding the Civil Power
170 Madden, Private, Jas. Rate of Pension
174 Martin, rs. Marriage Certificate of
179 Military Acts, Circulation of
1010 McClerahan, Jas. Acts respecting Billet Markers required
1015 Mily Secy. Misconduct of an Innkeeper at Finntown
186. Mily Secy. Genl Order for granting Mily aid to the Civil Power & c.
195 Montgomerie, Mrs. Marriage certificate of
199 Miott (??), Jas. Discharge of a recruit enlisted by him without paying the smart money.
206 Martin, Jas alias SSm Thompson, Private. Transportation of
216 Moody, David & Peter. Attendance required at Clonmel Azzizes.
240 Mance, Thos. Transported for Desertion
242 McGee, Patkk. Complaint of a non-payment of his Pension
269. Mily Secy. Conduct of a Private of the 28th Foot at Callan
2701 McLeod, John Private, Transported
2013 McDuff, rs. Hannah. Supposed fraud in receiving her pension
280 Miller, Private 87th Foot. Claim of Anna Dempsey as a relative of.
289 Mily Secy. Conduct of the police Officers at Granard. Escape of a Deserter &c.
294 McDonald, Michael. Struck off the Pension List &c.
299 McGran, Jas. Praying to be placed on the Pension List.
303 McEllice, Private Chas. Attendance required at the Quarter Sessions
306 Mily Secy Attendance of Soldiers required at Clonmel
3001 Magennis, Patk. Sentenceof Transportation against.
309 Mathews, Echlin. Appointed Lt. Col. Of the Down Militia
312 McDermot, Fras. Enquiry respecting his service in the German Army
328 Meehan, John a Pensioner – Conduct of.
330 Mayo South Milia. Appointments of Mssrs. Orm & Palmer in
335 Mily Secy Grant of an additional allowance of 2 lbs of oats per ration to flases in billet?
337 McCoy SSm, Claim to Pension
Martin, SSm. Cliam to Pension.
339 Mily Secy. Transmitting letters from Major Parke & Capt O’Neill
340 Mily Secy Refusal of the Parish Priest of Boyle to officiate at the funeral of a Catholic Soldier of the 34th Foot.
342. Miller, Geo. Trial before a Court Martial
345 McGray, John – Claim to a Pension
349 Moore, Garret, acknowledging letter and sating that he has forwarded t to the ordnance Department
363 Mily Secy Hire of a magazine at Derry for the ammunition of 30th Regt.
366 Mottram, P.C. Enquiry respecting the Cheshire Militia
3601 Mathews, Private George – Application for his discharge.

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31 Newport?Mssrs. Dividend on account of debt of T. L. Wright (see 89/33)
012 Needham, Henry. Enquiry from British War Office respecting
94 9th Foot not to be sent to Gibralter at present
107 Nowlan An. Effects of the late Thos. Kelly 15th Foot
159 New ?Ross, Sovereign of respecting the billeting of troops
215 90th Foot to b embarkd from Glasgow to Scotland
91st Foot To be embarqued from Liverpool to Dublin
232 Do Mssrs. Cane & Co. Appointed Agents to
274 Nowlan, Mrs. Marriage certificate of
3001 Noble John Sentence of Transportation against
360 Nester, Mrs. Marriage Certificate of

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101 Ordnance – Cooking Material supplied to Guard Houses
20 Ordnance – Ammunition for Longford Militia Staff
63 O’Halloran, Lt. Marriage certificate of the Widow of
019 O’Brien Lieut., 2nd. Vr. Batt. Claim of his widow to pension
96 Oughterard, Complaint against a Canteen Car for the Military at
113 Ordnance – Reception into Store of the Arms and deposited in the gaol at Dundalk
124 Ordnance Issue of Pistols for persons employed at the Gaol at Maryboro’
132 Ordnance – Reception into the Store of the surplus arms &c of the South Down Mila
172 Ormond, Marquis of, appointed Aid de Camp to the King
205 Oakley, Private John, Transportation of
2101 O’Neill, John Late private 64th Foot, Claim of the Widow of
230 Ordnance – Bedding for the Provost prison Dublin
239 Owen, Mrs. Marriage Certificate of
366 Ordnance – Mr. Mothams ? enquiry respecting the Cheshire Mila was quartered in Richmond Barracks.

Revenue Officers, 1709

This is a list of people employed by the Irish Revenue Service in 1709. The surnames are for the most part English, those of Anglo-Irishmen. Some of these people would have been Englishmen who came to Ireland and settled down. Many will have been moved from one place of employment to another. This list simply shows the area in which they were employed on June 24th, 1709. Each name is found attached to a particular district, these districts may have covered more than one county. Districts may have had sub-groupings depending on the occupation of the person.


Fair Towns of Ireland, 1834

The Fair towns were very important towns and people walked for miles on a fair day to go to sell their produce. Until the Fair Day people would have no money and so once the produce or the animals were sold then the bills would be paid. The Fair towns in any county were major towns, places the population concentrated on, those that were important because of their fairs in the past may no longer be of any importance in a county today. Listed below are the names of the fair towns in each county as per Wilson’s Directory of Ireland, 1834. This list is also important in that it not only gives us the name sof the towns, but we can see variations on the way they were spelled in 1834 compared to the present spelling.


ANTRIM
Ahogill Antrim Ardmoy Ballyclare Ballinagobogh Bridge Ballintoy Ballycarry Ballycastle Ballymena Ballymoney Ballymure Belfast Bernice Broughshane Bushmills Carrickfergus Carmony Clough Connor Craigbilly Crumlin Cushendall Dervock Drimbar Drumadoon Dunloy Dunluce Glenarm Glenavy Kells Larne Lisburn Loughgill Mosside Mounthill Newtowncrommelin Oldstone Parkgate Portglenone Randalstown Rasharkan Roughfort Shanecastle Straid Stranocum Templepatrick Toome Tullamore

ARMAGH
Acton Armagh Ballibought Balnaglera Blackwatertown Camlough Charlemont Clare Crosmaglin Cullyhanna Culloville Forkhill Hamilton’s-bawn Jonesborough Johnstown’s bridge Keady Killileagh Loughgall Lurgan Mahery Markethill Middleton Newtownhamilton Pointzpass Portadown Portnorris Richhill Surgowny Tanderagee Tuskinpass

CARLOW
Ballon Borris Carlow town Hacketstown Kiledmond Knockan Knockmill Leighlinbridge Milford Myshall Nurney Orchard Palatinetown Rathvilly Sherwood Slyguff Staplestown St. Mullins Tennehinch Tullow Wells

CAVAN
Arvagh Bailieborough Ballinagh Ballinacarrig Ballyconnell Ballyhaise Ballyhighland Ballyjamesduff Bawn Belturbet Butlersbridge Cavan town Cootehill Crossdoney Crosskeys Doobally Kilcoguy Killeshandra Kilgola Kilnaleck Kilsub Kingscourt Largy Mountnugent Muff Mullogh Redhill Scraby Shircock Stradone Swadlinbar Tullyvin Virginia

CLARE
Annacarriga Ardsallas Ballindreat Ballyket Ballyludan Banroe Bodike Bridgetown Broadford Brodagh Bunratty Callaghans Mills Clare town Clonroad Cooreclare Corofin Cratilow Donass Doonbeg Doonmore Enagh Ennis Ennistimon Holyisland Jasper’s pound Jeverstown Killanteel Kilclaren Kildysart Kilfenora Kilkeshen Killaloe Kilmichael Kilrush Kilmurrybricken Kilmurrymacmahon Lisdeen Miltownmalbay Moyarta Moynoe (Ballyglass) Moynoe (Read’s cross) Newmarket O’Brien’s bridge Quin Rosmanaher Scariff Sixmilebridge Spancelhill St. John’s Well Tomgrany Tulla Turloughmore

CORK
Ahacross Annegrove Aughadown Ballinakelly Ballinamona Ballinavar Ballinhassig Ballinphellie Ballinspidale Ballybuy Ballnacarrig castle Ballyclough Ballydehob Balligurteen Ballyhooly Ballyheene Ballymacody Ballyvolane Ballyvorney Bandon Banlahan Bantry Barnagrove Bartholomew’s well Blarney Brigown Buttevant Cahirmee Cardriney Carrigalane Carrigtowhill Castlelyons Castlemartyr Castletown Castletownroche Cecilstown Charleville Clonakilty Cloyne Connagh Coolaguragh Cooldorky Coolymurrahoe (Cork city) Cork city Cottersborough Crookstown Currabegland Curras and Maun Dangan Donaghmore Doneraile Downderry Drimoleague Dromagh Dromdeer Droumalagree Duhallow Dunmanway Eirkmacody Enniskeane Fermoy Fivemilebridge Glangowra Glanworth Glenville Gooseberryhill Greenoghs Innishannon Insegeela Kanturk Kilbritton Kilcummer Kildorery Killacounty Killieagh Kilmurrahan Kilmacleran Kilmurry Kiworth Kinsale Knocknacroghery Knucknamariff Lepp Liscarroll Lisgoold Lisnacon Lough of Cork Macroom Magilla Mallow Maslacanlands Masseytown Milford Middleton Millstreet Mitchelsfort Mitchelstown Mogeely Monkstown Mossgrove Mountbeamish Nadrid Newcestown Newmarket Newmill Newtown Oldabbey Oldcastle Oldmillstreet Passage west Rathclare Rathcormuck Rockhill Ross Rostellan Rugsboro’ Shanballymore Shandrum Sixmilewater Skibbereen Timoleague Tracton Transtown Tullilease Youghal

DONEGAL
Aghygaults Ardara Ballintra Ballybofey Ballynass Ballyshannon Bonnyfobble Buncrana Burnfoot Cloghanbeg Carrigart Carndonagh Castlefinn Church-hill Convoy Culdaff Donegal town Dunfanaghy Dunkanally Fintown Glenties Killybegs Killigordan Laghey Letterkenny Machremore Malin Manorcunningham Mountcharles Muff Newbridgeglen Newtowncunningham Oldtown Port Pettigo Ramullen Raphoe Rashedog Rathmelton Redcastle Rosnakill St. Johnston’s Stranorlar Tullyodonald

DOWN
Annadoyne Ardara Ballinahinch Balamagarry Ballow Ballywalter Banbridge Bangor Bryansford Carrowdore Castlereagh Castlewellan Clough Comber Crossgar Donaghadee Donaghmore Down Downpatrick Dromore Dundrum Gilford Grayabbey Greencastle Hillsborough Hilltown Kilkeel Killileagh Killough Kilmore Kircubbin Loughbrickland Narrowwater Newry Newtownards Portaferry Rostrevor Rathfriland Saintfield Scarvaghpass Seaford Sheepbridge Strangford Warrenpoint

DUBLIN
Balriggan Ballymore Eustace Balrothery Carrickmines Donnybrook Fieldstown Garristown Kilsallaghan Lusk Newcastle Palmerstown Rathmichael Rathfarnham Rush Saggard Skerries St. Margaret’s Swords Tallaght

FERMANAGH
Ballinamallard Belcoo Belleek Brookborough Calaghane Callowhill Churchhill Clubboy Derralin Derrygonnelly Donagh Ederneybridge Enniskillen town Garrison Irvinestown Kesh Lisbellaw Lisnacarrick Lisnakea Maguiresbridge Magheravooly Monea Newtownbutler Roslea Stragowna Tempo Wheathill

GALWAY
Abbeynockmoy Aghrimlands Ahascragh Ardrahin Athenry Ballinakill Ballinamore Ballinasloe Ballymoate Ballymoe Barna Caltragh Cappatogel Castleblakeney Castelhackett Claddagh Claranbridge Claregalway Claremore Clifden Clonbur Clonfert Creggs Derry Mcoughy Drumgriffin Doonmore Dunloe Eyrecourt Fairhill Galway square (East gate) Galway town Gort Headfort Isserkelly Kilconnell Kilcorban Kilcreest Killimore Kilnelag Kiltartan Kiltormerkelly Kinvara Laurencetown Loughrea Meelick Monivea Moylough Mount Bellew bridge Mount shannon Newtowneyre Newtownbellew Oranmore Portumna Renville Tuam Tubberbracken Tuberindonny Tubberpadder Tullindally Turlaghmore Tynagh Whitegate Woodford

KERRY
Ardfert Ballinclare Ballincleave Ballyheige Beale Beenmore Blenerville Cahirsiveen Castleisland Castelamine Currans Dromkeen Dromoroirk Gleneragh Granshaw Kilfin Kilgobnet Killarney Killorglin Lackeen Listowel Mallahuff Miltown Montanagee Mullahish Nantenane nedeen Rougtybridge Scortaglinny Tarbert Tralee

KILDARE
Athy Ballimaney Ballyonan Ballytore Calvertstown Castledermot Castle Carberry Celbridge Clane French-furs Hortland Johnston’s bridge Killballinerin Kilcock Kilcullen Kilcullenbridge Kildangan Kildare town Kilgowan Kildroughill Kilmeague Kilteel Leixlip Maynooth Monasterevan Moone Naas Narraghmore Newbridge Rathangan Rathbride Redlion inn Russelwood Timolin Tully

KILKENNY
Ballylinch Ballynamara Ballicallen Ballyhall Ballyhibbuck Ballyragget Ballytrisna Barrowmount Bawn Bennet’s-bridge Burnchurch Callan Castlecomer Castlemorris Churchland Rower Cloga Coolianta Durrow Fertagh Fiddown Freshford Gore’s-bridge Gowran Graig Graigstown Grayney Innistiogue Johnstown Kells Kilkenny Killiboy Kilmaganny Kilmurry Knockmoyland Knocktopher Listerlin Mullinahow Mullinavat Powerstown Rathbeagh Rathkerran Rosberkon St. John’s Well St. Canice Stroan Templemartin Thomastown Tullaroan Urlingford

KINGS COUNTY (OFFALY)
Ballyboy Ballicowan Banagher Bernagrotty Birr Ballycumber Brosney Charlestown Claranbridge Cloghan Clonbullock Conegown Clonony Creggan Cullenwayne Dunkerrin Edenderry Ferbane Frankfort Gallen Gleashill Kilcommon Killyon Killeagh Kinety Moneygall Phillipstown Rahillane Shannon Shinrone Tullamore

LEITRIM
Ballinamore Carrick-on-Shannon Carrigallen Cashcarrigan Cloone Drumahaire Drumkerran Drumod Drumshanbo Druinsna Jamestown Leitrim Longfield Lurganbridge or Lurganbuy Lurganby Manorhamilton Mohill Newtown Newtowngore Tullaghan Turagh

LIMERICK
Abbeyfeale Abbington Adare Almer Anglesborough Ardagh Ardpattrick Askeaton Ballingarry Ballingarrycramer Ballinvreeny Ballymagarrydown Ballybrood Ballyscanlan Bilboa Bruff Brury Caherconlish Cahirellywest Castleconnell Castletown Cluggin Court and Curraheen Croaghburgess Croome Drumcollogher Dromon Fedemore Galbally Glanogra Glin Herbertstown Hospital Kilfennycommon Kilfinan Kilmallock Kilmiddy Kilmore Kilteely Knockaderry Knockany Knocktoran Knocklong Limerick city Lismullane Mountpelier Murroe Nantenant Newcastle Pallasgreen Patrick’s well Portrenard Racahill Rathkeale Shanagolden Singland Spurreboy Stonehall Tubbermurry Tullow Turagh

LONDONDERRY
Bellaghy Castledawson Churchtown Clady Coleraine Cross Curran Desertmartn Dungiven Feeny Figivee Garvagh Killowen Kilrea Lisane Londonderry Moneymore Magherafelt Mahera Mahoolan Muff Newtown-Limavady Parke Portglenone Swatteragh Tubbermore Tryadd

LONGFORD**
Ardagh Ballymahon Barry Bonlahy Cullyvore Drumlish Edgesworthstown Granard Killashee Lanesboro’ Newt. Forbes Shanmulla St. Johnstons St. Johnstown Tashiny

LOUTH**
Annagassan Ardee Castletown Collon Drumcashel Dundalk Dunleer Foggart Lurgangreen Mulaghcrew Rochdale

MAYO
Aglare Ardnaree Aughagown Ball Ballaghaderin Ballina Ballincostello Ballindangan Ballinrobe Ballively Ballyhane Ballyhaunis Ballivary Bangorerris Bauceysbarn Belcarra Belmullet Binghamstownerris Bionneconlan Brize Bunfinglass Cappakerrane Caracastle Castleaken Castlebar Castletownlands Clare Classagh Crossmolina Donamona Fortfield Foxford Gallowshill Glarn Hollymount Keelogues Killala Kilmain Kilternagh Lisloughery Louisburgh Loughmask Melcomberegis Minola Moyne Neale Newtowngrove Newportpratt Rakestreet Rathfran Rues Shrule Straid Swineford Tallagherris Tulrahan Turlogh Westport

MEATH
Ardeath Armabrega Ashbourne Athboy Balliver Ballybogan Bectivebridge Belgree Carlanstownbridge Crossakeale Culmullen Drumconra Duleek Dunboyne Dunshaughlin Garretstown Grenanstown Kells Kildalky Kilmainham Wood Longwood Mulpheddar Navan Nobber Oldcastle Rathmolion Ratoath Skreen Slane Summerhill Trim Warrenstown

MONAGHAN
Ballinode Ballitrain Ballibay Carrickmacross Castleblayney Castleshane Clones Drum Emyvale Glasslough Knockboy Monaghan town Newbliss Rockcorry Scotstown Smithsboro’ Tedounet

QUEEN’S COUNTY (Laois)
Abbeyleix Aghaboe Ballicmoyler Ballinakill Ballybrittas Ballylinan Ballyroan Birchwood Borris-in-Ossory Castlebrack Castletown Clonaslee Castle Cuff Cullenagh Cullihill Donaghmore Dysart Errill Garindinny Graigue Maryboro’ Mayo Mountmellick Mountrath Pike of Rushall Portarlington Rathdowney Stradbally Timohoe Tinnehinch

ROSCOMMON
Ardsallagh Athleague Ballinagrave Ballimurry Ballinafad Ballinlough Ballintubber Ballyfarnon Ballylegue Belonlagh Boyle Brideswell Castleplunkett Castlerea Castlesampson Cootehall Croghan Dangan Elphin Frenchpark Fuerty Glinsk Grevisk Keadne Kilcorky Knockacroghery Leckcarrow Loughlin Miltownpass Mount-talbot Newmarket Rockfield Roscommon town St. John’s Well Strokestown Tarmonbarry Tulsk

SLIGO
Ardnaglass Ballasodare Ballinacarrow Ballinahatty Ballintogher Ballymoate Banada Bellaghy Beltra Bunnidane Bunninaden Carney Carricknagat Castlebaldwin Cliffony Collooney Curry Drinaghanbeg Dromore Easky Enniscrone Farinaharpy Jameswell Newtown Quiguboy Roslee Sligo town Templehouse Tobbercorry Tubberscanavan

TIPPERARY
Ardfinan Ballingarry Ballyclerihan Ballyporeen Ballysheehane Borrisoleigh Burrisokane Cahir Cappagh Clanoulty Cashel Castleotway Carrick-on-suir Clogheen Cloughjordan Cloneen Clonmel Cullen Drum Dundrum Dunhill Emly Feathard Glynn Golden Gormanstown Grange Grangemockler Graystown Holycross Kilcash Kilcooly Killenaule Kilfeacle Killenaule Kilnockin Knockharding Lisinisky Mulinahone Mullough Nenagh New Bermingham Newinn Newport Pallis Roscrea Roesgreen Silvermines Templemore Templetoohy Thurles Tipperary town Toomavara Tubberhaney Tyrone Williamstown

TYRONE
Altmore Ardstranbridge Augher Aughnacloy Ballygawley Ballinmagorey Ballinscally Balnakety Benburbe Beragh Caledon Carland Carnteel Carrickmore Castlecaulfield Castledergh Clady Cookstown Clogher Coagh Dergbridge Donelong Donoughmore Dromore Drumquin Dunaghy Dungannon Dunymana Fintona Fivemiletown Frederickstown Gorten Grange Killeter Killen Machrecregan Mounthamilton Moyne Newtownsaville Newtownstewart Omagh Orrator Pomeroy Seskinore Sixmilecross Stewartstown Strabane Trillic

WATERFORD
Affane Annestown Ballinamultina Ballyduff Ballygunner Ballykeerogue Cappoquin Carrickbeg Clashmore Clonagam Conna Drumana Drumcannon Dungarvan Faithleg Ferrypoint Gardenmorris Kilcomragh Kilgobnet Kilmacthomas Kilstownlaurence Knuckboy Lismore Modiligo Mountaincastle Newton at Silvermines Passage Stradbally Tallow Tramore Two-mile-bridge Waterford city Whitechurch Windygap

WESTMEATH
Athlone Ballinahown Ballymore Ballynacargy Balbarna Balnalack Castlepollard Castletowndelvin Castletowngeoghan Churchtown Clonmallon Collinstown Coole Coolnahay Dunower Empor Finea Fore Freemarket Glasson Grangemore Keney Kilbeggan Kilgarvan Kilkennywest Killear Killucan Kinnegad Killvalley Multifarnham Miltown Moate Moyvore Mullingar Noughwell Rathconrath Rathowen Rathwire Scartanpatrick Tyrellspass

WEXFORD
Adamstown Ballycannow Ballyhack Banoge Birchgrove Blackwatertown Broadway Camolin Cairn Castlebridge Clahaman Clonegall Clonroach Coolgrenny Couracloe Croshue Crosstown Curragraige Enniscorthy Ferns Fethard Gorey Harrow Killinick Killuran Kilmuckbrifge Kilener Lady’s Island Limric Mocorry Monamullin Moneyhore Nash Newross Newtownbarry Oulart Oylegate Ragorey Ramsgrange Scar Scarawalsh Scarvagh Taghmon Tintrin Tomhaggard Wexford town

WICKLOW
Aghrim Arklow Ashford Ballinacor Ballinderry Baltinglass Blessington Bray Calary Carnew Coolkenno Coolattin Coolboy Cronroe Donard Downs Dunlavin Hollywood Kilcoole Kilranelagh Kiltegan Macreddin Newcastle Newtownmountkennedy Rathdrum Rathsallagh Redcross Sevenchurches Shillelagh Stradford-on-Slaney Tinahely Togher Wicklow town

Thomas D’Arcy McGee

Thomas D’Arcy McGee was born in Carlingford, co. Louth on April 13th 1825, the son of James McGee, a coast guard, and of Dorcas Catherine Morgan a Dublin bookseller who took part in the 1798 insurrection. When he was 8 years old they moved to Wexford town and he was educated there. At the age of 17, he emigrated to America and was interested in the Irish Repeal Movement. On 4th July 1842, he gave a speech at a Repeal meeting in Boston, and Daniel O’Connell used to refer to his speeches as “the inspired utterances of a young exiled boy in America.” McGee became editor of the ‘Boston Pilot’.


In 1845, Thomas D’Arcy McGee became London correspondent of the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ and soon afterwards he became the London correspondent of the Irish newspaper ‘The Nation’ and from there, he became leader writer of ‘The Nation’.

Charles Gavan Duffy admired McGees’ skills and describes him in this way:
“The young man was not prepossessing. He had a face of almost African type; his dress was slovenly even for the careless class to which he belonged; he looked unformed and had a manner which at first sight struck me as being too deferential for self-respect. But he had not spoken three sentences in a singularly sweet and flexible voice, till it was plain that he was a man of fertile brains and great originality; a man in whom one might dimly discover rudiments of the orator, poet, statesman, hidden under this ungainly disguise.”

Sir Samuel Ferguson regarded McGee as the most gifted of the Young Ireland poets, and it is by his poetry he will be best remembered. McGee published a large number of historical poems, his earlier poetry was purely national; his later verses were of a religious character. “At a time when his voice was loud in the Parliament of his adopted country in favour of Imperialism,” Martin MacDermott wrote, in the Introduction to the New Spirit of the Nation: “When his pen, in the History of Ireland, could find excuses for Pitt and scarce an execration even for Castlereagh, the poet still yearned with love and longing towards the distant island of his birth.”

McGee was an ardent Young Irelander in his youth but changed his views in later life.

From a lecture he gave in Wexford in 1865 entitled: “Twenty Years Experience of Irish Life in America””You will remember that I spent the years from 1842 to 1845 in the United States, and that I was one of the Young Irelanders in 1848. I am not at all ashamed of Young Ireland – why should I? Politically we were a pack of fools, but we were honest in our folly; and no man need blush at 40 for the faults on one and twenty, unless indeed, he still perseveres in them, having no longer the fair excuse of youth and inexperience.”

He was then the Hon. Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Minister of Agriculture in Canada and on an official visit to Ireland to represent Canada at an International Exhibition in Dublin.

At the meetings of the Repeal Association (pre 1846)and the Irish Confederation, of which he became Secretary, McGee delivered eloquent speeches. At the meeting of the Confederation on the 5th April, 1848, in seconding a resolution proposed by Mitchel (whose policy he had disapproved a few months previously with Smith O’Brien) for the formation of a National Guard, McGee said: –
“I second the resolution proposed by Mr. Mitchel for the enrolment of people because I consider such enrolment will be the best guarantee for life and peace and because I agree with the proposition that liberty is not a commodity that we can import in our ships or bring from France to order. It must, root itself in men’s hearts – it must nerve their arms in action, and their step to take unfalteringly the way to the gallows – it must circulate with the current of their blood, or they are not fully free. Freedom – native freedom, can only be the work of native men. Before this year of 1848 is out, the Irish people, are resolved to obtain that freedom at any cost. If 50,000 Frenchmen should come as allies to Ireland, I will welcome them as brothers and benefactors; if they came with any other object I would meet them as enemies and resist their landing. I support this motion of Mr. Mitchel because it will render foreign aid less necessary to us – because it proposes openly to invite neighbours in a neighbourly alliance, for the defence and assertion of the liberties of this country……. I tell the British Minister from this place (and a small trumpet may utter a great noise) we spurn his triennial Parliament – we spit on his federalism – we want no visits from the Sovereign of the Empire, and none from the Irish Sovereign, except she comes to summon her Irish estates in the Irish capital. I appeal to you, be firm and full of ostentatious courage in this crisis of our fate. Let England be quick – let her offer unconditional Repeal; we will take it and -forgive her.”

McGee was arrested on the 14th July, 1848, for delivering a “seditious” speech in the chapel grounds at Roundwood on the 2nd of that month, and returned for trial to the Wicklow Assises. He was accused of encouraging people to form clubs for the Repeal of the Union, such as those which had been formed Dublin, Cork and Limerick, and which were, ready, when necessity required it to strike a blow on the first opportunity.

He escaped conviction owing to the fact that through some mistake his case did not come before the Grand Jury at the Assizes then sitting, he was then allowed out on bail, and before the Assizes again met he was in America.

McGee wrote in a signed article “The Army of the League” which appeared in ‘The Nation’ on 22nd July, entitled ” The League must know when it is beaten from the halls of argument to the fields of force, and that, I foresee, is not a distant event. But if it will not know this, the people will, nay, do, and the next jury packed in Ireland will be the signal of a revolution which will sweep away every barrier of artifice and every obstacle opposed by power.”

McGee was a member of the War Council, and went to Scotland on a mission to procure recruits, arms and ammunition, and, if possible, to seize some ships on the Clyde and force the crews to bring them to the coast of Sligo for the projected Rising. The mission did not succeed, and he crossed to Ulster, where he was concealed by the Coadjutor-Bishop of Derry (Dr. Edward Maginn – who in 1848 had sent Sir John Gray to Charles Gavan Duffy with a message to the effect that he would take the file at the head of the priests of his diocese, if the insurrection did not take place before the harvest had been reaped.) . When he was in Ulster he met with his wife.

In Scotland he had read his description in the newspaper, ‘Eve and Cry’: “Thomas D’Arcy McGee-Connected with The Nation newspaper; 23 years of age; 5 feet 3 inches in height; black hair; dark face; delicate, pale, thin man; dresses generally black shooting coat, plaid trousers, light vest.” Disguised as a priest, be escaped to America, arriving in Philadelphia on the 10th Oct., 1848, and was befriended by Judge Emmet.

McGee started the ‘New York Nation’, which was devoted to the interests of Ireland. He placed the blame for the failure of the rising in 1848 on the priests and hierarchy, and so gained the disapproval of Archbishop Hughes who was very critical of him.

In 1850, he abandoned the paper which suffered badly in circulation owing to the Archbishop’s criticisms, and started the ‘American Celt’ newspaper in Boston. His political opinions underwent a complete change soon after this and he renounced all his revolutionary ideas. In a letter to Thomas Francis Meagher, McGee stated “that it is the highest duty of a Catholic man to go over cheerfully, heartily and at once, to the side of Christendom – to the Catholic side – and to resist, with all his might, the conspirators, who, under the stolen name of liberty, make war upon all Christian institutions.”

While connected with the Celt, McGee delivered a number of lectures on Irish and Catholic, subjects. He became very unpopular among a large section of the Irish population because of his abandonment of his earlier principles and was denounced as a traitor by the physical force party. He moved his paper to Buffalo, and from there to New York, and, in 1857, he left the country and settled in Canada. He started the ‘New Era’ in Montreal, and became active in politics. Within a year of his arrival in the city he was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly.

Replying to an accusation that he had been a “rebel” in Ireland, he said:-
“It is true I was a rebel in ’48. I rebelled against the misgovernment of my country by (Lord) Russell and his followers. I rebelled because I saw my countrymen starving before my eyes, while my country had her trade and, commerce stolen from her. I rebelled against the Church Establishment in Ireland, and there is not a Liberal man in this community who would not have done as I did, if he were placed in my position, and followed the dictates of humanity.”

He soon attained Cabinet rank, and in both 1862 and 1864 he was President of the Council. He took an active part in the formation of the Dominion of Canada and the federation of the provinces, and came to be regarded as one of the foremost statesmen and orators in the Dominion, to the Parliament of which he was elected as a member for Montreal in 1867, and appointed Minister for Agriculture.

McGee strongly denounced the invasion of Canada, by the Fenians and supported the prosecution of persons disloyal to the Crown In 1867 he visited Paris as a Canadian Commissioner to the Exhibition, and made a tour of the Continent. In the same year, with other members of the Canadian Cabinet, he laid before the British Cabinet in London the plan for the federation of the Canadian provinces.

On the morning of the 7th April, 1868, six days before his 43rd birthday, Thomas D’Arcy McGee was shot dead as he was entering his own house in Ottawa after returning from the Legislature. The Fenians, were accused of having been responsible for his death, and a man named Whelan was executed for it. A public funeral was given to McGee, and provision was made by the State for his widow and children.

McGee wrote a good deal in prose and verse. He contributed two volumes to the Library of Ireland:”Irish Writers of the Seventeenth Century”, and “Memoir of the Life and Conquests of Art MacMurrogh King of Leinster”. He also contributed many articles and numerous poems to The Nation during his residence in Ireland and in America under the pseudonyms “Montanus”; “Amergin”; “Sarsfield”; “Feargail”; “Gilla-Patrick”; “Gilla-Erin”; “M.” “T.D.M” and “An Irish Exile” amongst others.

The Turfman From Ardee

Foreword by Vince Hearns
“When I was a young lad I often heard this song sung on the Walton’s Programme on a Saturday on Radio Éireann, I cannot remember who the singer was. Waltons published the lyrics in their series “Sing an Irish Song” No 10 “Merry Moments” and they attribute its composition to a Patrick Akins. I certainly remember when Margaret Barry recorded it in 1965, indeed I have a copy of the recording her lyrics are somewhat different. I give the Walton’s version here.”


For sake of health I took a walk last week at early dawn,
I met a jolly turf man as I slowly walked along,
The greatest conversation passed between himself and me
And soon I got acquainted with the turfman from Ardee.

We chatted very freely as we jogged along the road,
He said my ass is tired and I’d like to sell his load,
For I got no refreshments since I left home you see,
And I’m wearied out with travelling said the turfman from Ardee.

Your cart is wracked and worn friend, your ass is very old,
It must be twenty summers since that animal was foaled
Yoked to a cart where I was born, September ‘forty three
And carried for the midwife says the turfman from Ardee

I often do abuse my ass with this old hazel rod,
But never yet did I permit poor Jack to go unshod
The harness now upon his back was made by John McGee
And he’s dead this four and forty years says the turfman from Ardee.

I own my cart now, has been made out of the best of wood,
I do believe it was in use in the time of Noah’s flood
Its axle never wanted grease say one year out of three.
It’s a real old Carrick axle said the turfman from Ardee.

We talked about our country and how we were oppressed
The men we sent to parliament have got our wrongs addressed
I have no faith in members now or nothing else you see
But led by bloomin’ humbugs, said the turfman from Ardee.

Just then a female voice called out, which I knew very well,
Politely asking this old man the load of turf to sell
I shook that stately hand of his and bowed respectfully
In hope to meet some future day, the turfman from Ardee.