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CSO/RP/OR/1831/1575

Statement of outrages committed in County Armagh, in the province of Ulster, covering the months January to July 1831; detailing various types of outrages such as discharge of firearms, anti-tithe agitation, violent intimidation, injury to livestock, theft of timber, robbery, house breaking, arson, murder, violent assault, illegal assembly, injury to property and beating; with some observations affixed by [Maj] Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police for Ulster. Includes report of William Colthurst, Chief Constable, Armagh, remarking that a sectarian riot broke out in the city of Armagh during the chairing of the MP on the day of the election; regretting that a Roman Catholic man named Patrick Rocks received a fatal wound on the head caused ‘by some sharp instrument’ from which he died some days later; adding that culpability rests with John Boland Jr and John Boland Sr; dated 11th of May. Also includes report of David Patton, Chief Constable, Armagh, Tiranny and Oneilland West, stating that a large number of Ribbonmen were observed to congregate on the hills around the village of Middletown; indicating that a party of Orangemen were turned back by the high sheriff [Hugh Harris] and a few shots were discharged in the direction of the police by the Ribbon party, who returned fire; dated 12th of May. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

Jan 1831-Jul 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1576

Statement of outrages committed in County Cavan, in the province of Ulster, covering the months January to July 1831; detailing various types of outrages such as plunder of firearms, house breaking, anti-tithe agitation, robbery, beating, riot, murder, destruction of farm implements, injury to livestock, arson, violent assault, levelling of buildings, destruction of trees, sectarian attacks and the posting of threatening notices; with some observations affixed by [Maj] Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police for Ulster. Includes report of Peyton Sheals, Chief Constable, Cootehill, remarking that a threatening notice was displayed on the Market House of the town of Cootehill; explaining the substance of the warning was to demand a reduction in rents and tithes; dated 14th of January. Also includes report of Alexander Kingston Fox, Chief Constable, Kingscourt, conveying that two Irish Scripture readers, James Daley and Lawrence Sheanen [Sheahan], were severely beaten whilst leaving the fair of Kingscourt; adding that Rev [Richard] Winning, Presbyterian minister, has aided in the identification of those responsible; dated 18th of January. Also includes report of John Hazlett, Chief Constable, Tullyhaw, stating that the murder of Terence McGovern took place in the mountains of Glan, about nine miles from Swanlinbar; observing he died at the hands of a relation while attempting to save his uncle during a quarrel; adding the victim was beaten by five or six men with cudgels, after which he expired; dated 23rd of January. Also includes two copies of a Rockite notice addressed to ‘Dear Friends’, making a threat in connection with the disengagement of servants or hired help; posted in Kingscourt and enclosed by Fox. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

Jan 1831-Jul 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1577

Statement of outrages committed in County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, covering the months January to July 1831; detailing various types of outrages such as house breaking, robbery, arson, illegal assembly, anti-tithe agitation, intimidation, violent assault, pound breaking, plunder of firearms, levelling of buildings, burning of crops, administration of unlawful oaths, killing or injury to livestock and the posting of threatening notices; with some observations affixed by [Maj] Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police for Ulster. Includes report of Lieut Dominick Persse, Chief Constable, Kilmacrennan, conveying that a large assembly of the country people took place at the chapel of Carrygast [Carrygalt] in the parish of Mevagh; remarking the people ‘forcibly carried off the Tythe Proctor out of the Parish’; dated 11th of January. Also includes report of Godfrey Hill, Chief Constable, Boylagh, remarking that two fishing boats attached to the island of Arranmore were subjected to criminal injury; adding the likely cause of the outrage is the lower orders are ‘averse to those Boats carrying provisions to the Island’; dated 7th of February. Also includes report of Lieut [James] Taylor, Chief Constable, Raphoe, stating that a flax mill belonging to John Mahaffy of Dromore in the parish of Clonleigh was set on fire; adding the building was ‘totally consumed’; dated 20th of April. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

Jan 1831-Jul 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1578

Statement of outrages committed in County Down, in the province of Ulster, covering the months January to July 1831; detailing various types of outrages such as murder, house breaking, robbery, illegal assembly, arson, anti-rent agitation, killing or injury to livestock, discharge of firearms, sectarian disturbance, turning up of ground and levelling of fences; with some observations affixed by [Maj] Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police for Ulster. Includes report of Lieut Andrew Spotswood, Chief Constable, Ards, conveying that a number of freemasons came under attack by the ‘opposite party’ while passing through the village of Ardmillan; remarking that an affray took place and some persons were ‘severely beaten’; adding the freemasons’ drum ‘was broken’; dated c5th of February. Also includes report of Capt [Jeremiah] O'Neill, Chief Constable, Mourne, remarking that a mob composed of near 100 persons made an attempt to destroy a vessel laden with potatoes in the harbour of Annalong; observing that those attached to the vessel put up a valiant defence and ‘little damage was done’; dated 3rd of April. Also includes report of John L Griffin, Chief Constable, Lower Iveagh, stating that a number of Orangemen came under attack near to the village of Moira ‘by a large mob of Roman Catholics’; adding that some Orangemen were severely assaulted and their ‘Drum and Colours broken’; dated 7th of June. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

Jan 1831-Jul 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1579

Statement of outrages committed in County Fermanagh, in the province of Ulster, covering the months January to July 1831; detailing various types of outrages such as murder, house breaking, theft of firearms, arson, injury to personal property, levelling of buildings, beating, robbery, assault and the posting of threatening notices; with some observations affixed by [Maj] Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police for Ulster. Includes report of Henry William Wray, Chief Constable, Magheraboy, stating that an incursion took place at a mill belonging to Edward Blair, near to the village of Garrison; revealing that a quantity of meal was stolen by the intruders; dated 14th of April. Also includes report of Robert Ormsby, Chief Constable, Magherastephana, Coole and Clankelly, remarking that the dwelling of Bernard Duross at Eshnasillog, near Brookeborough, came under attack by insurgents ‘armed with bludgeons’; observing that he and his wife were subjected to a severe beating and injury done to the house; adding the attackers threatened to burn the residence if not given up; dated 3rd of July. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

Jan 1831-Jul 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1580

Statement of outrages committed in County Londonderry [Derry], in the province of Ulster, covering the months January to July 1831; detailing various types of outrages such as repeal agitation, discharge of firearms, house breaking, intimidation, murder, theft of firearms, robbery, assault, sectarian disturbance, killing or injury to livestock, destruction of property and the posting of threatening notices; with some observations affixed by [Maj] Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police for Ulster. Includes report of Oliver Sutherland, Chief Constable, Half barony of Coleraine, stating that a rumour was in circulation of an approach made by local Protestants to their Roman Catholic neighbours seeking a joint meeting to forward a motion for repeal of the union; adding it is thought that a letter to that effect was sent to the Catholic curate, suggesting an assembly for the purpose be made at the village of Ringsend; noting, however, the parish priest was not in favour, neither were the majority of local Orangemen who turned out in opposition on the day proposed; dated c25th of January. Also includes report of Charles Plunkett, Chief Constable, Town of Coleraine, remarking that a woman named Hetty McCready was accosted by Felex McGonigle whilst returning at night from the town of Newtownlimavady; explaining she claims ‘he attempted to strangle Her for the purpose of disposing of her Body for dissection’; dated 22nd of May. Also includes report of Charles Atkinson, Chief Constable, Keenaght and Tirkeeran, indicating that the school houses of Aughrim and Coolshinny were robbed of a quantity of Bibles and New Testaments; adding that 13 of those taken from Aughrim ‘were found concealed in a heap of stones’; dated 25th of June. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

Jan 1831-Jul 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1581

Statement of outrages committed in County Monaghan, in the province of Ulster, covering the months January to July 1831; detailing various types of outrages such as anti-rent and anti-tithes agitation, plunder of firearms, illegal assembly, house breaking, assault, levelling of buildings, beating, arson, discharge of firearms, robbery, riot, administration of unlawful oaths, rescue of cattle, pound breaking and the posting of threatening Rockite notices; with some observations affixed by [Maj] Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police for Ulster. Includes report of John Irwin, Chief Constable, Farney, drawing attention to the disruptive influence of Roman Catholic priests in the region, primarily on account of their inclination ‘of speaking in violent terms of the Irish [Bible] teachers’; dated 27th of February. Also includes report of Richard Hill, Chief Constable, Dartree, remarking that a dwelling at a location near the village of Smithborough owned by James Jackson, merchant of Clones, was wholly consumed by fire; observing that since the arson attack in question Jackson was posted a Rockite notice informing him that ‘by the Law now established in the Country, shopkeepers are not permitted to farm land’; dated 12th of May. Also includes report of Lieut [Edmund Alexander] Douglas, Chief Constable, Cremorne, indicating that an attack was made on the property of Roger McMahon of Tattygare, near Castleblayney, by a party calling themselves ‘Captain Gallagher’s men from Rockcorry’; adding that the intruders demanded that he withdraw a warrant served on another man otherwise they would return and force him off his holding; dated 28th of July. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

Jan 1831-Jul 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1582

Statement of outrages committed in County Tyrone, in the province of Ulster, covering the months January to July 1831; detailing various types of outrages such as arson, assault, illegal assembly, beating, house breaking, theft, destruction of property, plunder of firearms, discharge of firearms, injury to livestock, spoliation of potatoes, sectarian disturbance and the posting of threatening Rockite notices; with some observations affixed by [Maj] Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police for Ulster. Includes report of David Duff, Chief Constable, Dungannon, drawing attention to an armed attack upon two carriers of linen cloth coming from the markets of Stewartstown; observing the carriers were much assaulted and their horses shot dead; adding the men being natives of County Antrim are likely targets of an attempt by the country people to deter ‘Cloth Merchants from employing strangers’; dated 30th of March. Also includes report of Lieut George Wade, Chief Constable, Omagh, remarking that a new house and stack of turf belonging to a man named Michael McBrien, who resides near Trillick, was levelled by some persons unknown; observing that ‘strange cattle were driven into His fields of crop and much destroyed’; dated 7th of July. Also includes report of Duff, Dungannon, indicating that an affray took place between a number of Roman Catholics employed in the colliery outside the town of Dungannon, and a group of Orangemen returning from the village of Stewartstown; adding that those of the Orange persuasion took the brunt of the violence and are intent upon retribution; noting, as a precaution, he has placed a guard on the colliery in order to protect the employees and the machinery or plant therein; dated 12th of July. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

Jan 1831-Jul 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1583

Statement of outrages committed in the province of Ulster during the month of September 1831; detailing various types of disturbances such as ‘trades’ agitation, arson, levelling of buildings, destruction of property, injury to livestock, discharge of firearms, burning of crops and turf, anti-tithe agitation, assault, anti-rent agitation, pound breaking, beating, theft and the posting of threatening notices; also with summary table on final page; signed below by [Maj] Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police for Ulster. Incorporates detail of a report of Henry William Wray, Chief Constable, Churchill, County Fermanagh, remarking that the pound of the village of Garrison was broken into and cattle taken; noting the animals held therein were seized for rent by a family named Maguire of the townland of Ely; adding a few were recovered by the spirited action of the pound keeper; dated 16th of September. Also incorporates detail of a report of John Irwin, Chief Constable, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, stating that two masons employed to build a bridewell [in the town of Carrickmacross] were the subject of an assault; adding that a man named Peter Thornton is wanted in connection with the outrage but has absconded possibly to County Meath; dated 27th of September. Also includes letter from Thomas Raymond, Chief Constable, Virginia, County Cavan, to D’Arcy, reporting that a keeper named Morgan from the town of Kells [County Meath] was seriously assaulted at a place called Rantavan, near Mullagh, while acting to preserve the property of a man named Richard Dyas, ‘seized for rent’; remarking he was beaten by six men ‘who left him for dead’ and he remains in an extremely weak state. Also includes original of a threatening notice issued to James [Wilson], possibly of the parish of Tydavnet in County Monaghan. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

Sep 1831-8 Oct 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1584

Statement of outrages committed in the province of Ulster during the month of October 1831; detailing various types of disturbances such as beating, house breaking, plunder of firearms, assault, riot over the ‘reform bill’, murder, injury to property, injury to livestock, levelling of buildings, discharge of firearms, anti-rent agitation, arson, robbery and the posting of threatening notices; also with summary table on final page; signed below by [Maj] Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police for Ulster. Incorporates detail of a report of Lieut Henry Ross Lewin, Chief Constable, Killeshandra, County Cavan, remarking that the ears were cut on two horses belonging to John Ingham of Lismore, near Belturbet, apparently in a sectarian gesture; explaining that Ingham, a Protestant, is married to a Roman Catholic lady, and one of his daughters, a professing Catholic has recently married a man of the Protestant faith; adding as a result of this matrimonial union a ‘Pew belonging to Mr Ingham’s family in the chapel was torn down’; dated 10th of October. Also incorporates detail of a report of Capt Patrick Brennan, Chief Constable, Ballybought, [County Armagh], stating that an assembly of men met in the village of Poyntzpass and continued through the surrounding neighbourhood for the purpose of ‘celebrating the 5th day of November’; adding that the matter was promptly referred to the magistrates sitting in quarter sessions; dated 25th of October. [Contains list of names not given in this description].

Nov 1831

1831