Clare - Clare Journal and Ennis Advertiser, 23 February 1837 *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Clare Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: David Kenny dakenny@ozemail.com.au CLARE JOURNAL AND ENNIS ADVERTISER, 23 February 1837 PICTURE OF IRELAND IN 1644 (From M. De La Boullaye Le Gouz's Tour in Ireland, A.D. 1644) Edited by T.C. Croker. The towns are built in the English fashion, but the houses in the country are in this manner :- Two stakes are fixed in the ground, across which is a transverse pole to support two rows of rafters on the two sides, which are covered with leaves and straw. The cabins are of another fashion. There are four walls the height of a man, supporting rafters over which they thatch with straw and leaves. They are without chimneys and make the fire in the middle of the hut, which greatly incommodes those who are not fond of smoke. The castles or houses of the nobility consist of four walls extremely high, thatched with straw; but to tell the truth, they are nothing but square towers without windows, or, at least, having such small apertures as to give no more light than there is in a prison. They have little furniture, and cover their rooms with rushes, of which they make their beds in summer, and straw in winter. They put the rushes a foot deep on their floors, and on their windows,and many of them ornament the ceilings with branches. They are fond of the harp, on which nearly all play, as the English do on the fiddle, the French on the lute, the Italian on the guitar, the Spaniards on the castanets, the Scotch on the bagpipe, the Swiss on the fife, the German on the trumpet, the Dutch on the tambourine, and the Turks on the flageolet. The red-haired are considered the most handsome in Ireland. The women have hanging breasts, and those which are freckled like a trout are esteemed the most beautiful. The trade of Ireland consists in salmon and herrings, which they take in great numbers. You have one hundred and twenty herrings for a English penny, equal to a carolus of France, in the fishing time. They import salt and wine from France, and sell there strong frieze cloths at good prices. The Irish are fond of strangers, and its costs little to travel amongst them. When a traveller of good address enters their houses with assurance, he has but to draw a box of sinisine, or snuff, and offer it to them; then these people receive him with admiration, and give him the best they have to eat. They love the Spaniards as their brothers, the French as their friends, the Italians as their allies, the Germans as their relatives,the English and Scotch as their irreconcilable enemies. I was surrounded on my journey from Kilkennick (Kilkenny) to Cachel (Cashel) by a detachment of twenty Irish soldiers, and when they learned I was Frankard, (it is thus they call us), they did not molest me in the least, but made me offers of service, seeing that I was neither Sazanach (Saxon) nor English. The Irish, whom the English call savages, have for their head dress a little blue bonnet, raised two fingers breadth in front, and behind covering their head and ears. Their doublet has a long body and four skirts: and their breeches are a pantaloon of white frieze which they call trowsers. Their shoes, which are pointed, they call brogues with a single sole. For cloaks they have five or six yards of frieze drawn round the neck, the body, and over the head, and they never quit this mantle, either in sleeping, working or eating. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Transcribed from the Clare Journal and Ennis Advertiser, Published 1 June 1837 DREADFUL DISTRESS IN CLARE to the Editor of the Limerick Star. Carrigaholt, Mary 26, 1837 Dear Sir, - The duties I owe to suffering humanity, and my wish to free myself from blame with all those whom the subject of this letter may concern, oblige me to appear in the public prints, and to select a place in the columns of your invaluable paper. In the district which extends from the town of Kilrush to the mouth of the river Shannon, over which I am placed as Catholic Pastor, almost all the crops failed last year. The potato crop was particularly affected. This calamity, which did not occur since the harvest of 1821, has brought nearly the entire of the population to the verge of ruin. Relief has been sought for in various quarters, principally to cultivate the land all sources have been closed, with the exception of Messrs. Westby, Burton, Jonas Studdert, and Thomas Kean, who gave seed oats to their respective tenants, which in many instances was converted into food. In this deplorable state of a population, without money, employment, or credit, necessity imposed the he hard alternative of pledging, pawning, and selling every article of domestic comfort, utility, and what under similar circumstances could be dispensed with. By these means the land has been in general cultivated; but there are still a few melancholy exceptions, where a pound of seed could not be put down. >From the foregoing statement, which is founded on facts, it will be clearly perceived how high the distress is at present for want of food, in a district, comprising from 12 to 13,000 individuals, without a market, and without a resident gentry, who, by their intelligence and sympathy, might avert the horror and confusion that seem ready to burst upon us. There are some thousands this moment subsisting on the scanty pittance of food they borrow from the day to day from the next neighbours. Many hundreds have left their homes and went to the more plentiful parts of the country to beg, and where they would not be known. A sullen gloom hangs over the people, and nothing saves them from becoming victims of despair, but the confidence they have in a paternal government to whom application has been made for relief, and the reliance they have on the generosity of some of their landlords, who, I am confident, will come forward now to the relief of the poor sufferers, by employing them on the roads of the respective estates, the state of which has largely contributed to bring on the evil complained of. If any unpleasant consequences should flow from the present distress, I can say to myself that I have done my duty to the people and country, by thus laying thought the medium of the Press, the state of this district before those who are connected with it by interest, and are its natural guardians. I have the honor to remain, dear Sir, your faithful servant, M. DUGGAN, P.P. Of Moyarta and Kilballyowen. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clare Journal and Ennis Advertiser - Publication Date: 14 December 1837 BIRTH. On the 15th of August, at Calcutta, the lady of Wm. Brook O'Shaughnessy, Esq. M.D. of a daughter. MARRIAGES At Meelick, by the Rev. W. Lewis, Mr Robert Ryall, of Ennis, to Eliza, third daughter of Mr. Joseph Arthur, of this town. At Kilmurry, Joseph Edward Vize, of Firshill, in this county, Esq. to Martha Anne, daughter of the late W. Ievers, Esq. of Ieverstown. The Rev. Robert Park, of Ballymoney, to Margaret, daughter of Richard Burriss, Esq. of Ballintemple-house, King's county. Stewart Torbett, Esq. Engineer, to Anne, youngest daughter of the Rev. John Davison, both of Belfast. Henry James, Esq. of Baillieboro, county Cavan, to Jane, daughter of the late B. Parr, Esq. of Carnaven Cottage, same County At Carrigrohan, Miah Murphy, Esq. Solicitor, to Ann, eldest daughter of F. D. Murphy, of Sunday's well, Cork. At Limerick, Mr. Timothy D. McNamara, of Nelson-street, grocer, to Jane Sargent Monsell, daughter of Thomas Monsell, Esq. At Liverpool, on Thursday, George G. Williams, Esq. of Limerick, to Emma, daughter of John Highfield, Esq. of Liverpool DEATHS In Limerick, John Colley, Esq At the Ursuline Convent, near this town, Mary, daughter of Patrick Egar, of Tuam, Esq. William Dillon, Esq. Proctor of the Consistorial Court of Down and Connor. Sarah, daughter of Hugh Dickson, Esq. of Clonmellon, Athboy. At and advanced age, the Rev. Gilbert Austin, Rector of Maynooth. Roger Adams Grant, so of the late J. Sackville Grant, Esq. of Tralee. In Tralee, at an advanced age, Judith, relict of the late Mr. David Hallinan In Limerick, of fever, Mr. Jacob McDermott, late of Dublin. In Limerick, Mrs. Tuthill, widow of Mr. R. Tuthill, of Limerick. In Limerick, Margaret, daughter of the late Florence Henchy, Esq. M.D. In Limerick, Mr. Edmund Farrell. At Portebello, Mr. John Sturgeon, In Lower Sackville-street, Dublin, Mr. J. Kertland. At the Cove of Cork, Andrew Newton, Esq. M.D, late of Athlone. In Dublin, Mrs. Jane McMahon. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clare Journal and Ennis Advertiser Publication Date: 18 December 1837 BIRTH. At his seat, Firgrove, the Lady of John MacMahon, Esq, High Sheriff of this county, of a daughter MARRIED. In Dublin, Frederick Cold (see Note), Esq of Kilbeggan. county Westmeath, to Serenah (see Note), daughter of Thomas Howie, Esq, of Dublin At Aughrim, Thomas Morton, Esq. of Castlenode, to Sarah, eldest daughter of Robert Devenish, Esq, of Rush-hill Joseph Smyth, Esq. of Dunmore, to Fanny F. Smith, eldest daughter of Joseph Smith, Esq. of Springvale. In Clonmel, George R. Kennedy, Esq. Lieutenant Royal Artillery, to Kate, second daughter of Charles Riall, Esq. of Heywood, near Clonmel, and niece of Lieut-Gen. Sir Phineas Riall At Bath, William Henry Robinson, Esq. Captain in the 72d Highlanders, to Georgiana, daughter of Rear Admiral Buckle. At St. Pancras, the Rev. Charler Popham Miles, B. A. to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Brown Collison, Esq. DEATHS. At Glanduff Castle, county Limerick, Eyre, third son of Eyre Massy, Esq. At his residence, Glandore, Cork, Richard Adams, Esq. aged 70 Letitia, daughter of James Wesley Bond, Esq. of Cartroncard, county Longford. At Bushfield Avenue, Abigal, wife of J. Goodwin, Esq. of Dublin. At Bantry, W. Watts Mealy, Esq. At Bell Island, county Wicklow, J. Magee, Esq. At Claremoris, Mayo, Pat Conway, Esq. At Kilcock, where he practiced as a physician for nearly 70 years, Edward Quirk, Esq. M.D. At the Institution, Edgeworthstown, Henry, the infant son of the Rev. Henry Murphy. Transcriber Notes. Spelling is verbatim The Spelling of COLD and SERENAH are best guess - the entry is not clear. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Transcribed from the Clare Journal and Ennis Advertiser Published 27 December 1837 ENNIS SCHOOL Mr. James McGrath, Conductor. At the Annual Examination held on the 20th and 21st in Mr. McGrath's School, the following young gentlemen obtained Premiums in the respective Classes:- First Class -- Homer, Xenophon, Livy and Juvenal, Greene first, Casey second. Second Class -- Livy and Horace, O'Brien (Edward) 1st, Arthur and Neylan cut for 2nd; Homer, Neyland 1st, Arthur 2nd Third Class - Horace and Sallust, O'Brien, (James) 1st, O'Brien (Pierce) 2nd: Lucian, Tuohy and O'Brien (Pierce) cut for 1st Fourth Class -- Virgil, Cullinan, (Michael) 1st, Lynch and Barry cut for 2nd; Greek Testament, Barry and Kerin, (Frederick) cut for 1st Fifth Class -- Virgil, Powell 1st, Tydd jun. and Power cut for 2nd Sixth Class -- Virgil, Haire 1st, Cullinan (Charles) and Floyd cut for 2nd Seventh Class -- Swain's Sentences, Molony 1st, Dubourdieu and Cullinan, sen, cut for 2nd Roman History, Senior Class - O'Brien(Pierce) and O'Brien (James) cut for 1st, Donnellan 2nd Roman History, Junior Class - Cullinan (Michael) 1st, Barry and Powell cut for 2nd History of England, Senior Class - Power, 1st, Haire and Dubourdieu cut for 2nd. History of England, Junior Class - Molony 1st, Floyd 2nd. Geography, Ancient and Modern, First Class - Lynch 1st, Cullinan (Michael) and Barry cut for 2nd Geography, Ancient and Modern, Second Class - Singleton, Dubourdieu and Power cut for 1st Geography, Ancient and Modern, Third Class - Cullinan (Charles) 1st, Haire and Floyd cut for 2nd Spelling's - First Class - Powell 1st, Kerin (Frederick) and Kerin (John) cut for 2nd. Spelling's - Second Class - (can not read) 1st, Singleton and Power cut for 2nd, Spelling's - Third Class - Floyd 1st, O'Brien (Chas.) and Molony cut for 2nd. Catechism - First Class - Barry and Powel cut for 1st, Kerin (Frederick) and Kerin (John) cut for 2nd, Catechism - Second Class - Haire 1st, Cullinan (Charles) and Flloyd cut for 2nd, Catechism - Third Class - Kerin (Edmond) 1st Writing, Arithmetic, &c, &c. - Tydd, sen. and Powel 1st, Kerin (John) and Kerin (Frederick) 2nd. Euclid - Murphy and Green cut for 1st. Vacation ends on the 15th of January, 1838 December 27, 1837