 River Maigue, Bruree, Limerick (near Charleville)
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CHARLEVILLE
Genealogy & History
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BALLYSULLAGH CHURCHYARD, near Charleville – James Buckley, Esq., in ‘Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Vol. VII, 1907-08’ Transcribed by Anita Sheahan Coraluzzi.
LEMASNE - Colir/ Lemasne/ aged 68 y/ 1795 R.I.P.
HUERD/FITZGERALD - Here lyeth ye Body/ of Margaret Huerd/ Alias ffitzGerald who/ Depart this Life Feb/ ye 3rd 1737 age 23/ Y
SUPPLE - Bridget Supple died in the y 1796 Aged 28 y Erected by her Sister Mary
MILLS - Here lies the Body of Cathrine Mills who Died 8 y 26 1774 Aged 39 years
COPS/RYAN - Erected by Edm Cops in memory of His Father James Cops Who Died Jan 1 1797 Ag'd 108 y Also his Moth Bridget Cops Ali Ryan who died Janry 12 1792 Ag'd..........(buried)
SULLIVAN - Here Lies the Body/ of Jane Sullivan who/ Departed this life/ May y 2 1772/ aged 57 years
QUIN - Here lyeth ye Body/ of John Quin who/ Departed This Life/ April ye 6th 1746 aged/ 23 y
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(CJ 18/2/1762) - WHEREAS Mary Quintian, alias O Donnell, wife of Maurice Quintian of Annagn near Charleville in the county of Corke, hath eloped from her said husband. This is to caution the publick not to credit her on my account as I will not pay any debts contracted by her. Given under my hand this 16th day of Feb. 1762 - MAURICE QUINTIAN.
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1766 RELIGIOUS CENSUS OF CHARLEVILLE
A List of the Protestant and Popish Families in the Parish and Union of Charleville, in the Diocese of Cloyne, 1766. (Included with Ballyhay, Aghlishdrideen, Ardskagh & Shandrum in the original.)
Popish Priest & Fryers in the Parish & Union of Charleville - Garrett Norris, William Joy, Priests; William Norris, Fryer
No. of Protestant Families - 68. No. of Popish Families - 402
One Troop of Dragoons in the Barracks all Protestant. Cornet St. George Hatfield - Protestant
Pr.- Protestant
Arranged Alphabetically - In Charleville Town unless marked C in Charleville Parish
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Ahern, James Ahern, William Ahir, James Allen, James Pr. Ambrose, Edmond - C Ambrose, Patk. - C Amores, Edwd. Anster, John, Mr. Barry, David Barry, Edmond - C Batwell, Andrew, Mr. - C Pr. Berkeley, Nicholas Birch, John Pr. Boland, James Bourke, James Bourke, Mary Bourke, William Pr. Breen, John Bridgman, Elizabeth Britt, Patrick Brown, John Browne, Joan Browne, Martin Bryan, Daniel Bryan, Daniel Bryan, Dominick Bryan, Edward Bryan, Henry Bryan, John Pr. Bryan, John Bryan, Mary Bryan, Owen Bryan, Terence Bryan, William Bryan, William Buckley, John Cahil, Catherine Cahill, Richard Cahill, Richard Calenan, James Callaghan, Daniel Callaghan, Dennis Callaghan, James Callaghan, John - C Callaghan, John Callaghan, John Callaghan, John Callaghan, John Callaghan, William Campbell, Richard Carry, John Carthy, Elinor Carthy, John Carthy, Thomas Carthy, Timothy Casey, Owen - C Casey, Widow - C Chambers, Thomas Cheadwell, Joseph Pr. Clarke, William Clay, William Pr. Clayton, Richard - C Pr. Clifford, John Coghlan, Laurence - C Collins, Patk. - C Connell, Catherine Connell, Catherine Connell, Charles Connell, Daniel Connell, Daniel Connell, Dennis Connell, Henry - C Connell, James Connell, James Connell, James Connell, John Connell, Mary Connell, Thomas Connell, Thomas Connell, Timothy Connellan, Thomas Conners, James Conners, Michael Conners, Patrick Conners, Patrick Connors, Timothy Conway, Dennis Cooch, George - C Coony, Thomas Cops, James - C Corbett, Derby Corbett, John Corbett, William Corohy, Thomas - C Corry, William Pr. Cox, Hugh, Esq. - C Pr. Crane, John Crane, Laurence Crane, Sive Creed, Thomas, Mr. - C Pr. Creed, Widow -C Pr. Croake, James Croke, Thomas - C Croneen, Danl. - C Croneen, John Crowe, John Crowley, James Cusick, Margaret Cusick, Timothy Dalton, James Daly, Connor - C Daly, John, Mr. Daly, William Danahy, Philip Daniher, Timothy - C |
Davis, Catherine Pr. Davis, John Dee, Maurice Dee, Patrick Dolphin, Mary Dondon, Thomas Donegan, James Donegan, Paul Donohue, Connor Donohue, Philip Donovan, Danl. - C Donovan, John Donovan, John Dooly, John Dowlin, Catherine Pr. Dowlin, John, Mr. Pr. Dowlin, Oliver, Mr. Pr. Duane, Daniel Duane, David Duggan, Abigail Duggan, Mary Duggan, Stephen Egan, Carbery, Revd. Pr. Egan, Constance Pr. Egan, Mary Egan, Maurice Egan, Patrick Egan, Timothy Fayney, Francis Fean, Owen Fehan, Roger Finessy, William Finn, John Fisher, Bridget Fisher, Richard Fitzgerald, Gerald Fitzgerald, Joan Fitzgerald, John Fitzgerald, John Fitzgerald, Laurence Fitzgerald, Margaret Fitzgerald, Richard Fitzpatrick, John Fitzpatrick, John Fitzpatrick, Timothy Fitzpatrick, Wm. Flagherty, Timy. - C Flahan, James Flanagan, Redmond Fleming, Elinor Fleming, Elinor Fleming, James Fleming, Nicholas - C Flinn, Francis Flinn, Michael Flinn, Timothy Flinn, William Fox, James Fox, Joan Gaffney, Honor Gafney, Margaret Galvan, Catherine Galvan, David Galvan, Margaret Galvan, Michael Galvan, William Garvan, Edward Gibbon, David Gibbon, Maurice Gibbons, Thomas Gibson, John Pr. Glasson, Maurice Glasson, Philip Gleeson, Dennis - C Gorman, Thomas Gould, John Grady, Daniel Grady, Mary Grady, Mary Grady, Thomas Grany, Connor Green, Elinor Green, John Pr. Griffin, Derby Griffin, John Griffin, John Griffin, Margaret Griffin, Mary Guiry, John Hallinane, John - C Halloran, Richard Haly, John Haly, Thomas Hamilton, Edward Hamilton, George Pr. Hamilton, Robert - C Hanly, John Hare, Joan Harris, William Pr. Hart, James Pr. Hart, William - C Pr. Hayes, Dennis Hayes, Dennis Hayes, William Hedderman, Dennis - C Heffernan, James Heffernan, Timothy Heney, Derby Heney, Thomas Herbert, Margaret Hicket, Simon Hickey, Connor Hickey, Elinor Higgins, Pawlet Pr. Hireen, Dennis |
Hireen, John Hishen, Elinor Hogan, Catherine Hogan, Elinor Hogan, Elizabeth Hogan, Stephen Hogan, Thomas Hogan, Thomas Hoggins, Joan Holland, George Honahan, Stephen Horan, Mary Horgan, John Howard, George Pr. Howell, Mary Hughes, William Hulahan, Richard Hurley, David Kelly, Nicholas Kelly, Timtohy Kennedy, Michl. - C Kennedy, Timothy Kennedy, William Kennedy, William Kenny, John Kenny, Patrick Kenny, Timothy Kerby, Francis Pr. Kerby, Redmond - C Kerby, Thomas King, John Knight, Christ., Senr., Mr. Pr. Knight, Christr., Junr., Mr. Pr. Knight, Henry, Mr. Pr. Knight, Mrs. Pr. Lacy, John Leach, Garret Leary, Daniel Leary, Joan Leary, William - C Lee, Widow - C Lehy, Daniel Lehy, Dennis Lehy, Derby Lehy, Jeremiah Lehy, John Leonard, Luke Lillis, Paul Linahan, Catherine Linahane, Dennis Londregan, James Lynch, John Lynch, Maurice Lyons, Thomas Lysaght, Margaret Leonard, Luke Lillis, Paul Mackey, Maurice Magner, Honor Magner, Walter Magrath, Matthew - C Magrath, Theophilus, Mr. Pr. Maher, Daniel Mahir, Timothy Mahon, William Mahony, John - C Mahony, Robert Pr. Mahony, Timothy - C Maly, Andrew - C Marquess, John - C Marshall, Timothy - C Martin, John Maume, Garret Maume, William Maun, William Pr. Mc Carthy, Dennis Mc Cormuck, Willm. - C Mc Daniel, David Pr. Mc Daniel, Richard Mc Daniel, Richard Mc Namara, Timothy Mc Naught, Matthew Meade, John Meade, John Meade, John Meade, Margaret Pr. Meade, Patrick Meade, Thomas Mills, George Pr. Molowny, James Moony, Thomas Morony, Elinor Morrisson, Roger Morrissy, Timothy Mount Cashel, Connor Murphy, Catherine Murphy, Dennis Murphy, John - C Murphy, John - C Murphy, Wid. - C Naghten, John - C Naghten, John - C Neenan, Dennis Neenan, Patrick Neill, Daniel Nevill, Patrick Nicholson, Isaac Pr. Norcott, William, Esq. Pr. Norris, Garret Nunan, Connor Nunan, Dennis Nunan, Edmond, Mr. Pr. Nunan, Margaret Nunan, Michael Norcott, William, Esq. Pr. |
Norris, Garret Nunan, Connor Nunan, Dennis Nunan, Edmond, Mr. Pr. Nunan, Margaret Nunan, Michael O Bryan, Mark O Daniel, Mark Pr. Overry, William Ovington, Mary Parker, Anne Pr. Patten, Rebecca Pr. Peterson, George Powell, Elias - C Pr. Powell, James Power, Maurice - C Prendergast, Edmd., Mr. Pr. Quill, Thomas - C Quinlavan, Dennis Quinlavan, James Quinn, Edmond Quinn, John Quinn, John Quinn, Margaret Quinn, Mary Quinn, Patrick Ranahan, Joseph Reeves, Jane, Mrs. Pr. Richardson, Mary Rickards, Thomas Pr. Riggs, Michael Riordan, Patrick - C Riordan, Timothy Roberts, William, Esq. Pr. Robinson, Elior, Mrs. Pr. Roch, James Roch, Patrick Roch, Patrick Roche, John - C Ruddle, John - C Ruddle, Thomas Pr. Russel, David Russell, Thomas Ryan, Bridget Ryan, Elizabeth Ryan, Mary Ryan, Mary Ryan, Timothy Sanders, Edward Pr. Sanders, Thomas, Mr. Pr. Sanders, William, Mr. Pr. Scanlan, Maurice Scolly, Thomas - C Shaghnassy, Derby Shaghnassy, Joseph Shaghnassy, Patrick Shaghnassy, Roger Shanahan, Alice Shanahan, Danl. - C Shanahan, Edmond - C Shea, Matthew Sheehan, Derby Sheehan, John Sheehy, Edmond Sheehy, Widow - C Shindel, Margaret Shine, Dennis Shine, Elinor Smith, Joseph Smith, Thomas, Esq. Pr. Stanton, John Stopford, Joseph, Revd. Pr. Storen, Thomas Sullivan, Danl. - C Sullivan, Dennis - C Sullivan, John Pr. Sullivan, John Sullivan, John Sullivan, Mary Sullivan, Patrick Swyny, John Swyny, Morgan Sympson, John Terry, James Toomy, John Townshend, Arthur Townshend, Thomas Pr. Trihy, Patrick Trihy, William Tucker, John - C Tucker, Thomas - C Vowell, Christr., Mr. Pr. Wade, Arthur Walker, Alex. (Charter School) - C Pr. Wall, James - C Wall, Peter Walsh, James Walsh, John Walsh, Michael Walsh, Redmond Walsh, Richard - C Walsh, Robert Warham, David Warham, Dennis Warham, Dennis Warham, John Warham, Margaret Waters, Patrick Whelan, John Whelan, John Whelan, Timothy Williams, Richard, Mr. Pr. Wills, George Pr. Woods, Owen Wyse, Isaac Pr. Wyse, John Pr. |
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(HC 31/5/1770) - Committed to the county Jail last Monday, by Broderick Chinnery Esq.; William Boham, charged with stealing two cows, the property of John Flynn, near Charleville. He was apprehended last Sunday evening at Cove, from whence he intended to go in the first ship bound to America.
(HC 29/10/1770) - Last Friday Morning two men were robbed on Ballyhoura mountain, one of twenty four pounds, and the other of some silver, by two footpads well armed, who are lurking about said place.
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| Charleville-born Soldiers discharged prior to 1853 - From The National Archives (PRO), London; Doc. Ref. TNA(PRO) |
| Indexed by surname and place of birth from the National Archives online catalogues. |
| Name | Served in…/Discharged | Covering Dates |
| BARRY, DAVID | 9th Foot Regt.; 37th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 44 after 21 years service | 1789 |
| BARRY, MICHAEL | 87th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 23 | 1839-1840 |
| BATEMAN, JAMES | 57th Foot Regt.; 97th Foot Regt.; Royal Newfoundland Veterans. Discharged aged 39 | 1816-1836 |
| BOURKE, EDMUND | 20th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 26 | 1815-1825 |
| BUTLER, JAMES | Born 'Charlefield.' - ?Charleville. 28th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 45 after 24 years service | 1795 |
| CAFFREY, JOHN | Or Caffery. 46th Foot Regt.; 66th Foot Regt.; 67th Foot Regt.; 89th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 39 | 1827-1847 |
| CALLAGHAN, JOHN | 85th Foot Regt.; 101st Foot Regt.; 55th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 37 | 1800-1816 |
| CLIFFORD, JOHN | 56th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 38 | 1804-1826 |
| COCKRAN, MATTHEW | 2nd Foot Guards. Discharged aged 31 | 1811-1821 |
| COGHLAN, MICHAEL | 57th Foot Regt.; 61st Foot Regt.; 34th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 34 after 19 years 9 months service | 1796 |
| CONNELL, JOHN | Born Charleville, Limerick. 7th Dragoon Guards. Discharged aged 43 | 1825-1847 |
| CONNELL, JOHN | 46th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 45 after 21 years service | 1792 |
| CONOLY, WILLIAM | 88th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 55 | 1797-1816 |
| CORBETT, JAMES | 8th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 29 | 1817-1825 |
| CRIMMING, JOHN | 61st Foot Regt. Discharged aged 38 | 1818-1840 |
| CUPPS, JAMES | 29th Foot Regt.; 97th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 38 | 1804-1825 |
| CUSHEN, CHRISTOPHER | 1st Foot Regt. Discharged aged 39 | 1826-1847 |
| DANAGHER, JOHN | Or Donagher. 12th Foot Regt.; 96th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 26 | 1814-1823 |
| DAVIS, JOHN | Limerick Militia. Discharged aged 50 | 1800-1829 |
| DEE, JAMES | 93rd Foot Regt.; 15th Foot Regt.; 88th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 44 | 1815-1839 |
| DEE, THOMAS | 39th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 39 | 1825-1846 |
| DOBSON, JOHN | 8th Dragoons. Discharged aged 43 after 22 years service | 1802 |
| DOBSON, THOMAS | Born 'Charlesfield.' - ?Charleville. 112th Foot Regt.; 80th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 39 after 17 years 9 months service. Covering dates year of enlistment to year of discharge | 1795-1812 |
| DONOGHOE, JOHN | 27th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 38 | 1809-1825 |
| DWYRE, DAVID | 6th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 19 | 1847-1848 |
| EAGAN, TIMOTHY | 58th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 48 | 1806-1817 |
| EGAN, JAMES | Royal Sappers and Miners. Discharged aged 41 | 1811-1833 |
| ERSKINE, HENRY | Drogheda Militia; Louth Militia; 3rd Foot Regt. Discharged aged 71 | 1777-1830 |
| FALVEY, PATRICK | Cork Militia. Discharged aged 42 | 1805-1829 |
| FENNELL, ROBERT | Born 'Charlsfield.' - ?Charleville. 8th Dragoons. Discharged aged 34 | 1807-1823 |
| FORD, EDWARD | Madras Artillery. Discharged aged [Not Known] | 1844-1861 |
| FRANCIS, WILLIAM | 20th Foot Regt.; 53rd Foot Regt. Discharged aged 41 | 1808-1832 |
| GALVIN, WILLIAM | 63rd Foot Regt.; 46th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 37 | 1801-1820 |
| GIBBONS, ROBERT | 31st Foot Regt.; 8th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 34 | 1807-1825 |
| GIBBONS, THOMAS | 31st Foot Regt.; 1st Royal Veteran Battalion. Discharged aged 43 | 1807-1826 |
| GREEN, GODFREY | 27th Foot Regt.; 8th Dragoons. Discharged aged 48. Covering date year of discharge | 1792 |
| HANLY, JOHN | 21st Foot Regt. Discharged aged 24 | 1847-1854 |
| HANNON, DENIS | 99th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 33 | 1804-1818 |
| HIGGINS, EDWARD | Rifle Brigade. Discharged aged 50 | 1822-1849 |
| HOLMES, JOHN | 87th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 46 | 1817-1844 |
| HUSSEY, MARTIN | 15th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 37 | 1825-1840 |
| KEAN, MAURICE | Or Kane. 94th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 40 | 1824-1846 |
| KELLER, JOHN | Cork Militia. Discharged aged 49. Covering date year of discharge | 1822 |
| KIRBY, FRANCIS | 86th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 33 | 1828-1852 |
| KIRBY, PATRICK | 21st Foot Regt. Discharged aged 26 | 1812-1815 |
| KNIGHT, RICHARD | Cork Militia. Discharged aged 42 | 1800-1829 |
| LAHEY, JOHN | 15th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 40 | 1828-1849 |
| LAMBERT, PATT | 11th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 37 | 1808-1825 |
| LILLIS, MICHAEL | 9th Dragoons; Royal Navy; 10th Royal Veteran Battalion; 11th Royal Veteran Battalion; 12th Royal Veteran Battalion. Discharged aged 37 | 1798-1814 |
| MAGAN, PATRICK | 57th Foot Regt.; 49th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 39 | 1835-1854 |
| MAHONEY, PATRICK | 69th Foot Regt.; 38th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 35 | 1814-1829 |
| MAIDE, NICHOLAS | 84th Foot Regt.; 67th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 30 | 1840-1853 |
| MAILEY, JAMES | 54th Foot Regt.; 24th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 37 | 1811-1828 |
| MC AULIFFE, JOHN | 58th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 43 | 1806-1822 |
| MC CARTHY, JOHN | 2nd Foot Regt. Discharged aged 29 | 1840-1846 |
| MC CARTY, JOHN | Born 'Charlifield.' - ?Charleville. 60th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 28 after 3 years service | 1797 |
| MC NAMARA, JOHN | 1st Regt. Fencibles; 7th Dragoon Guards. Discharged aged 43 | 1794-1819 |
| MOLON(E)Y, JOHN | 58th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 29 | 1818-1824 |
| MORRISEY, DAVID | 100th Foot Regt.; 80th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 38 | 1810-1822 |
| MURPHY, THOMAS | Born 'Charlefield.' - ?Charleville. 13th Dragoons. Discharged aged 40 | 1804-1819 |
| MURPHY, THOMAS | 56th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 33 | 1821-1837 |
| NAGLE, THOMAS | 67th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 24 | 1839-1843 |
| NICHOLSON, FRANCIS | 25th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 38 | 1817-1843 |
| NOLAN, DANIEL | 53rd Foot Regt. Discharged aged 33 | 1838-1853 |
| NOONAN, DANIEL | Born 'Charlefield.' - ?Charleville. 101st Foot Regt.; 55th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 32 | 1800-1817 |
| O BRIEN, HENRY | 1st Dragoons; 1st Garrision Company. Discharged aged 43 | 1808-1816 |
| O DONNELL, JAMES | 5th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 30 | 1826-1835 |
| QUINN, JAMES | 31st Foot Regt. Discharged aged 40 | 1824-1845 |
| RAHILLY, CORNELIUS | 12th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 38 | 1812-1828 |
| RING, EDWARD | 88th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 26 | 1811-1818 |
| ROURKE, MICHAEL | 10th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 39 | 1823-1844 |
| RYAN, JOHN | 23rd Foot Regt. Discharged aged 30 after 10 years 3 months serivce. Covering dates year of enlistment to year of discharge | 1800-1810 |
| RYAN, STEPHEN | Royal Artillery. Discharged aged 43 | 1794-1818 |
| SAVAGE, JAMES | 85th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 40 after 10 years 10 months service. Covering dates year of enlistment to year of discharge | 1800-1810 |
| SHANNESSY, ROBERT | 95th Foot Regt.; 96th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 29 | 1809-1819 |
| SULLIVAN, DENNIS | 22nd Foot Regt. Discharged aged 35 | 1822-1837 |
| SULLIVAN, MICHAEL | 60th Foot Regt.; 85th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 41 | 1799-1818 |
| TERRY, DAVID | 51st Foot Regt. Discharged aged 41. Covering date year of discharge | 1789 |
| TERRY, DAVID | Independent Company; Royal Garrison Battalion; 51st Foot Regt.; 92nd Foot Regt.; 34th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 56 after 22 years 9 months service | 1795 |
| TOOMEY, MICHAEL | 12th Foot Regt.; 112th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 38 | 1794-1815 |
| TRACEY, DENNIS | Cape Mounted Regiment. Discharged aged 29 | 1831-1839 |
| TROY, WILLIAM | 61st Foot Regt.; 101st Foot Regt. Discharged aged 29 | 1815-1824 |
| WALSH, THOMAS | 60th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 39 | 1821-1842 |
| WALSH, THOMAS | 22nd Foot Regt. Discharged aged 21 | 1838-1839 |
| WINEHAM, ROBERT | 29th Foot Regt.; 97th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 35 | 1816-1830 |
| WINFIELD, JAMES | 78th Foot Regt.; 2nd Royal Veteran Battalion. Discharged aged 45 | 1793-1815 |
| WISE, JOHN | 39th Foot Regt.; 21st Foot Regt. Discharged aged 44 | 1826-1847 |
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(CC 14/3/1826) - TO BE LET - FOR THREE LIVES, that Part of FATHINGVILLE, in the Barony Orrery, County of Cork, called MR. CROFTS Farm, which is considered the best small farm in the Counties of Cork and Limerick. It will be let by the Statute Acres, according to the provisions of the late Act for equalising measures. Proposals to MRS. DAVIES, Johnstown, Cork; and Duplicates to MR. WM. FISHER, Charleville. March 14.
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(CE 26/11/1845) - LIBERALITY - THE EARL OF CORK (Excerpt) - While the eye and heart are seared by the now common-place recurrence of the oppression, brought into such fearful relevance by the late Devon Commission, which ALREADY snatches the diseased potato from the mouth of the famished peasant, it is gratifying to think that there are redeeming instances, though few, of that kindly and generous consideration on the part of the landed proprietor, which it is ever the most pleasurable duty of the journalist to record. - The leases of some six or eight small houses in Charleville, known as Shine's Plot, having lately expired, Dan. Leahy, Esq., of Shanakiel, on taking possession, granted the tenant's permission to remove all the materials of the old houses; and on Monday last, his son, F. A. Leahy, Esq., having arrived in Charleville, had them immediately sent for, and distributed no less that £33, in sums varying from £3 to £4, according to the necessities of each. - The sum originally allocated for this purpose amounted to little more than half; yet this young gentleman, having by personal enquiry satisfied himself of the misery which existed amongst most of the parties, added from himself, in some cases £2 and thirty shillings. The sum actually given, together with the value of the old material may be estimated at upwards of £100. On Tuesday evening, the Charleville band play for upwards of an hour opposite Copley's Hotel, which compliment Mr. Leahy acknowledged by a handsome subscription to their fund. At the payment of the …… also, every indulgence that could, with any show of reason be demanded was readily given. This pro….. introduction of Mr. Leahy, Jun., who, it is probable, will at one time supply his father's place - by the tenantry of the Earl of Cork, gives fair promise of the blessings to be derived at no distant period, from the good agent of the best landlord in the kingdom. Would to heaven that others would imitate this first great act of a scarcely matured manhood!….
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(CE 6/5/1846) Death Notice:- At her residence in Charleville, on the 30th ult., Emily, relict of the late John Daly, Esq.
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(CC 18/3/1847) - SUBSCRIPTIONS to the CHARLEVILLE RELIEF FUND, received since 1st October, 1846
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Name Ahern, O. Bale, J. Barron, J. N. Barry, G. Barry, James Bernard, J., MD Boyle, R., Hon. Brown, Mr. Brown, Mrs. Brown, Thomas Bunbury, W., Rev. Burke, Mr. Cahill, Wm. Carroll, P. Clanchy, D. Clanchy, J. T. Collins, E. Connell, J. Connell, J. Copley, Miss Copley, Mrs. Cork, Earl of Cronin, Wm. Crooke, Thos., Rev. Crotty, J. |
Amount 1.0.0 2.0.0 10.0.0 0.10.0 1.0.0 2.0.0 25.0.0 0.10.0 1.0.0 1.0.0 2.0.0 0.10.0 1.0.0 1.0.0 25.0.0 3.0.0 0.10.0 1.0.0 0.10.0 1.0.0 0.10.0 175.0.0 0.10.0 110.0.0 0.10.0 |
Name Daly, T. Darby, W. F. Decluzeau, J. J. Doyle, J. Fisher, W. S. Fitzgerald, E. Geary, Lady Hacket, Mr. Hacket,__ Haines, E. Hall, W., Rev. Hallinan, John Harrison, Standish H. Hartigan, D. Hill, Arundel Hutchins, Samuel Isaac, V. B. Kirby, J. Leahy, Daniel Leahy, John Lynch, Mrs. Madigan, J. Magrath, W. Maxwell, Miss Maxwell, Robert |
Amount 1.0.0 3.0.0 1.0.0 0.10.0 3.0.0 0.10.0 2.0.0 1.0.0 0.10.0 2.0.0 5.0.0 3.0.0 10.0.0 1.0.0 1.0.0 5.0.0 0.10.0 0.10.0 5.0.0 5.0.0 1.0.0 0.10.0 3.0.0 1.0.0 10.0.0 |
Name Moynan, W. Murphy, D. National Bank O Connor, J. O Kelly, D. O Mahony, Rev. Mr. O Shaughnessy, James O Sullivan, J. Patterson, J. Rahilly, D. Rogers, T. O., Rev. Ryan, John Ryan, K. Ryan, Michael Sanders, E., Miss Sanders, F. A., Rev. Sanders, Thomas Sanders, W.R. Saunders, Capt. Sheedy, Mrs. Sherwin, A., Rev. Stock, J. Stuart, The Misses Sullivan, J., MD Wallis, P., MD |
Amount 1.0.0 1.10.0 5.0.0 1.0.0 3.0.0 1.0.0 0.10.0 1.0.0 1.0.0 3.0.0 5.0.0 5.0.0 3.0.0 5.0.0 20.0.0 5.0.0 7.0.0 20.0.0 5.0.0 1.0.0 1.0.0 3.0.0 1.0.0 1.0.0 1.0.0 |
| Irish Relief Society - 20.0.0; Friends Relief Society - 20.0.0 - March 12. - H. R. SANDERS, Hon. Sec. |
| N.B. - Lord Cork has also subscribed £100, to be expended in improving the town of Charleville. |
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Report (1) and letter (2) concerning evictions from the estate of the Earl of Cork at Charleville, in 1847
(1) (CE 28/7/1847) FRIGHTFUL EXTERMINATION AT CHARLEVILLE
(From the Limerick Examiner Correspondent) - CHARLEVILLE, 23D JULY, 1847 - So many rumours and communications had reached the Examiner office relative to the evictions which took place on the 13th inst. On the borders of this town - they spoke of such an accumulation of miseries, that I had determined to become personally acquainted with the truth or otherwise of the rumours before the statements get publicity through the Press. On my arrival I went without delay to - 'THE OLD CORK ROAD' OR 'GLEN.' - The scene of eviction. This is, rather was, a suburban hamlet leading from the main street of Charleville. There were FIFTY-EIGHT houses in it. There are FORTY thrown down and EIGHTEEN to be. The land upon which these houses were built were held by Miss Anster (sister to Dr. Anster, the gifted translator of Faust) under the Earl of Cork. Either her term expired, or she surrendered the holding, and thereupon ejectments were served on all the holders on the part of the Earl of Cork. On the first day of April they were served, and on the 13th of July (this month) the Sub-sheriff of Cork, aided by the military and police force, proceeded to execute.
As I went along to view the work of desolation, the first object that arrested my attention was the roofless shells of many tenements on one side of the road, and temporary huts raised with wattles and old pieces of timber, thinly covered with the sooty straw with which the demolished houses had been thatched, on the other. In those huts, unfit for swine, I saw many fever-stricken creatures lying on a little discoloured straw, with hardly a vestige of bed covering. At this sight I felt a shuddering sensation I never before experienced. It was not a dread of contagion. Stronger and sterner feelings of horror prevented that, I saw before me humanity prostrated in one of its direct forms of suffering; - and as I went along my dismal pilgrimage the story of afflicting facts was poured into my car with that eloquent sadness and sorrow for which the Irish peasant, labouring under strong and painful emotion, is so remarkable.
‘There (said one of those who accompanied me) is a poor woman recovering from fever whose mother I saw fall from weakness and disease when she was about to reach a cup of water to the lips of her daughter.’ ‘And there (said another eagerly) is the house where the widow Reidy, afraid that if she did not obey she would not get the roofing materials as was the usual gift in such cases, was forced to go up on the roof of her own house to tear off the thatch with her own unwilling hands.' 'And see (said a third) in that shell is James Thomas, with his wife and child lying down in fever without any friend or relative to assist them or take care of them in any way whatever.'
These wretched tales were, in my progress, multiplied to an intensely painful extent. A woman came up to me weakly and extremely delicate in appearance. She said she was taken off her bed by her relations, FOUR DAYS AFTER HER CONFINEMENT, and placed by the side of the ditch with her infant, both in a state of exhaustion and helplessness.
THE CASE OF THE LUNATIC
In one of the dilapidated dwellings a person named William Lyons resided under the care and protection of his brother; the former was a lunatic for fourteen years. When the vengeance of the law was exhausted upon the house the poor fellow wandered in melancholy about the country, 'away from the haunts of men,' coming occasionally in the evening to look upon the spot of his birth and his affections. It was a sad story; - and the brother, who loved the maniac the more because of his calamitous visitation, said to me with tears, 'I didn't care so much, sir, about myself only for him.' - At the turn of the road, a little way down from the ruined hamlet, is the - CHURCHYARD OF BALLYSALLY
This last resting place is well enclosed and neatly planted. Within the enclosure there are many flat tombstones and grass-covered graves:- AND HERE, THE EVICTED FAMILIES, NUMBERING NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED, TOOK SHELTER, AND FOR FOUR CONSECUTIVE NIGHTS SLEPT UNDER THE CANOPY OF HEAVEN, HUDDLED TOGETHER, 'GOD TEMPERING THE WIND TO THE SHORN LAMB.'
I have made up my mind to make no remark; to 'nothing extenuate or set down aught to malice' in the history of this melancholy case. My duty and mission are to place the whole truth before the public: but if I were impelled to comment or moralise on the state of Ireland this passage in my 'plain and unvarnished tale' would supply abundant materials. - It was a task of anguish to inquire into and collect the details; and he who could not feel at the recitals and the horrid reality that were exposed to me, must have a heart harder than adamant. - I have no purpose to indulge in pulling sensibility. Nor shall I endeavour to reach any chord of sorrowing sympathy. There has been (alas!) too much cause for this in Ireland the past year. One peculiar case, however, I must not, cannot, pass - the case of
THE HUNCHBACK BOY
On my return into Charleville a modest-looking young woman came forth from one of the remaining houses leading by the hand a miserable looking hunchback boy about twelve years of age. His mother died two or three years past - the father shortly after. The father on the eve of death, with that compulsive protection towards one's afflicted and helpless offspring, and that deeper love which nature bestows, to enable humanity, in the sub-division of the affections - the fond and devoted parent left to the rickety boy, as a legacy, two neat cottages which he (the father) had reared with his own hand. These houses were razed to the ground along with others.
THE DOUBLE EVICTION
Some of the sufferers in the present case suffered similarly four years ago. In 1843 ejectments were brought and houses were tumbled at the other side of the road. In this case too the middleman term had expired and ejectments and house tumbling were had recourse to by the owner of the soil had from the lips of a man named Callaghan M'Carthy that he was tumbled out upon the world three times in the same locality, and that three cottages which he raised up out of his own sweat and industry and laborious toil were demolished by the executioners of the law.
The Widow Reidy told me a heart-rending tale of her husband, a tailor, who after working in the country at his trade, and occasionally as a labourer during the day, came home in the evening and worked after hours in building his neat and comfortable cottage. Some individual in the crowd remarked THAT HE LOST HIS LIFE BY THE EXERTIONS HE MADE. His house was demolished!
Michael Quinlivan had ten persons in fever at the time he was ejected. - Mrs. Collins had seven in family in fever under similar circumstances. - It would be tedious and unnecessary to particularise every case of pressing misery and distress.
The following are the names of those on whom evictions were served, including the owners and occupants of the forty-eight houses thrown down, with the number in family attached to each:-
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Anster, Daniel Anster, William Barry, Edmond Brine, Daniel Callaghan, Widow Carthy, Ralihand Cloghessy, Edmond Coghlan, John Collins, John Connell, Denis Connell, John Connell, Widow Conners, Widow Corbett, John Day, Jeremiah Day, Timothy Dealy, John Dorney, Michael |
5 4 14 8 4 3 12 10 4 4 5 4 10 8 14 7 6 5 |
Doyle, Edmond Galvin, Patt Garvan, Henry Grady, James Grady, James Grady, Widow Harrigan, John Hickey, John Kealar, William Kelly, Widow King, Michael Kirby, Catherine Kirby, Redmond Lane, Thomas Leeny, David Lyons, John M'Namara, Patt Malone, Patt Moore, Widow |
6 9 9 7 5 11 13 7 6 3 8 13 4 4 7 7 5 8 8 |
Murphy, Patt Neal, Michael O Keeffe, Sandy Poor, John Power, Maurice Purtill, Widow Quin, Batt Quin, Michael Reagan, Patt Reidy, Widow Ryan, Timothy Ryan, Widow Sheahan, John Sheahan, William Sheehan, John Sullivan, Patt Sullivan, Timothy Sullivan, William Sweeny, Michael Torpy, Thomas |
4 12 9 5 6 7 6 15 7 7 4 7 7 8 0 9 9 5 6 4 |
Of these unfortunates over one hundred were and are in fever. In many cases those who were cast out on the world found temporary refuge in the houses not yet thrown down. The number of inmates became doubled and trebled. The great majority however are in huts - some erected against the churchyard wall! - Two watchmen are employed day and night to keep off intruders from building up sheds against the walls of the roofless tenements. These men perform their revolting duty with rigour and strictness. - Those who consented to pull down their houses got from twenty to forty shillings compensation together with the roof and thatch. Man, woman and child are now getting outdoor relief, and when that ceases they must go to the workhouse. - This is my plain and unvarnished tale of which I was put in possession by the fevered, the convalescent, and the healthy. I heard their stories, simple and truthful as I believed them, from their own lips, and I have endeavoured to convey them through the press without exaggeration. - I have, as I said before, put in abeyance all expression of induvidual feeling in this matter:- and I now leave the 'Old Cork Road' or 'Glen of Ballysally' case of extermination in the hands of the public.
(Ed.) - It would be well of some humane individuals would exert themselves to raise a penny subscription for these poor exterminated people who are lying out by the ditches. Any sums for such a purpose will be thankfully received at this office. - A list has been opened for subscriptions and a few small sums have been already received.
(2) (28/7/1847) TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER - Shanakiel House, July 27th, 1847 - SIR - My attention has been called to a paragraph in your paper of last Friday evening headed 'Evictions in Charleville.' I think it highly creditable to you, and in accordance with the character of an impartial organ of public opinion, that you have forborne the insertion of one-sided, and perhaps malicious statements, until a fair opportunity was given of laying before the public the real facts and circumstances of a case, which from its nature, and the peculiar circumstances of the country, necessarily pre-engages and commands their sympathies. I freely admit the right and duty of a public journalist to guard and watch over the interests of the poorer classes of occupiers of and in this country, but at the same time, it seems to me to be also his duty, to weigh well the difficulties in which Landlord or Agent, may be placed, and not to charge on them evils arising from the general state of society, nor without proved and sufficient cause, to promote and deepen a discontent, which can only be removed by a thorough consideration, and fair re-adjustment of the relations of landlord and tenant in Ireland. Such cases as that to which you refer are unfortunately too common amongst us. In 1799, the Earl of Cork demised to Mr. Anster – father of the Misses Anster of Cork, a small farm of 26 acres, in the immediate vicinity of Charleville; the rent reserved at so remote a period was necessarily very moderate. The Misses Anster's have, not withstanding, been allowed for several years a considerable abatement - Miss Anster, or her father having suffered a range of wretched mud cabins to be built on the front of this tenement, at one of the principal entrances to the town (158 in number) at present in the most wretched and unsightly condition - calculated to generate fever and general disease. As might have been expected, little rent, generally speaking, could be recovered from them of late years; at all events Lord Cork has received no rent since September 1845 - thus the small head-rent remaining unpaid, the Misses Anster intimated their desire to surrender the property - this was obviously impossible without the actual occupiers being legally dispossessed.
The situation of an Agent in Ireland is often a difficult and most painful one; I thank God, that the exalted character of the Earl of Cork, his unvaried interest in his tenantry, and his prompt liberality in every public and private necessity, have, through life, enabled me to discharge my duty, I trust, faithfully to him, without losing sight of the interests and comforts of his honest, respectable and industrious tenantry.
It being absolutely necessary to take legal possession of this farm, I endeavoured to proceed as carefully and mercifully as was in my power. I had the occupiers assembled, and the circumstances fully explained to them, I agreed to give to such as had a house, or houses, a gratuity to prevent immediate distress, and fearing that for the time allowed by law may not be sufficient for them to procure habitation elsewhere, I had the habere renewed, and the time extended when actual possession was to be taken. I am fortunately allowed to use the authority of the Sub-sheriff of the County to confirm the fact that whatever fever was even alleged to exist, the inmates were not disturbed. After the possession was taken, I divided the occupiers into three classes - to the first, amounting to about 20 who had little plots in the rear of their houses, varying from 5 perches, to 1 or 2 acres, I gave their holdings at little more than nominal rents for six months, promising them £2 each on obtaining possession. To the second class, who had only their cabins, I gave £2 and in a few instances £3 each, after which I told them, as I was then in possession, I intended removing all the unsightly houses, and if the timber and thatch were of any value to them, they might take them away, which they accordingly did, and appeared thankful. To the third class, who are as mere lodgers, had no claim, I notwithstanding gave 10s. each in charity.
I hope it is needless for me to say that no part of my duties, as agent, through life has given me so much pain as the obligation which must necessarily at times arise of dispossessing tenants, which was only equalled by the pleasure of restoring them to possession when able to do so, - Lord Cork has in the present calamitous times made liberal abatement to many Tenants, who already derived good interest under him - I have for the last 17 years endeavoured to carry out his Lordship's oft expressed, and anxious wishes for the improvement of the town of Charleville by substituting respectable slated houses for wretched thatched ones; by improving the market and Court House; building a potatoe market; erecting a valuable Town Clock; by paying about £700 his subscription towards building a highly ornamental church; contributing towards building the Roman Catholic Chapel, the Convent, National Schools, &c, &c., and I beg to ask any honest dispassionate man, whether it was not my duty to remove wherever I could the most wretched cabins that disfigured any town in Ireland, and were a disgrace to the town, and no credit to its proprietor - As to the cases of hardship stated in the Limerick Examiner of last Saturday, which with the affectation of impartiality, appears the most distorted, insidious, and libellous production I ever read, on shewing the article to the sheriff, I put the following questions to him as, although in Charleville, I was not present when he took possession, in reference to three of the statements contained therein which, if true, he must have been acquainted with - viz., the numbers of creatures in fever thrown out on the road side, the case of 'the Lunatic,' and that of the 'Hunchback' - his distinct answers were; I saw every person who was put, or went out of the houses, - I saw no person who appeared in Fever; all those who were said to be in Fever being left in possession with directions not to dispossess them, until they were quite fit to be removed; I saw no 'Lunatic' - neither did I see any 'Hunchback these and other facts he will prove, corroborated by others present, should be called upon on any public investigation, which I hereby court, and at which I shall be prepared to confront my calumniators.
As to the paragraph in that article 'double evictions,' the facts are these:- the lease of a plot nearly opposite to Miss Anster's, held by Dr. Townsend on which also stood several mud cabins, expired in 1843. I obtained a new lease for Dr. Townsend, he covenanting to remove those cabins, and to build a range of slated cottages, towards buildings which he was made an allowance, I giving him twelve months to remove the thatched houses, a few of which, I fear, are yet standing.
These few passages may be sufficient to observe upon at present. - Begging to apologise for so long an intrusion on your time and space. - I have the honour to remain, Sir, - Your obedient servant, - DANIEL LEAHY
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