Carlow Sentinel.
Attack On William Drury
1850
On 5th January 1850, The Carlow Sentinel
reported on a meeting of Magistrates at the Tullow Courthouse that
took place on December 15th 1849, with Sir Thomas Butler, Bart, in the
chair. The magistrates in attendance were Captain McClintock Bunbury,
MP; the Hon Somerset R Maxwell, James Butler, John James Lecky, John
Whelan, William Duckett, Clement Wolseley, Hugh Faulkner, James H
Eustace and CH Tuckey, RM, Esq. The meeting concerned an incident at
9pm on the evening of the 9th when some unknown person or persons
fired a shot through the window of the residence of William Drury of
Raheen, Forth, Co. Carlow, and wounded his daughter severely in the
face.
The magistrates expressed their
abhorrence at ‘such a diabolical outrage in our hitherto peaceable
county’ and gathered together with the county’s gentlemen and
landholders to procure money to distribute to anyone who came forward
in the next six months with information leading to the arrest of the
guilty party. The Earl of Bessborough led proceedings with a £10
donation, a sum echoed by all the magistrates, while the gentlemen
pitched in between £5 and £10 and the landholders between £1 and £5.
Source: Turtle Bunbury <turtlehistory@gmail.com>
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From:
Michael Purcell <carlowmike@gmail.com>
Wesleyan Chapel 1850.
The Carlow
Sentinel.
May 1850.
ANNIVERSARY SERMONS on Sunday next. (D.V.)
The Rev.
William Reilly, of Dublin, will preach THE ANNIVERSARY SERMONS of the
Opening of the Wesleyan Chapel, Charlotte-Street, Carlow.
Services
commence at 12oc, Noon, and 7oc, p.m.
The
Trustees appeal to their king Christian Friends, who so generously
came forward to their assistance on the occasion of opening their
Chapel, on behalf of the Debt yet remaining on the Premises, and they
confidently trust they will meet with a renewal of that liberal
support for which, in the past, they feel deeply grateful.
Your
presence and Contributions are earnestly and respectfully solicited.
Donations
from Friends, unable to attend, will be thankfully received by Mr
Banks, Tullow Street; Mr Rowe, and Mr M'Clelland, Dublin Street, etc.
etc.
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From:
Michael Purcell <carlowmike@gmail.com>
Haughton
1850. Greenbank, Carlow.
Carlow
Sentinel.
July 1850.
TO
BE SOLD.
KNOCKARDA LODGE.
Residence
of the late Joshua Haughton.
The
situation is one of the best in the County, on the Palatine Road and
adjoining Burton Hall Demesne, two and a half miles from Carlow town.
The House is in excellent order, standing on 12 Acres.
Apply to
Thomas Haughton, Justice of the Peace, Greenbank, Carlow.
[note
added by Michael Purcell 2014. - Knockarda is the old name for
Palatine.]
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Carlow
Sentinel.
August, 1852
On Monday August 9th 1852, The
Times published the following piece ... "extracted from the Carlow
Sentinel of this day, is another illustration of "freedom of
election", as it is understood at this side of the Channel:-
"On Thursday last, one of the most murderous attacks it was our
painful duty to record after a contested election was made on a
respectable Roman Catholic, the son of a freeholder of this county,
near Lisnevagh, the residence of Captain M'Clintock Bunbury. At an
early hour Mr. John Regan, an extensive road contractor, proceeded
with two men to raise some gravel from a pit in the neighborhood. On
his arrival at the pit, about 20 men pounced on their victim, whom
they designated a 'bloody Bruenite'. He was knocked down, brutally
maltreated with stones and shovels, and finally left in a state of
insensibility. Intelligence having reached Lisnevagh, Captain Bunbury
ordered his carriage, proceeded to the spot where this outrage was
committed, and conveyed Mr. Regan to the County Infirmary, where he
now lies in a dangerous state under the care of Dr. Rawson.
We may
judge of the savage character of his assailants, when we inform the
reader that Mr. Regan sustained a compound fracture of the arm, had
eleven wounds on the head, one of which, it is feared, is accompanied
by a fracture, as a splinter from the skull was taken off, and that
his body, from head to foot, was covered with bruises, the effects of
kicks and blows while lying on the ground.
Mr. Regan's father voted
for Colonel Bruen and Captain Bunbury; and the son is thus punished
because his father exercised the privilege of an elector in a county
governed by British law. Here are some of the fruits of those
fanatical harangues delivered during the last month, when we were told
in the public streets that the contest was one between 'God and the
devil'. Five of the parties concerned in this inhuman outrage have
been arrested, and committed to the County Gaol for trial at the
assizes. Their names are Hugh Carty, John Carty, James Carty (three
brothers), James Walsh, and Patrick Bryan. We regret to state that the
life of Mr. Regan is in imminent peril".
Extract by
"Turtle Bunbury", 2008.
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