Misc: Outrages in Tipperary Dist. from 1 Oct-20 Nov 1837

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OUTRAGES IN TIPPERARY DIST. FROM 1 OCT-20 NOV 1837

1st Oct. On this morning about the hour of 3 o’clock, the 
houses of PATRICK and ANDREW RYAN and WILLIAM ALLICE of 
Gurtnawold, in the Parish of Donohill and Barony of 
Clanwilliam, were attacked by four armed men, who broke the 
windows and fired several shots, one of which was fired into 
William Allice’s window. Persons named Lahy were suspected 
for the Outrage, between whom and the ALLICES some disputes 
had occurred.

2nd Oct. On this night an unhabited house, the property of 
Mr. DAWSON, at Clonbeg, was maliciously attacked by some 
persons unknown, who broke the windows and shattered the 
slates and roof. The reason assigned is, that a man named 
SWEENY had been turned out of the possession of it.

5th Oct. On this night a man named MICHAEL DWYER, of 
Crossoyle, was returning from Tipperary, he was waylaid by 
four men, at Boheratrian in the Parish of Toom, Barony of 
Clanwilliam, who beat him severely with sticks and stones, 
and nearly knocked out his eve. He did not know any of them, 
nor can he assign any reason for the beating.

5th Oct. On this night as PATRICK KILMACLIN was returning 
from the market in Tipperary, he was knocked down, and his 
skull fractured, at the cross of Scullaheen, Parish of 
Tipperary. Kilmaclin could not say who struck him, but 
stated that there were many persons present when he was 
beaten.

6th Oct. On this night the house of TIMOTHY RYAN of Mohnach, 
Parish of Donohill, was entered by three men, who robbed him 
of 3/. And when going away they fired a shot. RYAN did not 
know any of them.

9th Oct. On this night, as JOHN LEHANE and PATRICK CALLAGHAN 
were on their way to attend the fair in Tipperary, they were 
met near Luttun?, in this district by three men, one of whom 
was armed with a pistol, who beat them desperately with 
stones, and robbed them of 7-4-0. in notes and silver. 
Neither of them knew the robbers, nor do they think they 
would know them if they saw them again.

9th Oct. On this night, about 10 o’clock, two shots were 
fired into the drawing room of JAMES SADLIER, Esq., of 
Brookville, in this district, and a threatening notice, of 
which the following is a copy, posted on the front door. 
"SADLIER, we are listening to you this long time, and we 
said nothing to you, but if you don’t take this warning, we 
will cure you. Less you say about anyone the better for you. 
This is the last notice you will get.". A man named Burke 
was suspected for this outrage, because it was reported that 
Mr. SADLIER would prove it was he that beat PATRICK 
KILMACLIN, and fractured his skull. (See report 5th inst.)

10th Oct. On this night, a milch cow, the property of JAMES 
SADLIER, Esq., was maliciously shot through the loins by 
some persons unknown. The same reason is assigned for this 
as for the outrage committed on him the night before.

12th Oct. On this evening about 6 o’clock, as Mr. HENRY 
QUILLILAN, of Ballyneal, was returning from Tipperary, he 
was fired at by two men armed with large pistols, who came 
from behind a hedge at Cappera, in the Parish of Donohill, 
Barony of Clanwilliam. A slug wounded Mr. QUILLILAN, in the 
lower part of the belly, but not severely. He did not know 
his assailants, nor can he assign any reason for the attack, 
but thinks he was mistaken for someone else.

13th Oct. On this night about 3 o’clock, TIMOTHY AHIAM of 
Ballynard received a beating in a riot which occurred in the 
yard of one Edward Farrel of Drishane, Parish of Rathliney, 
Barony of Clanwilliam, from the effects of which he died at 
5 o’clock this morning. Two men named Edward and John Hogan, 
were concerned in the Homicide, and a warrant has been 
issued against them.

10th Oct. On this evening about the hour of 7 o’clock, two 
men, armed with bayonets fixed on sticks, entered the house 
of JAMES CLEENY and MICHAEL HURLEY, in the townland of 
Crough, Parish of Tipperary, and warned them not to keep any 
strangers in their employment. After leaving Cleeny’s house 
they fired two shots.

14th Oct. On this night an altercation took place between ? 
MEEHAN and THOMAS CONDON, when the former gave the latter a 
blow on the head, from the effects of which he lay 
dangerously ill for several days.

19th Oct. On this morning the dwelling house of JOHN FOLEY 
of Bohercrow, Parish of Tipperary, was attacked by person or 
persons unknown, who flung stones in his bedroom window, and 
broke three panes of glass. The cause assigned is, that Matt 
Ryan, Foley’s father-in-law, dispossed some tenants on the 
above lands, the property of Mr. Stafford O’Brien.

19th Oct. On this night, about the hour of 1 o’clock, the 
house of TIMOTHY CROTTY of Shronehill in that Parish, and 
Barony of Clanwilliam, was entered by an armed party, who 
fired two shots therein, and they broke all the windows, and 
fired three shots into an outhouse, and broke the yard gate, 
and then went away, warning Crotty "to share the quarry 
field, meaning a field which CROTTY had lately purchased 
from one Phillip Dwyer", neither CROTTY or his family knew 
anything of the party.

21st Oct. On this night a man named MICHAEL RYAN came by his 
death at Dreshane in the Parish of Rathleny under the 
following circumstances: Constable PATRICK SPERIN having a 
warrant against a man named DWYER, and hearing that he was 
to be found at his father’s house at Dreshane, he proceeded 
there with his party on the above night, and met the person 
they wanted in his father’s yard. The police arrested him, 
but being set upon by a large number of persons who happened 
to be at old Dwyer’s at the time, they were obliged to bring 
their prisoner into an outhouse to prevent a rescue. The 
doors and windows of this house were soon broken with stones 
by the mob, and they eventually set it on fire, in order to 
compel the police to liberate the prisoner, they did so, and 
were escaping from the burning house, when they were again 
furiously pelted with stones, and Sub-Constable JOHN SKEREEN 
was knocked down senseless; upon which Constable SPERIN 
fired at and shot the man by whom SKEREEN was struck, and 
this man was the above named MICHAEL RYAN. An inquest having 
been held upon RYAN, the jury brought in a verdict of 
justifiable homicide.

19th Oct. On this night a notice was posted on the door of 
Mr. HENRY QUILLILAN of Ballyneal, ordering him, upon pain of 
death, to turn out of his employment a man named WILLIAM 
CORBETT. This Mr. QUILLILAN is the person who was fired at 
on the 12th inst, and he can assign no reason for their 
wishing to have CORBETT turned out, unless because he is a 
trustworthy man of his.

24th Oct. On this night the house of JOHN FANEL of 
Ballinamorsagh, Parish of Lutten?, and Barony of 
Clanwilliam, was attacked and fired into by some persons 
unknown, one ball having passed through the door.

5th Nov. On this day, a man named CORNELIUS BRIEN was 
waylaid at Crossoyle, Parish of Toom and Barony of 
Clanwilliam, by two brothers named WILLIAM and DANIEL 
FREEHY, the former of whom gave him a blow on the head with 
a stone, which knocked him down, from the effects of which 
he lay dangerously ill. Daniel Freehy has been arrested.

2nd Nov. On this night about the hour of 9 o’clock, a 
threatening notice was posted on a stick opposite the hall 
door of Mr. SADLIER of Sadlier’s Wells, ordering him "to 
have nothing to do with Mr. SHURARD’S herdsman". A shot was 
also fired at one of the parlour windows, which broke a pane 
of glass. Mr. SADLIER parted with a herd of the name of 
DWYER, and was about hiring a man named RYAN, which is the 
only reason assigned..

9th Nov. On this night a man named JOHN LACY was waylaid and 
seriously wounded with stones at Coolacassane, Parish of 
Kilpatrick, Barony of Kilnemanagh, by SAMUEL KEARNEY and 
several others, who are known. The reason assigned is, that 
a man named Glasheen, brother- in-law to LACY, some time ago 
assaulted old REILLY, who is father- in-law to one of the 
persons charged.

9th Nov. On this night a notice was posted on the door of 
GEORGE CUNNINGHAM’S forge in the Parish of Clonbeg, Barony 
of Clanwilliam, ordering him, on pain of death, to keep "A 
friend" of his out of that neighbourhood. The reason 
assigned is, that Mr. MASSEy of Stagdale had discharged a 
Caretaker named M’Donnell, and a brother of CUNNINGHAM’S was 
about to be assigned in his place.

12th Nov. On this night, about the hour of 7 o’clock, the 
houses of JAMES HONAN, Mrs HONAN, Mrs CRONAN of Ballyhust, 
and MARTIN DALTON of Drumnalieve, all in the Parish of 
Tipperary, Barony of Clanwilliam, were attacked by an armed 
party, who beat JAMES HONAN and his sons severely, broke all 
the windows, and fired four shots, they broke Mrs HONAN’s 
door, and broke all the windows at Mrs Cronan’s: they 
entered MARTIN DALTON’S house, beat him and his son, and on 
going away they fired a shot in the yard, and warned them to 
have nothing to do with the lands of Drumnalieve. This farm 
belongs to Mr. SCULLY of Kilfeacle, and is to be let, and 
all the above named persons had proposed for it, which was 
the cause of the outrage.

12th Nov. On this evening, about the hour of 6 o’clock, an 
armed party came to the house of Mr. W. DICKSON of 
Scallaheen, Parish of Tipperary, Barony of Clanwilliam. They 
succeeded in robbing the house of a valuable 
double-barrelled gun, which they found in a case at the foot 
of Mr. DICKSON’S bed.

14th Nov. On this night a man named JOHN MANIREX was 
barbarously murdered at Bally Resteen, in the Parish of 
Sculaheadbeg and Barony of Clanwilliam, by some person or 
persons unknown. He was found dead by a man named JONES, 
lying near a heap of stones, with his skull broken in 
several places. No clue whatever has been obtained as to who 
the perpetrators are.

14th Nov. On this evening about 6 o’clock, five armed men, 
who are unknown, entered the houses of DANIEL CROAKE, PAT 
RYAN and JULIAN TREHEY, in the Parish of Kilfeacle and 
Barony of Clanwilliam, and ordered them not to sell any 
whiskey in future. The reason assigned is that these people 
keep unlicensed Public Houses, and it is supposed that some 
licensed Publicans in the neighbourhood got the party to 
threaten them.

19th Nov. On this night, about 12’30, the house of MARY 
ROACHE, of Rathsassard, Parish of Tipperary, Barony of 
Clanwilliam, was maliciously set on fire by some persons 
unknown. The inmates, on perceiving the fire, immediately 
gave the alarm, and the neighbours succeeded in 
extinguishing it. The reason assigned is that ROACHE had 
persons lodging in the house whom Mrs LAMPHIN had working 
for her, and she and people named Glasheen had a 
falling-out. The Glasheen’s are suspected.

All spellings as per book

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