Ballinacurra,
Midleton. (Pop 476)
Post money order and telegraph office
Postmistress-Mrs M E Rowe
Conveyances- Midleton 1-1/2 miles (Cork and Youghal br G S & W ry) nearest station
Parliamentary div East Cork
County Electoral div Cloyne
Rural District Council Midleton ;
Electoral divs. Rostellan and Cloyne
Dispensary and Registration dist of Cloyne
Petty Sessions districts of Midleton and Cloyne
Constabulary district of Midleton
Coastguard station, East Ferry
Station officer, H Quain
National School-head teachers
Saleen –T Scannell, Mrs Kelieher
RESIDENTS .
Adams Captain Goold, Jamesbrook hall
Adams W R Goold, JP, Jamesbrook hall
Barry James, Rock cottage
Bennett John Hallaran, J P, Charleston house
Bennett Mrs Wm, The Retreat
Forde Wm, Mt Pleasant
Fowler Mrs, Ballinacurra hse
Hicks Mrs, Saleen
Jeffrey John J, Rathcoursey
O'Brien Mr, East Ferry
Quain H, station officer coast,
Rohan Jeremiah, Ram hill
Rohan Jeremiah, Loughcarrig
Rowland A, Ballinacurra hse
Rowland Mrs, East Ferry
Smyth J J, J P, Rathcoursey hse
Tuckey J A, Woodview
Walsh Capt E, harbour ,master
Webster John, Rose hill
Shopkeepers, etc.
Ballinacurra Wholesale stores- C Hyde
Buckley Mrs D, vintner
Cotter Mrs F, vintner, Saleen
Creedan John, vintner
Daly Mary, vintner
Green P, vintner
Heelan Elizabeth, vintner
Hickey Matthew, broker, vint
Hicks Mrs C, grocer, etc, Saleen
Hughes Captain John, vintner
Hyde Corns, grocer, baker, vint
Irwin Bros, hardware merchts
Leahy Jeremiah, rate collector
McCarthy M, vint, Rathcoursey
Murphy Mrs, groc, Saleen
Murphy Patk, vint, East Ferry
O'Brien Robt, rate collector
Olden John, fish buyer
Roynane J, groc, Rathcoursey
Tomlin Mary, grocer
Walsh John, pilot
Walsh Maurice, pilot
Landholders.
PARISH GARRANEKINNEFEAKE.
Electoral div. Rostellan.
Boozang Richard, Jamesbrook
Cunningham Wm, D C, Jamesbrook
Fitzsimmons Robert, Gurranekinnefeake
Hegarty David, Jamesbrook
Hegarty W, Jamesbrook
Henebry Marcus, Jamesbrook
Leahy David, Jamesbrook
Leahy Michael, Jamesbrook
McSwiney Bryan, Jamesbrook
Murphy John, Jamesbrook
Neill Patrick, Jamesbrook
Twomey John, Jamesbrook
PARISH MLDLETON.
Electoral div. Cloyne.
Ahern David, Innagrega
Ahern Timothy, Innagrega
Cotter Mrs, Bawnard
Deasy C, Loughatalia
Fitzgerald James, Bawnard
Kelieher Laurence, Innagrega
Leahy W, Carrigagour
Murphy Timothy, Innagrega
O'Brien Henry, Laughalalia
O'Brien P, Bawnard
Scanlan Charles, Gearagh
Electoral div. Midleton.
Forde Henry,, Castleredmond
McCarthy John, Castleredmond
McCarthy MrsP, Castleredmond
Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland
1846
Midleton
Co. Cork
(with the Villages of Bailick and Ballinacurra)
Updated 12 Apr 2001
Submitted by Sheri Delaney and posted here with her kind permission.
Midleton is a market and corporate town and parish, in the barony of Imokilly, county of Cork, 156 miles S.W. from Dublin, and 16-1/2 E. from Cork; eligibly situated on the main road between the latter city and Waterford through Youghal, at the north-east angle of Cork harbour, and on the Anachora, or Midleton river, which is navigable for vessels of near three hundred tons burthern to Ballinacurra. The town consists chiefly of one long spacious street, intersected by a few smaller ones. The scenery in many parts is very beautiful, and the country around is in a high state of cultivation.
The manufacture of fine woollen cloths, at one time, was carried on extensively, but has, for some year, been discontinued, and government afterwards purchased the premises for barracks. They were subsequently bought by Lord Midleton, and are now the property of Messrs. Murphy and Co. who have converted them into a distiller - perhaps the most extensive in the south of Ireland, being capable of producing three hundred thousand galls of whisky annually. Until within these few years there were other distilleries in the town, besides some large breweries, at which time the duty realized by the revenue, in this department, from Midleton, amounted to 100,000 pounds annually. In consequence, however of the happy progress of temperance, or some other cause, there exists no longer any breweries here, and but the one distillery above referred to.
The trade in corn is important, and the stores of Messrs. Coppinger Brothers, and the flour mills of Mr. Allen, are of considerable magnitude; the latter sending into the market three thousand bags of flour annually.
Midleton has been improving for some time; it supports a branch of the National Bank of Ireland, and promises to occupy an important position on the new line of railway.
The town received a charter of incorporation from Charles II, under which it returned two members to the Irish parliament until the Union, when it was disfranchised. The general quarter sessions for the East Riding of the county are held here in June and November, and petty sessions once a fortnight. Lord Midleton is patron of the town and lord of the manor, and is entitled to hold a court of record, by his seneschal, every three weeks for the recovery of debts not exceeding 200 pounds Irish currency, but no court has been held for several years. The courthouse is a small neat structure, with a bridewell attached.
The parish church of Saint John, re-erected in 1823, is a neat stone structure in the later English style. The glebe house is a spacious and handsome residence and is pleasantly situated. The other places of worship of two Roman Catholic chapels - that at the eastern extremity of the town is a spacious edifice; the other, a smaller one, is situated at Ballintoretis. The convent of the Presentation is a handsome building, consisting of a centre and two wings, one of which forms the domestic chapel, the other a spacious schoolroom, in which five hundred children of the poor receive, from the ladies of the convent, a gratuitous education.
In 1709 a college was founded here by the then Lady Elizabeth Villiers, in which some of the most shining characters in the kingdom received their early education-amongst these John Philpot Curran; the establishment has since fallen to decay.
A branch of the Royal Agricultural Society is established here, to which is attached a library, containing many important and standard works upon agriculture; a sum of more than 120 pounds is awarded annually to various competitors and from its last report, the society appears to be in a thriving condition.
The union workhouse is a large handsome building, standing upon an area of seven acres, the gift of Lord Midleton; it is capable of holding eight hundred poor.
The market house is a spacious building; the upper apartments are appropriated to the use of the town authorities and occasional assemblies.
The public charities comprise a fever hospital and dispensary and two schools, one of which is under the care of the rector of the parish.
The market, which is a very considerable one, is held on Saturday. Fairs February 14th, May 14th, July 5th, September 10th, October 10th, and November 22nd.
The parish of Midleton contained, in 1841, 6,636 inhabitants and the town 4,591 of that number.
BALLICK is a small village and hamlet in the parish of, and may indeed be deemed a suburb of Midleton, being not more that a quarter of a mile from that town. It possesses a good quay, at which vessels of two hundred tons burthen can be moored close to and discharge their cargoes. There are large stores for iron, coal, culm, &c. Population returned with Midleton.
BALLINACURRA is a large village, in the borough and parish of Midleton, about one mile from that town, rendered important from its being a branch of Cork harbour, and the shipping port for Midleton. There are some very extensive corn and coal stores, among which are those of Mr. Hallaran, the largest in the south of Ireland, and who supplies the celebrated house of Messrs. Guinness and Co. Dublin. Population returned with Midleton.
POST OFFICE, Main Street, Joseph Brabazon, Post Master - Letters from Dublin, the North of Ireland, England, & c. arrive (from Rathcormac) every morning at nine, and are despatched thereto every evening at half-past five. Letters from Dublin and the South of Ireland arrive (from Waterford) every evening at half-past six, and are despatched thereto every morning at half-past five.
Letters from Cork arrive every morning at half-past five and evening at six, and are despatched thereto every morning at ten and evening at half-past six. -The box closes one hour previous to the despatch of the mails.
** Nobility, Gentry and Clergy**
Adams, Jas., Esq., Ballyannon House
Atkins, John, Esq., Leadington
Barry, Edmund, Esq., Dundilerick
Barry, G. Standish, Esq., Lemlara House
Barry, Garrett, Esq., Rockville
Barry, Henry, Esq., Barry's Lodge
Barry, James, Esq., Dundilerick
Barry, Thomas, Esq., Rockville
Barry, William, Esq., Rockville
Brien, Rev.Edwd.(curate), Midleton
Coppinger, Rev. Stephen, Midleton
Coppinger, Thomas, Esq., Rosmore
Coppinger, Thos. S., Esq., Midleton
Cotter, Rev. G.E., Glenview
Courteney, John, Esq., Ballyedmond
Courteney, Mr. Thomas, the Green
Durdin, Mrs.__, Rock Terrace
Foulke, Cousen, Esq., Roxborough
Gaggin, Rev. Richard, Rock Terrace House
Garde, Edward, Esq., Ballinacurra House
Gifford, Rev. William, Union Lodge
Greene, Rev. William, L.L.D., Midleton House
Hackett, Bartholomew, Esq., Midleton
Hackett, William, Esq., Midleton
Herbert, John K., Esq., Longbarrig
Humphreys, Wm., Esq., Broomfield
Jones, Rev. Francis, Rectory
Jones, Rev. Henry, Chapel Road
Keane, Rev. William, Midleton
Longfield, Robert, Esq., Rose Hill
McObey, William, Esq., Stumphill
Martin, George, Esq., Greenville
Martin, Hughes, Esq., Tullagreen
Meade, Rev. William, Brodrick St.
Murray, Rev. Thos. Lindley, Midleton
O'Callaghan, Denis, Cahirduggan
O'Donovan, Jeremiah, Esq., Midleton
O'Hea, Mrs. Margaret, Brodrick St.
Power, Pierce, Esq., Clonmult
Rose, William, Esq., Chapel Road
Saunders, Rev. William Herbert, Carrigtoohil
Saunders, William Herbert, Esq., J.P.
Smyth, John, Esq., Ratheuncy
Upton, Mr. William, Midleton
Wakeham, William, Esq., Water Rock
Warren, Mrs. Alice, Midleton
Welland, Henry N. Esq., Killeagh Farm
Wigmore, Richard, Esq., Ballynona
Wigmore, Thomas, Esq., Ballyvodock
Wigmore, William, Esq., Ballynona
Wilson, Henry, Esq., Ballnaclashy
Wilson, Joseph, Esq., Ballycrana
** Academies and Schools **
Chalmers Esther & Elizabeth Matilda
(boarding and day), Main St.
Convent Female National School, Chapel Road
Endowed School, Midleton -
John Turpin, M.A. master
National School (boys), Chapel Road
Timothy Lynch, master
Parochial Free School
Wm. Harrington, master
Rebecca Mooney, mistress
** Apothecaries**
Dowden, Robert, Main St.
Hudson, John, Main St.
Lawrence, George Joseph, Main St.
** Attorneys**
Fleming, Swithin, Lake View
Foley, Thomas (and agent to Lord Midleton),
Main St.
Greene, Michael (and agent), Midleton House
McCarthy, Alexander, Chapel Road
Nagle, James, Main St.
O'Donovan, James Dewitt, Main St.
** Bakers**
All on Main Street
Barry, Edmund
Bransfield, Thos.
Delany, Martin
Dunn, Philip
Edwardes, Mary
Jones, Richard
Lane, Mary
Linahan, John
Mooney, Williaim
O'Brien, John
O'Sullivan, Jeremiah
** Bank**
National Bank of Ireland (Branch)
(draws on Barnetts', Hoare & Co. London)
Mr. E.S. Coppinger, manager
** Boot and Shoe Makers**
Barry, Patrick, Main St.
Brabazon, Joeph, Main St.
Callaghan, Bartholomew, William St.
Curran, Christian, William St.
Durham, Barry, Charles St.
Leahy, Denis, Main St.
Moore, Patrick, Main St.
Murray, John, Main St.
Murray, John, Main St.
O'Sullivan, Denis, Main St.
** Butchers**
Fitzgerald, Michael, Main St.
Fitzgerald, William, Charles St.
Hearn, John, Charles St.
Kearny, Michael, Charles St.
Sheehan, Michael, Charles St.
White, Mathias, Charles St.
** Carpenters**
Clarke, Richard, Main St.
Lynch, Patrick, Main St.
Riordan, Thomas, Main St.
** Coal Merchants**
Barry, Robert, Ballinacurra
Fitzgerald, Michael, Midleton
Rumbley & Co., Ballinacurra
Rumbley, Frederick G., Ballinacurra
Sheean, Bartholomew, Ballinacurra
** Confectioners**
Jones, Richard, Main St.
Sheehan, Margaret, Main St.
** Coopers**
Hennessey, John, Main St.
Kearney, Henry, William St.
Leahy, Thomas, Main St.
Twomy, John, Main St.
** Distillers**
Murphy, James, jun.& Co.,
Midleton Distillery
** Dyers**
Carden, John, Main St.
Cogan, Michael, Main St.
** Grocers**
Barry, Ellen, Main St.
Bourke, Mary, Main St.
Collins, Catherine, Main St.
Delany, Martin, Main St.
Fitzgibbon, George, Main St.
Foley, John, Main St.
Francis, Edmund, Main St.
Linahan, John, Main St.
McCarthy, Catherine, Main St.
Murphy, Hannah, Main St.
** Haberdashers**
See Linen Drapers & Haberdashers
** Harness Makers**
Buckley, Michael, Charles St.
Lenehan, Edward, Main St.
McAuliffe, John, Charles, St.
** Hotels**
(See also Public Houses)
Burke, Margaret, Main St.
Tattan, John, Main St.
** Ironmongers and Hardware Dealers**
Barry, Robert, Main St.
Bourke, Walsh & Co., Main St.
** Leather Sellers**
Delany, Martin, Main St.
Lehan, Thomas, Main St.
O'Donovan, Jeremiah, Main St.
** Linen & Woollen Drapers and Haberdashers**
Barry, Ellen, Main St.
Callaghan, Matthias, Main St.
Collins, Catherine, Main St.
Hogan, Daniel, Main St.
Leahy, James (linen), Main St.
McCarthy, William, Main St.
Murnane, Michael, Main St.
** Maltster**
Hallaran, John, Charlestown
** Merchants**
Barry, Robert (& ship owner), Ballinacurra
Coppinger, Thos. Stephen & Richard
(& ship owners), Midleton
McCall & Co., Charlestown
** Millers**
Allin, Samuel, Main St.
Hallinan, Timothy, Miltown Mills
** Milliners & Dress Makers**
Connor, Ann, Main St.
Hall, Mary & Fanny, Main St.
Hickey, Winifred, Chapel Road
** Painters and Glaziers**
Green, John, Main St.
O'Brien, Denis, Charles St.
Scanlon, James, Main St.
Wilson, John, Chapel Road
** Pawnbrokers**
Higgins, Ann & John, Charles St.
Higgins, John, Main St.
Trenwith, William Henry, Main St.
** Physicians & Surgeons**
Barry, Joseph, Midleton
Boston, John, Main St.
Keane, Simon H., Youghal Road
Walsh, Philip, Nicholas, Main St.
** Public Houses**
Barry, John, Main St.
Bransfield, Thomas, Main St.
Brien, John, Main St.
Burgess, Edmund, Main St.
Carroll, Edmund, Charles St.
Cody, Richard, Main St.
Condon, John, Charles St.
Connell, John, Main St.
Corkran, Michael, Main St.
Cotter, Lawrence, Main St.
Curran, Christian, Green's Terrace
Delany, William, William St.
Donovan, James, Main St.
Dorgan, Timothy, William St.
Farrell, Edward, Main St.
Fitzgerald, Edmund, Main St.
Forrest, James, Glebe Lane
Forrest, John, Main St.
Geary, John, Main St.
Higgins, Patrick, Charles St.
Keeffe, John, William St.
Leahy, Thomas, Main St.
McCarthy, Michael, Main St.
Mahony, Patrick, Main St.
Moore, Ann, Main St.
O'Sullivan, Denis, Main St.
Ronayne, William, Main St.
Walsh, James, Main St.
** Spirit Dealers**
Buckley, Richard, Main St.
Fitzgibbon, George, Main St.
Foley, John, Main St.
Francis, Edmund, Main St.
** Stone Masons**
Forrest, James, Glebe Lane
Mannix, Edward, Main St.
Twomy, Michael, Main St.
** Tailors**
Barry, John, Main St.
Coates, William, Chapel Road
Connelly, William, Charles St.
McCarthy, Eugene, Charles St.
McSwiney, Daniel Richard, Chapel Road
** Tallow Chandlers**
Garde, John, Main St.
McSwiney, John, Main St.
** Tanners**
Bourke, Walsh & Co., Main St.
Keane, John, Main St.
** Tobacconists**
Buckley, Richard, Main St.
Flynn, William, Main St.
Lane, William, Main St.
O'Keeffe, Ann, Main St.
Prenderville, Thomas, Main St.
** Woollen Drapers**
See Linen and Woollen Drapers
** Miscellaneous**
Dickinson, Belinda, shopkeeper, Main St.
Donovan, John, gardener, Chapel Road
Hicky, John, fellmonger, Darby's Lane
Leahy, Ellen, shopkeeper, Main St.
Leahy, John, fellmonger, Charles St.
Riordan, Denis, shopkeeper, Main St.
Smyth, Dominic, cabinet maker, Chapel Road
** Places of Worship** And their Ministers
Parish Church
Rev. Francis Jones, rector, Glebe House
Rev. Edward H. Brien, curate, Main St.
Roman Catholic Chapel
Rev. William Keane, parish priest
Rev. Stephen Coppinger and
Rev. Thomas Lindley Murray, curates
Convent of the Presentation, Chapel Road
** Public Institutions, &c.**
*Union Workhouse*
Master, Patrick Burke
Matron, Mary Scanlon
Clerk to the Board of Guardians
James Cotter
Surgeon, Joseph Barry, M.D.
Protestant Chaplain, Rev. Francis Jones
Roman Catholic Chaplain, Rev. William Keane
Resident Apothecary, Daniel H. Varian
*Agricultural Society*
Alexander McCarthy, secretary, Chapel Road
*Constabulary Office, Main St.*
Geo. White, sub-inspector, Brodrick St.
*Court House and Bridewell*
Rev. Francis Jones, local inspector
John Montgomery, governor of the Bridewell and
keeper of the Court House
*Excise Office, Main St.*
James Chevaller, supervisor
*Fever Hospital*<
Joseph Barry, surgeon and physician
*Stamp Office, Main St.*
Daniel O'Sullivan, sub-distributor
** Coaches and Cars**
To Cloyne,
A Car (from Cork) calls at the Coach Office, Main St., every evening at half-past six.
To Cork,
The Royal Mail (from Waterford), calls at Anne Moore's, Main St., every evening at half-past six.
Two day coaches (from Youghal), call at the Coach Office, Main St., every morning at half-past ten, and every evening at half-past five.
A car (from Cloyne) calls at the Coach Office, Main St., every morning at half-past eight.
To Rathcormac,
A Mail Car, from the Post Office, every evening at five.
To Waterford,
The Royal Mail (from Cork) calls at Anne Moore's, every morning at half-past five, goes through Castle-Martyr, Youghal, Tallow, Lismore, Cappoquin, Dungarvan and Kilmacthomas.
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Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland
1846
Midleton
Co. Cork
(with the Villages of Bailick and Ballinacurra)
Updated 12 Apr 2001
Submitted by Sheri Delaney and posted here with her kind permission.
Midleton is a market and corporate town and parish, in the barony of Imokilly, county of Cork, 156 miles S.W. from Dublin, and 16-1/2 E. from Cork; eligibly situated on the main road between the latter city and Waterford through Youghal, at the north-east angle of Cork harbour, and on the Anachora, or Midleton river, which is navigable for vessels of near three hundred tons burthern to Ballinacurra. The town consists chiefly of one long spacious street, intersected by a few smaller ones. The scenery in many parts is very beautiful, and the country around is in a high state of cultivation.
The manufacture of fine woollen cloths, at one time, was carried on extensively, but has, for some year, been discontinued, and government afterwards purchased the premises for barracks. They were subsequently bought by Lord Midleton, and are now the property of Messrs. Murphy and Co. who have converted them into a distiller - perhaps the most extensive in the south of Ireland, being capable of producing three hundred thousand galls of whisky annually. Until within these few years there were other distilleries in the town, besides some large breweries, at which time the duty realized by the revenue, in this department, from Midleton, amounted to 100,000 pounds annually. In consequence, however of the happy progress of temperance, or some other cause, there exists no longer any breweries here, and but the one distillery above referred to.
The trade in corn is important, and the stores of Messrs. Coppinger Brothers, and the flour mills of Mr. Allen, are of considerable magnitude; the latter sending into the market three thousand bags of flour annually.
Midleton has been improving for some time; it supports a branch of the National Bank of Ireland, and promises to occupy an important position on the new line of railway.
The town received a charter of incorporation from Charles II, under which it returned two members to the Irish parliament until the Union, when it was disfranchised. The general quarter sessions for the East Riding of the county are held here in June and November, and petty sessions once a fortnight. Lord Midleton is patron of the town and lord of the manor, and is entitled to hold a court of record, by his seneschal, every three weeks for the recovery of debts not exceeding 200 pounds Irish currency, but no court has been held for several years. The courthouse is a small neat structure, with a bridewell attached.
The parish church of Saint John, re-erected in 1823, is a neat stone structure in the later English style. The glebe house is a spacious and handsome residence and is pleasantly situated. The other places of worship of two Roman Catholic chapels - that at the eastern extremity of the town is a spacious edifice; the other, a smaller one, is situated at Ballintoretis. The convent of the Presentation is a handsome building, consisting of a centre and two wings, one of which forms the domestic chapel, the other a spacious schoolroom, in which five hundred children of the poor receive, from the ladies of the convent, a gratuitous education.
In 1709 a college was founded here by the then Lady Elizabeth Villiers, in which some of the most shining characters in the kingdom received their early education-amongst these John Philpot Curran; the establishment has since fallen to decay.
A branch of the Royal Agricultural Society is established here, to which is attached a library, containing many important and standard works upon agriculture; a sum of more than 120 pounds is awarded annually to various competitors and from its last report, the society appears to be in a thriving condition.
The union workhouse is a large handsome building, standing upon an area of seven acres, the gift of Lord Midleton; it is capable of holding eight hundred poor.
The market house is a spacious building; the upper apartments are appropriated to the use of the town authorities and occasional assemblies.
The public charities comprise a fever hospital and dispensary and two schools, one of which is under the care of the rector of the parish.
The market, which is a very considerable one, is held on Saturday. Fairs February 14th, May 14th, July 5th, September 10th, October 10th, and November 22nd.
The parish of Midleton contained, in 1841, 6,636 inhabitants and the town 4,591 of that number.
BALLICK is a small village and hamlet in the parish of, and may indeed be deemed a suburb of Midleton, being not more that a quarter of a mile from that town. It possesses a good quay, at which vessels of two hundred tons burthen can be moored close to and discharge their cargoes. There are large stores for iron, coal, culm, &c. Population returned with Midleton.
BALLINACURRA is a large village, in the borough and parish of Midleton, about one mile from that town, rendered important from its being a branch of Cork harbour, and the shipping port for Midleton. There are some very extensive corn and coal stores, among which are those of Mr. Hallaran, the largest in the south of Ireland, and who supplies the celebrated house of Messrs. Guinness and Co. Dublin. Population returned with Midleton.
POST OFFICE, Main Street, Joseph Brabazon, Post Master - Letters from Dublin, the North of Ireland, England, & c. arrive (from Rathcormac) every morning at nine, and are despatched thereto every evening at half-past five. Letters from Dublin and the South of Ireland arrive (from Waterford) every evening at half-past six, and are despatched thereto every morning at half-past five.
Letters from Cork arrive every morning at half-past five and evening at six, and are despatched thereto every morning at ten and evening at half-past six. -The box closes one hour previous to the despatch of the mails.
** Nobility, Gentry and Clergy**
Adams, Jas., Esq., Ballyannon House
Atkins, John, Esq., Leadington
Barry, Edmund, Esq., Dundilerick
Barry, G. Standish, Esq., Lemlara House
Barry, Garrett, Esq., Rockville
Barry, Henry, Esq., Barry's Lodge
Barry, James, Esq., Dundilerick
Barry, Thomas, Esq., Rockville
Barry, William, Esq., Rockville
Brien, Rev.Edwd.(curate), Midleton
Coppinger, Rev. Stephen, Midleton
Coppinger, Thomas, Esq., Rosmore
Coppinger, Thos. S., Esq., Midleton
Cotter, Rev. G.E., Glenview
Courteney, John, Esq., Ballyedmond
Courteney, Mr. Thomas, the Green
Durdin, Mrs.__, Rock Terrace
Foulke, Cousen, Esq., Roxborough
Gaggin, Rev. Richard, Rock Terrace House
Garde, Edward, Esq., Ballinacurra House
Gifford, Rev. William, Union Lodge
Greene, Rev. William, L.L.D., Midleton House
Hackett, Bartholomew, Esq., Midleton
Hackett, William, Esq., Midleton
Herbert, John K., Esq., Longbarrig
Humphreys, Wm., Esq., Broomfield
Jones, Rev. Francis, Rectory
Jones, Rev. Henry, Chapel Road
Keane, Rev. William, Midleton
Longfield, Robert, Esq., Rose Hill
McObey, William, Esq., Stumphill
Martin, George, Esq., Greenville
Martin, Hughes, Esq., Tullagreen
Meade, Rev. William, Brodrick St.
Murray, Rev. Thos. Lindley, Midleton
O'Callaghan, Denis, Cahirduggan
O'Donovan, Jeremiah, Esq., Midleton
O'Hea, Mrs. Margaret, Brodrick St.
Power, Pierce, Esq., Clonmult
Rose, William, Esq., Chapel Road
Saunders, Rev. William Herbert, Carrigtoohil
Saunders, William Herbert, Esq., J.P.
Smyth, John, Esq., Ratheuncy
Upton, Mr. William, Midleton
Wakeham, William, Esq., Water Rock
Warren, Mrs. Alice, Midleton
Welland, Henry N. Esq., Killeagh Farm
Wigmore, Richard, Esq., Ballynona
Wigmore, Thomas, Esq., Ballyvodock
Wigmore, William, Esq., Ballynona
Wilson, Henry, Esq., Ballnaclashy
Wilson, Joseph, Esq., Ballycrana
** Academies and Schools **
Chalmers Esther & Elizabeth Matilda
(boarding and day), Main St.
Convent Female National School, Chapel Road
Endowed School, Midleton -
John Turpin, M.A. master
National School (boys), Chapel Road
Timothy Lynch, master
Parochial Free School
Wm. Harrington, master
Rebecca Mooney, mistress
** Apothecaries**
Dowden, Robert, Main St.
Hudson, John, Main St.
Lawrence, George Joseph, Main St.
** Attorneys**
Fleming, Swithin, Lake View
Foley, Thomas (and agent to Lord Midleton),
Main St.
Greene, Michael (and agent), Midleton House
McCarthy, Alexander, Chapel Road
Nagle, James, Main St.
O'Donovan, James Dewitt, Main St.
** Bakers**
All on Main Street
Barry, Edmund
Bransfield, Thos.
Delany, Martin
Dunn, Philip
Edwardes, Mary
Jones, Richard
Lane, Mary
Linahan, John
Mooney, Williaim
O'Brien, John
O'Sullivan, Jeremiah
** Bank**
National Bank of Ireland (Branch)
(draws on Barnetts', Hoare & Co. London)
Mr. E.S. Coppinger, manager
** Boot and Shoe Makers**
Barry, Patrick, Main St.
Brabazon, Joeph, Main St.
Callaghan, Bartholomew, William St.
Curran, Christian, William St.
Durham, Barry, Charles St.
Leahy, Denis, Main St.
Moore, Patrick, Main St.
Murray, John, Main St.
Murray, John, Main St.
O'Sullivan, Denis, Main St.
** Butchers**
Fitzgerald, Michael, Main St.
Fitzgerald, William, Charles St.
Hearn, John, Charles St.
Kearny, Michael, Charles St.
Sheehan, Michael, Charles St.
White, Mathias, Charles St.
** Carpenters**
Clarke, Richard, Main St.
Lynch, Patrick, Main St.
Riordan, Thomas, Main St.
** Coal Merchants**
Barry, Robert, Ballinacurra
Fitzgerald, Michael, Midleton
Rumbley & Co., Ballinacurra
Rumbley, Frederick G., Ballinacurra
Sheean, Bartholomew, Ballinacurra
** Confectioners**
Jones, Richard, Main St.
Sheehan, Margaret, Main St.
** Coopers**
Hennessey, John, Main St.
Kearney, Henry, William St.
Leahy, Thomas, Main St.
Twomy, John, Main St.
** Distillers**
Murphy, James, jun.& Co.,
Midleton Distillery
** Dyers**
Carden, John, Main St.
Cogan, Michael, Main St.
** Grocers**
Barry, Ellen, Main St.
Bourke, Mary, Main St.
Collins, Catherine, Main St.
Delany, Martin, Main St.
Fitzgibbon, George, Main St.
Foley, John, Main St.
Francis, Edmund, Main St.
Linahan, John, Main St.
McCarthy, Catherine, Main St.
Murphy, Hannah, Main St.
** Haberdashers**
See Linen Drapers & Haberdashers
** Harness Makers**
Buckley, Michael, Charles St.
Lenehan, Edward, Main St.
McAuliffe, John, Charles, St.
** Hotels**
(See also Public Houses)
Burke, Margaret, Main St.
Tattan, John, Main St.
** Ironmongers and Hardware Dealers**
Barry, Robert, Main St.
Bourke, Walsh & Co., Main St.
** Leather Sellers**
Delany, Martin, Main St.
Lehan, Thomas, Main St.
O'Donovan, Jeremiah, Main St.
** Linen & Woollen Drapers and Haberdashers**
Barry, Ellen, Main St.
Callaghan, Matthias, Main St.
Collins, Catherine, Main St.
Hogan, Daniel, Main St.
Leahy, James (linen), Main St.
McCarthy, William, Main St.
Murnane, Michael, Main St.
** Maltster**
Hallaran, John, Charlestown
** Merchants**
Barry, Robert (& ship owner), Ballinacurra
Coppinger, Thos. Stephen & Richard
(& ship owners), Midleton
McCall & Co., Charlestown
** Millers**
Allin, Samuel, Main St.
Hallinan, Timothy, Miltown Mills
** Milliners & Dress Makers**
Connor, Ann, Main St.
Hall, Mary & Fanny, Main St.
Hickey, Winifred, Chapel Road
** Painters and Glaziers**
Green, John, Main St.
O'Brien, Denis, Charles St.
Scanlon, James, Main St.
Wilson, John, Chapel Road
** Pawnbrokers**
Higgins, Ann & John, Charles St.
Higgins, John, Main St.
Trenwith, William Henry, Main St.
** Physicians & Surgeons**
Barry, Joseph, Midleton
Boston, John, Main St.
Keane, Simon H., Youghal Road
Walsh, Philip, Nicholas, Main St.
** Public Houses**
Barry, John, Main St.
Bransfield, Thomas, Main St.
Brien, John, Main St.
Burgess, Edmund, Main St.
Carroll, Edmund, Charles St.
Cody, Richard, Main St.
Condon, John, Charles St.
Connell, John, Main St.
Corkran, Michael, Main St.
Cotter, Lawrence, Main St.
Curran, Christian, Green's Terrace
Delany, William, William St.
Donovan, James, Main St.
Dorgan, Timothy, William St.
Farrell, Edward, Main St.
Fitzgerald, Edmund, Main St.
Forrest, James, Glebe Lane
Forrest, John, Main St.
Geary, John, Main St.
Higgins, Patrick, Charles St.
Keeffe, John, William St.
Leahy, Thomas, Main St.
McCarthy, Michael, Main St.
Mahony, Patrick, Main St.
Moore, Ann, Main St.
O'Sullivan, Denis, Main St.
Ronayne, William, Main St.
Walsh, James, Main St.
** Spirit Dealers**
Buckley, Richard, Main St.
Fitzgibbon, George, Main St.
Foley, John, Main St.
Francis, Edmund, Main St.
** Stone Masons**
Forrest, James, Glebe Lane
Mannix, Edward, Main St.
Twomy, Michael, Main St.
** Tailors**
Barry, John, Main St.
Coates, William, Chapel Road
Connelly, William, Charles St.
McCarthy, Eugene, Charles St.
McSwiney, Daniel Richard, Chapel Road
** Tallow Chandlers**
Garde, John, Main St.
McSwiney, John, Main St.
** Tanners**
Bourke, Walsh & Co., Main St.
Keane, John, Main St.
** Tobacconists**
Buckley, Richard, Main St.
Flynn, William, Main St.
Lane, William, Main St.
O'Keeffe, Ann, Main St.
Prenderville, Thomas, Main St.
** Woollen Drapers**
See Linen and Woollen Drapers
** Miscellaneous**
Dickinson, Belinda, shopkeeper, Main St.
Donovan, John, gardener, Chapel Road
Hicky, John, fellmonger, Darby's Lane
Leahy, Ellen, shopkeeper, Main St.
Leahy, John, fellmonger, Charles St.
Riordan, Denis, shopkeeper, Main St.
Smyth, Dominic, cabinet maker, Chapel Road
** Places of Worship** And their Ministers
Parish Church
Rev. Francis Jones, rector, Glebe House
Rev. Edward H. Brien, curate, Main St.
Roman Catholic Chapel
Rev. William Keane, parish priest
Rev. Stephen Coppinger and
Rev. Thomas Lindley Murray, curates
Convent of the Presentation, Chapel Road
** Public Institutions, &c.**
*Union Workhouse*
Master, Patrick Burke
Matron, Mary Scanlon
Clerk to the Board of Guardians
James Cotter
Surgeon, Joseph Barry, M.D.
Protestant Chaplain, Rev. Francis Jones
Roman Catholic Chaplain, Rev. William Keane
Resident Apothecary, Daniel H. Varian
*Agricultural Society*
Alexander McCarthy, secretary, Chapel Road
*Constabulary Office, Main St.*
Geo. White, sub-inspector, Brodrick St.
*Court House and Bridewell*
Rev. Francis Jones, local inspector
John Montgomery, governor of the Bridewell and
keeper of the Court House
*Excise Office, Main St.*
James Chevaller, supervisor
*Fever Hospital*<
Joseph Barry, surgeon and physician
*Stamp Office, Main St.*
Daniel O'Sullivan, sub-distributor
** Coaches and Cars**
To Cloyne,
A Car (from Cork) calls at the Coach Office, Main St., every evening at half-past six.
To Cork,
The Royal Mail (from Waterford), calls at Anne Moore's, Main St., every evening at half-past six.
Two day coaches (from Youghal), call at the Coach Office, Main St., every morning at half-past ten, and every evening at half-past five.
A car (from Cloyne) calls at the Coach Office, Main St., every morning at half-past eight.
To Rathcormac,
A Mail Car, from the Post Office, every evening at five.
To Waterford,
The Royal Mail (from Cork) calls at Anne Moore's, every morning at half-past five, goes through Castle-Martyr, Youghal, Tallow, Lismore, Cappoquin, Dungarvan and Kilmacthomas.
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Pigot's & Co. Directory, 1824
Middleton
Co. Cork
Updated 3 Oct 1999
Submitted by Anita Sheahan Coraluzzi to the Genexchange County Cork mailing list and posted here with her kind permission.
Pigot's & Co. Directory, 1824 - Middleton, County Cork
**Post Office** - Post Master, Mr. J. Brabazon. The Dublin & English mails arrive at half past seven in the evening, via Waterford, and the Cork mail is despatched [sic] immediately after. The Dublin & English mails leave at half past six in the morning, and the letter box closes a half an hour before.
**Nobility, Gentry & Clergy**
Adams, Jas. esq. (Ballyannon House)
Atkins, Col. M.U. (Leadington)
Ansten, Rev. Robt., LLD, Rector of Middleton, Glebe-House and Hadwell-lodge
Barry, David, esq. (Barry's Lodge)
Barry, Garrett S. esq. (Lenlara)
Barry, Jas., esq. (Dundillerig)
Barry, John Smith, esq. (Foata)
Barry, Richd., esq. (Greenfeild)
Barry, Thos., esq. (Rockville)
Cahill, Pat, esq. (Bally Spillane)
Carey, John, esq.
Coppinger, Edm., esq. (Rosmore)
Courtenay, Geo., esq (Ballynaclashy)
Courtenay, Robt., esq. (Bally-Edmund)
Courtenay, Thos., esq. (Ballynaclashy)
Courtenay, Thos., esq. (Ballycrana)
Cox, Lieut. S. HP (Rosehill)
Dixon, ______, esq. (Brookdale)
Donovan, Dan., esq. (Millview)
Fitzgerald, Pierce, esq. (Corbally)
Foulkes, Cousens, esq. (Young-grove)
Freeman, Rev. Rd. Deane, Rector of Ardnageehy, and curate of Middleton
Gaggin, Rev. Rd. (Dongournay)
Garde, John, esq. (Ballinacora house)
Garde, Wm., esq. (Bilberry)
Green, Rev. Wm., LLD, Rector of Tullylease
Grier, Rev. Dr. Richard
Hamilton, Rev. Thos. (Churchtown)
Heard, Lieut. F. HP (Ballintubber)
Humphreys, Dan. esq.
Leach, Capt. John (Ballyedikin)
Long, Capt. John (Rathcoursey)
Lakay, Geo. esq.
McOboy, Wm. esq.(Stump-hill)
Martin, Robt., esq. (Tullagreen)
Maunsell, Rev. Wm. Wray, Archdeacon of Limerick, Middleton Lodge
Meany, Denis, esq. (Donnickmore)
Poole, Thos., esq. (agent to Lord Middleton, Cahirmone)
Power, Pierce, esq. (Clonmult)
Pratt, Rev. Robert , curate of Lisgoold
Seton, A., esq.
Seward, Daniel Pope, esq.
Smith, John, esq.(Rathcoursey)
Smith, Robt., esq.
Thomond, Marquis of (Rostellan Castle)
Wakeham, Wm., esq. (Water-rock)
Warner, Peter, esq. (Castleview)
Warren, Wm., esq.
Welland, Wm., esq. (Killagh Farm)
Welsh, Rev. Jas.(Dunsfort)
Wigmore, Henry, esq. (Ballivodock)
Wigmore, Lieut. Henry, HP
Wigmore, Miss (Ballinacora)
Wigmore, Richard Harding, esq. (Ballynona)
Wilson, Joseph, esq. (Ballycrana)
**Merchants, Tradesmen, &c.**
**Professional Gentlemen**
Boston, John, physician
Daly, Matthias, academy
Dirkinson, Austen, physician
Gaggin, John, attorney
Heard, Edw., physician (Ballintubber)
Hudson, John, apothecary & surgeon
McCarthy, Denis, physician
Nagle, John, physician
**Merchants, &c.**
Barry, Robt., corn merchant (Ballinacora)
Coppinger, John & Jos., brewers & maltsters
Coppinger, Thomas Stephen, merchant
Hackett, Jas. & Co., distillers
Lomashuey (sp?), John, maltster
McCall, John, miller
McCall, Samuel, merchant (Charleston)
**Spirit & Porter Dealers**
Buckley, Michael
Buckley, Wm.
Geary, Maurice
Hegarty, Jeremiah, King's Arms Inn, (& agent to Messrs. Walker & Co., brewers at Fermoy)
Hegarty, Pat. (Bush Inn)
Holmes, Richard
Kenny, Thos.
McCarthy, Denis (Charleston)
Moore, Daniel
Nagle, James
Ronan, Jerh. (Ballinacora)
Stack, George
**Shopkeepers & Traders**
Adams, Ellen, china dealer
Bourke, Edmund, dyer
Bourke, Pat., tanner
Buckley, Michael, grocer and spirit dealer
Callahan, Matthias, woolen draper
Cullenane, Charles, linen and woolen draper
Donovan, Pat, hardwareman
Dwyer, Thos., grocer
Edwards, Mary, baker
Garde, John, tallow chandler and soap boiler
Greene, John, china and glass dealer
Hartnett, Jas., baker and grocer
Hartnett, Patrick, linen and woolen draper
Kean, Cornelius, butcher
Kean, Thos., tanner
Kenny, Thomas, grocer and spirit dealer
Mahony, Margaret, tobacconist
Moore, Pat., butcher
Murphy, Timothy, baker
Powell, Pierce, leather cutter
Purcell, John, linen draper
Sheehan, John, parish clerk
Sweeny, John, tobacconist &c.
Varian, Thos., tobacconist & tallow chandler
Welsh, Ellen, linen draper
**Revenue Officers**
Richd. Julian, surveyor of excise
Wm. O'Donovan, gauger
Twohig, John, gauger
**Carmen**
Martin Karney, Thos. Gorman, Michael Hennessy, and John Curtain convey heavy goods by agreement to Cork, Cloyne or Youghal.
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THE FENIAN RISING IN CORK MARCH 1867
Part Two
Excerpts from the Cork Examiner Mon., 11th March to Sat., 16th March 1867
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Cork Examiner, Monday 11 March 1867
EDITORIAL (Extract from) - "The Fenian insurrection had extended yesterday over nearly the entire of Tipperary, Limerick and Clare, and bands of insurgents had appeared in Kildare, the Queen's County, Louth and Waterford. Dublin has been free from Fenians since Wednesday, and in our own county as well as in Kerry, tranquillity remains undisturbed. In the west and north of Ireland no rising has taken place. The chief force of the insurgents in Tipperary, Clare and Limerick. The main body of the Fenians have disappeared off the slopes of Galtymore, where they were observed on Thursday, but whether they have dispersed or retired to stronger positions in the mountains has not been ascertained. Small bands unconnected with this force are in various parts of the three counties, and make frequent raids for arms. Troops have been dispatched from Limerick and from the Limerick Junction to several small towns threatened by the insurgents. At the Limerick Junction there is a force of 2,500 troops, from which flying columns have been dispatched to the foot of these mountains but without meeting the insurgents. In Kildare the Fenians attacked the police barrack at Mountmellic, and were defeated with the loss of two wounded. The Fenians appeared in the Waterford mountains, in the neighbourhood of Clonmel, on Saturday, and a flying column was to have been sent in pursuit of them this morning. Many Fenians are reported to have died of wounds and exposure on the mountains, and have been buried secretly by their comrades. Nine persons, supposed to form a Fenian Council, were arrested on Saturday in Dublin."
THE FENIAN MOVEMENT - The following items of Fenian intelligence appeared in our Second, Third and Fourth Editions of Saturday:
ARRESTS IN THE CITY - Friday night when Constable Hosford and party were on patrol at Evergreen, they met three men named John Fitzgerald, James Griffin and James Ringrone, at Turner's Cross, coming in from the country. The police challenged them and asked who they were and where they had been? They declined to answer, and were thereupon arrested and conveyed to Bridewell, where they were searched, but nothing of a suspicious character was found with them. They still refused to account for themselves, and were, therefore, detained. This morning they were brought up before the Magistrates at the Police-office, and remanded for eight days. One of the three (Griffin) had previously been under suspicion.
A HOUSE AT SUNDAY'S-WELL VISITED FOR ARMS - About half past eight o clock last evening, a man named O Reilly (clerk to Mr. O Keefe, solicitor), residing at 94 Sunday's Well-road, reports that his servant being at chapel, he went to the door on hearing a knock. A man was there and demanded arms. An altercation took place, Mr. O Reilly denying that he had any arms, whereupon his visitor, insisting that he had some, presented a revolver close to his breast, and repeated the demand. Mr. O Reilly attempted to close the doors against him, and then man then whistled, the result being that a number of persons rushed up from behind, and blocked the doorway. Mr O Reilly's wife then prudently handed out an old fowling piece, which the party took, saying that its owner would be credited with it by the Treasury of the Irish Republic. They then departed.
ARREST OF A BOTTLE-HILL FENIAN - SEIZURE OF "JR" PERCUSSION CAPS AND BULLETS - On this morning a young man named Coghlan, belonging to this city, was arrested at Whitechurch by the police. On the prisoner's person was found a large number of bullets and percussion caps. The caps bore the imprint "Irish Republic". The prisoner is believed to be one of the party engaged in the Bottle-hill affair. He was brought into the city to-day and committed to the County Gaol by Dr. Wall, JP., on the charge of high treason.
TELEGRAPH WIRES CUT AGAIN - Last evening the telegraph wires, between Cork and Passage, were cut in two or three different places, and at Rochestown, some of the insulators were knocked off, apparently with the blows of a hammer. The greatest caution is exercised by the railway officials to guard against any attempt to injure the line.
MIDLETON AND CASTLEMARTYR - Reports from the district of Cloyne, Killeagh, Castlemartyr and Midleton, this morning, represent all quiet there during the night.
ATTACK BY FENIANS ON A FARMERS' HOUSE NEAR MITCHELSTOWN - REPULSE OF THE FENIANS WITH LOSS OF LIFE - Here last night, or early yesterday morning, an armed party attacked the house of a farmer at a place called Kilbenny (sic), five miles from Mitchelstown, on the borders of the County Limerick. The farmer, it is reported, fired upon the party - killed one and wounded another, and they then retreated.
RUMOURED FENIAN MEETING AT DONOUGHMORE - A farmer is reported to have seen a meeting of two or three hundred Fenians, at the Cross of Donoughmore, last night, but this needs confirmation.
EXCITEMENT IN PASSAGE - The greatest excitement existed throughout last night amongst the inhabitants of this town and neighbourhood, owing to a rumour that the Fenians would make an attack upon the police barrack and make a general search for arms. The information must have come from some authority, as the police force was strengthened and the men were in readiness to defend themselves, if necessary.
The object of this intended attack on the police barrack by the Fenians is believed to be with the aim of making themselves possessed of a quantity of firearms which were deposited there within the past few days. Probably if the Fenians were aware of the preparations that had been made for their reception, or in the event of the success of their attack, the firearms they would possess themselves of being useless, they would not attempt such a proceeding. The firearms consist of a number of flint pieces of the time of Queen Ann.
ARRIVAL OF TROOPS AT QUEENSTOWN - Her Majesty's steam rams 'Caledonia' and 'Clyde' arrived in Queenstown, from Southampton, with several hundred Marines, at half past nine o clock this evening. A salute was fired, and (now that every sound is supposed to have an unwonted meaning) the booming of the guns gave rise to some little speculation in the city.
SCARE AT BALLINCOLLIG - The following are the circumstances which occasioned on yesterday the reports for which for some time agitated the neighbourhood, that a considerable body of Fenians were seen massed in the vicinity of Ballincollig, apparently prepared to receive or make an attack. As an instance of the plausibility of detail in which such exaggerations are enveloped, it was added to the report above that several men who seemed to be leaders were observed grouped in advance of the main body of Fenians drawn up in battle order on the hills - reconnoitring the barracks through field glasses. The truth is that on yesterday a rumour reached the barracks, about half past ten o clock pm, that a number of persons had been seen suspiciously assembled near Mr. Crosse's of Temple-hill. Upon receipt of this intelligence, Colonel Goodenough, commanding at Ballincollig, waited on Mr. St. Ledger, SI, and both proceeded towards the hill at the head of a company of the 71st Regiment, accompanied by some police. Colonel Goodenough and the inspector went up the hill, followed by the soldiers, and having made inquiries as they went along ascertained that not only had no body of men been seen in the locality, but not a single individual had been observed there at all. The soldiers, thereupon, returned to garrison. This morning one of the first rumours in the city was the startling statement that an attack had been on Ballincollig during the night by the Fenians in which four policemen where shot dead. Subsequently the bruit dwindled to the simple hearing of shots from the direction of Ballincollig. The first of these reports was, it is needless to say, an absolute falsehood, but the second, though equally unfounded, was less unwarranted, for during the night at a little after midnight, two of the small mills at the powder manufactory in which gunpowder in a preparatory stage is kept, exploded with a reverberation alarming in the stillness of the night and rather uncomfortably suggestive in presence of the aspect of the time. There was but a very small quantity of powder in the mills at the time, and no injury whatever was occasioned by the occurrence, the origin of which is believed to have been wholly accidental. The most perfect tranquillity prevails in Ballincollig and its neighbourhood. There are none of the inhabitants missed from their dwellings and there have been no arrests. The town and neighbourhood is vigilantly patrolled and the most strict supervision is exercised over strangers.
From Our Correspondent (no location given) - Saturday - Fenians were reported, to-day, to be on the mountains between here and Youghal. Bugle was sounded to call all soldiers to barracks, and the excitement lasted ten minutes or so, but the news was considered doubtful. The police took possession of all the powder, shot, pitchforks, &c, in stock in the hardware and other establishments on yesterday.
LISCARROL - Saturday - All is quiet here, the conduct of the people being most orderly.
EXCITEMENT IN MIDLETON - Midleton, Sunday night. - There has been no incident here of an alarming character since my last despatch, but great uneasiness, which seems rather to increase than diminish, is very generally felt. Last night an outbreak was apprehended, and the streets were deserted at an early hour, but no disturbance occurred. Head-constable Reardon and a party of police patrolled the road from here to Ballinacurra without meeting even one person. The police force here has been increased to an officer and twenty men by the concentration of parties from the outlying stations. The company of the 14th Regiment is still posted in the Workhouse, and is kept pretty closely to quarters. The sledge hammers and crowbar found on Friday morning are believed to have been intended for an attack on the bank, in a field near where they were found. A party of police from Cloyne, which has just called here, reports perfect tranquillity there. No men are missing from Ballinacurra. In this town there is a number of men, who, it is confidently believed, would join any outbreak which might at any moment occur, and these are believed to include several of those who were out on Tuesday night. The number of men absent from their homes here, and whose absence is not satisfactorily explained, is estimated at about twenty or a little more. Two of those so absent, have been arrested in Cashel. They are Edward Loughlen, who had been employed in a hardware establishment in this town, and a young man named O Mahony, who has property in the county Waterford, and who has been for some time staying with his aunt, the wife of a respectable farmer, a few miles from here.
From Youghal, Killeagh, and Castlemartyr, all is reported quiet. The two brothers Cooney, who were arrested in Youghal on Friday night, belong to that town, and they are believed to have been out with the Fenians on Tuesday night. One of them was arrested, it is said, when offering to enlist at Youghal barracks, with, it is said, a special object.
There are now six prisoners in Midleton bridewell, the authorities considering it better to keep them there than forward them to the county gaol, till it shall be determined how they are to be dealt with. It is understood that there is strong evidence against all of them, and evidence of a specially important nature is said to have been given against one.
To-night, there are many persons in the street, for the most part young men, the measured regularity of whose tread is considered significant. The fact of it being Sunday evening, however, would in some degree explain.......................................................From whatever cause, however, there is a marked apprehension amongst the townspeople. Everyone seems to regard everyone else with suspicion, and reference to the prevailing insecurity and its cause is made with great caution. Some persons of suspicious appearance are said to have been seen in the town.
STATE OF THE CITY - The city remains free from any decided Fenian alarms, except such as always prevail during a period of great excitement. Some of the events, too, incident on the military and police movements now so frequent give an impetus to the already lively tendency to spread wild reports and foolish exaggerations. Such reports are now extravagantly abundant. The actual events of the past few days are summed up in the details which we subjoin, some of which, it will be perceived, are important enough without further exaggeration. The rumours of chief importance relating to places near Cork are those of disturbances having taken place at Macroom and Blarney, late last night, regarding which we give the latest particulars obtainable. The arrest of Cashman is also looked upon as a very important event has caused some excitement in the city. On Saturday, the streets were as usual crowded with people going about their ordinary business, and yesterday, which was clear and fine, though cold, great numbers of persons were all through the day and late in the evening traversing the streets of the city, the topic of conversation amongst them being the Fenians and their doings. Late last night the streets subsided into their stillness and during the night nothing has occurred to disturb the peace of the city.
On Saturday night about eleven o clock information was brought into town to the Mayor's office, that a large body of Fenians had been seen in the neighbourhood of Ballinhassig, and that an attempt to take the police station was about to be made by them. Thirty men of the 12th Lancers, under an officer, were despatched to the spot at 11.30 o clock, but when they arrived there no Fenians were to be found, and after a patrol in the neighbourhood for some time they returned to town. The clatter of the cavalry accoutrements and the trotting of the horses through the principal streets of the city at such an unusual hour, caused much excitement amongst the persons residing in those streets, most of whom were in bed at the time. Speculation as to the detonation of the troops was rife and even yet some extraordinary stories are told as to what was their destination and why they were called out. The above, however, are the facts of the case.
Yesterday, all day and up to a late hour at night patrols of both military and police traversed the streets of the city every few hours. Changes were made, too, in the stations of parts of various regiments, which necessitated the passage of troops through the city at various periods during the day. In this way, a company of the 62nd proceeded to Elizabeth Fort to relive the detachment of the 71st Highlanders stationed there and the latter in proceeding through the city to the regular barracks were accompanied by crowds of urchins and idlers, who cheered them very loudly all the way - it was not very evident for what reason. On Saturday a party of marines was escorted up to Cat Fort accompanied by no less than three military bands - those of the 60th Rifles, the 62nd Regiment, and the Carbineers. On Saturday night parties of marines patrolled Friar's Walk till a very late hour but so far as we know have arrested no persons.
IMPORTANT ARREST IN THE CITY - An arrest, to which we believe much importance is attached, was effected yesterday afternoon in this city. The authorities were in possession of information which led them to suspect that a ship carpenter named Maurice Cashman, living in Slee's-lane, off the Blackrock Road, was concerned in the present rising, and had been engaged in one of the recent encounters with the military in this country. Constable Conran of the Capwell station, having received instructions to make the arrest, dressed himself in civilian attire and while proceeding at about five o clock in the direction of the prisoner's residence, he got a description of his appearance. When he arrived at Slee's lane he observed, a short distance ahead of him, a man answering in every particular to the description which he had just received. He went up to him immediately and called out "Maurice". The other turned shortly round upon which the constable said "your name is Maurice Cashman?" to which the prisoner replied "Yes". Constable Conran said he wanted him to come with him to Tuckey-street. The prisoner, the moment he heard him say so, ran down the lane in the direction of the Gasworks, the constable in quick pursuit. This proceeding of course attracted a considerable crowd who joined in pursuit and the prisoner tried to take advantage of their presence.....................................................almost on his shoulder. Seeing that his object was to get into the middle of the crowd, and so effect his escape, Constable Conran, after calling upon him to stop, discharged his revolver, when he was within two perches of him. He did not, however, take deliberate aim, but merely fired in the air, his object being to intimidate the prisoner, who was unarmed, in hopes that he would come to a stand. This clever coup had the desired effect, and the prisoner then quietly came with the constable to Tuckey-street station, where after being searched, but without any documents or other matters being found on him, he was removed to the bridewell.
ARRESTS IN PASSAGE - The police made seven arrests yesterday evening on the Passage Road. It would appear the police, having information of a gathering of Fenians to take place on the Passage Road, went out on patrol. Having reached Ardmore, Mr. Robert's residence, where the Fenians of the Passage district concentrated on Tuesday night, the police halted and secreted themselves behind a ditch close by. They were not there very long when eight young men belonging to the town walked up two deep and passed the patrol. The police immediately got from behind the ditch and made prisoners of the young men. They questioned the, but not being able to account satisfactorily for themselves, they were arrested and removed to the Passage police station, where they were searched, and a quantity of percussion caps were found in their possession. The prisoners were removed to the county gaol on cars, escorted by mounted policemen.
SERIOUS APPREHENSIONS IN MACROOM - In compliance with an urgent request from Macroom, a company of the 60th Rifles comprising one hundred men, was despatched to that town per special train late yesterday afternoon. Apprehensions were entertained that the Castle there, in which are stored the arms of the West Cork Artillery, would be attacked by the Fenians.
FENIAN MUSTER IN BLARNEY - A rumour reached town yesterday evening, that a considerable number of Fenians, who were stated to be above six hundred, were congregating on the roads at Blarney. The authorities immediately (half-past eight o clock), despatched a strong patrol, consisting of companies of mounted Constabulary and Lancers.
RUMOURED ATTACK ON MILLSTREET - On Saturday night, inconsequence of a rumoured threatened attack on Millstreet, a party of thirty soldiers from the forces stationed at Mallow proceeded to that station by the evening train from the Junction, which was detained nearly an hour for them. From enquiries made yesterday, however, we believe the night passed over in tranquillity in that locality.
INCENDIARY FIRE - MILLSTREET, Saturday, March 9th - I regret to have to report the total destruction by fire of a large quantity of valuable property belonging to Mr. George Greham, of Clonmmen, consisting of two ricks of hay, three stands of oats, a rick of turf, a quantity of straw, in fact everything in the haggart, all valued at from £250 to £500. If this be the act of an incendiary, as is supposed it was, our poor countrymen are an ungrateful as well as a misguided race, for there is no man in this county who has contributed so largely to all charities, no man gave larger employment, or cared less to enforce his rents, allowing so much as three years to be due, and ultimately forgiving all. He has subscribed largely to building three churches, schools, &c in his own parish (Clonmeen), and has subscribed £500 to aid the erection of a convent in Kanturk, a parish with which he has no connection either by property or otherwise, but his charity is munificent everywhere, and yet, he is the first private individual whose property has been destroyed.
APPREHENDED ATTACK ON THE CROSSHAVEN COASTGUARD STATION - It is stated that an attack was expected on the Crosshaven Coastguard station on Friday night, and that military had been despatched there from Camden Fort, to protect the station. It does not appear, however, that any attack was made.
MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS AGAINST THE FENIANS - Moveable columns have been organised to act in pursuit of insurgents and fugitive Fenians. There will be four or five of these columns in Waterford, Tipperary, Cork &c. Over a thousand Fenians are said to be in the mountains near Tipperary, but it is expected that Major Greene's flying column from Limerick Junction will soon be able to disperse them. It is believed that no more reinforcements will be required from England. None of the regiments ordered from Ireland will move just yet until the country is more settled. It appears the 2nd battalion 6th Foot, shortly expected from Jamaica, will be stationed in Ireland, replacing the 83rd Regiment. The depot at present at Colchester, will shortly be ordered to Ireland, to await the arrival of the service companies. The detachments 12th Lancers at Killorglin and Cahirciveen have been ordered to Mallow as reinforcement. Two companies 62nd Regiment and one squadron 5th Dragoon Guards have been ordered to Killmallock. The detachments 1st battalion, 6th Foot at Lismore and Mitchelstown have been ordered to rejoin headquarters at Fermoy. We have received information that the insurgents are assembling in large bodies on the mountains near Tipperary. A flying column is to be formed at once for service in the southern district, comprising cavalry, artillery and infantry. Another rising is feared by the authorities.
Cork Examiner, Tuesday 12 March 1867
EMIGRATION - The average rate of emigration has again mounted up to a thousand souls per week. This week there will be six steamers leaving, two of the Inman line (one of which left yesterday with 208 passengers), one for Boston, and one for New York, (the Cunard Company's Palmyra), on Wednesday, the National Company's boat on Thursday, and Guion's steamer (the Chicago) on Saturday. These will convey from nine to eleven hundred souls. A considerable increase even upon these numbers is expected when the weather will have improved.
THE CITY - The city bore more of its ordinary aspect yesterday than on any day since the outbreak took place. People seemed to attend more to their usual avocations, undisturbed by the excitement of recent events, than they have done since Tuesday last, and the appearance of the streets as well as the tone of general conversation, had, in the lack of fresh material to alter either, toned down somewhat from their excited state on previous days. No arrests of any importance were made during the day in town, the persons taken into custody being only committed on some of the usual charges of drunkenness and disorderliness, and, in one instance, for jostling against and using abusive language to a constable - such charges as would be scarcely noticed on the police sheet but for the excited state of the times. Ever arrest is now attributed to Fenianism, and excited crowds follow the police through the streets, even when they are only conveying a drunken man to bridewell, believing him to be a political martyr. Yesterday's arrests in the city, though many rumours prevailed to the contrary, were of an unimportant character; and the only addition to the Fenian prisoners were the country contingents which arrived. All the usual precautions were kept up through the city still. The troops remained stationed in the Protestant Hall; the police are kept under arms at the stations; the Mayor and city magistrates remain up to a late hour every night at the Mayor's office, and the patrols of military and police through the city are maintained at intervals day and night.
Yesterday evening another alarm from Dunscombe's Wood reached the city, it being stated again that the Fenians were suspected to be lodged in it. This time the story was told with some circumstance, and not withstanding the numerous profitless excursions the police have already made to this and other localities on such summonses, a party went out to search the wood. They had not returned up to a late hour last night.
ARRESTS IN KINSALE - Three men named Daniel Herlihy, Patrick Murphy and Jeremiah Mescal, who were arrested on suspicion of Fenian complicity in Kinsale, were brought to Cork at about eleven o clock yesterday morning under escort of Constable Smith of Ballinhassig station and a party of sub-constables, and having been taken first to Tuckey-street, were from there shortly after conveyed to the County Gaol.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE - At present there is a formidable armament in Cork Harbour, including the iron clad guardship, Black Prince, the powerful rams Caledonia and Lord Clyde, and the Fox steam frigate. The Helicon, despatch boat, returned to port on Saturday. HM's paddle steamer Advice, was on Saturday moored opposite Glenbrook, where, we believe she is to remain for the present.
THE FENIAN MOVEMENT - The following appeared in our Second, Third and Fourth Editions of yesterday:-
THE ALARMS IN MACROOM AND BLARNEY LAST NIGHT - The part of the 12th Lancers and constabulary, who went out last night to Blarney as stated in our morning edition, returned late in the night, not having encountered any body of disaffected persons. From Macroom there had been no intelligence of any alarm this morning and from enquiries made we learn that, not withstanding the apprehension entertained, that yesterday evening, the night passed over in quietness.
THE FENIANS ON KILLEADY HILL - From our Kinsale Correspondent - The usually quiet town of Kinsale was thrown into a little excitement on Saturday evening by the arrival of a telegram from Cork ordering 30 men of the 30th Light Infantry, and two officers, to be accompanied by four policemen, t proceed by special train to Ballinhassig. It seems that the constable in charge of the police station there noticed large parties of men in the village, and en route for the Killeady hills. He immediately telegraphed to Cork, and the authorities in the city sent a telegram down to Kinsale ordering off the above force. In the meantime the Constable went to Mr. Meade's residence, but that gentleman being in Cork, the Constable met him on his return at the Ballymartle station. The Constable communicated with Mr. Meade, who came to Kinsale, and proceeded with the military and police by special train to Ballymartle. There the whole force got out and then marched to Ballinhassig, but on their arrival there (were) no Fenians to be seen, although one of the policemen of the Ballinhassig station asserts that a short time before he had seen upwards of 100 men well armed on Killeady Hill. It is said that two men were made prisoners. The force returned here about 4 o clock this morning, (Sunday). Owing to the activity of the police in this town, we have little signs of Fenianism. Mr O Reilly SI, and Head-constable Edgeworth are both very active and zealous officers. We fear no danger. Business is very dull. I forgot to mention that the disappearance of the men from Killeady is not to be taken as proof that they were a mythical body. When seen they were not only fairly equipped in point of arms, but were marching in good order, and they did not appear as if Killeady were their destination, but as if they were proceeding to some rendezvous beyond it.
SEIZURE OF AMMUNITION AT KILLEADY HILL - In connection with the events reported by our Kinsale correspondent may be mentioned a somewhat curious incident that took place yesterday on Killeady Hill. Two gentlemen, members of the Southern Coursing Club, who was at the time inspecting a portion of the preserves, accidentally came across a party of five persons fast asleep, in a hollow sheltered by a brake on the field. One man was dressed in a blue uniform, and had a drawn sword by his side; the others were wrapped in blankets. The gentlemen returned to the nearest police station - that on Goggin's Hill, and reported the matter, whereupon five constables went out to the hill, to the place called Ryan's Brake, where the strangers had been observed. The policemen were posted round it and one of them, accompanied by the gentlemen just referred to, went in to the spot where the men had been seen; but they had fled. They had, however, left behind them a considerable quantity of arms and ammunition, including two new Enfield rifles, loaded and capped, a beautifully finished sword, one pike, a cartouche box, a tin case containing 3,000 percussion caps, and 2,000 cartridges, greased and made up in first-rate condition. The police when leaving the ground observed four men in the distance evidently watching the spot.
Three men were brought in under arrest to-day, about 11 o clock, from Kinsale, under an escort of constabulary. Under charge of this party, also, was brought into Cork the ammunition and arms seized as above.
ARRESTS IN QUEENSTOWN - Queenstown, Monday - Four young men were arrested by Detective Mahony here this morning, purchasing tickets for America. They are supposed to have been of the party who attacked Kilmallock station. They gave their names as Michael Dunn, John Carroll, Michael Barry, and Patrick Hogan. The prisoners had no luggage, except small carpet bags. Barry had £28 in gold in cap case (sic). Dunn said that he was a car proprietor and knew nothing about the attack. Carroll's sister was with him. Hogan gave references in Limerick, where he was in business. They have been remanded for eight days. HMS Fox has arrived with marines. All quiet here.
POLICE OFFICE - THIS DAY - A man named Patrick Canning was put forward in custody of Constable Maher, who stated that he arrested him the previous evening on the Lower Glanmire Road, as he was unable to give a satisfactory account of himself. He first said that he had slept in Midleton the night before and came to town by rail that morning, but in another moment told the constable that he had walked the entire way from Waterford. He appeared to be very tired and careworn. He said that he had been in the army and was discharged several years ago, and that he was acquainted with the Sergeant Major in the Cork Barracks.
Mr. Cronin - It is the right of every constable to stop every man and search him for arms.
The Constable said that he found nothing on him.
Prisoner - I only came for the purpose of getting employment. I have had no permanent residence since I was discharged from the service.
Mr. Cronin - Where were you discharged?
Prisoner - In Dublin
Mr. Cronin - When?
Prisoner - In 1855. The Sergeant-Major here belonged to the same regiment I belonged to.
Mr. Cronin - What is your business here?
Prisoner - Search of employment.
Mr. Cronin - Where were you last?
Prisoner - In Waterford.
Mr. Cronin -What were you doing there?
Prisoner - Day working at Mr. Malcomson's.
Mr. Cronin - When did you leave it?
Prisoner - Last month.
Constable Maher - He told me he left Waterford on Wednesday last.
Prisoner - I left it on Wednesday morning.
Mr. Cronin - The constable says you told him you came by rail?
Prisoner - I never did so, your worship.
Constable Maher - That was what he conveyed to me - that he came by the line.
Prisoner - I told him I came from Waterdord to Midleton by the road, and that I left Midleton by rail. I had only 1s. 4d.
Mr. Cronin - Can you give a reference to any one in Cork?
Prisoner - No, sir; except the Sergeant-Major.
Mr. Cronin - But he does not know what you have been doing for the past 12 years.
The prisoner was remanded for eight days, to be released in two days if he could in the meantime give a satisfactory reference.
Maurice Cashman, who was arrested the previous evening by Constable Conran, was next put forward.
Mr. Collins - I appear for Cashman. I have no idea what the charge is, but I merely wish to intimate to you that I am here in this case to protest as far as I can the prisoner's interests.
Constable Conran - On yesterday my men told me that the office------
Mr. Collins - Don't mind that.
Constable Conran - Well, acting on instructions received from my superior officer, I gave directions to have Maurice Cashman arrested. I did not know him, and shortly after I went out to enquire about him, and got a description of him. As I was going down Anglesea-street towards the Corn Market, I saw a man about two perches in front of me who answered the description I had just read. I called out 'Maurice' whereupon he suddenly turned around and I walked towards him, and said 'Your name is Maurice Cashman?' 'Yes', said he. I said I want you to come with me to Tuckey-street. He immediately ran in the direction of the Gasworks. I pursued him for a distance of about one hundred yards, a crowd following. I was just laying my hand on him, when he doubled round suddenly trying to get into the crowd or into two houses at hand, the hall doors of which were open. I pulled out my revolver and after calling out to him to stand, fired, but without taking aim, my object being to intimidate him so as to make him stop. He did so, and I brought him to the Tuckey-street station.
Mr. Collins - What is the charge?
Constable Conran - The charge is, that I got intimation that he was one of the party who attacked the barrack.
Mr. Cronin - From information you received do you believe he was one of the party who attacked the barrack?
Constable Conran - I do, your worship.
Mr. Collins - You didn’t know anything about him from his personal appearance?
Constable Conran - No, sir.
Mr. Cronin - His superior officer had information.
Mr. Collins - The officer ought to be here.
Mr. Cronin directed that the officer should be sent for.
...........................................................................constable apply for a remand, or was the charge for merely running away?
Constable Conran - I seek for a remand.
Mr. Collins (to the Bench) - Have you any evidence to justify you in granting a remand?
Mr. Cronin - Certainly, if the constable states he was directed by his superior officer to do so.
Mr. Collins - You cannot receive that in evidence.
Mr. Cronin - Certainly we can.
Constable Conran, in reply to Mr. Collins, said he had nothing more than directions from his superior officer.
Mr. Cronin - He arrested the man on suspicion of treason-felony - of Fenianism.
Captain Tooker - He says his superior officer told him to arrest him.
Constable Conran - I arrested him on the knowledge that I believed from information received that he was one of the armed party who attacked the barrack.
Captain Tooker - What barrack do you allude to?
Constable Conran - Ballynockin.
Mr. Collins - Do you know where he lives?
Constable Conran - In Slee's-lane.
Mr. Collins - It was down near there you met him?
Constable Conran - Yes.
Mr. Collins - Walking about in his ordinary dress without any attempt at disguise in the open day?
Constable Conran - Yes.
Mr. Cronin - And ran when the constable came up.
Mr. Collins - What any man would do these times.
Mr. Collins - Did you find anything on him?
Constable Conran - Nothing whatever.
Mr. Collins - Of course if you believe that there is sufficient evidence to justify your granting a remand, I am not prepared to throw any obstacle in your way. I am merely here on the part of this man to see that everything is carried out legally.
Capt. Tooker (addressing Mr. Collins) said it would have been quiet sufficient to justify the bench granting a remand if the constable had merely said from information received he believed he was one of the party alluded to.
The prisoner was then formally remanded for eight days, Mr. Collins to be noticed previously if he should be brought up sooner.
Mathew Regan was put forward in custody of Constable Hosford who stated that from information he had received he arrested the prisoner on a charge of being engaged in the attack on Ballynockin police barrack. He was absent from his house on Tuesday.
Mr. Collins (who appeared for the prisoner) - Do you know that of your own knowledge?
Constable Hosford - From information I got. He was absent from his employment at Messrs. Beamish and Crawford’s brewery on Tuesday, and since his return he has been discharged from that employment.
Mr. Collins - Where did you arrest him?
Constable Hosford - In a public house on Bandon Road.
Mr. Collins - Tapping a beer barrel?
Constable Hosford - Yes.
Mr. Collins - A very neighbourly office. When did you arrest him?
Constable Hosford - Last night.
Mr. Collins - Where does he live?
Constable Hosford - In Beales Square in my district.
The prisoner was remanded for eight days on the same understanding as the last remand.
Mr. Collins subsequently came into court and addressing the bench, said that he was just after being at the Bridewell for the purpose of conferring with the prisoners for whom he was concerned, and that the turnkey persisted in standing within earshot, so that any private communication between himself and his clients was entirely out of the question. It would be utterly impossible for him to discharge his duties as their professional adviser if such a thing were permitted.
Capt. Tooker - What is the course?
Mr. Collins - The law is quite clear on the point. I have the most perfect authority to have uninterrupted communication with my clients.
Mr. Lyons, bridewell governor, said that the turnkey was acting under general instructions given with great caution.
Mr. Collins said that at the late Special Commission here he was allowed the fullest possible liberty in communicating with his clients, and when he had to defend soldiers on trial for their lives, he was also allowed the most uncontrolled liberty in that respect at the military prison, where the regulations were very strict.
After a short consultation with Mr. Lyons, Capt. Tooker said that he saw no objection to Mr. Collins seeing the prisoners privately.
Mr. Collins - That is, you give directions to that effect?
Capt. Tooker - Yes.
Dr. Oakshott applied to be received as bail for the prisoner Ringrone who was brought up on Friday last along with the other prisoners who were arrested by Constable Hosford at Turner's Cross, and remanded for eight days. Dr. Oakshott stated that he knew him for many years and that he was an exceedingly honest and proper young man.
Constable Hosford in reply to Mr. Humphries, said that the prisoner was in company with another boy named Griffin against whom there was more serious charges. Griffin had pikes concealed in a certain house in Francis-street.
Mr. Shea (provision dealer, 2 Coal-quay) also testified to the prisoner's character and said he knew him for twenty years.
He was accepted along with Dr. Oakshott as bail to the amount of £20 for the prisoner's appearance when called up for trial.
William Connolly, Michael Keefe and Stephen Kenneally were charged with singing a seditious song at a quarter to four on Sunday morning, in Barrack-street. The chorus was to the effect that the Fenians would march to battle once more and conquer the old land and 'Up with the green flag and trample on the red'. There were several words in the song which the constable could not understand.
Head-Constable O Neill in reply to the bench said that he knew of nothing further being against the prisoners, and for that reasons they were allowed out on bail, themselves in £10 each and two sureties each in £4.
ANOTHER ARREST IN QUEENSTOWN - Shortly after the arrest of the four young men at Queenstown this morning, (mentioned in our third edition), Detective Carson, accompanied by Constable Dalton of Kilmallock, arrested another stout young fellow, named Daniel Hennessy, who, we understand, has been positively identified as being one of the party who attacked the Kilmallock police-station. He was brought to Cork under escort, by the 2.16 pm train, and lodged in bridewell.
THE FENIAN PRISONERS - The prisoners confined in the city bridewell have just been removed, under a strong escort of constabulary, cavalry and infantry, to the city gaol. A very large crowd gathered before the bridewell gate and cheered when the prisoners were being removed. The latter seemed in good spirits.
ISSUE OF THREE SPECIAL COMMISSIONS - The Fenian trials will not take place at the assizes at present going on in the different counties. The Government have determined to issue Special Commissions for Dublin, Limerick and Cork immediately. Two judges will preside at each Commission. The preparatory warrants will be issued to-day, and the Commissions will issue as soon as the law permits - Freeman of this day.
Cork Examiner, Wednesday 13 March 1867
THIS DAY'S REPORTS - From enquiries made this morning we learn there is nothing in any degree interesting to report from the country districts adjoining Cork, and that the city has remained perfectly quiet during the night. The statement made last night that Fenians were seen in Dunscombe's Wood, ended in nothing as none could be found by the body of police who went out. In Bandon, Kinsale and Ballinhassig all is quiet. Intimation was conveyed to the authorities at the Great Southern and Western Railway station this morning, that it might become necessary to send off by special train fifty cavalry soldiers and their horses to some station down the line to-day - it was not stated where. The probability, however, of the necessity for this was stated to be very slight, and it is probable no such train will be despatched.
THE RISING IN CORK - THE LEADER - The man who was arrested in Cork on last Saturday week, under the name of Odell, has since been ascertained to be General Condon, late of the Federal Army, who was to have taken command of the Cork division of the Fenian forces. His arrest prior to the rising is, therefore, considered to have been most providential, as it is supposed to have materially contributed to the failure of the insurrection here.
REMOVAL OF FENIAN PRISONERS - This morning eight prisoners left, under a strong escort per the eight o clock train - five for Dublin and three for Kilmallock. Amongst the five for Dublin was the man arrested last Saturday week under the name of O'Dell and who has been ascertained to be General Condon, late of the Federal Army. The other four men transmitted to Dublin were some time in custody under the Lord Lieutenant's warrant. Two of them belong to Bantry. The three men sent to Kilmallock were of the six arrested at Queenstown yesterday.
THE REPORTED BURNING OF BOWEN'S COURT (Special Telegram from our reporter) - Mallow, Tuesday - The soldiers have returned from Bowen's Court. The conflagration simply consisted of the burning of two workmen's houses, and there is no doubt the fire was accidental. A private inquiry is being held here into the cases of two young men from the town who are stated to have been missing on Tuesday night.
EFFECT OF THE RISING - Amongst the very many serious results of this rising is the stoppage of the greater portion of the works at the Royal Docks at Haulbowline. No convict labour is now employed, owing to the danger apprehended in removing the convicts in boats to Haulbowline. The free labour, which bears a very small proportion, is however, continued. It is said this step was taken owing to information the authorities received, that an attack on Haulbowline would be made. There is some intention of putting marines in Haulbowline.
SUSPECTED DRILLING AT PASSAGE WEST AND CARRIGALOE - On Monday night, Acting-constable Thompson, with his men, patrolled the road between Passage and Glenbrook, and were informed that a number of men were marching and drilling a little distance on. The patrol moved forward cautiously, but having reached the Glenbrook baths, and seeing no appearance of the Fenians, were returning, when they heard one or two shots at the other side of the river, midway between Monkstown Ferry and Carrigaloe. Shortly after they heard distinctly the words of command given. The presumption is, that this party had sentries posted as usual on the road and that when the police were seen patrolling they made their way to the other side in boats. The police state when passing the Ferry point they heard distinctly the blowing of a whistle, which was very probably the signal to the Fenians of the approach of the patrol.
THE ATTACK ON BALLYKNOCKIN POLICE BARRACK - COMMITTAL OF FOUR PERSONS FOR TRIAL (excerpt from) - "Yesterday, Mr. EF Ryan RM, to whom we understand, the conduct of the magisterial business of the county in connection with the Fenian prosecutions has been entrusted, attended at the County Gaol to receive informations against some of the prisoners recently committed there, on a charge of having taken part in the insurrection. On the previous day (Monday), four men named Eugene Lombard, Morgan M'Sweeny, Simon Downey and John Coughlan, had been identified from amongst a number of prisoners who were paraded in the prison yard, as having been of the party who attacked and burned the station at Ballyknockin. They were then remanded by their own desire, till they should have procured professional assistance. All four belong to the city. Lombard and M'Sweeny are bakers, and both settled men; Downey is a butcher; Coughlan, who is about 20 years of age, is a sailmaker's apprentice. Mr. Sylvester Gillman, Crown Solicitor, attended on behalf of the Crown. Mr. MJ Collins, solicitor, attended on behalf of the prisoners Lombard, M'Sweeny and Downey. Mr. JC Blake, solicitor appeared for Coughlan....."
THE FENIAN RISING (From Our Reporter) - (excerpt from - Mallow, Millstreet, Buttevant, Fenian Prisoners, Charleville, Doneraile) - " On Monday the telegraph wires on the branch line at Mallow were cut within five miles of Millstreet, and an attempt was made to burn a bridge. The circumstances appear, to be as follows:- Notification had been received that a disturbance was anticipated at Millstreet on the night indicated, and the officials of the railway as well as the authorities took every needful precaution in case such should occur. Word was brought to Mallow by the 8.50 train on yesterday morning that at a distance of a little more than fourteen miles from the latter town the telegraph wires were cut, and also that evidence has been discovered of an attempt to destroy a bridge on the line. A special train was immediately got in readiness and the station-master having waited on Brigadier-General Hosford, an officer and twenty men were sent on as escort to a staff of telegraph men who started out and found at the place stated, which was within a short distance of Rathcoole station, that the telegraph wires were cut. There was a bridge at the spot which bore the marks of having been on fire. On examination it was discovered that the under sheathing of the bridge which was timber about three feet in length was burned through to the timber girder, which was itself partially injured. Below the bridge a number of lucifer matches were found and some bits of a broken jar which was found to have held tar. The station signals were also cut, and an attempt made to draw up the posts. A number of footprints were found at the place. The attempt was, it is thought, made to burn the bridge before the passing of the mail train. The injury was soon put to rights and the line got into working order once more.
Last night a report came to Mallow that a thousand men had collected near Mr. Bowen's of Bowen Court and set that gentleman's house on fire. The troops were, as stated already, despatched in all haste to the spot but only to discover that the conflagration which having been perceived from Mallow had caused the panic, was caused by two or three workmen's cottages which had accidentally taken fire.
Mallow and the district surrounding are entirely free from even a symptom of disturbance. The roads in the locality are watched by the local constabulary under Head-Constable Reale. They keep an incessant look-put for strangers, but the men are completely exhausted from the fatigue of continuous night work.
200 men of the 62nd arrived at Mallow to-day to replace the 71st gone on to Limerick. 140 men of the 14th, with headquarters, arrived at Buttevant from the Curragh last night, and a special train was despatched in the afternoon to Dublin from the Junction, for the purpose of bringing thereto a force of military in addition to the numerous contingents already on the spot.
On yesterday, at Mallow Petty Sessions, the young men Wm. O Brien, a young man lately employed as assistant in the Mallow Post Office, and Richd. Barry, a carpenter, living in the Spa Walk, were brought forward on suspicion of active implication in the conspiracy. The results of the inquiry, which was private, have not transpired.
Major-General Hosford commands from Mallow the movements of the military in the province. The General's headquarters are in Ward's Hotel near the Railway station. This establishment was crowded with the ladies of the neighbourhood for some days after the rising. They had fled from their country houses of which their husbands remained in charge, and came to the hotel in such numbers that they were obliged to sleep six in a room, the officers billeted at the house having to use sofas and other extemporised couches in consequence of the insufficiency of the accommodation.
Six Fenian prisoners arrived here at noon in charge of Head-constable Geale and (a) party of the Cork police. The prisoners were being removed from the county gaol at Cork to Mountjoy (in Dublin) to make room for the numerous parties who had been and no doubt will be arrested in connexion with the late attempt. The six prisoners were of peculiarly marked Irish-American appearance. Some of them were powerful looking men, with the swagger and resolute air of soldiers, which no doubt they had been. With these six there were three others who had been left at Kilmallock, Daly, Haly, and Leahy, arrested some days since at Cork on suspicion of having been concerned in the attack on the police-station at Kilmallock.
Twenty-two young men with whom were many females, were arrested at two o clock to-day at Mallow. They stated they were bound for America, and upon being searched upon each was found a passage ticket. A great proportion of them were mere boys and all seemed a very humble and perfectly harmless people. They were placed under guard in the train for Cork, but upon arriving at that city they were released from custody and permitted to go at large, the authorities being satisfied that their representations were correct.
Several of the respectable inhabitants of the town of Charleville were sworn in special constables on Saturday, and patrolled the town and neighbourhood the same night.
Two cows, the property of Mr. Murphy of Stream-hill, near Doneraile, were, I have heard, killed on Friday night and carried away, their skins being left in a field. The perpetrators of this outrage are unknown."
Cork Examiner, Thursday, 14 March 1867
EDITORIAL (Excerpt from) - "The Times thins that there is not the slightest necessity for the proclamation of martial-law in Ireland, and approves of the course the Government has taken in issuing Special Commissions for the trial of the captured insurgents. The convictions obtained and the punishments inflicted will, the Times believes, have a far better moral effect than if 'several scores of half-starved vagabonds were tried and sentenced by military officers'.
Yesterday there was again a complete absence of disquieting intelligence from any part of the country. It is now believed that the bands of insurgents have been thoroughly broken up and dispersed, and that the insurrection has collapsed."
QUEENSTOWN PETTY SESSIONS – Yesterday - A man named Draddy, who had been arrested on the previous Thursday when about to sail for America, on suspicion of being concerned in the attack on the police at Midleton the previous Tuesday, was brought forward on remand. His brother, who resides near Midleton, now came forward to give evidence in his behalf, and stated that on the Tuesday night referred to his brother slept in his house. The witness was stated by one of the constables to have been one of the Dangan rioters. The prisoner himself said he had been in America some time ago, had returned to Ireland some months ago, and had been in a situation in Fermoy since. He had lately received some money from America and was about proceeding there when arrested. The prisoner was again remanded for eight days.
THE FENIAN MOVEMENT
THE ATTACK ON KNOCKADOON COASTGUARD STATION - COMMITTAL OF TWO PRISONERS FOR TRIAL - Yesterday, Mr. E. Ryan, RM, attended at the Midleton Petty Sessions House, and received depositions against two men named Thomas Cullianane, farm labourer, and David Cummins, plasterer, who were proved by the coastguard to have been of the party who attacked their station, at Knockadoon, on the night of Shrove Tuesday. Cullinane was the mounted messenger of Captain M'Clure (the commander of the Knockadoon party); and was arrested in Castlemartyr when passing through the village upon the horse which M'Clure had ridden; and Cummins assisted the breaking into the coastguard station and compelling the coastguard to surrender. The latter had no difficulty in identifying them, as they were in their company (as prisoners) for a journey of several miles, besides having been previously unknown to them. Mr. S. Gillman, Crown Solicitor, attended for the prosecution. The prisoners were not professionally represented.
FENIAN ARRESTS IN THIS CITY - Head-Constable Geale and Detective Carson arrested at eleven o clock yesterday morning, in the North Main-street, a young lad, about eighteen or nineteen years of age, named Denis M'Carthy, who was recently employed as a porter at an establishment in Great George's-street, but was, previous to his arrest, without any employment. He is supposed to have been engaged in the armed attack on Ballyknockin police barrack. Detective Carson also arrested a man at the Great Southern and Western Railway Station yesterday morning, but it was merely for the purpose of satisfying himself that he was "on loyal thoughts intent", and not a man of "treasons, stratagems, and spoils". The 'suspect' having given a satisfactory account of himself was soon after liberated.
At an early hour yesterday morning, Constable M'Ilvane with party were on patrol, in the neighbourhood of the Watercourse, where they arrested a young man who was coming in from the country direction. He gave his name was Michael Foley, and states that his father lives in Great Britain Street. The prisoner it appears, has not been with his father for seven years, and from his exhausted appearance, the police believe he had some connection with the late rising. He was brought before Mr. Cronin and remanded.
ANOTHER ARREST IN MIDLETON - About twelve o clock yesterday, Head-Constable Rearden and party arrested a man, named Maurice Cotter, a working shoemaker, who is supposed to have been of the party that fired upon the police at Midleton on Tuesday night. He is a young man, tall and supple, was at work when arrested, and had his apron on when brought before Mr. Ryan, RM, and remanded.
Cork Examiner, Friday, 15 March 1867
EDITORIAL (part of) - It is perfectly clear and admitted upon all hands, even by the most timid, that the Fenian rising which lately frightened our isle from its propriety is now at an end. Neither massed on Galtimore, nor scattered through the rural districts, nor threatening the towns, are there Fenian bands of any kind. A tempest of two or three days' duration, in which almost every ill the heavens could combine, in which wind, snow, hail, rain, and one might say frost, have been at work together, had completed the task begun by an overpowering military force. For the..........................................................of the Fenian army is complete. It cannot, however, be said that its effects have in like manner melted away. Trade is still timid and shy of our marts; employment is still scarce; with every passing day our shopkeepers are groaning over idle hours and empty tills, and our work-people are pinched by the absence of their ordinary wages. In the country towns the same condition of things is more markedly visible, and it is plain that as yet at all events confidence is far from being restored. One reason for this is that there exists an impression we are to have another Fenian rising. Several days subsequent to that on which the first occurred were successively fixed upon as the day when the great outbreak was to take place. At last, however, next Sunday has been settled upon. Patrick's Day, it is said, is to prove ...ides of March. Patrick's Day is a very tempting day for the guesser to select. It is so associated with nationalism, and processions and bands that it seems an uncommonly likely day to attract the speculation of the people who create reports out of guesses. And this idea once propagated has caught hold of the popular mind so firmly as to prevent the quiet settling down which might have been expected as a reaction from the recent excitement. Now the question is, is there really any ground for this disturbing supposition? In our opinion there is not. Three days, certainly, will decide the question, and it may be thought for the sake of that short space it is scarce necessary to discuss it. But if it were possible to spare the country even two days of the painful suspense that now seems to prevail, we should think the achievement worth an effort, with the full consciousness that our judgement is to be tested in the course of a very brief space we do not hesitate to utter the belief that there is no more reason for being apprehensive of the consequences of Patrick's Day than of any other day in the year.
At the first blush it is quite obvious that the hopes of those who fancied they could make a successful rebellion in Ireland must have received a heavy blow and deep discouragement. There were two parties to the business and both found themselves deceived. The Irish party had not only vague notions of help in soldiers and ships from America, but they were positively assured of having at all events an ample store of arms and accoutrements, the American leaders, on the other hand, were put under the impression that there was a compact organization perfectly ready to turn out two hundred thousand men at a call. How both were disappointed it is almost unnecessary to say. Those who did turn out found themselves for the most part naked and defenceless, and their domiciliary visits to farm-houses, to get here a fowling piece, there a pistol, each time running the risk of discovery shew how hard pressed they must have been for aught that would enable them to make even the semblance of a fight. On the other hand, those who came hither to officer the supposed Irish army, what did they find? Instead of meeting a compact and willing organization they had to employ a kind of press-gang to force out a large proportion of those who composed the insurrectionary army. It is true that pressed men under other circumstances have been found to fight well, but men coerced into a position such as that of the Fenians lately, with an overwhelming military force before, and the possibility of the gibbet behind, are not likely to be much in stomach for fighting, and it is scarcely to be wondered at that the Fenian bands melted away so rapidly as we now learn they did.
Grant, however, that the discouragement is not so great as we think it reasonably ought to be, after the experience of the past, we cannot yet see any rational probability of a rising on St. Patrick's day. In the first place, it is not likely that the insurrectionary leaders fixed two days for a rising - it is not likely that they planned two rebellions, one to commence on Shrove Tuesday and the other on St. Patrick's night. Such a thing is perfectly inconceivable. But even if they did, there is in fact no night of the year which the Fenians would be less likely to select indeed than St. Patrick's night. Of all others, it is that which is most watched. It is true that it appeals in a spirit-stirring manner to national sympathies, but then it also appeals directly to the police and the authorities who are always suspicious of it. This time twelvemonth it was regarded as a period of great anxiety, but it is needless to say there was then not the faintest attempt at disturbance. We have little hesitation in predicting that it will be son in the coming festival, and that there is no reason for popular anxiety. There is cause for sorrow and humiliation, but not for apprehension of another rising.
EASTERLY WIND - For the past ten days a gale from this quarter has continued to blow without the least intermission, and with such severity as has not been remembered for many years. The effects of the gale have been peculiarly favourable to Queenstown, as a day before it sprung up it blew from the SE, by which a good many grain ships were driven in for orders. Many of those having got instructions to go to other ports were unable to proceed owing to the easterly wind, and the consequence is the harbour is full of shipping, which gives a great stir to business. A few ships within the past five days left the harbour for their ports of discharge, but being unable to make any headway, they were obliged to put back. The homeward bound steamers have also been late. The China of the Cunard line, which invariably arrives home on Friday was this voyage so late as Tuesday last. The Inman steamer, which was due on Tuesday, has not yet arrived. The National steamer Helvetia arrived in the harbour yesterday morning from New York, having taken 16 days on the passage. She is short of coal, and her captain says the easterly wind was more severe than he ever before experienced in the Atlantic. A ship named the Oun Goundy put into the harbour yesterday in tow of the Liverpool steam tug Rattler, The latter took her in tow in the Thames for Liverpool, but being unable to weather the Land's End she had to make for this harbour. The tug was also rather short of coals, and the deficiency is being made up at Messers. Cummins' wharf. The Sussex Maid also put in yesterday with boats stove and other damage. It is said by experienced seamen, who are usually good weather prophets, that the wind will last out the moon, which will be about the 20th.
EMIGRATION - Six steamers sail this week for America taking nearly 1,000 passengers. They are - The Inman steamer City of Limerick on Monday, with 250; the Warren steamer Peruvian, for Boston, taking 160 passengers; the Cunard extra steamer Palmyra, for New York, with one hundred, both of which vessels sailed on Wednesday. The National steamer England and the Inman steamer Washington sailed yesterday for New York taking respectively 200 and 220 passengers. The new steamer Chicago, of the Guion line, sails on to-morrow, but it is not yet ascertained the number of passengers she will take.
ARRESTS IN QUEENSTOWN - Some arrests were yesterday made amongst the passengers proceeding by the outward bound steamers. All were arrested on suspicion with complicity with the recent rising, and with the exception of two, they were liberated having satisfactorily accounted for themselves. Of the two detained one is a very fine looking young man, who was going out by the Inman steamer, and his names on his passage ticket was Richard Cahill. The prisoner bears a strong resemblance to a person whose description is in the possession of the police as being a leader in the Kilteely affair in the recent rising. This fact, coupled with his giving unsatisfactory answers to the enquiries of the police, led to his detention, and he now lies in the bridewell, where he will remain till enquiries are made. The other arrest was that of a young man from the county Clare. Hs is likewise suspected of connection with the rising in the county Clare, and gave references to persons in Ennis, with whom the police communicated by telegraph, but up to a late hour no reply had been received. The prisoners had a passage ticket for the National steamer England, which sailed yesterday.
PRECAUTIONS AT QUEENSTOWN - A meeting of the magistrates of Queenstown was held to decide on what steps should be taken to better preserve the peace of the town (which has not up to this been disturbed). The result was that an order was issued to the publicans of the town to close their places of business from 6pm to 7am till further orders. Other measures are understood to have been also decided upon to be put in force should there be necessity. The closing of the public houses, it is believed, will not continue after Patrick's day.
ARREST ON SUSPICION IN YOUGHAL - Head-Constable Golden and Constable Norris arrested on suspicion last Saturday at Youghal a man who gave his names as Edward Smith. The prisoner who is an athletic young man of about 30 years of age, arrived at Youghal on that day having come from Cardiff in a collier. He states that he is a native of Dungarvan, and left this country for America when only ten years of age, that he came from America to England in 1862, but he has been working as a dock-labourer in Cardiff for the past year a half (sic), but, having been thrown out of employment came over to Youghal to see if he could get anything to do. When asked to give a reference in Cardiff he could not do so. This caused the constables suspicion and they took him into custody. On yesterday at the Petty Sessions Courts, the magistrates granted a warrant for his further detention for a week pending a reply from the authorities in Cardiff who have been communicated with but have not yet answered.
FENIANISM AT KANTURK - The movement in the neighbourhood of Kanturk, though at the onset threatening to assume very formidable proportions, subsided without having made a sign of its outward and visible existence, save and except the attempts to burn the railway bridge near Millstreet, with the accompanying acts which have already been detailed. The Fenians of the district, it appears, concentrated on Tuesday night at Park, a place about a mile distant from Kanturk, and upon which five roads converge. By each of these highways it is computed about eighty men armed at the rendezvous, and the aggregate force having first knocked up Mr. Michl. O Keefe, a poor rate and county rate collector resident at Monchill, and despoiled him of a gun, marched on to a house at Park. Here they remained all through the next day in expectation of the arrival from Mallow of the head centre of that district to take command of their further movements, which were to have consisted, according to well-founded assertions, firstly of an attack on the local police station, which, if successful, was to have been followed up by the taking and sacking of the Branch Bank of Kanturk. These intentions were, however, not carried into carried into effect, as the expected leader did not arrive; and the Fenian force having waited all day in vain, left the place of assemblage on Wednesday night, and dispersed without further demonstration to their several dwellings. During their stay at the house in Park the Fenian men were supplied with a whole cow by a butcher of the town, and by bread and groceries from the same source. These articles of food were used by them, and the traces of the feast remained after they had left. The police are said to have known from an early hour on Wednesday morning that the Fenians had gathered at the place indicated, but probably thinking their strength of fifteen men too insignificant to cope with the larger number on the other side, they did not attempt to interfere.
The police in the outlying stations around Kanturk have been concentrated at that town. The force now at Kanturk numbers 25 men under Sub..........................The neighbourhood is at present perfectly tranquil, and no apprehension of disturbance exists.
SEARCH FOR ARMS AT KANTURK - On yesterday morning and the night before last the police force of this town, under command of Mr. O Reilly, SI., visited several houses of the town, and made a close search for arms. Among the houses searched was that of Mr. P O Keeffe, known as the Fenian Head Centre of the Kanturk District, who some time ago emigrated to America, and is at present an active member of the Brotherhood in New York.
FENIAN ARREST - KANTURK, Tuesday 14th. - On the arrival here of the morning train from Limerick, on yesterday, Constable Gormley, of the Kilmallock constabulary, who had been doing detective duty since the attack on the barracks, arrested a young man named John Clifford, on suspicion of active participation in the Fenian movement. The prisoner, who is thought to occupy the position of Head Centre in the Brotherhood, was brought before the magistrates and remanded for eight days, that further inquiries might be insinuated meanwhile.
SPECIAL CONSTABLES IN KINSALE - Kinsale, Wednesday. - It would seem that there is serious apprehension of an outbreak on St. Patrick's day, and many believe that the rising of the last week is only the advance guard of a serious and more dangerous one. The authorities here are certainly more on the qui vive than they have been, and a notice issued to-day, signed by five magistrates, leads one to suppose that there is, concealed below a smooth, calm surface, a great deal of inflammable matter, which requires but a spark to set it aflame. The notice is as follows: - "We the undersigned magistrates; considering it advisable to appoint a limited number of special constables for the preservation of the peace in this town and barony, are ready to receive the names of those who are willing to enrol themselves as such, and one of our number will attend for that purpose at the Court House, Kinsale, on Thursday and Friday next from 12 to 2 o clock. Dated this 13th day of March, 1867. - A. Daunt, JP., B. Barter, JP., Robert Heard, JP, J.S. Bord, JP, and Richard C. Pratt, JP."
There is no outward sign of Fenianism as yet here, and as far at the town is concerned it is perfectly quiet. But there is no doubt Kinsale is a very important place as it presents many facilities for landing an invading force. It seems extraordinary that we have not our harbour protected by some sort of war vessel. - Kinsale Correspondent.
We give the statement as we have received it from our correspondent, but we question very much whether there is more reason for the apprehension of a rising on next Patrick's night than on last. It is not very probable that the Fenians, when arranging their plans, fixed on Shrove Tuesday night for an abortive rising and St. Patrick's for a genuine one.
THE APPREHENDED FENIAN OUTBREAK AT KANTURK - Kanturk, Wednesday. - This usually quiet and peaceable town was thrown into the greatest alarm and excitement last week by the apprehended outbreak as 100 Fenians, well armed, were seen passing through Coolclough, from the direction of Millstreet, and lay concealed somewhere near the town. On Wednesday (of last week) the blocking up of the railway confirmed the people that something was up. On that day a horse policeman was sent to the district police stations to call in the police into one body. That night some of the townspeople did not go to bed hourly expecting an outbreak. The night passed over quietly, except for the robbery committed on Mr. Keller's tobacco establishment, in the Main-street. Some rolls of tobacco were taken away, with £5 or £6 in cash. Next day, Thursday, the alarm remained unabated. That night passed over without any incident except the burning at Mr. Grehan's of which you have gotten the particulars before. On Friday the people had great hopes that peace and quietness were restored. Nothing has occurred since. However, I am informed that this is simply because the armed party fled, considering that they could not contend against the strong force of constabulary concentrated here, who are well prepared for them. - Kanturk Correspondent.
DONERAILE - Letters to the Editor - TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER - Streamhill, Doneraile, March 14, '67. Sir, - I beg to contradict your statement in yesterday's paper, that two cows of mine had been killed, no such thing having occurred, or any outrage that even gave rise to it.
Would you allow me to add that newspapers would be doing true service to this country by not publishing reports of outrages and Fenian armies that they are not well informed of, as such statements tend to create alarm, frighten the loyal, and encourage the disaffected.
I am, sir, your obedient servant, E. A. MURPHY
TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER - Doneraile, March 13. - Sir, - Your Reporter writing from Limerick Junction under the date yesterday (Tuesday), says: -"Two cows, the property of Mr. Murphy of Streamhill, near Doneraile, were, I have heard, killed, on Friday night, and carried away, their skin being left in a field."
Permit me to assure your correspondent that he has been wholly misinformed, as no injury whatever has been done to Mr. Murphy's cattle.
The people of Doneraile district, I may add, for miles around, are as peaceably disposed, as orderly, as well conducted, as little disaffected, and as respectful of the rights of property as any class of her Majesty's subjects in Ireland; nor were our numerous local gentry in the least apprehensive even during the days of last week when the insurrectionary excitement was supposed to be at its highest. Not one left, or thought of leaving through fear; and even Lord Doneraile himself, away in England with her ladyship, did not hesitate to have his children in Doneraile House during his absence.
So, please, give Caesar his due, CIVIS
POLICE OFFICE YESTERDAY - The attack on Ballyknockan Police Barrack - Timothy M'Auliffe, an elderly man, employed in the Cork Steamship Company's shipbuilding yard was brought up by Constable Maher, who had arrested him on suspicion of having taken part in the recent insurrectionary proceeding. A remand was applied for till Mr. Sub-Inspector Hamilton, who was said to be in a position to produce evidence against the prisoner, should be in attendance. The prisoner was supposed to have been one of the party who attacked Ballyknockan police station.
Mr. MJ Collins, who appeared for the prisoner, said the case was somewhat peculiar, and while he knew that some inconvenience was unavoidable, he was sure the authorities would not countenance unnecessary delay or inconvenience to persons charged with these offences, which might risk their means of livelihood, and keep them unjustly under suspicion. He wished Mr. Hamilton were present, for he was satisfied he would display in this case the same fairness, gentlemanly spirit and kindly feeling, which he (Mr. Collins) had ever found him ready to evince, by affording persons so charged every facility for defending themselves. In the present case, the prisoner was an engineer in Mr. Pike's employment and it was alleged he had been present at the attack on the Ballyknockan police barrack. Now, it had been given in evidence elsewhere that the attack was made at ten o clock on Wednesday morning, and he was in a position to prove, by respectable witnesses, that the prisoner was then at his usual occupation in Mr. Pike's yard. The Bench ordered the prisoner to stand aside till Mr. Hamilton should be present.
Subsequently, Mr. Hamilton having arrived, Mr. Collins repeated his previous statement as to the evidence he was in a position to give. According to the statement of the constable, the man had been arrested on suspicion of being one of the parties who attacked the Ballyknockan police barrack.
Constable Maher - I did not state that.
Mr. Collins - That was the impression you left upon our minds.
Sub-Inspector Hamilton - Supposed to have taken part in the recent outrages.
Mr. Collins said he was prepared to produce evidence to account for every hour of the man's time since the first day of February, and under such circumstances, he had no doubt the authorities would be quite willing to allow him to stand out on bail or to discharge him altogether.
Mr. Hamilton - I think, your worships, if satisfactory evidence, such as Mr. Collins has stated, can be produced, there can be no objection to the man standing out on bail.
Mr. Collins - Mr. Hamilton has adopted in this case the course I have always found him to pursue - one of the greatest kindness and fair play.
Hugh Fleming, foreman in the Cork Steamship Company's yard. was then sworn, and he deposed that the prisoner had been employed there since the 1st February, and had worked there every day (save Sundays), from six in the morning till eight in the evening, with the exception of two hours, which was the only time he was absent.
Mr. Hamilton - That is quite satisfactory, as regards the eight days. Now account for the nights.
Michael Connell, in whose house the prisoner had been lodging, deposed that for the past month he had not been absent from the house at night except on Saturday. There was a young man in court who occupied the same bed as him.
Constable Maher - Are you married to the prisoner's sister?
Witness - I am.
Constable Maher - Could he have out of the house any night unknown to you?
Witness - He could not.
Daniel M'Auliffe, first-cousin of the prisoner, deposed he occupied one bed with him, and for the past month the prisoner had never been absent at night except on Saturday.
Daniel M'Auliffe, Blarney, another relative of the prisoner, swore that the prisoner came to his house every Saturday night, and returned on Sunday night to be on time for his work on Monday morning.
Mr. Scott said it appeared to him, so far, unless there was something they had not heard, the prisoner had fairly accounted for himself.
Mr. Hamilton suggested that he be allowed to stand out on his own recognizance, to appear if called upon.
Mr. Scott - Very well. I wish every man that came before us could give as clear an account of himself. He will be allowed to stand out on his own recognizance, to appear if called upon. The prisoner entered into his recognizance, and was discharged.
Cornelius Nolan, a young man, who said he was a turner, was put forward.
Head Constable Walsh said - From information I received, I arrested Nolan, this morning at Straw Hall, in his father's house, and I charged him with being at the attack on Ballyknockan police barrack, on the 6th inst., and I pray a remand.
Mr. Humphreys - Have you reasonable ground for believing he is one of the party?
Head Constable Walsh - Yes. From information I got, I proceeded to his father's house and arrested him in bed there this morning. My information so far has been true; with the exception of arms, that were described, for which I searched the place but found none.
A woman, who said she was the prisoner's mother, said she could take her oath the prisoner slept at home on that night.
Head Constable Walsh - I want a remand for further enquiry. When I get some Ballyknockan men perhaps they will identify him.
Prisoner - I was working all last week at Sir John Arnott's brewery, as the foreman knows.
Mr. Clery - What time was the attack made?
Head Constable - On Wednesday morning.
Prisoner - I have witness that I worked for the brewery at my own house on Wednesday.
Head Constable - The remand will also give the prisoner an opportunity of bringing forward any witnesses he way have.
Captain Tooker - Just so.
The prisoner's mother repeated her statement that she could take her oath he slept in bed that night.
Mr. Scott - What are you?
Prisoner - A turner, sir.
Mr. Scott - Where do you work?
Prisoner - For the Brewery, sir.
Mr. Scott - What were you turning?
Prisoner - Bungs for taps, sir.
Mr. Scott - Is this your mother?
Mother - Yes, your worship. I can take my oath he was within that night and slept in his bed.
Head Constable Walsh - Why did you state to me this morning, he was out and would be in at eleven o clock, while he was in bed upstairs?
Mother - He had no work, and I wished to leave him in bed.
Mr. Scott - What made you deny him to the head constable?
Mother - I was ashamed to say he was in bed, your worship.
Mr. Scott - Is the information you have got, head constable, of the nature that leads you to believe, if it be true, that this man was concerned in that attack?
Witness - Yes, sir. From the information I got, I believe him to be one of the party. I pray a remand for eight days, and if I am ready sooner, I will bring him up.
Mr. Clery - If the prisoner is in a position to prove he was at home that day, he can bring forward the evidence to-morrow.
Mother - I can prove he was in bed at regular hours every night.
Mr. Scott - We have determined to remand him until tomorrow, in the first place; and he may then, if he can, show by reliable witnesses, that he was at home when the offence he is charged with was committed.
Prisoner - I think the reason he took me up was - he saw me walking up and down Mallow-lane, those days. I am idle, and he may have been taking stock of me (a laugh).
Mr. Scott - We'll hear your case to-morrow. The prisoner was then remanded.
Patrick Geary, a stout, frieze-coated young man was put forward.
Detective-constable Courtney said - I arrested this man on Friday morning last on suspicion of being of the party who attacked the Kilmallock police barrack. Since he was remanded I wrote to Constable Elton, who sent me this reply (handing a document to the Bench). His father says he was forced from his house on Wednesday morning by a man calling himself Colonel Dunne, who was dressed in a green uniform.
Mr. Scott - What is the evidence against him?
Detective Courtney - I want an order to transfer him to Kilmallock. The prisoner was going to America when I arrested him.
Mr. Scott - Where was he arrested?
Detective Courtney - At the railway station, in Cork. The Bench ordered the prisoner to be transferred to Kilmallock.
Cork Examiner, Saturday, 16 March 1867
POLICE OFFICE YESTERDAY - The attack on Ballyknockan Police Barrack - Constable Graham put forward a man named Daniel Rearden, whom he stated he arrested last night on a charge of high treason, in obedience to instructions from Mr. Hamilton, SL. The prisoner is believed to have been engaged in the attack on Ballyknockin police station on Ash Wednesday morning. The constable said he had to apply for a remand as it was doubtful that Mr. Hamilton, whom he expected would be present, would be able to attend.
Mr. Cronin - You have got information that he was concerned in this attack?
Constable Graham - I got instructions from my superior officer to arrest him.
Mr. Scott - For how many days to you require the remand?
Constable Graham - The usual time - eight days, your worship. If Mr. Hamilton were present we would be able to go into the case fully. The prisoner was then remanded for eight days.
Cornelius Nolan was brought up on remand on a charge of being one of the party who attacked the Ballyknock police barrack. Mr. Collins, who appeared for the accused, said the case was adjourned yesterday for the purpose of adducing evidence to prove that the prisoner had passed his time on the memorable night of the 6th of March. He (Mr. Collins) would lay before the bench satisfactory evidence as to the prisoner's whereabouts during the attack. Mr. Collins then read the following letter from Sir John Arnott and Co., respecting the prisoner's character:-
“St. Finn Barr's Brewery, Cork - March 15, 1867 - Cornelius Nolan has been employed by me over two years turning shieves (wooden bungs) at his own house. He sent us 600 on last Friday morning but during the severe weather our business had been slack and we had not full work for him. We may add that we always considered him a quiet, well-conducted young man and had we constant employment for him would have brought him into the establishment to work. - "John Arnott & Co."
Mr. Cronin - Messers. Arnott and Co. should have been here.
Mr. Collins - This is only a preliminary enquiry.
Mr. Cronin - Character has nothing to do with it.
Mr. Collins - I grant you that. A young man may be a person of a very honest character and still a very disloyal subject. Still if you found a loafing idle fellow before you you would regard him more suspiciously.
Timothy Nolan, the prisoner's brother deposed that the prisoner slept in the same bed with him on Shrove Tuesday night at their house in Straw Hall off Peacock Lane near Clarence-street.
Mr. O Sullivan - Could he have been out that night unknown to you?
Witness - No sir, unless he got up when I was asleep.
To Head-Constable Walsh - We went to bed at half-past ten and got up at half-past seven the next morning.
Ellen Nolan corroborated the testimony of the last witness. She slept in the same room with her two brothers. The prisoner was not out of the house on Tuesday night; in fact he was never away from home on any night.
To the Bench - My father and mother sleep below stairs; the prisoner works in the same loft as us.
Mr. Cronin - Common decency should induce a young girl like you to sleep in your father and mother's room and not in the same room with your brothers.
Mr. Collins - It is a most extraordinary proceeding.
The prisoner's mother also gave corroborative evidence. He was in the habit of working at home for Sir John Arnott & Co. and not at the brewery. He was never absent from home on any night.
Head-Constable Walsh - What hour did he go to bed on Tuesday night?
Witness - About 9 or 10 o clock.
The prisoner's father said that he was at work during the entire week making bungs for Sir John Arnott's brewery, and finished his work on Thursday morning.
Head-Constable Walsh - Did he do any work for anyone else?
Witness - No, sir.
Head-Constable Walsh - Did he take a whole week to turn 600 bungs?
Witness - Oh I suppose he took his time to do it.
Mr. Scott - What work are you at?
Witness - Turning sir.
To Head-Constable Walsh - He could not have left the house without my knowledge.
Mr. Cronin - How would you know he was there?
Witness - By the door because I would see if it was locked or unlocked.
John Murley was the next witness called but, having been detected by Head-Constables Walsh and O Neill in the act of kissing his thumb instead of the book, was not examined.
Frederick Burgess, hatter, deposed that the prisoner was in his shop on Tuesday morning and that, after having had some drink together, he left at half-past seven or a quarter to eight. Saw him again at 12 o clock on Ash Wednesday.
Mr. Collins - Ballyknockin is fifteen and a half miles from this, and the attack took place between 10 o clock and 11 on Ash Wednesday morning. It is clear he could not have been there.
A woman named Creedon deposed to having seen the prisoner on Tuesday night at his father's house and again on Wednesday morning. A young woman named Mullan deposed to having seen the prisoner at six o clock on Tuesday evening and three times on the following day. She first saw him on Wednesday at 10 o clock. The bench decided on allowing the prisoner out on his own recognizances to the amount of £20.
Thomas Joyce, an attorney's clerk, was then put forward in custody of Constable Griffin, charged by a man named Murphy with being drunk and disorderly and breaking his window. The prisoner was ordered to pay 3s. for the broken glass, and fined 2s.6d., or a week's imprisonment for his disorderly conduct.
John Swan, a nailor, was put forward in custody of Head-constable Walsh, charged with being one of the party who attacked Ballyknockan police barrack, and tore up the rails on the Great Southern and Western Railway. The Head-constable applied for a remand for eight days. The father appeared, and said that he slept at home that night; that he never knew him to be out on any night in his life; and that he was always diligent and attentive to his work. Mr. Phair, a neighbour, told him he would go bail for him to any amount.
Mr. Scott - What time will you be able to give further evidence?
Head-constable Walsh - I will ask for a remand for eight days.
Mr. Cronin - You must lose no time in justice to the prisoner.
Head-constable - A soon as I am ready I will bring him forward.
Mr. Scott (to prisoner's father) - Can you bring any evidence to prove he was at home for that week?
Swan - I can, sir. The prisoner said he could prove that he was in Mr. Murry's public-house on that night. He had a falling out with his father that evening, and stopped out until eight o clock when he returned home and worked up to nine o clock. The case was then formally remanded, the evidence to be gone into as soon as possible.
John Francis Kearns, a printer, was next put forward in custody of Head-constable Geale, who stated that in company with Detective Carson, from information he received, he arrested the prisoner yesterday at his residence in Coburg-street, on a charge of high treason. On searching the premises he found a five-chambered revolver, capped and loaded, a large canister of ammunition together with a quantity of caps - all the necessary apparatus for making up rifle cartridge, some cut paper, and ready for that purpose, pattern plates for cutting them, some balls, and a large file of the Irish People newspaper, nearly complete.
Mr. Cronin - Was he there?
Head-constable Geale - He was in the room and when asked if he had any arms, he said he had not. We found the arms and ammunition concealed in a press-bedstead, and he said his mother slept in that, but it was not so.
Prisoner - That is not a fact. I slept in the other bed. I said I had no arms of my own.
Head-constable Geale - I have got information that he was one of the party who attacked the Ballyknockan police barrack, tore up the line of the Great Southern and Western Railway, and cut the telegraph wires. I will be able to produce evidence as to that.
The Bench granted the remand. The prisoner then asked to see the warrant under which he was arrested.
Head-constable Geale - There was no warrant.
Prisoner - You said you arrested me under a warrant.
Head-constable Geale - I made no such statement. Adjourned.
EDITORIAL (part of) - The rumour to which we alluded yesterday has received unexpected point from a circular by the Lord Lieutenant of the County, announcing the possibility of a rising either to-night or to-morrow night, and calling upon the County Magistrates to enrol Special Constables. What was before a very vague surmise - reducible by men who have their senses left to the fears of the unreasonable - gains a certain weight of authority. It is to some minds, like the official announcement of a movement, to be relied upon almost as implicitly as the Gazette announcements of the changes in the destination of troops. The consequences have, of course, been to stifle what little tendency to revival there might have been in trade or business, and the increase in apprehension has really amounted amongst timid people to what might be called an agony of fear. We assume that the Lord Lieutenant of the County has not taken so serious a step without what he considers sound reasons; but we must confess, much as we esteem Lord Fermoy's discretion, we doubt very much whether in this matter he is right. We yesterday offered reasons, which seem to us conclusive against, at all events, the immediate revival of an effort at insurrection, after a failure so disastrous as that which has taken place. It is possible that his lordship is in possession of specific facts which have led him to the conclusion he has adopted, but in default of such facts being made known, we are, we confess, inclined to be sceptical respecting any immediately contemplated rising. It would, of course, be rash in the extreme to suppose that Fenianism is dead because it has been defeated. Evils arising out of a wide-spread and not ill-founded discontent are never eradicated by military display, and, therefore, it is not possible to measure how long Fenianism may continue to be an active principle. It is also possible that the hopes of its members may receive a sudden fillip, if there were any important coup made upon Canada, such as seems to be foreshadowed by the latest accounts contained in the American papers. But these things are quite consistent with the belief, which we entertain - and the reason for which we have already given - that whatever may be in store for us in the future, there is little immediate prospect of any outbreak.
The precautions against the contingent rising are not very much to our taste. We do not remember any instance where special constables were found to be good for anything. If they are regarded as a protest against Feniansim, their formation is a work of supererogation, for it is already perfectly well known that all who belong to the class likely to be enrolled are, whatever their creed or shade of political opinion decidedly opposed to the Fenian movement. As preservers of the public peace, of course they are not of the smallest possible use. Indeed, the chances are that they would prove a serious embarrassment to the authorities whose business, in the event of.....................................................................................were not hurt, of that they did not hurt themselves or somebody else. We know that in the recent affairs certain amateurs did accompany the troops on their expedition, and on the whole they did no mischief, a matter for congratulation; but then it must be remembered that they were never more than one or two to a party of military, and that they never came into collision with anything. We have had no experience in this country as yet of such a thing as a whole body of special constables being let loose together, but judging from their history elsewhere, one is inclined to say that it is rather hard upon the police to expect that they should have to look after the Fenians and the specials at the same time. This description of force was tried in London during the Chartist riots, and many a month had to pass before the metropolis was done shaking its sides over its volunteer guardians. We are very much afraid if a similar body be turned out by the "beautiful cittie", they will be adding another item to the fun of Cork.
A correspondent writes to inform us that it is not true there was any conflagration at Bowen's Court, near Mallow, either of workmen's houses of any other buildings.
DRAPERS ASSISTANTS AND FENIANISM - The most absurd exaggeration has prevailed with regard to the numbers of this respectable class who went to join the Fenian outbreaks. We have, on enquiry, come to the conclusion that not half-a-dozen out of the whole number of large houses in Cork associated themselves with the mad enterprise.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER - Cork, March 15,1867 Sir, - A report having been extensively circulated that a number of the employees in the drapery establishments in this city had joined the Fenian movement, we consider it but right, in justice to those in our employment, to state that not a single individual has been absent from business, either before or since the 5th inst. - We are your obedient servants, A...GRANT & Co.
FENIAN ARRESTS - Mr. Barry Fitzpatrick, of Lavitt's-quay, a printer in the establishment of Purcell and Co., was arrested yesterday by Head-Constable O Neill and Constable Clarke, on suspicion of being among the party of Fenians who attacked the police barrack at Ballyknockin. He was brought up before Capt. Tooker, and Mr. Cronin, RM., and remanded for eight days for the purpose of making enquiries.
A man named Denis Donovan, of Pouladuff, was arrested yesterday at Queenstown by Sub-Constable Morrissey, on suspicion of implication in the same offence.
Michael Thompson, an ex-militia man, of Castle-st., was arrested yesterday evening by Head-constable Geale, accompanied by Constables Graham and Walsh, suspected of complicity in the same affair.
A man named Swan, of John-street, was arrested by Head-constable Walsh.
Denis Creedon, of Barrack-street, was arrested on yesterday evening by Constable Hosford on a similar charge.
Sub-Inspector Kirwan, of Glanmire, arrested on yesterday a young man named Curtin, son of a publican at Carrignavar, and who was employed as drapers' assistant at Mr. P O Sullivan's, of Great George's-street.
All the above prisoners, except the latter, were lodged in the City Gaol. Curtin was conveyed to the County Gaol.
THE PASSAGE PRISONERS - The seven young men who were arrested near Passage, last Saturday, by Head-Constable Hoare and party, were yesterday brought before Mr. TP Stamers, JP at the County Gaol, and evidence of character having been adduced in favour of Leonard Bryan, Patrick Sullivan and Michael Sullivan, they were discharged upon entering into their own recognizance’s, to appear when called on; and the other four were further remanded for eight days. Mr. MJ Collins attended on behalf of the prisoners. The other batch of eight prisoners, committed by Capt. Johnson JP., were also further remanded for eight days by Mr. Stamers.
ARRESTS IN CHARLEVILLE - Four men named Patrick Collins, James Walsh, Garrett Mawe, and Patrick Gorman were arrested in Charleville yesterday on suspicion of having aided in the attack on the Kilmallock police barrack. They were transferred to this city under escort of Acting-Constable Bell and a body of constabulary, and lodged in the bridewell last night.
PRECAUTIONS AT NEWMARKET - A correspondent, writing from Newmarket, informs us that on Thursday the constabulary patrolled the country in the direction of Togher, seven miles to the west of Newmarket. The district remains perfectly quiet.
ALARM IN SKIBBEREEN AND THE WEST (From our correspondent) - Skibbereen, Friday Night. On last evening the constabulary went to the houses of the publicans, and ordered them to close at seven each evening. To-day the justices are swearing in the inhabitants generally as special constables. District otherwise peaceable. About forty of the 18th Regiment have been removed from the workhouse to the markethouse.
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