From: Turtle Bunbury <turtlehistory@gmail.com>
State of the County Of Carlow 1841
Names mentioned: Myles Burke, John Kelly, Mr.
Hutton, Mr. O'Connell
From the Carlow Sentinel, published in The
Times (of London) on January 21, 1841 (p. 3).
On the 2nd inst., about 3 o'clock
in the afternoon, a large body of men proceeded to the lands of
Williamstown and Rathmore, in this county, shouting and blowing horns.
They visited the houses of Myles Burke and John Kelly, and threatened
others with death if they did not proceed to Tullow on the Monday
following to register before Mr. Hutton. They next visited the
adjoining townlands, and stated they were the friends of Mr. O'Connell
and would burn the houses of any who refused to attend the registry.
They paraded that part of the county until a late hour at night,
spreading terror among the peaceable inhabitants, who are afraid of
being murdered if they attend fair or market.
ANOTHER ATTACK. ‘On Saturday last a man named
Kelly, a tenant to the Hon. Somerset Maxwell, was dragged out of a
house in Kildavin by a ruffian named Connor, and both Kelly and his
wife were savagely treated, for daring to exercise his privilege
conscientiously. From every part of the barony of Rathvilly we receive
almost daily accounts of the outrages committed on persons and
property; and, not only are the people's lives endangered if they
attend the worship of God, but they are suffering at home a kind of
systematic persecution unparalleled in the annals of the most
barbarous nations.’
BLACK LIST --Last week black lists were posted
up in the barony of Rathvilly, containing the names of the independent
electors who voted at the late election against the Government
candidate, and calling on the people to mark them, and to dispose of
the traitors that voted against their clergy. Copies of these lists
were forwarded to Carlow, as a proof that they were written by a
higher class of incendiaries.
CHAPEL RIOTS.-On the 6th inst., as William Dawson was
proceeding to the chapel of Tullow, he was met at the gate by a mob,
and threatened with death if he entered the chapel. The gates were
shut against him, and he was hooted from the place by the mob. They
next entered the chapel, and dragged out his brother, Francis Dawson,
and ordered him to be off, saying every supporter of Colonel Bruen
should be excommunicated, and placed beyond the pale of civilised
life. The Dawsons were under the necessity of effecting their escape
from the lawless mob, that were instigated to the committal of these
outrages by the disappointed agitators.
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