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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