Armachiana Volume 6

ARMAGH MISCELLANEA. V0L.VI The Parish of Ballymore The early history of the Parish

1-16

The· Parish from the 17th century onwards

17-40

Rectors and Vicars and Curates from the Ulster Plantation onwards

41-48

The town of Tanderagee

50-93

The Roman Catholic Church

94-96

The 0'Hanlons

97-1 14

The St. John, Sparrow and Montague families

115-124

Abstracts from the Ballymore Vestry Book, 1771-1 810

Schools in the Parish

125-142 143-160

Notes on the Manors of Acton

161-165

Ballymore

166-175

Clare Drumbanagh er Moyry Munterheny Tamnavalto n Teemore, circa 1623

176-181 182-184 185-190 191-197 198-199 200

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the Parish pf Ballympra The Early Historv -- -- ;r Churches are sometimes named after the townlands 1n 'Which they are situate but even more frequently such towlands take their names from ancient ecclesiastical foundations or derive i'rom saints or founders to 'Whom they wre originally dedicated.

In Ballymore, for

instance, we have the townland of Shaneglish, meaning "old church" and suggestive of a possibly earlier site than the one in Aughlish ..tiereon the ruined parish church is shown on the Maps of 1609.

We know that the parish has always been linked

with the Culdee Priory of Armagh and that the Prior oi' that establistxnent held the rectory and vicarage from early times but though the Culdee community of Armagh appears in Irish Annals as early as the year 921, w cannot i'ix a definite date for the founding oi' Ballymore under any oi' its various appellations, such as Mounterhenry Tawnaghslee Tamlaghtliad Myntereny Tonnaghy Tamlactglyid Monterheny Taughnaghtaly Tamlacklkieth Munterhenyn etc.

Townatelee Tamlachta Mynterany Tawnatalee Tamlaghtlege all of 'Which appear in medieval records. 'l.'bere is, however, one clue that indicates an early origin_ that is its dedication to St. Karan, a !act aeeum1Dg a pre - Culdee provenance i'or the parish, which

when coupled nth its association with Kilnasaggart in

2.

South Armagh, where an inscrib ed pillar- stone bearing an Irish inscrip tion yet survive s, is sugges tive of a respec table antiqu ity.

Tb.at particu lar monument cannot be dated later than the year 714 and may well indeed be The connec tiqn was remembered in 1634 when the Ty the s of Kilnas aggart ( which we are told had

earlie r.

become separa ted) were restore d to the then newly formed parish of Ballym ore, The patron age of the parish was former ly vested in the Prior of the Armagh Culdee s but at the dissolu tion of the monast ic houses it seems to have become subjec t Follow ing the Planta tion of Ulster the to the Crown. right of nomina ting the rector bec11111e the privile ge of the Archbi shop, In late mediev al times and do'illl to the Disest ablishment of the Irish Church, the rectors were Preben ds of Armagh Cathed ral, a dignity no longer attache d to the They held parish though the Preben dsbip continu es. stalls in the cathed ral but rectors of Ballym ore are not now necess arily Preben daries owing to the separa tion They are, of the latter office fro• the rectors hip, of course , now known as Canons but their stalls still Just when the cathed ral bear the older design ation. economy was recast into its presen t form is a matter on wbicb there 1• little inform ation but the re-org anizati on

3. is generally believed to have taken place between the retirement of St, Malachy 1137

and the coming of the

Anglo-Normans towards the end of• that century.

At any-

rate, about that time the normal cathedral staff of Dean, Chancellor, Treasurer, Archdeacon and Prabands or Canons, then unkno'Wll in Ireland, was borrowed from the English or continental usage.

In Armagh diocese,

however, Prebends were constantly being formed and re-formed owing to new unions of parishes and as a consequence there was no settled number until comparatively recent times.

According to the Calendar of Papal Petitions, Roger Samford held this prebendship by Papal Dispensation in The gift was 1343, 'Whilst living at the Papal Court. then described as "a Prebend of Armagh or the parish church of Tamlacklkieth

with its churches and chapels".

He seems to have neglected to obtain Holy Orders and was dis-possessed some three years later.

The reference to

the parish with its churches and chapels is of interest.

It shows dependant or associated foundations, one of which was undoubtedly Kilnasaggart- . but 'Where were the

That we do not know. others?

In ArchbiShop Sweteman'ss[Sweetman] Register (one of the many manuscript treasures of the See of Armagh) the parish is

shown in 1367 al Tamlactglid

but it appears in

4.

Archbish op Fleming 's Register in 11454as Mynteran y or Tamlaght lege Why the parish sbould have then appeared as Mynteran y is a subject on which we have 11 ttle material to guide us in our conclusi ons.

The name simply means

the district or territor y of the Henys, a sept that are said to have been the heredita ry keepers of a famous ecclesia stical bell, which after being lost or hidden for many centurie s was again brought to light in the first quarter of the 18th century.

The family gave a

collecti ve name to, six townland s held under the Archbisbop of Armagh, lands know to-day as Terryhoo gan Aughlish Monclon e

Drumina rgil Mullagh glass Tullymac an

but it is clear from an Inquisit ion taken at Armagh on 12th August, 1609, that the Sept had then lost possessi on We know from other sources of their ancient patrimon y. that they had not complete ly deserted the district -for instance , Owen O Hinan was resident in Federnag h in 1664 and Bryan O Heny and Thomas O Haney in Drumart in the sane year.

But to return to tbe bell.

It was round in the

little graveyar d of Relicarn and was immedia tely claimed by the Heny t11111ilY in whose possessi on it remained until

1 t vas acqaired by Dean Dawson, circa 1840.

The bell iS

5. now in the National Museum, Dublin.

It bears an

inscription asking for "A prayer for Cummascach Mac Ailell

'Who, according to the Annals of the Four Masters,

was an ecclesiastic attached to the Cathedral of Armagh he died in the year 904 and was an important personage, the grandson of Murdach, King of Ulster.

There is no direct ertdence that Cummascach had any link with the parish or that the Henys were the tenants of its church lands until centuries later rut it is significant that the Henys or Hennons and Hennings as they were also called should have acquired the bell immediately it was discovered, claiming it as hereditary keepers.

When they finally left the parish they took

the bell with them.

According to an account published in the Newry Magazine' of 1815, the bell was found about 1725 "in the graveyard of Ballynaback not far from .bare the body of the celebrated Rapparee Redmond 0 1 Hanlon is buried".

The writer of the account was evidently unaware of the fact that the adjoining graveyard had a separate name, By that date otherwise it is an accurate description.

(1815) the Hennons had migrated to Seago Parish and the bell was in possession of Paul Hennon of Aughacommon, a townland mid-way between Portadow and Lurgan.

We are

told that it was borrowed frequently from its owner so

6. that it might be rung at intervals between keening 1n funeral procession s and that people often repaired to bis house, there to declare their innocence of crimes of 'Which they had been accused.

In 1883 the Rev, Abraham Dawson (Rector of Seagoe 1879-1894) contribute d a paper to the Royal Society of Antiquarie s of Ireland, wberein the story of the bell's preservati on in Seagoe is told in some detail.

He

states that "Some aged parishione rs remember the use of this Clog Ban at the funeral procession s of Roman Catholics, at burials in the old graveyard of Seagoe.

It was carried behind the coffin and in front of the keeners, by one of the Hennon family in 'Whose charge it was.

Sometimes there was a pause in the procession

'While a service for the dead was performed in a field by the roadside on the way to the graveyard, during One intelligen t \olhich the Clog Ban was rung at intervals.

voman, the widow of a former Parish Clerk, now in her 94th year, recollects seeing the coffin carried thrice around the old church in Seagoe graveyard and being made to touch the four corners of the church at each round, whilst the Clog Ban was rung and the keeners chanted alternatel y.

Descendant s of Paul Hennon are still living 1D the parish of Seagoe, but they are unable to give a:rr, acco,mt

7. of th e time or manner in which the Clog Ban first came into the possession of their family.

Paul Hennon,

grandson of the Paul Hennon mentioned by Mr. Bell, remembers when a child often seeing the bell.

It was

kept in a closet off the bedroom in his grandfathe r's It

cottage and was regarded ldth great veneration.

was publicly used for the last time at the funeral of his father, John Hennon, about the year 1836.

•t

this time, his grandfathe r was dead, and the bell was in the possession of his uncle, Bernard Hennon, but it still r8tllained in the same house in the immediate care of his grandmothe r, Paul Hennon•s widow

Here the

Clog Ban was again seen by Mr. Bell, about the year 1838.

He gave an account of the bell as seen by him

on this occasion to Professor Wilson, who has recorded it in his Prehistoric

Annals of Scotland" (1851),

p.656, as follows:"········· ····· Paul Henning was the last keeper of the Clog Beanuights and when any of his connexl.ons died it was rung by him in front of the uma....ml, the old wanen, who, according to Irish fashion, caoine It was an ancient custom to and bewail the dead. place the bell near any of the Hennings vho were I visited Krs. Henning, the widow She lay in a large, of Paul Henning, on her death-bed. dangerousl y ill.

8. badly lighted apartment cro-~ed • ., vith people.

The bell,

wich had remained several days near her head, seemed to be regarded by those vho vere present with much interest.

The vapour of the heated chamber vas so

condensed on the cold metal of the bell that occasionally small streams trickled dovn its sides.

This 'heaTY

sveating' of the bell (as it vas termed) vas regarded by everyone with peculiar horror and deE1Ded a certain prognostication of the death of the sick woman who departed this life a fev hours after I left the room.

The agonized bell, I vas told, had on many previous occasions given similar tokens as proofs of its sympathy on the approaching demise of its guardians.• Mrs. Hennon died about 1838 and it is stated that On her death, the bell vas not rung at her funeral. her son Bernard Hennon removed into her house and became the actual, as he had been the nominal, guardian of the bell since his father's death some years before.

It

did not, hovever, remain long in his possession.

He

is said to have committed a breach of the Excise laws regulating the sale of spirituous liquors and as it vas his second offence, a heavy fine vas inflicted upon him and being unable to pay it he vas committed to Armagh The late Archdeacon Saurin, rector of Seagoe, jail, took llllch interest in Hennon's case, visited him in the

9. jail and eventually bY hi s exertions and representations got th e fine almost entirely re-•tted and procured his ..... discharge from imprisonment.

Hennon and his faJllily wre very grateful to Archdeacon Saurin for his kind interposition and as the most convincing proof of their gratitude, as well as that which was most acceptable to the Archdeacon, the sacred bell was presented to him, with the concurrence of the parish priest.

About the year 1840 t he bell passed from Archdeacon Saurin to the late Very Rev. Henry Richard Dawson, Dean of St. Patrick's.

On the Dean's death in 1842 his

valuable collection was purchased by the Royal Irish Academy and the Clog Ban has been safely deposited in the Strong Room of the Museum were by the courtesy of Major McEniry, I had the pleasure of examining it on February 13, 188). (pages 127-128).

Shortly after the bell was acquired by Dean Dawson it was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Irish Academy held on June 22, 1840

by the famous Dr. Petrie, '11110

because of the inscription termed it the Bell

of

Armagh", though its only association with that City lies in the fact that the person commemorated by it was a member of an ecclesiastical coD111unity therein.

Whilst

sb it was knollD as the Clog tbe bell was in Seagoe Parish Ban

and Clg

Beanuighte

terms signifying respectively

10.

the white bell (a refer ence to the meta l or which it was made) and the bless ed bell from its conse cratio n to sacre d and solemn uses.

Loca lly it was k:novn as th e "Bel l or Belna beck" , the colle ctive name for the

grave yards or Belna beck and Relic arn, ceme teries that may well have been joine d in early times .

In passi ng we shoul d perha ps mention that the Black er manu scrip ts give a diffe rent origi n for the They state (Vol. 6, p.122 ) that it went by the name or Clogh Ban, and that it was the prope rty of a bell.

The tradi tion given on the auth ority of Arthu r Hannan, the then head of the Seagoe famil y named Hannan.

branc h was as follo ws:"A number or years back two pries ts were takin g a walk one eveni ng in the Paris h of Drumcree, one was named Hannan, the other Mccan, i;hen sudde nly they beard to their no smal l aston ishm ent a bell ringi ng under ground, The holy fathe rs retur ned home pond ering on wat had taken place but each with a full deter mina tion of retur ning at the earli est hour of the morning to the spot llhich they had caref ully noted for the purpo se of Fathe r Mccan was first inspe cting this burie d wnde r. at the place but not a sound was stirr ing to aid him in At this moment up came Fathe r Hannan and his searc h. at once the bell was heard to send forth its clank .

11.

The father follow ed the sound and his perseve rance Such was reward ed by finding the wonder ful bell. is th e lege nd but I have heard anothe r and more

probab le versio n of the tale, viz., that it was found while diggin g a somewhat deep grave for one of the Hennans in Drumcree church yard, still the burying place of the family .

The bell remain ed and was held in high venera tion I have heard it rung or rather in the family . clanke d at the funera l of one of them.

After the

deceas e of the head of the family and his wife it remain ed in their house in charge of a female relatio n who lived with the old couple .

By some chance the

late Dean of St. Patric k's (Dawson) who was a collect or of those sort of matter s, heard of the bell and through the instrum entalit y of our rector, Archdeacon Saurin, became posses sed of it at the cost of seven pounds , which, howeve r, I have reason to believe found its way into the pocket of the spiritu al advise r of the female above mentio ned 'Who said some masses for the soul of This was in 181.iO and the the deceas ed propri etor.

Dean died some months after.

It is now in the Museum

of the R.I ,.1.

The presen t head of the faJllily , Arthur Hannan, is bigbly indign ant at ite remova l and threate ns procee dings

12. to recover it.

On my talllng him that Dean Dawson

had died a few months after bec--•ng """" possasse d of it, he expressed his full assurance that it had been a judgement upon him and in this belief he continued."

Despite the above stories the evidence seems conclusive in favour of Relicarn.

John Bell obtained

his information from the older members of the family who must have k:no',1!1 the true story of the Clog Ban, so we must accept their version as the more accurate especially as Seagoe tradition bas always been very definite as to its place of origin, a fact verified in the account given by Canon J.E. Archer (the then rector) to Archdeacon Atkinson in 1925, the year in which he published his "Dromore, An Ulster Diocese•, -.herein it is stated that the ball vas found in Ballinaback in 1725, had ramained for many years 1n the possession of the Hannon family of Aghacommon and was acquired by Archdeacon Saurin, a former rector 1n

1839Talas are attached to other such bells.

For

instance, the Bell of Termonmagurk associated with the Co. Tyrone parish of that name, is said to have bean re-discovered through its ability to ring and give out light by night, both qualities disappearing

on the approach of people other than KcGurks for whom it ibon• and rang until it was found.

13.

With regard to the O'Henys a rather curious entry is preserv ed in the Regist er of Archbishop Cromer under isa t e 30 September 1534 in the form of a letter from the Archbis hop to the Dean, Treasu rer, Culdee s of Armagh, etc. 1'herei n the Primate states that he had receive d a compla int from Patrick Yheany (O'Hea ney), Chapla in, his tenant on the lands of Monter heny, Dompnaghgregh Mullag hglass Lyssba n Isterco we

Cargyn Netragh Cargyn Yetragh e Bayll Drumnalagh

setting forth that Eugenius O Hanlowyn

captain of

his nation and Malachy of the same nation with their brethr en had retaine d and usurpe d the aforesa id lands agains t the will of the plaint iff and had thus incurre d major excommunication and warning them to leave the lands to the free dispos al and renting of O'Heany and to make restitu tion within six days of all that had been taken, otherw ise they would be denounced publicl y as excommunicated and all lands and domains in vbich they might betake themse lves placed under interd ict.

Possib ly the matter was settled to the satisfa ction of the partie s concern ed, at any rate the matter does not crop up later in the Regist er, nor do the lands appear again until 1609 at -which time the "lands of Mounterhany" were found to be in the hands of the Archbishop and the other disput ed lands in the posses sion of the Sept

11+. of the O'Han lons wh 0 acco rdi ng to the Inqui sition had We then held them for three- and-a -half centu ries, are thus left in doubt as to wheth er 0 1 Heany was the right ful tenan t in 1534

The O'Han lons figure 1 arge1y in the Archi episco pal Regis ters.

For examp le, Malachy O'Hanlon

King of

Erthy r (Orio r) was admonished by Archbisbop Sweteman in 1367, with his sons Eugenius and Donald o•Han lon, and Odo, son of Peter .

An earlie r entry dated 7th

December, 1366, shows that the Archbishop since his coming to Armagh had many times procee ded by e:xcommuniation and interd ict again st the above Malachy It also and his peopl e as usurp ers of the church . inform s us that on promi se of amendment and restit ution o•Han lon and his follow ers were absolv ed and the inter dict relaxe d whereupon they behaved worse than befor e and fell again under the same senten ce.

Simil ar accou nts regard ing members of the familY occur Ex:oommunfation seems to haTe been in other Regis ters.

,.

little dread ed by the heads of the clan gener ally.

From Prene 's Regis ter - he was Archbishop from 1439 until 1443

we learn that Felimy o•Hanlon, Capta in of

his natio n, had taken the Prima te himse lf prison er on For these one occas ion and on anoth er, his chapl ain. crime s he and his accom plices were publi cly excoalllUDicated

with Book, Bell and Candle.

"Be fire and brimstone

the portion of their cup and i~ one generation be their name blotted out for ever.

As this Candle

falls extinguished from our band so fall their souls rrom the sight of the Almighty God unless they take thought and return to the embrace of the Mother Church and be counted worthy to obtain the benefit of absolution, in due rorm of law''. varied.

Tbe form of cursing

In the same Register under date 5 March,

1461, parties 'Who had robbed a widow were cursed "standing, sitting, walking, riding, lying, sleeping, waking, eating, drinking, bread, liquor, flesh, butter, leeks, onions, garlic, and in all other their occupations whatsoever rrom the sole of. the foot to the crown of the head" unless they made prompt restitution.

Such was life in the good old days!

It may well

be, however, that this disregard for church and law was an ultimate factor in the ill-luck that later

befell the o•Neills, O'Hanlons, and the other native families of the Diocese of Armagh.

It is true that

practically all the Archbishops from the 13th century onwards were of English extraction but that cannot be accepted as an excuse for outrage and cont8111pt of the church aa then establiShed.

16.

At the Reformation the great mass of the native population, gentle and simple, r811la1ned Roman Catholic.

The period was one of great unrest and many churches fall into decay through various causes, such as lack of pastors and congregations, a state of affairs resulting in the old church at "Ballynaback" becoming a ruin.

io'hen the Plantation of Ulster took place

less than a century later the settlers decided to build a new church in Ballymore townland, near the castle of Sir Olivar st. John, whose mansion bad actually served for some years as a place of worship.

Tbe change was not generally acceptable but being approved by Sir Oliver and most of bis tenants tba plan was duly carried out and so for over three centuries tba church bas occupied its present position on tbe SU111Dit of the hill.

17. mE ParishSH OF Ballymore Fr . . ' . pm th8 17th

The 'Project

century onnrds

for the Plantation of Ulster" in 1609

provided for four corporate to·-s -~ in Co. Armagh, each of i.bich were to have reasonable liberties and the privilege of sending two Burgesses to represent them in the Irish Parliament.

-

Th e paces 1 chosen were Armagh,

Charlemont, Mountnorris and Tanderagee - the two latter, however, were never incorporated.

In the following year Sir Oliver St. John (later created Lord Grandison) was granted an estate in the parish consisting of 1,000 acres, part of the forfeited lands of Sir Oghie o•Hanlon.

From Carew' s "Report"

of 1611 we learn that Sir Oliver was then "making preparations for building" and Pynnar' s "Survey• infonns us that the tow (of Tanderagee) in 1619 "was increased in buildings, ·a11 inhabited by English tenants".

We

are also told that "there were then nine Irish families in the to-wn who were going to church and bad taken the oath of supremacy".

Pynnar' s account is valuable

because of the reference to the newly sited church at Tanderagee and as a confirmation of the tradition that

troops stationed there in 1641 had been betrayed by certain native inhabitant, vho bad conformed and were

considerad trustworthy adherents of the new regime.

18. ~ Inq uis itio n tak en in 1621 (22 June 7 Chas. I) sta tes tha t the Lor d Vis cou nt Gra ndi son had ere cte d upo n the lan ds of Bal lym ore one fai r stro ng cas tle and nto a bawn of lim e and sto ne, 1d th a town the reu ish -lik e adj oin ing , con sis tin g of thi rty -fi ve En ggl ht foo t in hou ses , a par k enc los ed ldt h "a pal e of eig bu ilt a hei ght con tain ing 300 acr es the rei n", and th sid e of wa ter mi ll upo n the riv er Cus her on the sou Bal lym ore cal led Bal lym ore Mi ll. tha t The Reg al Vi sit ati on of the nex t yea r sta tes pre sen t the new chu rch had tha n bee n com ple ted on its scr ipt ion s sit e by Lor d Gra ndi son , ass ist ed by the sub It is cle ar, however, from the of his ten ant s. the nin e Vi sit ati on tha t some par ish ion ers , pos sib ly n oth er Iri sh fam ilie s alr ead y me ntio ned and cer tai Sta te aut hor ity inh abi tan ts wbo had ref use d to con fon n to n to sha re the in the ma tte r of rel igi on , were cal led upo g of Thay pre ten ded an int ere st in the reb uil din cos t. fea red tha t the old Church at Bel nab eck but it is to be pon sib ilit y the ir gre ate st con cer n was an eva sio n of res At any rat e tow ard s exp end itu re on the new edi fic e. his sup por ter s. the y wer e out -vo ted by Lor d Gra ndi son and On the ere cti on of the chu rch Lor d Gra ndi son bot h of don ate d a Sil ver cha lic e and pul pit clo th, cap tur ed by wh ich ver e loa t no dou bt 'llben the town vas

19, Captain Patrick Oge O'Hanlon on 23 October, 1641, of wich later,

At this time (1622) there vas some

difficulty regarding the site of a glebe house or rectory, that nearest the church being inconvenient because of its situation on land that had been claimed

by Moore and Bouchier, tvo neighbouring Plantation grantees and for vhich they demanded a rent of £20 per annum, a sum considered exorbitant by the then incumbent.

In the following year, 23 October, 1623, an Inquisition vas taken as to the seven towns of Kilnasaggart saggart on the Armagh-Louth border as veil as townlands nov incorporated in the parish of Mullabrack.

Ballymore vas then a very extensive parish, containing besides the above, the vhole of the Manor of Ballymore, the territory of Munterheny (ancient ecclesiastical property) most of the Manor of Clare, part of the Manor of Teemore and a moiety of Drumbanagher, in all 55 towlands.

In 1628 (4 June 4 Chas. I) the Rev. Nathaniel Drayton (described as rector and Vicar of Tamnatalee alias Tandragee alias Ballymore alias Munterheyn) vas confirmed in the glebe-lands of the parish - they vere as UDder -

"Half Tawnyokagh in Nederny proportion.

Half Mullanary in Ballyshiel proportion.

Half Mullanary in Corronagh.

20.

And Magherycreevagh. one balliboe near Tanderagee proportion. a parcel of ancient gort for a glebe".

t:~

Two years later the change of site from Belnabeck in Aughlish townland to Ballymore was approved and ratified by patent (15 June, 1630) and we get our first glimpse of tbe new church.

It appears "as a fair

church of brick covered with tiles, with seats and needful ornaments" and we learn that from the time of its erection divine service and preaching bad continually bean practised therein in the presence of a good congregation.

The petition requesting the patent

deals with the opposition by certain parishioners "'10 desired to withdraw to tbe old site but stresses the fact that as there was then no church there such a change was considered unadvisable.

The doc:ument

mentions "the seat or place of the old church" as being "upon tbe edge of tbe county or parish with no Protestants dwelling within three miles of it, the Vf1'1 lying in a dangerous wood two miles long, haunted by rebels and other evil persons and that no divine service bad been celebrated in that church within the The prayer or petition was duly memory of man". granted and the new church at Ballymore became the parish church of Taughnatalay but was to be know A silllilar change took place b81lcaforth all Ballymore.

21. in Co. Tyrone about the same time resulting in the r811loval. of the parish church at Clonfeacle to a new po5i t ion adjoining the Wingfield Manor of Benburb.

The same year saw the compilation of the Muster Roll of Ulster, a record of the men on the various Plantation estates -.ho were of an age to bear arms, a document giving the names of all such persons on the different manors within the parish and the first census ve possess of the British families vho settled in the

parish at that period.

About that time we find the

parish referred to as the "rectory and vicarage of St. Keran of Ballymore

thus shoving that the old dedication

had by then been bestowed upon the new church.

llhy it

should later have been discarded is a subject upon which we have no information , though we much regret the break vith early usage.

On 23 October, 1641

the castle and church vere

captured by Patrick Oge O'Hanlon, despite the fact that there was then a troop of Lord Grandison's horse quartered in the tovn under the command of Captain John St. John, the then owner of the Manor of Ballymore

'The fight

vas short and sharp and many of the soldiers vere killed Captain St. John however, escaped and in their beds. eventually reached Lisnagarve y - now better known as

Lisburn_ vbere be took part in the battle for that town.

22.

From a letter wr itt en from Lisnagarvey at that time it transpires that a squadron of the above troop got away with him but that "ye rest ware murdered in their quarters in Tanrogee".

The Lord Grandison in question

was a Villiers, a faP1ily now represented by the Earls

of Jersey but he had a St. John ancestry, through his mother, Barbara St. John.

This acquisition of the

Viscounty arose from a special remainder attached to the peerage conferred on Sir Oliver St, John in 1622 'Whereby the continuation of the title became vested in the heirs male of the lady named, the then v:1.fe of Sir Edward Villiers, brother to the Duke of Buckingham.

The Manors of Ballymore and of Kernan (in Seagoe Parish) passed to Captain John St, John, son of his nephew John St, John.

On the day following the fight at Tanderagee Captain Patrick Oge O Hanlon was killed somewhere in the immediate neighbourhood but we are left in doubt as to vbether he met his end in a quarrel of his own men or in an affray with some of the st. John tenants, many of whom were armed.

The IriSh forces remained,

however, in possession of the town and a number of depositions made by tenants on the St. John and adjoin1ng properties survive, giving particulars of the events that followed the outbreak of the Civil War 1D that year.

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On the 6th May, 1 642, according to Friar o•Mellan's Journal, Sir Phelim O'Neill gave instructions that troops should be assembled at Tanderagee to supplament and strengthen the force already there in an effort to oppose the approaching Scotch army under General Monroe.

The Irish soldiers then stationed in the town are said to have nunbered 2,000 men.

Six days later Monroe

reached Tanderagee with 4000 men and after a stay of three days departed with a large quantity of wheat, meal and corn.

During that time he is said to have

burned three cornmills besides many houses.

A manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin, entitled "The Progress of Lord Conway's Forces against the Rebels 26 September to 9 October 1642 " gives a more detailed account of the "invasion" of Tanderagee.

In

that period the forces stationed at Lisnagarvey made sorties into Armagh and Tyrone.

We are told that the

Army "consisted of eight half regiments of Scots v:l.th

all their horse and 100 foot of English forces and three troops of horse and some field pieces•.

They

marched to Loughbrickland where "there being some forces of the rebels they went to Tandragee.

Some

little encounter they had and if the rebels had been willing they might there have fought, for there were all their forces, bUt they had no will to it and

24. retired, a nd the Scots anny having not had any intention to go farther, contented themselves with destroying corn about Tandragee, and from thence to Newry ".

Monroe and his forces again penetrated the parish in June 1646 on the way to Benburb, at which famous battle he was out-genera lled and defeated.

On that

occasion he by-passed Tanderagee , the route taken being from Dromore to Loughadian near Poyntzpass where he intended to stay the night.

The capture of an Irish

prisoner by one of his advance parties resulted in a change of plans.

Tents were struck, the camp broken

and early in the night the cavalry proceeded to Armagh via Hamilton's Bawn, the infantry marching in its wake to the latter place, where they made a short rest about midnight by which time the cavalry had reached Armagh.

His forces advanced the next day (June 5) towards Benburb arriving opposite the castle before mid-day but finding the passage over the Blackwater well defended, it was decided to continue down the river toward Kinard (Caledon) and cross the river there.

The

crossing was safely accomplishe d but the actual battle fought at Drumflugh near Benburb was disastrous, resulting in the loss of over 3,000 men of his army .

The Monroe army was probably the largest military force that ever passed through the parish.

It

25 consisted of 800 troopers and ten battalions of infantry, totalling 6,000 foot

in all 6,800 men.

Eleven years later, in 1657 an InqUisition was held in Armagh by Cromwell's orders regarding parishes in the County.

The Commissioners carefully exa1Dined

the facilities of the individual parishes from the point of view of the accessibility of the churches to the parishioners and in some instances suggested the removal of such edifices to more central situations.

Having studied the conditions prevailing in Ballymore parish th91 caJDe to the conclusion that the then church should be moved to Tullynacross, a decision no doubt influenced by a plan for the inclusion of a number of additional townlands south of that point.

That

Inquisition was never full implemented but it is of great general interest and gives the name of the first schoolmaster of the parish that we have any record of a certain George Harrison "lately come out of England who was to be placed in charge of a school thought necessary at Tanderagee.

In 1660 a Poll Tax was taken, a document giving particulars as to the number of persons of British and Irish descent in each townland in the parish and giving the names of such inhabitants as were of the rank of gentleman,

An appendix for the Barony of Orior

tables a summary of the people of native extraction and shows the number of persons of each surname The list is of particular interest as a census of the then population, native and British.

Four years later, in 1664, another report vas compiled containing lists of names of the inhabitants of the parish and the townlands in vhich they vere resident.

This vas commonly know as the Hearth Tax

and is an illuminating illustration of the re-settlement of the parish following the Civil War of 1641-42, Cromwell's drastic years and the Restoration of the monarchy under Charles II.

It is not, of course, a

complete census of the population - certain of the very poor vere exempt from tax.

There vas also at

that time large numbers of people living in habitations of primitive tYPeS such as "lean-to" shelters - abodes that vere not charged with tax owing to the absence of hearths and chimneys.

In 1670 the church vas renovated and repaired by Capt. Henry St. John who, nine years later, was killed at Drumlyn Hill, near Knockbridge, by a party of followers of Redmond O'Hanlon an outrage resulting in the relentless pursuit of that notorious rapparee.

The murder was indeed the eventual cause of Redmond's utragic betrayal by bis kinsman, Art O'Hanlon in 1681."

~The most accurate account of the above tragic episode is that contained in the funeral sermon preached in the parish church at Captain St. John's Po··-r burial, by the Rev. Laurence ••, ...tlo was with him -~ when he met his untimely end.

The address was

printed in London in 1680 and goes very .fully into the state of the district at that period and the events leading up to St. John's death.

It appears

that the rapparees hoped to obtain a 18l'ge sum of money for the safe return of the captain but being impeded by tenants on the estate riding to his rescue, they shot him through the head.

His successor in the property, Oliver St. John, Esq., presented the pal'ish with a beautiful silver Chalice and Paten, both of 'Which are still in existence.

They were in constant use up until 1836, in which yeal' they were replaced by new sets of plate, including two patens, two chalices and a flagon, the last believed The St. to have been the gift of Lady Olivia Sparrow.

John chalice beal's the fBJllily arms and the following inscription "Oliveri Sancta Johannis, Armigeri Anno Following the completion of the present castle, circa 1836-37, the St. Jobn Chalice and Paten were placed for safety in its strong room and there

preserved for many long years until the desertion of

28. th e house by th e Montague family, whereupon both were

by accident removed to Kimbolton Castle in Huntingdonshire.

They returned to the parish in 1949 and are

again in use, The above chalice and paten survived the war between James and William, but the donor with hiS neighbours, Sir Toby Pointz, his son Charles Pointz, and Daniel Madden, a wealthy resident of Tanderagee, were attainted in 1688 by King James.

Shortly after-

wards, Williemite troops, under Lord Drogheda, were stationed in Tanderagee - part of the regiment seems to have been quartered 1n Portadown and much cider was available in that area in 1690.

From "The State of the Diocese of Armagh in 1693 " it is evident that 11 the church at Tondrogee was in good repair and all divine offices celebrated in it", the rector, the Rev, Laurence Power being described as "Prebendary of Tandrogee alias Tawnatalee" and constantly resident in his parish, and a Visitation of that period informs us that Daniel Madden and G, Hamilton were churchwardens and John Leslie, schoolmaster.

Leslie was still holding the

parish schoolmastershi p, in 1702 and JohnStaples and Thomas Donaldson were churchwardens.

29, Daniel Smith Schoolmaster co1master of Tanderagee• signed a deed 20 April, 1715,

In 1732 the Rev. Caleb de

Butts, the- then rector, conveyed to the churchwardens an acre of glebe-land in Drumnaleg for the use of a schoolmaster.

Whether there was then a school in that

townland was not disclosed but it would seem that it was a new foundation.

The grant to the churchwardens

specified a "resident Protestant schoolmaster to teach the English tongue in the said parish of Ballymore , from which we may assume that the majority of the parishioners were conversant with the Irish language.

The Ordnance Survey Maps of 1835 show the school and the Survey Memoirs of the same period mention it as having been almost a century in existence.

In the

same year a church is said to have been erected on the

lands of Kilnasaggart at the village of Jonesborough but the statement does not quite tally with the known facts, of which later.

In 1739 the glebe-house was built or rebuilt by the Rev. William Godley who had by then succeeded Dr. de Butts

the latter having resigned for Mullabrack in

1733, which he held until his death in 1740 wherwpon Dr. Godley was collated to that parish - he came to

Ireland as a military chaplain and was the ancestor of the first Lord Kilbrackan,

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A m811lber of the Cope family figures as rector in a Visitation of 1754 _ Barclay, son of Anthony Cope, Dean of Elphin.

He h eld the rectorship from

1741 until his death in 1757.

The same record states

that the Rev. Thomas Sacheverall was then curate, John Overend, Schoolmaster, John Whitten and Thomas Bell, late churchwardens and William Cozen and William Moody holding the same office for that particular year.

From a supplementary note we gather that the living was then worth £400 per year, exclusive of the curate's salary "with a large charge for a house built by the Rev. B, Cope."

Five years later in 1759 "the seven townlands of Kilnasaggart or Feight parcel of the rectory of Munterheny heny alias Tawnagley were removed from Ballymore and by an Order in Council of ll March, 1760, established into a nev parish called Jonesborough.

In 1766 a "Parliamentary Return" was made of the families of the various parishes, from -which ve learn that the parish was then peopled by 615 Protestant and Subsequent census reports 286 Roman Catholic families. are equally informative but they must form a special study.

The year 1789 further diminisaed the extant of the parish by nineteen tovnlands being separated and formed

31. into the Perpetual Curacy of Acton, nomination to it being retained by the rectors of Ballymore until the Disestablishment.

An earlier church, probably a

Chapel of Ease to Ballymore in the townland of Brannock, was built by Sir Toby Pointz in 1684, of 1olbich little is known though there is a tradition that it was in use until the construction of the present church in Poyntzpass in 1789.

The site, however, is of special

interest because of its proxl.mity to Shaneglish, a townland deriving its naJDe from an old church on 1olbich no data has come down to us.

A Parish Visitation of 1798 notes Thomas Stretton

as Parish Clerk, Hugh McConwell as Schoolmaster, and Thomas Rowley and James Fryars as churchwardens.

Dr.

Henry Leslie, Wesley's great friend, was then rector but his career and the history of Methodism within the parish must be dealt with under "Lists of Rectors" and There vas a ''Methodism in Tanderagee and district". certain amount of unrest in the parish then but no outbreaks of violence.

In 1812 the parish church was taken down and tradition affirms that its walls were four feet thick, formed of bricks and showing marks of fire, possibly traces of the destruction caused 1n the Civil War of 1641-42

~en it was occupied in tum by Irish and

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British forces.

To that rebuilding dates the present

tower, bearing Lady Olivia Sparrow's arms correctly displayed wi t bin a shield of lozenge type, the only example of a lady's "coat• to be seen in or on any church within the County, During the progress of the above work, the skull of Captain Henry St. John was found in the family vault and identified.

It is said that it was stolen

during the reconstruction. back some days later.

It was, however, brought

Tradition also relates that

at the opening of the same vault an erect object resembling the form of a woman (..tlich crumbled into a mass of dust and bones on being touched) was found at Locally it was thought to have been the the door. body of a lady who had recovered consciousness after having been interred therein.

A detailed and more accurate version has been

preserved in the Journal of the Royal Society of

Antiquaries of Ireland (Vol. IX, 1889, p.329) wherein a copy is given of a paper sealed in a bottle in a box in the St. John vault \dlich reads "This box contains the bones of Henry St. John, Esq., Lord of this Manor of Ballymore and of bis daughter.

He rebuilt the church of Tanderagee and built thiS vault• He was murdered

bf a party of banditti, called Tories,

at Drumlyn Hill near Knockbridge on Tuesday, the 9th day

33. or September, 1679, by being shot through the forehead and was buried in this vault.

By tradition of the

old inhabitants or thi s parish it appears that upon opening this vault for his internment the body of his daughter who died some time b afore was found lying near the entrance and out or her coffin, having it is supposed revived after being locked up here".

The same source states that on February 10, 1812, the bones were collected by '1ml. Loftie, Esq., the then agent to the Sparrow family and re-deposited in the vault.

The cost of the then restoration of the church was

£2,200, towards which Lady Olivia Sparrow contributed a sum of £700,

In 1840 the parish was further diminished by the loss of twelve townlands, following the establishment of a church at Clare, to 'ohich were added five townlands from Loughgilly and four from Mullabrack, the rectors of A.t the Disestablishment each parish nominating in turn.

Clare ceased to be a Perpetual Curacy and again became part of Ballymore but in 1922 it was once more severed from the parish and transferred to LoughgillY, an arrangement resented by the parishioners generally.

Four years after - 1n 1846

- there was an

enlargement of the church resulting in the addition of

3~. a chancel and transepts and in 1859 the Rev. Arthur Molony was appointed rector.

Some years later be

built the present rectory, having in the meantime resided at Drominargil.

It replaced an older rectory

(said to date to about 1736) but more probably that erected or enlarged by the Rev . Barclay Cope following his collation to the parish in 1741.

The latter was,

however, the rectory in vhich John Wesley was so hospitably entertained by Dr. Leslie and of whom (and the rectory) the great evangelist has left us a delightful account in his famous "Journal".

In 1864 Griffith' s "Valuation of Ireland" was published an important survey giving the names and holdings of the inhabitants of each to.-iland in the parish, a valuable record from the genealogical point of view.

In 1884 a new organ was presented by William Drogo, 6th Duke of Manchester, vhose father was the first member of the Montague family to reside at Tanderagee.

Two years after (in 1886) the parishioners gave a

handsome lectern in memory of their late rector, tbe Rev. Arthur Molony. in 1889 a peal of tubular bells was installed in the tower and were played for the first time at the Harvest Festival in October of that year.

The Rev.

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William McEndoo was then rector and the bells were the result of an appeal mad e by him and warmly supported by the parishioners and other friends of the parish.

They are so arranged that one person can play them.

An older bell given to the parish in 1727 hangs in the

tower also.

In 1891 a window was placed in the south transept of the church by George Victor, 8th Duke of Manchester, in memory of his father - the donor of the organ in 1884

In the same transept there is also a window

coamemorating the 8th Duke who died at Tanderagee Castle in 1892 and was buried in Ballymore.

A new east window was erected by the Duchess of Manchester 1n 1906 in memory of her mother.

Other memorial windows include one of three lights in the north transept to the Rev. William McEndoo (rector from 1886 to 1908) and to Dr. James Taylor 1olho was for thirty years Parochial Treasurer, during 1ohich time the parish benefited substantially from his advice Apart from window in financial and other matters. memorials the church contains a number of mural tablets, one of the most interesting being a plaque with carved figures of the late Duke's twin sisters.

In 1926 the pebble-dash then disfiguring the walls At ttie was ramoved and the stones caref'ullY pointed.

36, same time many improvements were made in the interior resulting in an expenditure of nearly £1,000.

Seven

years later an electric lighting system was installed, A stone font . survives bearing the date of the foundation of the original church and also recording the rebuilding of 1812, besides giving the names of the Very Rev, Thomas Carter (the then rector) the Rev, Leslie Creery (curate), R, Greenaway, and W. Loftis, Churchwardens, and T. Stratton, Parish Clerk,

It is no longer in use but

is of interest as a relic of the church of 1812, The Church Plate includes:l.

The Chalice and Paten of 1686.

2.

Two Patens inscribed "Tanderagee Church 1836•.

3,

Two Chalices) ) bearing same inscription and date.

One Flagon )

4.

5.

6.

Two collection plates dated 1836.

7.

the gift of James Taylor, M.D. and the glory of God and in m:inory of inscribed To my father, mother, sister and brothers.

Two collection plates inscribed "To the glory of God and in memory of Robert Trotter for many 11 years Churchwarden and Treasurer of this parish, An alms dish

The extant records are very deficient,

No registers

or vestry books are available until 1783, but from that date to the present, registers for Baptisms, Marriages and Burials survive.

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The churchyard is fairly extensive but there are no stones contemporary with the first church.

The oldest

tombstone that we know of is that recording the death of Nicholas Marks on the 9th June, 1675, aged 85, and continuing his descendants down to the year 1741.

Nicholas, who lived to an advanced age, was born in the year 1590.

Queen Elizabeth was then on the throne.

In the reign of James I and at the time of the Plantation of Ulster he was a young man of twenty years.

We have

no evidence as to when he reached Tanderagee but we do know that ha saw the death of King James in 1625, the succession of his son Charles I in that year and bis beheading on January 30, 1648-49.

He survived the Civil

War of 1641, the Cromwellian occupation and was still alive ,men Charles II was crowned in 1661.

38. regarding t.h e removal at: the Copy of Document ---------

Parish Church to Tanderagee

in 1622.

In 1622 Oliver, Lord Viscount Grandison of Limerick, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, by Petition to the Commissioners of Plantation of Ulster, shewed that by an article in their instructions they bad power to alter the sites of ancient parish churches to more fitting and convenient places, especially in cases where the said churches were utterly defaced and fallen to ruin, That in the parish of Taughnataly, where bis proportion of land was laid, where the old church stood there was not one stone to be seen above ground, and after he had built his castle, made his town, placed 1n it and upon his land many English tenants, caused a sufficient minister to be placed in the parsonage and there being no place to assemble the congregation, but in his own house, he did by virtue of said article and in consideration of the authority thereby given with the allowance and approbation of the late Lord Primate, to his great cost and charges caused a fair

church of brick

covered with tiles to be erected upon his said lands at Ballymore

with seats and needi'Ul arrangements where

Divine Service and preaching bad been continually

exercised by a learned man, and frequented by a good congregation, all dwelling upon his land, and the rest

39. of th e parish being more than five times larger than his land affordin g very few that frequent ed any church at all.

Yet some of the parishio ners out of mere malice, without ground or reason daily threaten ed to draw the church again to Tawnatal y were there was no church at all, and the pretende d site of the old church lay upon the edge the county and parish and no Protesta nts dwelling within three miles of it, the way leading to it being of

through dangerou s wood of two miles long, were often rebels and other evil persons used to haunt and for that no Divine Service had been celebrate d there within the memory of man, and the church already built being the most convenie nt for the whole parish, having also had the consent of the late Primate wo was patron, and of the Archdeac on Usher, the incumben t, with the consent of the greater part of the parish exceptin g very few wo had since consente d to assess for the repair t~ereof and that consecra tion was performe d by the said Archdeacon at the said Primate 's special command and withall having preferre d that if any of the parish would give as much f'urtheran ce for the building of it, as be, that they should have nominati on of the place for the church which they utterly rejected .

He therefor e prays the Commissioners to give the present order for the confirmi ng or establish ing of the

40 church in perpetuity and to signify their pleasure therein unto the now Lord Primate requesting him to give his furtheranc e and assistance therein.

Accordingl y an Act was passed for that purpose 16 March 1626, and received the King's confirmatio n 25 June, 1630 for abolishing the name of the parish of Tuaghnataly and creating it into the parish of Ballymore.

Also by

Order of Council dated 7 April 1682, the church of Tawnatalee was removed to Ballymore alias Tandoragee.

(Primate Robinson's list of unions).

Ecclasiast ical Collection, Armagh Library, G 1 5

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RECTORS

AND

VICARS

From th e period of the Plantation.

At the beginning of the 17th century the rectors were also Prebendaries of Armagh Cathedral, Ballymore ranking after Mullabrack but before Loughgall and Tynan, an arrangement that continued down to t he Disestablishment of the Irish Church in 1871, at which time the four prebendships became separated from the parishes and so continue.

The first rector following the Plantation was the Rev. Michael Drayton, M.A.

He was collated 14 March, 1618.

Born in Warwickshire, he entered Cambridge University in 1610 and was ordained and priested at Peterborough in 1615 .

In the same year he was appointed to Heynestown and Termonfeckin, two parishes in County Louth, and held them until He appears in various documents up he acquired Ballymore. to 1637-38, and it ie probable that he still held the parish in 1641.

At any rate he is said (Thorpe Collection, Vol . I)

to have been hewn assunder by the rebels in that year.

Strangely enough none of the local depositions of that period mention hie death, though several of them refer to the murder of a Mr. John Draiton, who may have been an elder brother ae a Mrs. Margaret Bromley of Tanderagee in her examination of 26 August, 1642, states that he was her father and we know from a similar enquiry involving a Lirlagh McGwill (made 5 May, 1653) that John Drayton was then aged 60.

42, From the Civil War of 1 641 until 1655 the parish seems to have been without a pastor.

In that year John Barnes

the firS t of a series of "Commonwealth" nominees was minister.

His connection with the parish was of short duration for we learn from an Inquisition taken in Armagh on 18 November 1657 that a Mr. Francis Reddington had constantly preached in Tauntalee since the previous April.

He was succeeded in the

following year by Mr. William Caldwell, who, in the same year, was followed by Mr. William Harrison, then a Commonwealth Minister, but believed to be the same person who afterwards, in 1622, held the rectorehip of Donaghenry in County Tyrone.

He seems to have been at Tanderagee as late as 1660.

He was succeeded in 1666 by Claudius Gilbert who began his ecclesiastical career as a Commonwealth Minister, eventually acquiring the Prebend and rectorship in that year.

He exchanged the rectorship of Ballymore two years

later for the vicarage of Belfast.

By that arrangement

Roger Jones, the then Vicar of Belfast, became Rector of He seems to have held the parish until 1678, Ballymore. in which year the Rev . Laurence Power, M.A., was collated.

He is notable in parish history for being the companion of Henry st . John, &q. , the owner of the Manor of Ballymore on that fateful Wednesday , 9 September, 1679 , when St . John was killed by the followers of Redmond O'Hanlon.

Seven

days later he preached a funeral sermon at his fri end's

43. burial .

Hi

s remark s on that occasio n were printed and published in the followi ng Year and provide us with a picture of the lawless ness prevale nt in the parish at that period .

Lauren ce Power died in 1696 •

His success or was the Rev. Christo pher Sheare s who died in 1704, leaving by his

widow, Lady Mary Sheare s (daugh ter of Lord Barrym ore), a son and two daught ers.

The next rector was the Rev. William Major.

He was

collate d in Februa ry or March 1704-05 .

During his term of

office he seems to have lived at Acton.

At any rate he

was living there on 15 November, 1724, on which date he made his Will. pariah .

Acton was, of course, at that period within the He must have died shortly afterwa rds as his will

was proved 7 March, 1725, and his success or the Rev. Thomas Blenne rhasae tt collate d 16th May of that year.

He seems to

have been Chapla in to Archbis hop Boulte r when that prelate was Bishop of Bristo l, so we may assume that was the reason for the Primate placing him in Ballym ore.

He seems to have

vacate d the parish early in 1732, whereup on the Rev. Caleb de Butte was collate d on 19th June of that year, but he He was resigne d on 7th March, 1732-33 for Mullab rack. succeed ed by the Rev. William Godley on June 19 , 1733.

He

resigne d for Mullab rack in Februa ry 1741 and was the ancesto r of the Lords Kilgar .

44, The next recto r was Berkle y Cope, son of Anthony Cope, Dean of Elphi n, and member of an old County Armagh family .

He was collat ed 29 June 1741, and held the parish until his death in 1757, in June of which year he was follow ed by the Rev . Alexa nder Bisse tt, who resign ed for Tynan in 1759, and in 1765 was appoin ted Chanc ellor of Armagh 1n which offic s he died in 1781- 82.

The next recto r, the Rev. Henry Leslie , was collat ed in 1759 and died 1803.

He was a wealth y man, able to

leave his two daugh ters £5000 each, beside s an estate to his son, and we know from variou s source s that he was both hospi table and genero us.

Dr. Leslie was follow ed by an equall y genero us rector , the Rev . Thomas Carte r, who came to Irelan d with the Honble . and Rev. Wm. Stuar t as Priva te Chapl ain follow ing that Whils t at gentle man ' s appoin tment as Archb ishop of Armagh, Cambr idge he was Domes tic Chapl ain to His Royal Highn ess Willia m Henry , Duke of Glouc ester, brothe r of King George the Third and tutor to his son Prince Willia m Fredri ck, who, as Duke of Glouc ester, was godfa ther to his two eldes t childr en Carte r.

Willia m Fredr ick Carte r and Wilhel mina Fredr ica He held the parish for forty- six years and dying

18 Augus t, 1849, was buried by hie own wish in the gravey ard of the church he had served eo faithf ully, His succe ssor was the Rev. Mortim er O' Sulliv an.

Colla ted 2nd November, 1849,

He had origin ally been a

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Roman Cathol ic.

He was an eloquen t and popular preache r a nd ultra-P rotesta nt in his views, besides being an author of many works mostly on contro versial subject s.

He died

April 30, 1859, and on June 4th of that year the Rev. Arthur Molony became the last rector under the old Order.

He died December 15, 1885, and is commemorated in the church by a Lecter n erected by the parishi oners in bis memory.

After hie death the Pretend was separat ed from the Incumb ency and hencef orth Rectors or Incumb ents did not necess arily hold a Cathed ral Stall.

The first rector under the new arrange ment was the Rev . William McEndoo , institu ted 17 March 1886, a former curate of the parish who died as the result of an accident 16 March 1908 and who is commemorated in the church by two window s, one erected by hls widow and the other by his During his rectors hip his brother , the Very parish ioners .

Revd. T. J. McEndoo, now Dean of Armagh, was curate from 1887 until 1894. on May 2, 1908, the Rev. John McEndoo , brother of his He died January 26, 1922 and predec essor was institu ted. was succeed ed in that year by the Rev. Robert Samuel Morris on who died 25 May 1925 .

The next rector, the Rev. Percy Marks, was institu ted ary of Mullab rack in 1928, in 1925, appoin ted Prebend Precen tor of Armagh 1939 and Archdea con of Armagh in 1945 .

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He resigned in 1947 and was succeeded by the Rev. s. J,

Warner, a former rector of Heynestown, and previously curate of Portadown.

This list has been largely compiled from Canon J.B. Leslie's "Armagh Clergy and Parishes" and from his recent "Supplement" to the former work.

The two books in

question are an invaluable contribution to our knowledge of the rectors and curates of the parish from early times to the present, and contain a mass of genealogical and historic detail, that should be carefully studied by all parishioners who value these links with the past.

We have not dealt with the Prebends of Ballymore following the separation of that office from the rectorehip.

They continue, of course , but they no longer have any connection with the parish other than in name ,

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CURATES OF BALLYMORE. There is no information regarding the Curates of the Parish until the beginning of the 18th century,

The

first of whom there is any record is William Brookes in 1703, believed to have been a son of the Rev. William Brookes, Rector of Drumcree (1678-1700) who was attainted

by King James II and to whom we are indebted for an interesting and informative account of the Barony of O Neiland, written in the year 16B2,

Nothing is known

of his subse4uent career.

The next curate, of whom we have any record, was

He was of Acton and provides

Archibald Stewart in 1714,

a link with the Poyntz family , his mother, Mrs , Sarah Stewart, being the daughter of Sir Toby Poyntz, who built the old church of Acton in 1684 , Many of the curates cannot be identified, so for convenience sake we shall continue the list under datebeadings . collated Thomas Power and Tamlaght in 1725 •

1724,

Thomas Power Ballinderry

1765,

Robert Martin.

1765,

Later Vicar of all Son of Col, Henry Thomas Sacheverall Co, Armagh Donaghmore O Ballintaggart endant of Francie d Sacheveral 2000 acres in and a direct eec Sacbeverall to wgrh:'ted in 1610, Oneilland were

Do;..,,

48 .

18 08 .

L es li e C re er ywf1 t pe ar s, He be lo ng ed s to a w el l-k no n fi rsap th e M cC re er y• , ily m fa l ca lo l il H e of O ra ng He een te re d ~ T an de ra ge T .C .D . in 17 99 (B .1818) an d was ,A M 04 18 e · • or m ly al B cu ra te of la te as 18 19 , In cu m be nt of ymore as stlD 1, ca eown, 1819-183 R ec to r of Ramone, Bally no r 18 31 -1 83 4, on C of n co ea hd rc A er at L Rectorr of N ew bl is s 18 50 on ils 18 22 . W ill ia m WBa ac to y ba 18 68 an d o llyal ly ba y 18 68 .

18 23 , Ja m es W ils on . Pe rp et ua l C ur at e of C la re , Co. Armagh, 18 44 -1 85 8.

18 30 .

J. E. W hi te .

18 36 .

Edward El lw oo d,

v. Jo bn B ur de tt Re of n so , tt de ur B ry en 's 18 40 . H George B ur de tt of Q ue en an d gr an ds on of , C ou nt y, M.P. D ie d 18 75 R ec to r of Ta rt ar ag ha n . er at L . on ns bi Ro e rg 184 7 . G eo r of K ilm or e, Co. to ec R . on et bn Jo rd ha 18 49 . R ic Armagh, 18 71 -1 90 6. er ry lo ra n, Co .

D of r to ec R r. te ar C 18 59 . H en ry B. 79 -1 89 5.

Ty ro ne , 18 et ua l Cu ra te of rp Pe e. sh Bu s ip il Ph v.

18 59 . Jo hn H ie gr an df at he r, thKeilkRe ny , en A ct on 18 68 -1 87 3, to wran, Co. Go of r ec R e, sh Bu as Thom st er of G en er al Si r m ar ri ed C at he ri ne , issi e Ro ya l Ir is h th ed ra o wh , le oy D Jo hn un ty re gi m en t - in F us il ie rs - now th e Co 17 93 1'.terwards Pe rp et ua l s 13 , rn ea H ds ol yn Re si gn ed 1874 and wa 18 62 -6 5 , Le w is eRe t. on m le ar Ch of at C ur A st le y B ri dg e, su bs eq ue nt ly V ic ar of M an ch es te r. ai n R. N. 18 71 -\8 8\ . pl ha C , rd he ep Sh o nz re , 18 69 -7 1. Lo . Pa ul 's , Ra pi d C ity L at er R ec to r of St eq y ly a m is si on ar in nt ue bs su d an , ba ito M an R up er ts la nd .

49, 187 1-7 4 .

Jos eph Ad der ley . Lat er (1877) Rec tor of Cor om ohi de, Lim eric k.

187 4-7 6.

Wi llia m Wi lso n who, aft er var iou s Iri sh cur aci es , set tle d in the Dio ces e of Yo rk.

187 6-7 8.

Wi llia m Do her ty, Rec tor of Cul daf f 188 3-8 4 , Went to Au stra lia.

187 8-8 1.

Ch arle s F. Wi lkin son , lat er (1901) Hon. Can on, Ch ris t Church Cat hed ral, Du blin .

Ma tthe w Ban ks Hogg. Lat er Rec tor of Kea dy.

188 1.

188 3-8 6.

188 8.

189 4-1 903 .

190 3, 190 6.

Wi llia m McEndoo .

Bal lym ore .

Lat er Rec tor of

T. J. McEndoo.

Now Dean of Armagh.

Jam ee Wh ite.

Dio ces e.

Aft erw ard s of Cas hel

Per cy Ma rks . Aft erw ard s Rec tor ofArmagh.

Bal lym ore and lat er Arc hde aco n of Hen ry Ege rto n. Aft erw ard s Rec tor of Donoughmore Upp er.

190 8.

Joh n Thomae Arm stro ng.

19t 2.

wm. Ru the rfo rd.

191 3

rea.

H. B. de Montmorency, now Lord Mountmor

191 5 .

Jam es Bra nna gh.

191 5.

n R. H. Bry an, sin ce when no cur ate has bee

app oin ted .

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THE

TOWN

OF

Tanderagee

It was suggeste d in 1609 that Tanderag ee should be created a Borough with power to make Burgesse s and liberty to send two members of Parliame nt to represen t the town 1n the old Irish House of Commons.

Had it then been

incorpor ated it might well have become the most importan t town in the county.

Its geograph ical position was

excellen t, sited on well-know n and much utilized routes leading from Antrim and Down to Armagh city and the county generall y .

The situatio n was indeed a valuable asset and,

properly develope d, might have resulted in Portadow n remainin g a simple crossing on the Bann.

A few months later Sir Oliver St. John was granted the castle and town of Tonregie , alias Ballymor e, with the addition al lands of Mullaghb edy Tullagh-H ugh Darrowgallon Lisbane Cargines Mullaghg lasse Tawnereo gh Tawnatee Coronagh t Creenagh begg Lisray

(Mullahe ad) (Tullyhu gh

the estate comprisi ng some 1,500 acres , was formed into a ore with 600 acres in demesne, manor designat ed Ballym courts, etc.

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Ca rew ' s Re po rt of 1611 sta tes tha t pre par ati on s we re Two yea rs ft er ( 6 May, 1612) the n in be ing for bu ild ing . a St . Joh n wa s giv en per mi ssi on to ho ld a Th urs day ma rke t and a ye arl y fa ir on st. Joh n ' s Day , and the two suc cee din g da ys, ex cep tin g when tha t day fe ll on Sat urd ay or Sunday in wh ich cas e the fa ir was to commence on the nex t Monday. r the abo ve pa ten t was On 29 Oc tob er of the same yea er of On the same dat e Sir Ol ive r gav e pow the dee d, and on 30 att orn ey to Ma uri ce Sm ith to pe rfe ct aut ho riz ed making Jan ua ry, 161 2-1 3 a new wa rra nt was g the arr ang em ent of Wednesday the ma rke t day , bu t lea vin

sur ren de red .

fai re as it was be for e . giv en san cti on On 3 Oc tob er, 161 6, Ma uri ce Sm ith was tob er, and two day s to ho ld a fa ir at To nre gee on 25 Oc on Sat urd ay or Sunday af ter , un les s when sai d day occ urr ed y.

He was ver y like].J" the fa ir the n to tak e pla ce on Monda On the fol low ing day (4 Oc tob er, ag en t for Sir Ol ive r. of Du bli n pro cur ed a 161 6) Si r Ol ive r and Ric har d At her ton vit ae in the Manor of joi nt lic en ce to se ll win e and aqua Ba ron y and in all oth er Ba lly mo re, ali as To nre gee in Or ior lan ds of the Ar chb ish op pla ce s in tha t bar on y oth er tha n the an ear ly an ces try for the tes ica ind is Th agh of Arm no dou bt pro fit ab le Ta nde rag ee "ho use s of ca ll" and was At her ton , ind eed , s eems ed. nam s son per the to lly cia fin an At any bu sin ess . ·the d en int er sup to rth no e com ve ha to

52. rate he receive d a grant of Knockb allybria nboy , otherw ise Knock, in 1617, and held it until 1622, in which year he sold to his partne r.

Knock had formerl y belonge d to the Earl of Tyrone who had a small castle there on an island formed by a divisio n of the Bann at that point, a little blockh ouse defend ing the passage between Armagh and Down, The date of the origina l fair is of interes t.

The

feast of St . John the Baptis t on the 24 June was a great festiv al locally .

Bonfir es, the driving of cattle through

the ashes, and other ceremo nial activit ies were then a

feature of St. John's Eve, and indeed continu ed so until about 1830.

From Pynnar 's "Survey " of 1619 we learn that the town had grown and that all the houses were inhabit ed by English The same author ity tells us that there were also tenant s. nine Irish familie s in the town, all of whom were going to church and had taken the oath of suprema cy .

An Inquis ition of 1621 gives a rather more descrip tive

picture of the new town.

Sir Oliver had by then been

raised to the peerage as Viscou nt Grandis on and had on the lands of Ballym ore "one fair strong castle and bawn of lime and stone with a town of thirty- five English -like houses,

beside s a water- mill upon the Cusher" .

He had also enclose d

his three hundred acres of demesne lands by a "pale" eight feet in height .

53, Some years previ ous he had acqui red by purch ase the Manor of Kerna n, had const ructe d there on "two bawnes of timbe r moate d abou t and made very stron g" .

One of these had been begun by James Matc hett, the first grant ee in 1611 who had then onJ.y two tenan ts.

By 1619 St. John had seven teen fami lies plant ed who , with their under tenan ta,

were able to make thirt y men with arms, and the number was furth er incre ased by 1621, at which time twent y Engl ish-li ke house s had been built and a wate r-mil l in Balte agh.

On Febru ary 8, 1621, Lord Grand ison obtai ned a regra nt of the lands of the manor which provi des us with a list of the sub-d enom inatio ns of the vario us townl ands a moat instr uctiv e docum ent from the place -name point of view.

A Rega l Visit ation shows that the churc h had by 1622 been comp leted in part "by Lord Grand ison and ye paris hione rs" and that his lords hip had given a silve r chali ce and a pulpi t The remov al of the churc h from the old site at Belna beck was not appro ved of gene rally , of which later . cloth .

On 23 Octob er, t623, an Inqu isitio n was taken at Bally more , and it was found that the paris h of Tawn aghta lty cons isted of fifty -two townl ands .

They were scatt ered over

diffe rent estat es and the facts disco vered are usefu l as evide nce of the exten t of the paris h in that year, In 1630 a Must er Roll was struc k of the men and arms It gives the names of all the male on the St. John estat e .

54, tenants able to bear arms and is the first list of surnames we have of British settlers on the property .

In the same

year Lord Grandison petitioned the G-overnment with regard t o the transfer of the church from Belnabeck to Tanderagee asserting that "some of the inhabitants out of mere malice, without ground or reason threaten to draw the church again to Taughnatala y (Belnabeck) where there is no church at all".

He objected to the proposal and declared 1.

That he caused a fair church of brick, covered with tiles, to be erected at Ballymore. That it had seats and needful ornaments. Divine service and preaching had been continually exercised there by a learned man before a good congregatio n,

2.

That the seat or place of the old church lay upon the edge of the parish, no Protestant dwelling within three miles of it and the way leading to it being through a dangerous wood haunted by rebels and other evil persons and that Divine Service had not been celebrated there within the memory of man.

This request was acceded to and the parish of Taughnataly became the pariah of Ballymore with the new church at Tanderagee ranking as parish church, Lord Grandison died in 1631 without issue, bequeathing hie County Armagh property to Capt. John St. John, son of _ the viscounty passing by special remainder to his nephew the male issue of his niece Barbara St. John, wife of Sir ancestor of the Earls of Jersey with Edward Villiers, the which family the title remains,

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Ca pt. Joh n St. Joh n too k up res ide nce in the St. Joh n Ca stl e at Tan der age e, an edi fic e occ upy ing the sit e of an ea rli er O'H anl on str uc tur e, of wh ich we kno w but 11 ttl e.

He was liv ing the re in 1641 when the Civ il War bro ke out and had a tro op of hie kin sm an ' s h hor sea t his die poe al. d A let ter in the OOrm ond e Ma nus cri pts dat ed November 5, 164 1, lit ies the Iri sh tel ls us tha t on the out bre ak of ho sti Troop of Hie "su rpr ise d the gre ate st pa rt of a Ho rse ded by Lord Gra ndi son Ma jes ty' s in the Cou nty of Armagh comman n Ca rte in his and pos ses sed the ms elv es of the ir arm s.

"L ife of Ormonde" rel ate s tha t "Lord

Gr and iso n's tro op was

of Ardmagh on the qu art ere d at Tan der age e in the Cou nty The pla ce was con fin es of Dawne und er Ca pt. St . Joh n.

The cap tai n sur pri sed by the sep t of the O'H anl on 's. lls and got off wit h esc ape d by lea pin g ove r the Ca stle wa l of his tro ope rs to a vio len t spr ain of his leg and sev era ir hor ses and arms a Lis nag arv ey, lea vin g the res t wit h the We can acc ept Ca rte 's sto ry as pre y to the ene my ". s tha t Cap t. St. Joh n acc ura te and we know fro m oth er sou rce lat er pre sen t at the rea che d Lis nar gar vey in saf ety and was viv es As a ma tte r of fac t a let ter sur ba ttl e for tha t tow n. ve tro op got away but wh ich say s tha t "a squ adr on of the abo at Tan rog ee" . tha t the res t per ish ed in the ir qu art ers k pla ce on the The cap tur e of the cas tle and tow n too cap tain ed by Pa tric k 23 Oc tob er , 164 1, and the vic tor s we re

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Oge O'Ha nlon, but we have littl e im'.or matio n on subse quent happ ening s .

Acco rding to O'Me llan ' s Journ al O'Han lon was

kille d the day after , but we are not told how he met hie fate or by whom.

It is diffi cult to pictu re what happe ned.

They were

poss ibly herde d toget her and impri soned until decis ions were made as to wheth er they shoul d be held as hosta ges or be allow ed to depa rt the count ry .

Depo sition s made by

certa in Briti sh resid ents of the town and count rysid e have The moat been prese rved and make rathe r sad readi ng. infor mativ e perha ps of those that have come down to us is It is too lengt hy that of Marg are t Brom ley of Tande ragee , for inser tion here but it spec ifica lly charg es Phelim y Mage nnis, Glasn y O'Ha nlon, Nice McMurphy, Callo gh O' Hanlo n and Logh lin O' Rorke with havin g kille d 1.

2,

3, 4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10 .

Her husba nd.

Jemes Brom ley.

Richa rd Wigto n, Willi am Todd and his wife and child .

Georg e Cope land and his wife.

John Toft and his wife and three child ren, John Hartl ey , Ann Watk ins , Anne Cooke and two child ren.

Adams, an Engl ish youth ,

and furth er accus ed Oghie O'Han lon, Turlo gh O'H anlo n Edmund O' Neil l, Henry O' Hanlo n and Shane O'Ne il with havin g murd ered John Drait on her fathe r and Mr, Charl es Perki ns . e some wild statem ents as to drown ings mak She does , howe ver ,

57 at Scarva Bridge of parties of British in groups of one hundred four score, fifty and three score odd, which cannot very well be true unless settlers from the nearby districts had taken refuge in the town, and that seems unlikely seeing that the place was taken by surprise at the beginning of the outbreak , therefore it is improbable that the population of the t own was much greater unless, of course, prisoners had

been added later from the surrounding parishes.

Mrs. Bromley made her deposition 26 August, 1642.

Mrs . Francie St. John managed to get to Lisnagarvey under the protection of Col. Oge O'Hanlon but some two miles beyond Lurgan her party was fallen upon by four or five Irishmen who killed John Poynton Gregory Lee Mrs Franklin Mrs. Heyward and some other women and children about fourteen in all.

She remonstrated with Col. O'Hanlon but he merely answered that "not a hair of her head or any named in her pass would be touched".

Later, the Irish kept Mr. Charles Perkins and

Mr. John Draiton for exchange and she heard that they had

been murdered.

Thie was indeed too true, and is verified

by a depoeition made 5 May, 1653, by Lirlagh McGwill who was

one of the party appointed with Col. O'Hanlon by order of Sir Phelim O'Neill to convey Mrs. St. John, Mr. Charles

Perkins, Mr, Draiton Minister of Tanderagee, and others to

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Lisnagarvey, from which it is evident that the little party was intercepted by Toole O'Neale and Toole Rory Mccann who took away Mr. Charles Perkins and Mr. Draiton, a man aged In his sight they shot the said Mr. Draiton and

60 years.

carried off Charles Perkins who was hanged by them five weeks later .

Ann Evall, 3 June, 1653, deposed that her sister

was married to John Toft and that Mrs . Toft and her husband and children were killed by one William O' Toole.

The position at Tanderagee was nothing worse than at Clare nearby.

Mrs. Elizabeth Rolleston, widow of the

grantee of the neighbouring Manor of Teemore, was captured and impri soned in the Earl of Bath's Mill at Clare.

She

gives a long list of names of people killed on her own property and elsewhere in the district holding Edmund O'Hanlon and hie men responsible for the burning of the church at Ballymore, Capt. St. John's Castle, and the town, besides killing James Brambly , Richard Wigton and others .

At Clare, ws are informed, Patrick Oge McRory O'Hanlon and his supporters killed 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

Thomas Tatton and hie son William.

William Clay .

John Thompson.

Thomas Smith.

John Grantham.

John Parker.

John Grear.

Matthew German.

John Willimont

and burned the Earl of Bath's castle.

There were others

"whose names she could not remember" but she mentions a

John Haughton and Richard Arnold, both presumably of Corlust who were murdered by "Shian O'Hanlon, son of Patrick Oge McRory O'Hanlon of Lorrylost."

In another deposition (made by John Taylor 8 June, 1653) it is asserted that "upon the march of the British army towards Newry" the Irish at Tanderagee gathered all the prisoners together and took them about a mile to the river where they stripped them and drowned them, men, women and children.

The Irish remained in occupation of the town, and on 6 May, 1642 , Sir Phelim O'Neill gave instructions that more troops should be assembled to supplement those already there.

This was necessary because of the newe of an

approaching Scotch army under General Monroe.

At that

date the Irish soldiers 1n the town were joined by an extra 2 , 000 men.

On that day Armagh was burned, the Cathedral

with its bell and organs , and the Library with its books .

On the 16th June, 1642, Major General Monroe with a

force of 2,000 men marched from Carrickfergus t o Lisnagarvey , where he was joined by 1.

2.

3.

Lord Montgomery with 700 Foot and three Troops of Horse .

Lord Clandeboy ' s Foot and Troop of Horse.

Lord Conway's five Troops of Horse .

After discussion it was agreed to advance to the Bann

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by two different routes.

Monroe and his party (his own

Foot and all the Horse less one troop) to proceed by Dromore, and the rest with 500 of Lord Conway's Foot, 100 of Capt. Chichester's, and all Lord Montgomery's and Lord Clandeboy's Foot and one Troop of Capt . Rawdon ' s Dragoons to travel by Killulta and clear the woods.

There was

little oppos ition on the way, most of the native population fleeing with their cattle and goods across the Bann to comparative safety .

We are told that at this time the

Irish and their cattle were so acquainted with that river that they "took to the water as readily as ducks" , Lord Conway in his "Relation of the Proceedings of the English Army in Ulster" printed in London in July 1642 writes that "his men came very late at night to their quarters upon the Bann at Knock Bridge, where some of the rebels were cutting the bridge, but the Dragoons which were in the van alighted, and the ground on this side being deep marsh and the causey all broken and beat them from their work, and chased the rebels on the other side , and brought over about twenty of their cows and some mares".

From the

same publication we learn that Monroe arrived at Tullylish on the same night and that a conference was held next day , but it does not seem that any of hie raiding parties ventured to Tanderagee.

Later, after various adventures

1n Tyrone and Armagh, the joint forces returned to Lisnagarvey.

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A manuscript 1n Trinity College, Dublin, entitled "The Progress of Lord Conway's Forces , against the Rebels" 26 September - 9 October, 1643, gives the story of Monroe ' s visit to the town,

It says that while at Lisnagarvey they

again made sorties into Armagh and Tyrone "the army consisting of eight half regiments of Scots with all their Horse, and 100 Foot of English, and three Troops of Horse and some field pieces, marched first to Loughbrickland.

There being

some forces of the rebels they went to Tanderagee.

Some

little encounter they had and if the rebels had been willing they might there have fought , for there were all their forces, but they had no will to it and retired , and the Scot ' s army having not any intention to go farther, contented themselves with destroying corn about Tanderagee and from thence marched to Newry where more men were left" .

One of the earlier

places garrisoned in the neighbourhood at that time was Lisnagade under a Capt . Perkins , as appears from a letter written by Arthur Chichester on October 14 and now in Trinity, O'Mellan in his "Journal" under date 12 May, 1642 , infers that Monroe entered the town on that day with 4,000 men and burned the houses in O' Neiland whilst there, besides three cornmills evidently in or near Tanderagee, and after staying encamped for three days departed with a large quantity of wheat, meal and cor n.

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Lord Conway in his "Progress" insinuated that the Irish might have held Tanderagee if they had been disposed to fight.

They decided otherwise and discretion was the

better part of valour 1n that instance owing to the disparity 1n numbers.

It may be that they met later at Benburb where

in June, 1646 , Monroe was out-generalled and defeated.

On

that occasion Monroe passed through the parish but not the town.

We are rather in the dark as to the condition of

Tanderagee then but we do know that shortly afterwards the St. John tenants began to trickle back,

By 1657 , in which

year Cromwell ordered a Survey of the parish of the County to be made, a certain John Harrison is shown as lately come out of England who was thought a fit person to have charge of a school at Tanderagee.

That , by the way , is the first

reference to such an institution under the new regime.

Another Survey (1657-1658) states "that the Irish inhabitants of the parish lived in creaghts which they move from place to place to enrich small spots of arable for tillage and that there was one eminent river called t he It also shows lands forfeited as under "Cowsher". [Cusher] Ballyargan Corlost Lisnagree Cullentragh

Patrick O Donnell Patrick McRory O'Hanlon Abraham Dee Abraham Dee.

Of the above, Cullentragh and Lienagree became in 1666 the property of John Magill and Ballyargi n and Corlost of Thomas

Ball.

63 A Poll Tax for 1660 gives the numbers of Irish and British in each townland, and in 1 664 a Hearth Tax was imposed which gives us our first census of the inhabitants of the town.

Six years later, in 1670, Nicholas Marke of Tanderagee, died.

He was, we may suppose, one of the chief characters

of the town.

Born in the year 1590 he had lived through

the reigns of Elizabeth, James I, Charles I,. had weathered the Cromwellian troubles, and lived to see Charles II safely enthroned.

His tombstone in the churchyard is now difficult

to find which ie a pity as he was undoubtedly the progenitor of a family still represented in the district.

In or before 1671 John Richardson, a well-to-do merchant of the town issued a trade token of which examples survive.

It is inscribed "John Richardson of Tanrogee", was value for one penny, and bears on the reverse side an heraldic device -

a hand grasping a sword or dagger - the crest of certain branches of the Richardson families . ,. 5 is now exceedingly rare.

On 8 September, 1679 , the town was horrified by the murder at Drumlyn Hill of Henry St. John, the then owner of the estate, who was probably on his way to inspect his manor of Kernan on that side of the Bann.

The moat reliable

account of the tragic affair is that in his funeral sermon preached in Tandragee Church by the then rector, the Rev .

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Lawrence Power.

The preface to the sermon was largely

genealogical beginning with an appreciation of Sir Oliver St. John, Lord Grandison's conduct at the Battle of Kinsale

and

continuing to Henry St. John, above, whose son had predeceased him at the early age of nineteen years.

The rector spoke of Tanderagee as being then "a plentiful estate, in a pleasant and healthy country, well peopled with induatrious, thriving inhabitants, for the most part the gentry well-bred, civil and neighbourly.

One mischief there

was that in a great measure spoiled it all and that was a pack of insolent, bloody outlaws whom they call Tories.

These had so riveted themselves in those parts by contacts they had amongst the natives and of some of the English too, that they exercise a kind of sovereignty in three or four counties. many years .

Redman O'Hanlon is their chief and has been for A cunning, dangerous, fellow who though

proclaimed an outlaw with the rest of his crew and sums of money set upon their heads, yet he reigns still and keeps all in subjection, raising more in a year's contribution than the

king's land tax and Hearth Tax brings in by which means he was able to bribe clerks and officers.

Henry St. John scorned to have any correspondence with such rascals, but defied and prosecuted them to the utmost

with the result that they basely murdered him in cold blood.

When he was assaulted there was none with him but the

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speaker (the rector) and one servant, and he had no arms but a small walking sword.

Upon capture the leader of the party

threatened him with death should a rescue be attempted.

The news got abroad in some fashion and an effort being made to prevent them carrying him off, the two men who were in

front and leading his horse shot him in the head with a brace of bullets.

The sermon gives many particulars.

"The church had

been ruined and demolished to the very ground and he rebuilt it before his own house, and that without expense to the parish or tenants.

He erected a sumptuous market house a

work so noble that it might better have graced a city than a country village.

On the Lord's Day he gave more to the

Poor Box than all the congregation besides."

Continuing, the rector took his hearers to task for

the fact that certain of them had paid O'Hanlon's tax, and thus encouraged the lawlessness by which their landlord had met his untimely end.

Of all the people of that period

whose situation brought them into contiguity with the notorious Redmond O'Hanlon, he was by far the most outspoken critic.

A letter in the Ormonde Manuscripts, dated Tanderagee December 19, 1679 (signature unfortunately erased) gives a picture of the after-effects of the murder of Henry St. John.

From it we learn that the writer had earlier

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corresponded regarding that particular episode and now wished to say something of the miserable condition of the district.

"No man was able to stir abroad except he was

in league with the Tories otherwise he was in danger of

being taken or killed.

On Thursday last Redmond O'Hanlon

and two of his rogues were pursued by two young men, tenants to Madam St. John, who recovered some stolen goods and a horse from them, and the Tories in revenge came at ten

o'clock the same night and set the two young men ' s father's house on fire and burnt all his house and corn, and this within a bow's shot of the town that has the name of garrison.....

It is certain that the Tories have friends

and confederates enlisted in the company here .••• •

I have

heard understanding men say that the only way to suppress these skulking scoundrels is to remove the company that is here unto some remote place aod have another brought whose officers have no interest in the country

bears out the rector's observations .

The above

Other plans put

forward to deal with the terrorism were guards on all the passes between the counties of Down aod Armagh and the securing of all boats from the mouth of Lough Neagh to Knockbridge.

Other letters have come down to us but we

cannot deal with them here - they must await a separate study of O'Hanlon.

One thing is clear and that is that

Redmond ' s downfall must be attr ibuted to the unhappy event

67 . at Drumlyn

From that date he was a fugitive with friends

afraid to help further and companions willing to betray him.

Tanderagee was still in a state of unrest in 1681.

A

letter despatched from there on May 29 by Captain Thomas Whitney to the Duke of Ormonde tells how on the above day he had seen a boy of thirteen years come to Sir Hans

Hamilton (of the Hamilton' s Bawn family} and beg upon his knees that his life might be secured for he was entered as a Tory and Art O'Hanlon was in search of him to cut off

his head .

It is apparent from the contents that the hint

expressed in the communication quoted above had been taken by the authorities, for we find Captain Whitney relating that "several poor people whose goods the Mullen ' s of

Tanderagee took and others who were like to starve he had restored 11.

The concluding sentence shows humane feeling

on the part of the writer - "very sad and great wrongs have been done in these parts and there will be more except they are speedily enquired into" .

Redmond O'Hanlon was, of course , then dead having been

assassinated at Eight Mile Bridge, Hilltown, on 25 April, 1681, by his treacherous kinsman, Art O'Hanlon

Some of

his confederates were , however, at large but they were

quickly subdued.

The next alarm was in 1688 when William, Prince of Orange, decided to oppose the claim of his father-in-law ,

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King Jamee II, to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland.

This was taken somewhat seriously by the more well-to-do, some of whom seem to have anticipated a Civil War of a like nature to that of 1641-42 .

At any rate Oliver St. John,

the then owner, and Daniel Madden, a wealthy resident of the town, fled the country in 1688 and were attainted by King James II.

Shortly afterwards Williamite troops under

Lord Drogheda were stationed in the town and Tanderagee thus escaped the discomforts of a second destruction of houses and lives.

Members of the O'Hanlon sept fought in the army of James II and were outlawed by King William, amongst them Roger O'Hanlon of Tonragee, Phelimy McPatrick Oge O'Hanlon of Clare, and Shane Bane O'Hanlon, Oghy O'Hanlon, Phelim McEdmund Tegue O'Hanlon and Brian Oghy O'Hanlon of Tyrone's Ditches.

Others of the clan were present also, of whom we

shall treat elsewhere when actually dealing with the family.

Oliver St. John died in 1715 and was succeeded at Tanderagee by his son, Oliver, who became High Sheriff of the county two years after .

About 1740 he settled the

estate on hie cousin Sir Francis St. John, son of his Uncle Francis.

Sir Francis St. John died in 1756 leaving a daughter, Mary, who married Sir John Bernard, Bart., by whom she had

a daughter, Mary Bernard, who married Robert Sparrow, and

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wa s the mother of Brig-General Robert Bernard Sparrow of Tande ragee whose dal)8hter, Millicent Sparrow, married Lord

Mandeville (afterwards 6th Duke of Manchester) in 1822, But to return to the closing days of the 17th century t he Battle of the Boyne and the peace that followed brought Tanderagee a new era of prosperity.

Local industries like

milling and tanning had revived again and the weaving of linen was even then becoming a staple industry.

The smelt-

ing of iron seems by then to have died a natural death but is still commemorated by the name of a tract of woodland known locally as the "Forge Wood" . 1 In the early 18th century, tanyards were fairly common also , in the wooded lands around the town.

For instance,

there was (Ashe ' s "Survey of the See of Armagh") in t 1703a tannery in Terryhoogan held by one Thomas Everen who had a farm of 151 acres , 25 of which ware unprofitable and seem to have been cut-out woodlands on which there was then some

scrub and alder trees.

The linen manufacture was develop-

ing about the same time as is evidenced by the will of Thomas Whaley of Tullyhugh "Linendraper" made the 13 March, 1734 , (1)

Mentioned in the will of John Mathers of Drumgor (made 6 June 1723, proved 9 December 1723 ) as "the describes thema Blo Tanderagee Forge or Bloomery'' . it is after passes iron which first forge through '!'he word frequently appears as smelted into ore .

Bloomery.

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It is possible that an even earlier notice might be foll.Ild if Tanderagee rentals survive for that period,

We have no comprehensive list of the then inhabitants of the town but there are a series of deeds in the Dublin Registry Office beginning, circa 1716, providing an imperfect census down the years .

They would mostly show

the more wealthy classes, the doctors , lawyers, and

merchants .

In the preceding year an Independent Troop of

Dragoons had been raised by Oliver St . John, the then proprietor, in which he ranked as Captain, and had as Cornets John Clarke and Thomas Dawson, the former of the Portadown family of that name , the other a member of the Dawson family of Clare .

Capt . St. John served as High

Sheriff of the county 1n 1717 .

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1n the torical o H, iasmanuscript Society Papers of t h e P h i s i

Harris Collection in Armagh Library , tell us that Tanderagee, circa 1740, was "a tolerable good village" and had

"a

good

share of trade especially in the linen business . "

In 1743 a drawing of the castle was made and in 1753 a second picture was painted of the same subject .

Both

eventually found a home at Gosford Castle from which they were probably taken to London following t h e auction of surplus household effects 1n that mansion, a sale lasting from 4th to 13th April, 1921.

I n 1756 (the famous)John Wesley arrived at Terryhoogan

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and introduced Methodism to the north.

He again visited

that place 1n 1758, 1760, 1762, and 1765 ,

In 1767 he

penetrated into Tanderagee where he was well received.

He returned in 1769, 1771, 1773, 1775, 1778, 1785, 1787, and 1789 and has left us impressions of the castle , rectory, etc.

On the first occasion he seems to have preached in a

private house but he also spoke in the Market House, the court-yard of the castle, and a grove within the demesne , He found Tanderagee

"one of' the pleasantest towns in Ireland 11

and the rector Dr. Leslie, a well-bred and sensible man.

An Independent Company of Foot was formed in 1756 by Samuel Blacker , the then agent , and a second unit was organized in the Manor of Kernan.

Both corps marched to

Belfast in 1760 when Carrickfergus was raided by a French force and Belfast threatened with invasion.

Forces from

the counties of Antrim, Down and Armagh rushed to the relief of the city, amongst them the Tanderagee Independent Company of Foot .

Samuel Blacker, the Captain of the Corps, was

then in Dublin, but the Rev. George Cherry, the second in command (then Presbyterian minister of Clare) led the way on foot .

They left Tanderagee on the Saturday morning and

reached Belfast early on Sunday morning,

They were preceded

by the Kernan company , seventy strong under Capt. Robinson, who with his men reached Belfast on the Saturday morning.

About this time there was great agitation in the county ,

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It arose from an "Act for the Making and Repairing of the Highways" , generally considered an unfair law .

It was

indeed felt by the poorer people to be a grievious oppression .

Householders who had no horses were obliged

to work on the roads six days in each year and if owners of h orses the labour of both was required for the same space of time.

They were besides frequently compelled to

work at roads made for the convenience of particular i ndiv i duals and often of no real benefit to the public.

There were, of course, other worries such as tithes and the rents were often more than they could find.

In

1763 being exasperated by a road proposed to be made in the county, the inhabitants most directly affected by it, rose a s a body and protested that they would make no more highways of any kind.

As a mark of distinction they wore oak branches

in their hats from which circumstance they became known as "Oak Boys".

In a few weeks they were dispersed by military

and the peace restored.

The Road Act which had been found

fault with was repealed at the next sessions and it was decided that in future the roads should be mended by a tax assessed on the lands of the rich and poor alike.

We have seen a summary for renovations of the old castle in 1769.

It was then shingled.

A new green coat for the

woodranger is also noted, costing £1.7.6

and thatchers and

attendants working at offices and houses were paid a sum of

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The number of men so employed is not given.

"Hearth Money for the old Castle" is also recorded.

The

allusion suggests a second mansion then in use but we have

not found other proof of such a building being then in existence .

In 1779 when Britain was at war with America, and Ireland was in danger of being overrun by the French, a corps of Volunteers came into being in Tanderagee, officered

by Nicholas Johnston, the then agent .

Similar corps were

recruited at Acton and Clare by Francis Dobbs, and Thomas Dawson.

One Volunteer Review was held in the Rectory

grounds 19 March, 1787, but we cannot here go into local Volunteer movements in detail - that must be dealt with separately .

In 1786 differences between the Peep of Day Boys and the Defenders came to a head at Tanderagee where a desparate fight ensued.

Four Defenders were seized for breaking the

windows of a constable ' s house in pursuit of Peep of Day Boys who had taken refu,:e therein, and at the Summer Assizes were convicted of riotous behaviour.

In the next

year (Byrne's "Impartial Account of the late Disturbances in the County the Tanderagee Heroes (Peep of Day Boys} are said to have broken and destroyed all before them, a

state of affairs resulting in many well-disposed persons fleeing the country thus leaving them with only empty

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The Heroes were also

known as the Tanderagee Levellers and some of them who had the hardihood to visit Armagh at the Summer Assizes of that year in an effort to intimidate witnesses, were promptly

arrested by Meredith Workman of Mahon near Portadown, an active Co . Armagh Magistrate.

In 1789 five Peep of Day Boys were found guilty of different offences at the Assizes, and on St . John ' s Eve at Drumbanagher in that year the Peep of Day Boys brought a party of Volunteers to break up a gathering of men, women

and children who, with dancing and fiddling, were keeping the festival.

This unprovoked attack was bitterly resented.

It was indeed said that such meetings were ideal for the spreading of sedition and it may be that they were sometimes a cloak for conspiracy but in that instance there s eems t ohave been great harshness on the part of the Drumbanagher Volunteers .

In the same year the Rev. I saac Ashe and the Rev . Henry Ashe opened a school in Tanderagee - the former had previously had one in Armagh.

Boarders paid twenty guineas

per year and four guineas entrance , a very r espectable sum

for those days.

Day scholars were admitted for four

guineas per year and one guinea entrance .

In 1799 the Rev .

Henry Ashe became Perpetual Curate of Acton, the school was moved to the Acton Glebe House.

In 1823 he leased Acton

75 Rouse and demesne for t he same purpose - fees to be thirty guineas wit h thre e guineas entrance.

Other private schools

in Tander agee owed their orwn t o the Ashe institution but none surpassed i t in educational facilities.

The Irish Volunteers were disbanded in 1792 and their passing was much regretted.

The country was still in a

very dis turbed condition.

The Blacker Manuscripts assert

that on the 12th July, 1791 or 1792 a partyof "Defenders" well armed took possession of Lisna.gade Fort near Scarva

hoping "to prevent the Protestants celebrating the day as u s ual with a procession".

There was a clash between the

two part ies, both of whom had fire arms.

The "Defenders"

were, in due course, driven out and retreated to Loughbrickland land.

Blacker 1 s authority was a James Spence, whose father

lived at Cordrain, whom we are told purchased two guns and sent two. sons to aid the Protestant side .

There seems to

have been earlier squabbles at Lisnagade .

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Co.

Down" records a fight in 1783 between the "Hearts of Steel"

and "Peep of Day Boys" , in which some of the former were

killed, and Byrne in his "Impartial Account of late Disturbances in Co. Armagh" tells of yet another skirmish there in 1789 when a party of Defenders were dislodged by an Irish Volunteer force that had been in the habit of using the Lisnagade Fort as a parade ground, In 1793 an Irish Militia Act was passed whereby orders

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were given for the return of "lists in writing of the names of all men usually and at that time dwelling within their respective parishes and places between the age of eighteen and forty-five" .

The Act was unpopular especially in the

north and among the Volunteer elements of the population.

Men so conscripted feared they might be sent out of the country to the distress of themselves and their families and that is exactly what happened .

Parish vestries were

greatly worried by the measure as all parishes were called upon to supply a certain quota of men who were to be chosen

by lot to serve for three years .

Those who were unwilling

had, however, the option of entering substitutes , and it was quite usual for parish vestries to levy a tax on the

"inhabitants of the different townlands by which method parishioners escaped being :forcibly drafted into the Militia" .

We have not had access to_ the Vestry Books of Ballymore but we can be quite sure that the procedure in the parish was on

the same lines as elsewhere and that Tanderagee contributed its proportional share of men or money.

The excitement over the Militia Act bad barely died away before the district and country as a whole was again plunged into the petty troubles that culminated in the Battle of the Diamond on Monday , 21st September, 1795 .

It is said,

and it is no doubt true , that inhabitants :from and around the town were to be :found on both sides that day .

It was

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a small fight but out of it grew the Orange Order.

Tanderagee almost immediately became a stronghold of the

new organization and has so continued.

In 1796 Yeomanry Corps were enrolled throughout Ireland, the idea being that they could be utilized for local defence purposes thereby enabling units of the regular army to be diverted for service abroad.

The

proposal was a sound one but, unfortunately, the force

became too politically minded and consequently its usefulness was greatly impaired.

By that time the Sparrow family were

the owners of Tanderagee and Brig. General Sparrow was in residence .

Two commissions were issued to him, both dated

31 October, 1796, one for the raising of a troop of Cavalry, and the other for the formation of a company of Foot, corps known respectively as the Tanderagee Cavalry and Tanderagee Infantry .

The junior officers included members of the

Pettigrew, Patton, Loftie and Hardy families . of either corps seem to now exist.

No relics

lie do not know what

happened to the Muster Rolls nor have we ever seen belt-

plates, helmets, or other miscellanea belonging to the Tanderagee Corps.

Soap-making seems to have been one of the then local industries, and we find advertisements in contemporary

newspapers to that effect.

The "Northern Star" of 28th

March, 1796, carries an appeli.l from Daniel Quinn of

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Tanderagee for the assistance of an expert soap-boiler

and chandler , but it also stresses the fact that "none need apply who were not perfect masters of the business, and regular, sober, and industrious in their habits."

In 1797 a French traveller named Latocnaye passed through en route to Armagh. superb

He found the district a

country" with 0 a charming valley well-wooded"

and tells us that between Tanderagee and Armagh he "met a company of Orangemen as they are called, wearing orange

cockades and some of them having ties of the same colour.

The peasantry seem much afraid of them.

I went into one

or two cabins to rest myself and was offered hospitality in the ordinary way, but it did not seem to be with the same air as before, and at last near the town, a good

woman said to me "You seem to have come from far my dear

Sir, I hope your umbrella or the string of it will not bring you into trouble" .

I laughed at the good woman's

fears, but on reflection, I felt that since she had remarked that my umbrella was greenish and the cord a bright green, soldiers might make the same observation, and that in any case, it would be very disagreeable to have any trouble over such a silly thing so I cut off the green cord of my umbrella".

The reference is of special

interest as a narrative of an Orange procession on its way to Tanderagee, cockades and orange ties being obviously the distinguished

marks of that body .

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Events were then moving towards the Civil War of 1798.

Tanderagee

however, remained normal and quiet, though it

is said that both political sides were represented at the Battle of Ballynahinch.

The assertion may be accurate

enough in so far as certain of the native population were concerned but there is no proof of Planter stock having been involved.

The Tanderagee Yeomanry Corps were possibly

on duty outside the county but we are not aware of any data as to their location in June of that year. have been on duty in Antrim or Down.

They may well

It is now well known

that the Seagoe Yeomanry provided a guard at Lisburn at the execution of Henry Munro, a circumstance for which confirmation

has recently been discovered.

Alexander Thomas Stewart, the owner of Acton had been a popular figure in the county in his youthful days, when hunting was one of his chief recreations, but by then he

was becoming estranged from friends of his own class and "Protestants" in particular because of his sympathies with

the United Irishmen, of whom in that year he was AdjutantGeneral for County Armagh.

He was a somewhat eccentric

character, but as he belongs more properly to Acton we shall leave the eurvey of his activities until we can deal with that manor and its owners.

In 1800 William Kennedy, the blind clockmaker, set up in business in Tanderagee

Born in Banbridge in 1768, he

e became a pupil of Moorehead, a famous Armagh violinist, at During his stay in that town he

the age of 13 years .

lodged with a cabinet maker and gained a knowledge and experience of tools and their use which later proved most

profitable to him.

By 1786 he had attracted the attention

of Mrs. Reilly of Scarva where he first became acquainted with the Irish Pipes and resolved to become an expert in their manufacture .

In that he was indeed successful.

In

1793 he married, by which time he was an accomplished craftsman in clock-making, cabinet-making, the construction of Irish pipes, and of shuttles and temples for weavers, etc .

In 1798 he moved to Mullabrack, Co. Armagh, and in 1800 to Tanderagee where he specialized in Irish Pipes, clock-making and the repair of barrel and chamber organs, by which he became well-known 1n the North.

The story of

his life was written in 1815 and printed at Newry in the succeeding year.

He was then alive and an absolute master

of the crafts in which he worked.

On 1 January, 1801, George Benn, the historian of

Belfast, was born.

He is perhaps the most celebrated native

of Tanderagee of that century .

Sent as a student to the

Belfast Academy he wrote in 1823 whilst still a school-boy, a "History of Belfast 11 •

He collected material all his

life and published an enlarged edition of the same work (two volumes) 1n 1877-1880.

With his brother Edward he

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founded and endowed three special hospitals in Belfast .

He died 1882.

Coote in his "Survey of County Armagh" of 1804, writes of the town possessing capital advantages, situate in a rich improved country and within a mile of the Newry Canal.

The country around was inhabited by wealthy bleachers , and the Tanderagee Linen Market had at one time weekly sales amounting to £7,000, the average sales then were about £2,000 weekly.

In the winter season beef was brought to

the market, the hides and tallow of which often totalled £500 weekly.

The demesne had then an immense quantity of full-grown timber, but it was being diminished.

There was, however,

some replanting and a system of prizes payable by Col. Sparrow to the tenants for crops, fencing, cheese-making, loom-making, orchard planting, housing, etc. reported as having "a neat appearance".

The town is

The Castle is not

mentioned which is a pity as a description of the edifice as it was in that year would have been of value now.

Though Coote does not say so, it is clear that Col. Sparrow (better known as Brig-General Sparrow) was then in the West Indies where he is said to have been banished because of a duel with Capt. Lucas of Druminargil.

The affair seems

to have taken place in 1797 (Bell ' s Weekly Messenger 3 September) and Lucas died in Belfast of wounds received in

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the affray .

Later Col. Sparrow was tried, found guilty

of murder and sentenced to death (Bell ' s Weekly Messenger October 1 of same year) - he was, however, afterwards reprieved and finally pardoned, and is said to have died in

April 1800 in consequence of a wound received in the fight with Lucas - B,N. L. 25th April, 1800.

He survived to 1805,

however, and following his death, his widow the Lady Olivia

Sparrow (daughter of Arthur, Earl of Gosford) seems to have been instrumental

in the upkeep of the Castle, which we

gather was a building much of the same plan as the present .

It seems wrong that her daughter (afterwards Duchess of Manchester) should have consented to a rebuilding for we know that Gaspare Gabreilli

an Italian artist , was

commissioned to adorn its rooms with wall-paintings, a method of decoration then much in vogue.

Gabreilli came from Rome

in 1805 and stayed in Ireland until 1818, during which time he worked on several houses, one being Tanderagee Castle where the subjects chosen were "Views of Herculaneum" .

Why

Lady Olivia allowed the destruction of the old mansion we do not know , but it is to be regretted that compositions by so brilliant an exponent as Gabreilli

should have been obliterated .

A Census Report of 1814 shows that in that year there were 222 houses in the town and a populati on of 1 1081

1821 the first official Census of Ireland was taken, by which time it had increased to 1, 158, and there were 217

In

83 occupied houses and 12 empty and without tenants . subsequent Census Reports are available and give much additional data.

About 1815 the Rev. Robert Hawthorne, Presbyterian Minister of Clare, opened a private school in Tanderagee that met with the disapproval of most of his congregation.

A pamphlet of 1852 criticizes him both as minister and teacher and accuses him of being more interested in farming than in his congregation.

It gives- a most amusing picture

of punishments inflicted upon the pupils, some of which, if true, reflect no credit upon the master.

In 1820 a Directory was compiled by Bradshaw of Newry.

It gives names and occupations of the inhabitants for the year 1819 .

The Mall was then in existence "a very handsome

Public Walk overshadowed by a row of the finest lime-trees in the kingdom" .

The church had then been rebuilt some

years, the funds being insufficient, it had been completed at the expense of Miss Sparrow .

The mansion house ,

usually called the Castle, built some time ago , occupied the site of the O'Hanlon Castle .

Miss Sparrow had lately

built a school for the education of thirty boys and thirty girls and was supporting it at her own expense .

Weekly

sales of linen in the market fell little short of £7,000 .

We are further told "that spacious as the street and market

place ia, it ia thronged every Wednesday with such busy

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There are four fairs in

the year - on the 5th day of July and 5th November and on the first Wednesday in February and May at which great numbers of horses and black cattle are disposed of . " The occupations of those days show a very self-supporting community.

Linen merchants, yam-dealers, muslin

manufacturers,

chequer manufacturers, diaper-manuf'acturers,

and linen bleachers appear.

Other professions, occupations,

crafts and trades were - tinsmiths, stone-cutters, whitesmiths , breeches-makers, apothecaries, surgeons, wheelwrights , carriers, blue-dyers, nailers, sawyers, brouge-

makers, book-binders, leather-sellers , tallow-chandlers, slaters , reed-makers, watchmakers, clockmakers, land surveyors, tailors, huxters, publicans, grocers, haber-

dashers , etc.

One pub was then known as the "Dog and Duck" .

In 1823 there was considerable disturbance in Tanderagee and the locality and a house and byres near the town were burned , belonging to Mr. G. Trotter of the Tanderagee Yeomanry .

According to the Belfast News- Letter (May 9)

the principal inhabitants of the town volunteered as "special constables to prevent the recurrence of such atrocious acts" and nightly patrols were a=anged under a peace-officer .

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In the f ollowing year Sarah, wife of William Sitherwood , Clockmaker , died aged 38.

Just when the

Sitherwood ' s settled in Tanderagee and begun making grandfather clocks we do not know but it must have been aft er 1819 as the name does not appear in the Directory of that year - the only clock and watchmaker then being a John McAuley of whom we know practically nothing.

Other

Tanderagee clockmaker s who have left examples of their handiwork are Stewart, Catherwood, McNaughton and Joyce .

The latter was represented at Tallyho, near Scarva, by a clock fitted with a hunting calendar and moon dial.

It

is said to have been made for Acheson Johnston who died in 1770.

From 1824 onwards schools are well documented but facts had better be dealt with as a separate study.

Almost immediately afterwards a Presbyteria n Congregatio n was established in the town.

It grew out of Clare but the

first minister, the Rev. Richard Dill (of the same family as t he famous Field Marshal) was not ordained until 1829 .

A list of the Orange Lodges of the Tanderagee District for the year 1825 has been preserved.

At that time the

order was proscribed , George W. Patton was then District Master and the lodges as under.

32 53 60 61

John Neal , Ballymore John Atkinson, Mullyvilly.

John Best Tanderagee .

Philip Jackson, Teemore .

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74 76 102 105 108 110 115 116 122 127 209 253 254 305 306 309 318 710 739 1594

Thomas Overend, Brackagh .

Robert McClella nd, Lisavagu e .

Thomas McClella nd Clare William Tate, Gilford , • Samuel McCune, Tyrone's Ditches , John Loughlin , Tullymac an.

Robert Liggett, Tullyhue , Isaac Sefton, Cargins.

Hugh Jones, Tanderag ee , James Quinn, Mullahea d, John Cochran, Gilford.

Thomas Clements , Demone , Edward Searight , Acton.

John Mulligan , Gilford.

John Vance, Marlacoo .

James McBurney, Monclone .

Joseph Dermott, Unshenag h.

James Hagan, Tanderag ee.

James McClella nd , Clare.

John Mateer, Tonaghmore,

A "Pocket Road Book of Ireland" (1827) mentions "Hutchin son I s Inn" - probably kept by the John Hutcheso n who appears as "innkeep er" in a Director y of 1819, Three years later the town was much perturbed by an outrage at Dromnag lontagh in the immediat e vicinity , in which one unfortun ate man lost his life.

The testimony

at the inquest was that a small party of people were celebrat ing St. John ' s Eve in the customar y manner by Persons of various religiou s haVing a bonfire and games . beliefs were present and the field was owned by James Sandford who tried in vain to induce the invading party It seems to have been composed not to disturb the peace. of a group of men from Tanderag ee who purposel y went out to annoy the people at the bonfire , mainly girls and children .

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The deposition s give the names of the people concerned in the attack and of the witnesses and there were prosecution s at the Spring Assizes in 1831 .

On the 12th July of the above year there was an Orange demonstrat ion in the town attended by 10,000 people who "assembled from different parts of the north of Ireland and out of County Down and County Armagh in general . 11

They are said to have "exhibited not less than

a thousand guns openly and a great number of pistols" and

to have had "a cart apparently filled with ammunition" .

"Eighty to ninety stands of colours were on exhibition and members of the Order wore sashes and cockades" .

A full

report of the proceedings is given in the "Third Report on Orange ·Lodges" ( 1835) from the evidence of Mr. P. McConnell, a person notoriously anti-Orange in outlook and much disliked by all parties in the town . he had by then changed his faith.

Born a Roman Catholic He was at first a school-

master but later became attorney and indeed a nuisance , for no story especially if it had to do with Orangeism or the Yeomanry was too absurd for him to credit .

From the same authority we learn of "a riot and procession" on the evening of the 24th July , 1833 .

A

number of Orangemen were in the town accompanied by "drums and music" .

They had some sort of meeting at the Ca s t le

Gates, but there is no notice of a brawl or damage to

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It seems , however, that "a pole with a tar

on its top and an arm inserted into it, to give

it the form of a gallows was erected opposite the ga te to the Castle" and that an effigy of Mr. Hancock (an unpopular magistrate , then agent of the Brownlow estate and very anti-Orange in his views) was appended thereto.

There had been a dinner party at the Castle and Dean Carter, the then rector, and hie daughters on their way home stopped to see the bonfire.

Lady Mandeville and

her children with certain officers of the Tanderagee Yeomanry were also present , and Mr. McConnell thought it his duty to acquaint the authorities so that the matter might be properly dealt with .

In 1834 the town was again involved in trouble .

A

detachment of the 74 Regt. marching from Armagh to Loughbrickland on 10th July in that year, rested on the roadside near two cottages on the way between Armagh and Tanderagee,

and at which there were flowers such as Orange lilies , roses ,

etc .

The men took some which they wore in their caps and

on their tunics.

At Tanderagee there was a further halt .

The town, we are told, was very crowded at the time because of a fete given by Lord Mandeville .

Later, as the soldiers

were moving off , a civilian played a par ty tune on a fife

and a companion distributed Orange l i l ies to the party .

The officer in charge had, however, by then discovered that

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the flowers had a political significanc e so he compelled

his men to throw them away, and ordered .the fifer to desist from playing.

'!'his breach of soldierly discipline

was not allowed to pass unnoticed .

Mr. Patrick O'Connell

and a Mr. David Hutcheson that evening at 6 p.m. wrote Sir Fredrick Stovin, lodging a complaint, that ensued in the matter being aired publicly at a Court of Enquiry by order of Major-Gene ral Macdonnell on July 21st, at which the true facts were found as above . on the 13th July,

There was yet another assembly

1835, that greatly .offended Mr. McConnell who reported that members of the Tanderagee Yeomanry walked in an Orange procession on that day, headed by Captain Patton, the commander of the corps , and who was then District Master of Tanderagee .

McConnell further stated that Mr. Abraham

Hardy, Mr. Richard Trotter, Postmaster of Tanderagee, and Mr. John McGowan were members of the local Yeomanry Corps and were all Orangemen - the latter of Portnorris .

being District Master

Not content with identifying the Order

with the Yeomanry he went so far as to accuse Capt . Patton of making false returns regarding officers of the company, a charge evidently without foundation.

McConnell related also how on another occasion in April or May of 1829 ,. rumour reached town of "700 Papists coming from Poyntzpass " whereupon "the Yeomanry drum beat

90, t o arms" and the corps assembled, later moving towards Poyntzpass for the purpose of meeting the party alleged to be marching from thence for the purpose of "murdering

all t h e Protestants in Tanderagee" .

At Poyntzpass it

appears they found "all the inhabitants retired to rest and not the slightest sign of any disturbance".

He was

careful, however , to add that "he did not know this of his own knowledge" - that "was a.ll he knew about the matter".

Though he had much to say on the times generally, and the Orangemen and Yeomanry in particular, he neglected to say anything of the burning of Mr. George Trotter's house in 1823 or the destruction of 1794 of houses near Mullavilly

by a party of Defenders, seven of whom were captured and lodged in Armagh prison by the Royal Dublin Militia.

The "Topographical Dictionary of Ireland" shows the town in a flourishing condition in 1837 ,

"The linen

manufacture was carried on extensively - two large establish-

ments in the town and one in Derryallen in which damask, diapers , drills , etc. were produced in large quantities .

There are several large flax-mills and more than 6,000 persons employed in the linen trade in the immediate neighbourhood .

The weaving of cambric was first

introduced

to the town in 1805 by Mr. J. Davis "who is now the only manufacturer of that article in the county."

"On the

river Ouaher near the town" there was a meal mill, the

91. prope rty of John Creer y, Esq. with an annua l consu mptio n of 2,000 tons of whea t and 1,000 tons of oats.

The marke t was t hen on Wednesday, and there were faire on the first Wedn esday of each month in addit ion to the two Char ter fairs .

By then a Cons tabul ary Force had been

sett l ed in the town.

Parti cular s are given of Lord and

Lady Mand eville ' s benef actio na :1.

2.

3, 4.

5.

6.

7.

Loan Fund.

Cloth ing Fund.

Dispe nsary .

Orpha n Asylum.

Circu latin g Libra ry .

Scho ols .

And an annua l festi val for Sunday Schoo l child ren at the castl e - in 1836 atten ded by more than 2,000 child ren.

We have a very detai led pictu re of the town, the

Cast le, schoo ls, etc. in Char lotte Eliza beth ' s "Tour " made in the same year - in many ways it is the most inter estin g of all the local descr iptio ns of that perio d.

It, howe ver, meri ts an almos t verba tim repro ducti on so it must become part of our appen dix.

By then the prese nt castl e had been built and was The archi tect was a very actua lly in use as a resid ence a well-known

Dubl in man, Isaac Farre ll., uncle to John H.

Farre ll, the found er in 1859 , of the "Porta down News ".

The erect ion of the Castl e was commenced in 1830 and it

was not antic ipate d that it would be comp leted befor e 1838, Ordna nce Surve y but it was ready for occup ation by 1837 ,

92 .

Memoirs show that the chapel was then one of the chief features of the house .

Slater's "Directory" of 1846 gives a short summary of the town taken from Guide Books of about the same date.

The manufacture of linen was less extensive than formerly but there was still a large flax market .

The inhabitants

with their professions or trades, etc. are carefully noted and information given as to Banks, Schools, etc.

There

were then two hotels, the Manchester Arms and the Victoria,

both in Market Street, but only two linen merchants are mentioned, James Acheson and Co . , and James Davis, both of

Market Street .

There was then an omnibus called the

Fair

Trader" plyingdaily from the Manchester Arms to Newry.

From 1854 onwards Belfast and Province of Ulster Directories give similar data.

The most important and most useful,

perhaps , of all the Directories of that century is Griffith ' s "Valuation of the County" of 1864 .

On the 23rd April, 1863, the town was first lighted by gas , and twenty-five years later the town received a very good

11

write-up" in Bassett's 11 County .Armagh" .

The account

is most informative but somewhat inaccurate in certain

historical matters .

It is an excellent guide to the

industries and the inhabitants countryside.

of the town and surrounding

By then the Tanderagee spinningmill had been

acquired by Mr . Thomas Sinton who is said to have taken it

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over

circa 1870.

He died in 1887 but the business was

carried on by his sons , Messrs. Maynard, Arthur , Thomas and Fredrick Sinton, who also retained the older-establishe d concern at Laurelvale vale .

At that time hand-loom weaving was

still in vogue and Mr. W. J . Turtle of Mullavilly House had about 1,000 people on his lists of workers.

Mr. William

Kilpatrick of Cabra Grove at the same time had about 500 weavers working for him.

94.

TANDERAGEE The Roman Catholic Church.

In the 17th and 18th century 2 theredoes not seem to have been any Roman Catholic Church in Tanderag ee .

The

Penal Laws were still in operatio n and conseque ntly members of that faith were denied the right to erect places of worship in the towns.

There was, however,

probably a Mass Garden in the vicinity but we have no record of the site .

The earliest relic that we know of

is a beautifu l little pyx dated 1649, now preserve d in the County Museum.

Lists of parish priests may survive for those two centurie s, but we have not had access to them.

Thady Galloghl y, born at Ulleckin

The Rev.

(Outleck an) County

Armagh, is shown in a list of "Popish Parish Priests" registere d at a General Sessions held in Lurgan 10 July, 1704 .

He was then aged 53 years - therefor e born in 1651 .

He is describe d as "Parish Priest of Tannaghl y alias Ballymor e alias Tanderag ee" and we learn that he received Orders in 1671 from Dr. Patrick Plunket , Bishop of Meath.

At the Sessions aforesai d his sureties were Cormick McCana and Philip Murphy, both of Tanderag ee , who were bound in sums of £50 each.

(2)

One officiat ing priest, two Popish schools, no chapel.

Tanderag ee. Report on State of Papery in Ireland 1731

95.

Ve know from Ordnance Survey material in Dublin that

Tamnavalton Chapel was built in 1717, and that a temporary structure came into being at Ballygargin in 1769.

It is

said that there had previously been a Mass Garden in the hills nearby a.nd that Alexander T. Stewart of Acton passing by one Sunday morning and finding certain of his Roman Catholic tenants kneeling in the snow decided to grant a lease for the building of a chapel.

The temporary chapel is said to have lasted until 1806, in which year it was rebuilt at an expense of £600.

It was then capable of holding 800 persons .

It was the

earlier edifice that was raided in 1799 by a troop of Welsh Horse stationed in Poyntzpass nearby, who disturbed

the congregatio n at Mass , but were eventually persuaded to depart .

In 1790 a chapel was erected in Poyntzpass and in 1798 the Parish Priest of Tanderagee was a Father Campbell of Ballygargan who in that year acted as host to Charles Hamilton Teeling when the latter was trying to evade arrest .

They had met before in Belfast.

On his departure Teeling

was presented with silver shoe buckles as a token of remembrance and friendship.

At Ballyargan there is an engraved slate sundial inscribed:

96 , "Memto Mori Years following years steal something every day at last they steal us from ourselves away, This plainly shows to foolish man That this short life is but a span. " It was made in 1826 by Thomas McCreesh (school-master at Poyntzpass) - there are other examples of his work in the district - the Rev . Father McGurk was then parish priest of Ballymore .

Ballyargan was renovated circa 1837, at which time the Rev. Edward Campbell was parish priest and Father Daly his curate.

The chief treasure then was a large oil

painting of St . Peter placed above the altar.

Curiously

enough the chapel is not in Ballyargan townland though it is always so called.

Why this

should be is somewhat

puzzling but it may be that the nomenclature a.rises from "the Mass Garden in the hills" having been sited in that townland, Slater's "Directory" for 1846 show the Rev, Edward Campbell and Rev. Peter Daly both resident in Tanderagee.

Father Campbell appears in "Directories" until 1856, and the Rev . Daniel O'Toole as parish priest in 1861-1877, Unfortunately we have not been able to consult any intermediate "Directory", other than Bassett's "County Armagh".

It was issued in 1888 and at that time the Rev.

James Donnelly was parish priest .

97.

THE O'Hanlons

The first mention of the surname occurs in the Annals of the Four Masters under the year 938, wherein it is recorded that Flaithbeartach O Hanluain, Lord of Ui Niallan, had been treacherously murdered by the clan O Breasail.

At that time their territory included a

large district around Armagh, besides the lands of O'Neiland and of Orior to which they were later confined by the growing power of the O'Neill ' s and from which they afterwards became known as Lords of Orior.

The older title, however, remained in use untilat least the 12th century .

There is a reference in the Annals

to the death of Donough O Hanluain, Lord of Ui Niallan in 1111 but by the next century we find the designation changed to Orior - for instance, in 1246, Murrogh O Hanluain, Lord of Orior, was slain, and fourteen years later in 1260 the head of the Clan was killed at the famous battle of Down.

A poem survives relating to that tragic episode in which

perished many an illustrious chief of the north.

Gilbride

McNamee was then the poet of Ulster and wrote a lament for the dead in which the following lines occur -

"Woe to him who wielded the axe or spear,

By which fell Cu-Uladh of Eamhain, [Navan] Great was the pity that thou beneath the axe has fallen, Oh Cu-Uladh O'h Anluain."

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The association with the ancient seat of the kings of Ulster is of interest and shows that the poet was familiar with the full extent of the O'Hanlon territory, of which later.

The Annals contain a mass of matter relative to the O'Hanlon ' s and for the late medieval period we have informative supplementary material in the Registers of the Archbishops of Armagh and in State Papers of Ireland.

At the period of St. Patrick's arrival in Armagh the local chieftain was Daire, son of Finncbad, whose entrenched abode occupied the summit on which the old cathedral now stands ,

He was the descendant of Colla-Da-

Crich, one of the three brothers who, with their armies, defeated the Ultonians in 332, and after having driven them into the area we now know as Antrim and Down, destroyed the ancient capital of Ulster, the assembly or crowning place of the Kings of the Provinces from about 350 B.C .

The site of that regal settlement remains, an imposing

eart hwork, situate some two miles west of the city, enclosing a space of about twelve acres and locally known

as Navan Rath.

By that victory the three princes and their descendants became possessed of a large territory , now represented by the Counties of Armagh, Monaghan, Fermanagh and Louth, to which they gave the collective name of Airghilla or Oriel,

99, and within which their progeny ramified into the potent families of O Hanlon, MacMahon, MacGuire and MacCan The O Hanlon line had the closest relation to Armagh and

was descended through Niallan, whose name is to this day

imposed upon the baronies of O Neiland.

When Patrick reached Armagh he found Emania deserted,

and Daire residing on the central hill - a spot that appealed greatly to the saint, but naturally Daire was very disinclined to vacate his abode ,

He did, however,

offer a site on the lower slope of the hill, but outside the ramparts of his habitation, and there Patrick ' s first church was built on a spot still well known.

Later, relations between Patrick and Daire became more friendly and eventually the saint was given his heart ' s desire , the hill-top site .

Soon a second church arose

around which grew those later religious establishme nts and schools whose fame has been so often recorded in Irish Annals, Patrick's contacts with Daire resulted in Armagh becoming the ecclesiasti cal capital 'of Ireland and it is probable that Daire endowed the newly founded Christian settlement with certain lands outside the town.

At

anyrate a group of twenty townlands seems to have been gifted to the Church of Armagh at a very early date , and one of those - that known as Navan - contained the old

100. assembly place

of ·the Ultonians.

At the Plantation of

Ulster it became ne cessary to have an inventory of the church lands so an I nquisition was t aken in 1609 by which it was found that the Archbishop owned the before-mentioned twenty townlands by r ight of his See and by gift from David Derrig 0 O'Hanlon,the person who in earlier documents figured as t he benefactor of Patrick.

Thus has tradition

preserved through the centuries the memory of the donor of the first lands donated to the Church of Armagh.

We cannot, in our limited survey , attempt to deal with

the history of the clan from those days to the present.

We have already mentioned the first occurrence of the surname in 938.

They were still the most influential

family in the county when Brian Boru, the las t High King of I rel and, paid his memorable visit to Armagh in 1004, and the head of the house was probably present or represented at Brian ' s burial ten years later in the same ancient city.

Af'ter the Anglo-Norman invasion "the 0'Hanlon'' appears amongst t he chieftains of the north to whom Henry III appealed in 1244 for aid in his war against the Scots.

In the same century , in 1273, Eochy 0'Hanlon is described

as king of 0rghialla.

In 1285, the then head of the Clan

received the gift of a robe from the king, and in 131 2 there is a record of the English sovereign styling Nigellus

O'Hanlon Duke of 0rior.

Three years later in 1315,

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Edward Bruce invaded Ireland, and tradition says that the O'Hanlon

flocked to hie standard.

There is, however,

refuting evidence in the fact that we know that Bruce took O'Hanlon ' s son prisoner and sent him into Scotland.

About that period, and when opportunity offered, the O'Hanlon ' s imposed "black rent" on the English people then living in the town of Dundalk, a measure by which the settlers compounded against incursions and plunderings.

They are indeed credited by some authorities with having levied that impost over a large area south of Dundalk .

The matter was eventually solved in 1341 by a formal treaty between the then O'Hanlon and the English people of Dundalk, and the north of the Pale generally, a document approved by the king, thus establishing O'Hanlon ' s claim to the rent, and securing for him a source of revenue from the unfortunate Palesmen for many years after.

In 1380 O' Hanlon, Lord of Orior, with great numbers of the English, was slain in a battle with the Magennis ' s of Co . Down.

A few years later, in 1391, O'Hanlon, Chief

of Orior, was killed by his own kinsmen. happened before.

Such things had

For instance, in 1321, Manus O'Hanlon,

Lord of Orior, had hie eyes put out by his own kinsman, Niall, son of Cu-Uladh O'Hanlon, on Spy Wednesday , thereby securing

the Lordship of Orior, which dignity he held for

only a few months, being himself slain by the English of

102 .

Dundalk before the end of that year. bad submitted to Richard

In the meantime he

III

In 1422 the O'Hanlon's joined a northern force and accompanied the English in a foray into Connaught, but in t he following year they marched with the Irish of Ulster and attacked the English of the counties of Louth and Meath, obtaining much booty and placing the English of

Dundalk under tribute - by which they were probably compelled to pay a heavier "black rent" than ever before.

A determined Viceroy came to Ireland in 1424 and as a

result the O' Hanlon with certain other northern

chieftains submitted ,

In 1476, John, the son of the then

O'Hanlon, was killed by his brother in a skirmish.

In

1481 Felim O'Hanlon "a distinguished chief for nobleness and good deeds was slain", and in 1492 John, the son of Carbry O Neill, was slain at Dundalk by the sons of the O'Hanlon, an act quickly revenged by the O' Neill ' s who, in the following year, slew Edmond, the son of Morrogh O'Hanlon.

By this time there were many fueds between

the O'Neill ' s and the O' Hanlon ' s , and their relations with the church were also becoming unsatisfactory .

We learn

from the Register of Archbishop Sweteman under date 18 September, 1367, that "O'Handeloyn had prevented the clergy of the Cathedral from performing divine service in the church and had despoiled them and hindered them".

From

103 .

the same authority we learn that o O'Hanlon had often deceived the Archbishop even after absolution for past

offences .

About the same time we find Malachy O'Hanloyn

King of Erthyr, admonished and warned to compel one of his

subjects to restore certain goods and clothing taken by violence from the Archbishop's retinue.

From an earlier

entry, 7 December 1366, it i s cl ear that the Archbishop had several times excommunicated the above Malachy with his people as usurpers of the goods of the church.

They

had made promises of amendment and restitution and, being absolved , hehaved worse than before, with the result that they fell again under sentence.

Many such instances might

be 4uoted but we shall only deal with one other - it occurs in Archbishop Fleming's Register under date 1 May, 1407 and shows the Archbishop had excommunicated and interdicted Argallus O'Hanlan, Captain of his nation, Malachy O Hanlan and Odo McLoy , together with their familiar aiders and abettors for various injuries inflicted upon himself and his tenants, especially for the slaying of Maurice Ddowgenan, his tenant and falconer,

He instructed his clergy to

publish the excommunication and interdict on Sunday and festivals in all their churches and market places, clad in alba and stoles, with cross erect, bells and candles, until further order.

At the same time he admonished all, English

and Irish, within his diocese to refrain from conversation ,

104 .

eating or drinking with the above-named persons, and

desired that they should not be sold bread, beer, salt or any of the other necessaries of life.

It is a curious fact that the O'Hanlon's (like the O'Neill ' s, Magennis ' s, etc . ) were frequently in conflict with the Church and often incurred excommunication, a fact that may well account for the eventual downfall of the families concerned, the heads of whom were wont to forget that they owed a:ny allegiance to it in matters spiritual other than they found it convenient from the material point of view.

Following the Act of Confiscation of 1569, most of the O'Hanlon estates in Orior were granted to a certain Thomas Chatterton.

This conveyance was dated October 5,

1570, and a commission was issued to the grantee in 1573 giving him authority to "invade, subdue or expel or bring

to mercy the people of Ohrere" .

This was to remain in

force for seven years.

Chatterton was unsuccessful and was eventually slain in a raid in the adjoining county of Antrim.

None of

his heirs were desirous of pursuing a career in Ireland ,

with the result that the grant was revoked and the lands were again in the hands of the Crown.

Elizabeth seems ,

however, to have had a friendly feeling towards O'Hanlon

so it was arranged that he should surrender his patrimony.

105 .

This he did on 20 September , 1587 , the lands being described therein as the countries called Upper and Nether Orrye • and himself as Oghy O Hanlon, chief and captain of his nation.

This was carried out with the intention of

securing a regrant.

Accordingly a new patent was issued

was confirmed in the 1 December, 1587, whereby O O'Hanlon above lands for life, then to his heirs male, failing whom to his brothers.

At the same time Sir Oghie agreed to

maintain twelve footmen called kerne and eight horsemen, all well armed, to attend upon the Lord Deputy, or other Governor of Ulster , in all hostings or risings and to maintain them in food and necessaries.

That particular

document also provided for the extinction of the old title of Orior which of the O O'Hanlon from future use .

was thus to be abolished

For those mercies Sir Oghie agreed to

pay the Queen £60 per year, but he was by then, alas, in such reduced circumstances that the rent actually became a burden.

We have a sad picture of poor old Sir Oghie ' s state at this period in a satire on the "Tribes of Ireland", written by O Daly in 1595 .

The poet has, of course,

exaggerated the condition to which O'Hanlon had been reduced and there is no doubt as to the malicious intent of the two

verses , describing hie condition.

We are told -

at the house of Mullagh "0 O'Hanlon Whose suit of clothes was wretched when there , Had a quarter of a red-breast on the fire, And the men of Orior all to devour it .

106. I A little milk in a leaky noggin A little buttermilk in a crooked cup A little_bread close to the wall cup,

And"- spider having his nest therein."

We are in some doubt as to the situation of Mullagh,

but as the word itself means "a hill" , it may well be that it was at Tanderagee on the summit of which O'Hanlon's chief abode then stood.

It has , however, been identified

with an imaginary Mullagh near Forkhill by a writer who says that he had also a house at Mullaghglass in Killevy parish, but as no proofs are given we might with equal assurance suggest Mullaghglass in the parish of Ballymore as a probable location.

Despite the supposed plight of Sir Oghie we have in Dymmock ' s "Treatise on Ireland 11 an account of the rebel

forces of horse and foot in rebellion on the 28 April, 1599, by which we learn that O O'Hanlonhad then 200 foot and 40 horse , that his territory reached from Newry to Armagh, and was mostly without woods.

A few years later (in 1608) we find Sir Arthur Chichester informing the Government that he had compounded with Sir Oghie for his estates in Orior by an annuity of _.£80 per year, during life , and a promise to pay his debts should they not exceed £300.

It was a hard bargain but

by then his son, Qghie Oge O'Hanlon, had been attainted for treason and transported to Sweden.

Under the

107 ,

circumstances the poor old gentleman had little choice as to th e disposa1 of the lands that he and his ancestors had held for over a thousand years.

Sir Oghie O'Hanlon's

wife was a sister of the Earl

of Tyrone, a lady of strong will-power and very illaffected towards the English, and it may well be that she encouraged their son, Oghie Oge , to intermarry with Sir Cahir O Dogherty ' s sister, by which means he became involved in O Dogherty ' s downfall, forfeited his succession to the lands of Orior and lost his wife .

She, poor lady,

was with him when he had to fly and was "found alone by an Irish soldier who knew her not, stripped of her apparel and so left in the woods"where she died the next day of cold and famine being but lately delivered of a child" .

That unfortunate episode is said t·o have taken place about August 1608, yet on the 26 May 1609, we find a general pardon granted to Margaret O Doghertie, wife of Oghe Oge O'Hanlon, Patrick McShane McOge O'Hanlon and Redmond McShane Oge O'Hanlon.

The O'Hanlon's

figure largely in the "Pardons" granted

in the reign of James I.

For instance on 12 February,

1605-1606 , we have a list as under Sir Oghie Oge O'Hanlon of Tonregee.

Oghie Oge O'Hanlon his son and heir .

Shane Oge O'Hanlon another son.

Manus McColla O'Hanlon

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Edmond McColla O'Hanlon Glasny Mcowen O'Hanlon.

And Donald O' Rourke. • with Redmond O'Hanlon of Ginckinstown, all of Tonrogee, [Tanderagee] Co . Louth, Manus O' Hanlon of Armagh, and Donal O'Hanlon, his brother.

On the 11th July , 1609, Pat Oge McRorie

McFerdorogh O' Hanlon received pardon and on 20 November , 1610, the undernoted three members of the clan appear Shane Oge O'Hanlon, son of Sir Oghie .

Edmond NcCullagh McEdmond O'Hanlon.

Glasney Mcowen O'Hanlon, all described as gentlemen of County Armagh.

A further

list for 25 May, 1612, shows similar repetitions .

It

reads as follows Redmond McFerdorogh O'Hanlon ) all descri bed Richard McRedmond O'Hanlon as "gents.

Patrick Oge O'Hanlon Ardell McCullagh O Hanlon, Yeoman.

Shane O'Hanlon (Mc Patrick McFerdorogh) gent .

Phelim McDonel McTurlogh O'Hanlon.

Laughlin O Hanlon and Oge O Hanlon, Edward Such instances could be multiplied , all of Armagh county , but our study does not permit a detailed examination against the surname in State Papers, Inquisitions, etc.

It is clear that in the reign of Edward III, on 23 April 1346 , protection was granted to the O'Hanlon's in their Records lands and possession in so long as they behaved . show that following the Anglo-Norman invasion and down to the 17th century , they were sometimes with the English and

109 . sometimes againet , a state of affairs that finally resulted in the forfeiture of practically every acre then in

possession of any member of the family.

It i s true that

persons of the clan received small grants at the

certain

plantation

but most of those were lost in 1641.

Sir Oghie O'Hanlon, the last of the line to live in the ancient O'Hanlon castle at Tanderagee, must have been a saddened and disheartened man when his son and heir,

Oghie Oge , and fifty of his followers were banished Sweden in October 1608.

to

In December 1610 Sir Toby

Caulfeild ' s accounts show a payment to the children of Oghy Oge O'Hanlon, their father being still in Sweden.

A pedigree of the O'Hanlon' s of Orior has been

preserved, beginning with the father of Sir Oghie.

It

records the various generations as under:-

Shane Og O Hanlon, created O'Hanluain by Queen Elizabeth , 3rd August , 1567, had

issue -

I.

Eochy o Hanlon of Ori or of whom presently , Knight .

II.

Patrick Mologhan O Hanlon.

III.

Shane Oge O Hanlon.

IV.

Phelim Q Hanlon, who lived to 1639.

Sir Eochy o Hanlon of Orior, surrendered his estate

to the Crown in 1587 and got a re-grant from the Crown in the same year.

In June 1611 he sold Orior for pension of

£80 per annum,

The last date hie name appears is in 1623

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when he is paid his pension (Last Lord of Orior) .

He

married the sister of the Earl of Tyrone, and left issue _ I.

Eochy Oge O Hanlon, the younger, of whom presently .

II.

Attended as Standard Bearer of Turlogh O Hanlon.

Ulster and commanded a body of Cavalry at the Battle of the Yellow Ford in 1598

III.

Shane Oge O Hanlon. again in 1611.

IV.

Bryan O Hanlon, who left issue a son, Edmond Lairdir O Hanlon who md . a dau. of Henry Hagan of the Co. Tyrone sept, by whom he had a son, Patrick Ban O Hanlon , who had a son Glaisne O Hanlon, who was the father of Col. Brian O Hanlon of Tandragee.

Pardoned B February 1 1605, and

Eochy Oge O Hanlon, the younger, eldest son and heir

apparent

Received a pardon 8 September, 1605 .

with Sir Cahir O Dogherty in 1608 was sent to the King of Sweden.

Joined

Pardoned in 1609 and He married Margaret,

of Sir John Oge sister to Sir Cahir O Dogherty, and daughter 0 Dogherty , knight

Lord and Chief of Innishowen by whom

he had issue 1.

Phelimy o Hanlon, who with his brother Bryan got

a grant of land in Co . Armagh, 13 December, 1610.

Probably the same Phelim who was Captain of Horse at Newry in 1625.

2.

Bryan O Hanlon who got a grant of estates in part with hie brother Phelim and was possibly the father of Bryan MacOghey O Hanlon of Tyrone's Ditches who is mentioned in Acts of Settlement He (Bryan) married and had issue 1691 .

Shane Oge o Hanlon who was indicted for hie estates in 1691 and died at an advanced age leaving -

j

Shane or John who lived in the neighbourhood of Newry

.Tffi,

who lived in the neighbourhood of Newry, Shane or and dyilli: dying left 1811'118 etissue. ,md

oger � n of Newry, b. circa 1704, who"emigrate � d �ewr � y o or arlington in Queen's Co. and bec a member of the Church of Ireland" and left issame ue Michael O Hanlon who left issue Captain William O Hanlon who md. Mary, dau. of John Grange of Portarlington, and MJi issue Nicha el Wm. 0 Hanlon, M.B., born Mount Mellick 3 November, 1810.

Also of Portarlington, married Letitia, dau. of Major le Grand of Canterbury (she d.1885) and had issue The Rev. Wm. 0 Hanlon (The O Hanlon) of Innishannan, Co. Cork.

3.

Patrick Mor O Hanlon who left issue Edmond O Hanlon who served under James II. Wa.s in Clonmell Garrison in January, 1650. Became a Colonel and commanded a regiment for James II in 1689. He left a son Felix of Killeayy, Co. Armagh. Capt. of Infantry to James II, whom he followed to the Continent. He left a son Edmond Ruadth O lliullon of Killeavy, md. and had issue 1•

Hugh of Newry, of whom below.

2.

Cecilia, who md. Constantine O Neill of Dublin.

1.

Hugh, living at Monaghan Street, Newry, in 1819.

2.

Patrick, B.L. of whom presently.

3.

A da.u. who md. John Durning of Ja.maica.

4.

Eleanor who md. Michael Byrne of Dublin, and was living in 1836 - then a widow and aged 83.

Hugh o Hanlon of Newry married Elizabeth ( she died 2nd M.ay, 1778, aged 42) and dying 1st April 1807, a.ged 86, left issue -

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Patrick O Hanlon admittedB.L. a member of th Ch h e B.L. 1796, became living in CalcuttaChurch of Ireland Ireland, and was Fr a in 1843 1843 He married Frances es' daughter • of Thomas • Smyth of The Fence Yorkshire She died November 1810, aged 34 .

1.

Hugh Marmaduke , B.L. who died 8 June 1844-

2.

Pringle, Capt . in the 1 st Bengal Cavalry .

3,

Edward, Lieut. in the Bengal Artillery who d. of wounds received in the Burmese War, on 15 Dec. 1824, aged 21 .

4.

Sarah who married 22 July, 1804, Ensign William Alexander of the Second Reserve.

1•

Patrick, on Pension List 1603 . Received grant of lands in Co. Armagh 10 October, 1610. Petitioned Parliament April 1 626 for sum of money. Held his estate in Orior until 1639 - His son Henry Buidhe 3 months old in 1639 -

2.

Hugh who left the Government side and went to fight with Tyrone in July, 1599, but returned to the English and was knighted and killed in 1600 fighting for the English.

3.

Phelim Oge. 1599.

4.

Edmond Groome.

Went to support Sir Eochy in January, Pension not paid in 1626.

Pedigree of Redmond O Hanlon Loghlin O Hanlon rod.

1.

2.

and had issue -

redmond called Count by his admirers. He was born near Poyntzpass, Co. Armagh, and never left Ireland . Assassinated 1681. Of whom presently .

Loghlin o Hanlon, Shot by one John Mullen in December 1681, who got £50 for the deed.

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3.

Edmond Ban alive May 1681 •

4.

John.

"Count" Redmond o Hanlon married Loghlin O Hanlon and had issue _

sister to

1.

James of Killeavy of whom presently .

2.

Catherine who married David Conyaghan of Letterkenny kenny , by whom she had issue -

1•

Redmond Conyaghan who md . Martha Ellis of Philadelphia.

2.

Mary who md . the Rev . Thos. Plunkett .

3.

Catherine who md. James Baxter.

4,

A dau. who md . David Stewart and who has descendants in Baltimore.

James O Hanlon of Killeavey married and left issue 1.

Terence, born in Killeavy - later of Mount Bagenal, Co . Louth, who had a son

James O Hanlon of Mount Bagenal (d.1789) who married firstly Anne Morran (or Ronan) of Dublin by Catherine who married Thos . whom he had issue a daughter

Dolan of Ranelagh, Co. Dublin, by whom she had Terence Thos. Dolan who married; John Dolan who died unmarried; and Catherine Dolan, a Nun in the

Carmelite Convent at Ranelagh. He married 2nd Alice Coleman of Dundalk and had further issue ,

,

.

_,

Neale O Hanlon of Mount Bagenal who married Anne Magee of Newry and had issue 1.

James of Mount Bagenal, B.L., b. 1812, died unmarried in January, 1851 , aged 38,

2.

Terence , died unmarried .

3.

Eliza md . Matthew Martin and had a dau. Mary Joseph Martin who married John WilliamHoran, Clerk of the Cr own and Peace for Louth and

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Drogh eda, by whom she hadd Neale WilliamHoran who died in infanc y ein 1849 , son and three daugh ters .

4 • Mary Anne James Gernon of Willv ille , who died unmar ried . aughte r Mary Gernon of Newry

TANDERAGEE - 1 1691.

The follow ing members of the O' Hanlon clan were attain ted in above year.

Shane Bane O'Han lon

Oghy O Hanlon Phelim McEdmund Tegue O'Hanlon Bryan McOghy O' Hanlon

All of Tyrone ' s Ditche s

Phelim y McPat rick Oge O' Hanlan of Clara . (Clare ).

Redmond O' Hanlon of Phecos .

Roger O'Han lon of Tonragee .

John Hanlon of Carlin gford , Clerk, Patric k Hanlon of Carlin gford, Capta in Col in O'Hanlon was an office r in the army See "King James ' a Army List of 1689 ". of King James II. Dalton , Vol.II ( s econd editio n) pp .31 0- 31 1.

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115 .

DATA ON THE ST. JOHN, THE SPARROW AND THE MONTAGUE FAMILIES In 1 610 the O'Hanlon lands because divided up amongst cert ain Plantation grantees, one of whom, Sir Oliver St , John, received a substantial estate in the parish of Ballymore According to tradition Sir Oliver repaired the O' Hanlon castle at Tanderagee , and the settlers upon the estate built their houses around that edifice, thus forming the nucleus of the town as we know it to-day...

Patents for

fairs and markets were granted and arrangements made for its incorporation as a borough, a matter that for acme unexplainable reason failed to materialize .

Sir Oliver St . John was the second son of Nicholas St. John of Wiltshire, member of a family that could claim kinship with the kings of England.

Being a younger son he

was educated for the legal profession, but owing to becoming

involved in a duel (in which he killed his opponent) he was forced to leave England for a period, a state of ·affairs that resulted in his adoption of the army as a career. saw much service in Flanders , and ao distinguished

that he was rewarded with a knighthood.

himself

Later, on his

return to England, he was chosen by Queen Elizabeth for service in Ireland .

He

He made rapid progress in the

116.

accumulation of wealth and honours' holding in succession many high poets.

Eventually he be came Lord Deputy of

Ireland, and in 1617 was created Viscount Grandison of Limerick.

He died in 1631 leaving no issue, but bequeath-

ing his Co . Armagh estates to Captain John St. John, son of

his nephew John St . John, his viscounty passing by special.

remainder to the male issue of hie niece, Barbara St . John, wife of Sir Edward Villiers (brother to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham) , ancestor of the Earls of Jersey, in which family the viecounty of Grandison continues to the present day.

Captain John St . John was res ident in Tanderagee and in command of a troop of Dragoons when the Civil. War of

1641 broke out , and from various sources we know that he had then a narrow e scape from capture.

He managed, however,

to reach Lisnagarvey in safety, and was later joined by his wife who was for a short time a prisoner in the hands of the

Irish troops.

He died without issue, leaving the Armagh

property to his brother, Henry St. John, who had married a distant cousin, Catherine St, John, daughter of Oliver St, John, Chief Justice of England.

Henry St. John and his wife lived at Tanderagee where

at Drumlyn in that neighbourhood he was murdered on 9th September , 1679 , by some followers of Redmond O'Hanlon, notorious Rapparee,

He had issue a son who died young,

the

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and a daughter , Catherine, who inherited the property and became the wife of Ant hony Bowyer.

Mrs , Bowyer does not seem to have taken much interest in Tanderagee following her father's death.

At anyrat e

she and her husband sold the property to her uncle, Oliver St. John, brother of her mother, Mrs. Catherine St. J ohn, which lady died in 1681,

This Oliver St. John lived at

Tanderagee and married Elizabeth Hammond and had three children alive in 1 689 when h~ fled to England.

He died

1715 and was succeeded by his son .Oliver St . John who was High Sheri ff of County Armagh in 1717 and living in June 1740 at which time he settled Tanderagee on his cousin Sir Francis St . John, son of his uncle Francis St . John.

Sir Francis St. John died in 1756 leaving issue two daughters , one of whom, Mary St. John, married Sir John Bernard , Bart ., and had issue a son, Robert Bernard, who died without issue in 1789 , and a daughter, Mary Bernard,

who married Robert Sparrow and was the mother of Brig.General .Robert Bernard Sparrow of Brampton Park in Huntingdon, and of Tanderagee ,

Brig. General

Sparrow married in 1797 the Lady Olivia

Acheson, daughter of Arthur , Earl of Gosford , by whom h e had a son, who died young, and a daughter, Millicent Sparrow , who marri ed , in 1822 , Lord Mandeville , afterwards 6th Duke

of Manchester , by which union the property passed to the ducal family of Montague with whom it remains,

118.

General Sparrow was, according to tradition, a somewhat hot-tempered individual. the fact.

There is some confirmation for

We know that he fought a duel with his neighbour

Captain Lucas of Druminargle in which the latter was killed, an action resul.ting in his banishment to the West Indies, where he died in 1805.

Lady Olivia Sparrow seems to have been very fond of Tanderagee, and was greatly interested in the district and its historical associations.

She compiled material for a

life of Redmond O'Hanlon to be written by Sir Walter Scott, but, unfortunately, died before it reached that famous writer, and the manuscript was either lost or possibly suppressed by her daughter.

She also possessed two drawings of Tanderagee

Castle, one made in 1743 and the other in 1750, which are said to have been afterwards deposited with the Acheson family - nothing is now known regarding them.

The Castle was rebuilt, circa 1830-1836, following the marriage of her daughter to Lord Mandeville, but from a description written 1n

it would seem that the present

house is similar in plan, being arranged around a central Why it should have been necessary to rebuild at courtyard . that date is something of a mystery especially as there is

evidence that Gaspare Gabrielli was commissioned to adorn its rooms with wall much in vogue.

paintings, a form of decoration then

Gabrielli came from Rome in 1805, and

remained in Ireland until 1819.

During that time he was

119. responsible for work executed 1805-1808, much of which remains in situ, at Castle Lyons in Co . Kildare; on a

house in Dublin for Sir Richard J. T. Orpen, in which

all traces are now obliterated;

and at Tanderagee Castle

where all signs of his brush have disappeared.

Why Lady

Olivia Sparrow should have commissioned a man like Gabrielli to beautify the interior of the Castle and then consent to the destruction of his work some years later, is a matter upon which we have no information.

The

subject chosen for Tanderagee was 11Views of Herculaneum.

and it is much to be regretted that compositions by so brilliant an exponent as Gabrielli should have been destroyed .

120.

S ir O li v e r S t. Jo h n d .

1 4 3 7 . (1 s t h u sb a n d )

Ch. a. rt , St. Jo,hnL M ar ga re t ' s is te r an d h .

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o f S o m er se t

__ L_ _ _ _ _ _ -. ~t ~S n ~ ~h ~o --J =ir [ti~ / v e r t . Jo h n li O ar et , so le h e ir g ar M o ts le B , f rd o ia d n er Jo h of Ly ir e o f he r fa th h ts il W ze o g d re h e ir , K .B . 1 4 8 8 u T und (T o r) E a rl m Ed . s 2nd so n' . o f R ic h m o n d t.

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S ir Jo h n S t. so n 549.

Jo h n S t. Jo h n , rs Jo h n , li v in g 1 I an d h e ir , 7 y e a n h Jo t.

O li v e r 's o ld in 15 12 . hn Jo . t S n o ar B C re a te d . so n o 1 5 5 9 . D. 1 5 8 2 N ic h o la s, h is o f B le ts I d h e ir , li v in g an n h Jo t.

S I O li v e r Jo h n 1549. . n ro f S t . Jo h n , a B rd 3 2nd er v li O 18 in i r Jo h n S t, B ar o n D ie d/ 1 6 · co u n t G ra n d is oln 0 is V n ?

Jo h n , n, 1622 w it h sp e c ia · ir O li v e r S t. Jo h e h d an is f re m ai n d er s to ah Lady c re a te d E a rl o ar b 24 n e ic e , B ar ;r B o li n g b ro k e 1 6 ' V il li e r s an d h D ie d 1 6 4 6 . m al e is su e .

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h

S ir J o h n S t .

Jo h n . C re at ed B a ro n e t 1 6 1 1 , a n c e st o r o f th e V is c o u n ts S t . Jo h n an d V is co w it s B o li n g b ro k e . rs , 2n d W il li a m V il lined is o n , whose V is c o u n t G ra became th e d a u g h te r Mary y C as tl em ai n e, n o to ri o u s L ad a rl e s I I an d m is tr e s s o f C h u ch es s o f D w as a ft e rw a rd s C le v el a n d .

S ir Edward set. ,-. V il li e rs , wahoS h nb ar B ar Jo b ro th e r to p o st e ri ty G eo rg e succeed<!d b y V il li e r s , sp e c ia l r e Duke o f m ai n d er to B uc ki ng ha m . h er u n cl e ' s v is c o u n ty .

I .

Jo h n V il li e rs 3 rd V is co u n t G ra n d is o n .

is now h e ld b

G eo rg e V il li e r s, 4 th V is c0 un t G ra n d is o n ,

th e E a rl s o f Je

rs e y•

121 .

IN 1715

Tanderagee

In 171 5 an I n d epe nde nt Troop of

was rai sed by Oli ver St

J 0 hn

Dragoons (M ilit ia)

The foll ow ing Esq . com mis sio ns wer e iss ued und er 15 Sep tem ber of tha t yea r.

Oli ver St . Joh n.

Ca pta in. .

.

Co rne ts .

•

'

Joh n Cla rke and Thomas Dawson.

THE SPARROW ARMS. ly tho se of The arm s of Lady Oli via Spa rrow or pos sib tow er of the par ish her dau ght er Mi llic ent as shown on the lev el, chu rch .

Sto ne dif fic ult to see pro per ly from gro und t poi nt . and mo tto not eas ily dec iph era ble from tha of Sal op The Spa rro w ' s of Pre en Manor in the County fes se azu re and arg ent , bea r for arm s "qu art erl y 1 and 4, per

in chi ef thr ee ros es of the las t bar bed

and see ded pro per

per for Sparrow and in the b:.. se an arr ow .in pal e pro

2 and 3 the arm s of the Hanbury fam ily • The mo tto und er the arm s on tow er may be "JE SUIS CONTENT"

11

and in

122.

Ta nde rag ee

--nch este r and The Duk es of~Ma Tan der age e . see Pee rag es .

the ir con nec tion wit h Fo re ar 1 ier gen era tion s and fUl ler det ails

Geo rge Mon tagu e , 6th Duke

of Man che ster Ear l of

Ma nch est er etc . (so n and hei r of Wil liam 5th Duke' by Gordon) his wif e Sar ah, sis ter of Geo rge, 5th Duke of edu cate d at Eto n 181 1-1 812 .

Sty led Vis cou nt Mandeville unt il 184 3 ; ent ere d the Navy, Feb ruar y 1812, in which he became Commander in Jul y 182 2.

Deputy M.P . Tor y for Cou nty Hun ting don 182 6-18 37.

He mar ried firs tly by spe cia l Lie ute nan t, Co. Armagh. stm inst er , lice nce , 8th Oct obe r, 182 2, at St . Jam es's , We ght er and afte r Mi llic ent (wi th £20 ,00 0 per annun), only dau r of Rob ert 3rd Ma rch , 181 8, onl y sur viv ing chi ld and hei g.-G ene ral in Ber nar d Spa rrow of Bra mpt on Par k, Hun ts, Bri , firs t Ear l the Army , by Oli via , dau ght er of Art hur Acheson She , who was bor n 25t h Jan uar y, 1798, died of Gos ford . was bur ied 21s t Nov emb er, 184 8 , at Kim bolt on Cas tle, and He ma rrie d secQ ndly at Kil roo t, Har riet t, 5th He died Dobbs . tle Cas of bs Dob daughter of Conway Ric har d His widow Kim bolt on.3 at ied bur was 18t h Aug ust , 185 5, and .B. Art hur Blackwood, K.C son ven Ste Sir mar ried 185 8 the re .

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eat Pro tes tan t and the aut hor of sev era l rel igi ous sub jec ts .

;:m;~e~s~n

123, William Drago Montague, 7 th Duke ( son and heir by 1st wife , b . 15th October 1823 ' at Kimbolton) generally ' .

1<nown (during the lifetime of h" is grandfather) as Lord .

Entered G Kimbolton to 1843.

GrenadierGuards January 1842' St 1 d Captain 1846-1850 . y e Viscount Mandeville 1843-1845; A.D.C. at Cape of Good Hope 1843 - 1844 M.P . (Conservative) for Bewdley 1847-1852 and for Co . Huntingdon 1852 - 1855; a Lord of the Bedchamber to Prince Albert (Prince Consort); K.P. 3rd March, 1877. 4 He married 22nd July, 1852, at Palace Chapel, Hanover, and afterwards at British Embassy there, Louisa Fredrick Augusta, Countess Von Alten, daughter of Charles Francis Victor, Count Von Alten of Hanover.

He died 22nd March,

1890, at Naples and was buried at Kimbolton.

His widow

married 16th August, 1892, at Christ Church, Mayfair, Spenser Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire.

She

died 1911.

George Victor Drago, 8th Duke, only son and heir, b .

17th June, 1853, styled Viscount Mandeville 1855-1890, Captain 3rd Bn. Royal Irish M.F. Conservative 1877 · Fusiliers (Armagh Militia) April He married 22nd May, for County of Huntingdon 1877-80.

educated at Eton 1866-68;

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the h. "silly but not dull" and •a Diraireli wrote of ~1estone described him as and oddity . . . a well Marquis of Huntly in mixture of good nature intentioned bore",

124. f N y New Yor•k Consuelo 5 , daug hter of Anto nio Y de Val le of Ravenswood 1876 , at Grac e Chu rch .

and Cuba .

•

nswo od, Lou isian a, New York,

He died at Tand erag ee

Cas tle, Co, Armagh, 18th August , 1892 , aged 39 , and was buri ed at Tanderagee.

His widow died 20th Nov emb er, 1909 , at Kimbolton and was buri ed ther e .

Wil liam Agnus Drago Montague, 9 th Earl of Man ches ter, only son and heir , b. 3rd March, 1877 .

Educated Eton

Cap tain of the Yeomen of the Guard 1906-1907.

Serv ed in Gre at War of 1914 -191 8 as Lieu tena nt in R,N . V.R.

1891-189 4 ,

He mar ried (he was then 23 and she 21) , 14th November, 1900 , at St . Mary lebo ne, Hele na, onl;y daug hter of Eugene Zimmerman of Cinc inna ti, U.S.A ., a very weal thy

A Lib eral .

railw ay dire ctor .

She divo rced him in 1931 , and he marr ied

seco ndly on 17th December of that year Kath leen Dawes .

Alex ande r Geo rge Fran cis Drago, styl ed Visc ount Man devi lle , b . Tand erag ee Cast le 2nd Octo ber, 1902. a Bap tized at Cha pel Roy al, St, James Pala ce, Queen Alex andr He marr ied 5th May' 1927 ' at . sors spon his of one bein g Kim bolto n Pari sh Chu rch, Nell Vere dau. of Sydney Vere Stea d , of Mel bour ne , Aus trali a.

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Her seco nd marr iage was 40 two days prev ious to the A mos t bea utif ul woman, Besi des her year s afte r her firs t andt he 8th Duke, deat h of her elde st son ,t over £400 ,000 pers onal ly Eng lish prop erty she lef in America

~ from

abst racts c:t

the Ba lly mo re Parish Ve stry Bo of ok 177-1-

1810 10.

Ballymore

Vestry

BOOK.

1771 - 1810 Apart from containing the signatures of parishioners attending Vestries the above book gives much additional information of a genealogical nature in the records of "byeroads vestries" wherein Directors, Applotters, Overseers, etc . are named.

The latter meetings also mention the various

manors within the parish, Ballymore, Clare, Acton, Drumbanagher, Archbishop's Manor, Sheriff's liberty, etc . and as the

agents

or owners of those estates usually acted as Directors within their respective manors many old names crop up.

The volume in question also adds to our knowledge of the curates of the parish in that period.

From official sources

it is easy to compile correct lists of rectors - in the years under review the Prebend and Rectorship of Ballymore were still joined - not separated as at present, and the posts were filled by Dr . Henry Leslie (1759-1803) and Thomas Carter, M.A .

1803 - 1849

respectively, two rectors whose joint occupation

of the parish extended to 90 years.

But to return to the

curates - they are much more difficult to trace.

Appointed by

t e rectors they &eldom came into prominence until promotion

ca:ne their way .

Old vestry books are however documents in

ic~ they may be found, chiefly through occupying the chair 8t Vestries in the absence of rectors.

Had this particular

boo been available when the late Canon Leslie published his

....

--

very valuable "Armagh Clergy and Parishes" in 1911 it would have increased the "Curates List" by the Rev . St . John Blacker and the Rev . John Creery .

The former appears once only on

July 22, 1772 - he had previously been curate of Killevy and eventually rector of Moira.

April 8, 1776

Creery however signed firstly on

and lastly on September 9, 1807 - see Appendix I.

Unfortunately I could not spare the time to make a verbatim copy of all the vestries .

In the case of a few of the earlier

(1771 to 1774) I abstracted some notes as to bye-roads and noted names of vestrymen, but later I had to content myself with only recording the churchwardens and such obher items as

appealed to me personally .

The volume was found in 1955 by

Miss Coburn and deposited with the rector of the parish for safe keeping in the same year .

October 2, 1771

(Road Vestry) .

Thos. Dawson, Esq. Director of that part of the Manor of Clare lying in the parish and the Sheriff's Liberty, Mr. Peter Quinn and Mr . Seth Jelly to be Overseers in the Manor of Clare,

Drumnaleg eg and Mullanary and that Mr . George Lawson of Ballyargan and Mr. James Bell of Lisnagree should be Overseers of the Sheriff's Liberty .

Mr• Robert Boyd of. Acton, Director of the Manor of Acton and the Primate ' s Lands and that Mr . John McAlister of Brannock,

William Moody of Acton Mills and Thomas Crothers of Glassdrummon be Overseers of the Manor of Acton: and that Mr . John

Black of Aughlish and Mr . Robert Crothers Junior of Tullymacan be Overseers of the Primate ' s Lands . samuel Blacker, Esq. , Director of the Manor of Ballymore , Mr. Samuel Parker of Tanderagee and Mr . Samuel Ferguson of Mullaghglas s

Overseers .

Mr. Samuel Parker, Mr . Henry Harden and Mr . McAlister to be

Applotters of said parish .

Mr. Thomas McBurney , Petty Constable of the Manor of Ballymore to be Collecter.

Rate one penny per acre with.an allowance of

one shilling for every pound collected.

Roads to be .repaire·d Acton

Ballymore From William Ewarts to Bell ' s Burn.

From turn leading to Mr . George Croziers to Ballynabac k .

From Acton Church to Taniokee .

From Poyntzpass to Taniokee .

From Ballynaback to Neil Feranes.

Clare

From the great road to the Glebe to McSpadin's Bridge .

Signed by Hen. Leslie, Rector , Samuel Blacker Churchward en, Peter Quinn -----, William Moody , William Moody and Samuel Parker.

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April 20, 1222, Samuel Blacker, Esq. and Mr . James Bennett of Tanderagee to serve as churchwardens.

Signed Henry Leslie, Rector, Samuel Blacker and Robt . Ross , churchwardens , John Whitte, John McGomery , John Allen.

April 29 2 1772.

Accounts .

Agreed by Minister , Churchwardens and parishioners that the two seats above the reading desk be assigned to the Rev. Henry Leslie, present rector and his successors and that he be allowed to make in place of the two seats one capacious seat according to a plan exhibited and approved. "igned Hen. Leslie, Rector , Samuel Blacker and Robt . Ross, Churchwardens, SamuelLivingston, Robert Boyd, Robert Chas.Loftie, George Crozier.

July 22 I

]

?72 •

Discussion on erection of gallery .

Accounts show that it cost

£41.4.91/2leaving the Vestry with a credit balance of £3 . 16.10½.

Signed St . John Blacker, Curate, James Bennett , Churchwarden, James Hughes, Edward Overand, John Young, George Craig .

Appendix I .

See

~ 130 August 24, 1772, Mentions that a Vestry of April 20, 1772, Samuel Blacker Esq. , was appointed Churchwarden but Dr . Radcliffe i,isi tor for the Lord Primate at the last visitation did order that another churchwarden should be chosen in his place, accordingly the rector, churchwardens and parishioners nominated Mr . George Tegart of Druminargill to serve instead of said Samuel Blacker, Esq. Signed Henry Leslie rector, James Bennett, churchwarden, Thos. Ferris, John Whitten, James Watson, Jas. Hughes.

September 8, 1772 Samuel Blacker, Esq. and Mr . Robt . Ross have settled their accounts and the credit balance placed in hands of Mr . James Bennett of Tanderagee churchwarden.

Signed Hen. Leslie , rector, James Bennett_and George Tegart, Churchwardens, Saml. Parker, Alex. Patton, John Whitten, Jas .

Watson.

September 16, 1772 Sum of £7 . 9.3 . put into hands of Mr . James Bennett at last meeting to be expended on repairs to roof as directed by churchwardens .

Big~ed Henry Leslie, rector, James Bennett and George Tegart,

Churchwardens, Robt . Chas, Loftie, George Crozier and John Whitten

September 30, 1772

Road Vestry.

Manor of Clare and Sheriff's Liberty .

Thomas Dawson, Esq.,

Director .

Mr. Peter Quinn and Mr . Seth Jelly Overseers of Clare and Mr .

George Lawson of Ballyargin and James Bell of Lisnagree Overseers of Sheriff's Liberty.

Manor of Acton.

Robt . Boyd of Acton, Director of Acton and the

Primate ' s Lands.

John McAlister of Acton Mills and William Moody of same overseers of Acton and John Black of Aughlish and John Bealy of same, overseers of Primate's lands.

Manor of Ballymore .

Nicholas Johnston, Esq., Director .

Samuel Parker of Tanderagee and Samuel Ferguson of Mullaghglass, overseers .

Applotters : Manor of Acton and Primate 's Land Mr . George Lawson.

Manor of Clare, Drumnaleg and Mullinary, Thos . Dawson, Esq. Sheriff's Liberty , Mr . George Lawson.

Manor of Ballymore, Mr . James Hughes.

Collectors : Owen Mccann lands under Thos . Dawson, Esq ' s direction.

Alex. Walker lands under Mr. Boyd's direction.

ThomasBurney lands under Nicholas Johnston' s direction.

Usua1 rate, and collectors fees.

Roads to be repaired, Ballymore: From Bell ' s Burn to Tullylln.

From Gilford road to Tullyhue.

From Phelix Hagan • s to Gills Gate .

Clare and Sheriff ' s Liberty: From the great road at the Glebe to McSpadin' s Bridge .

From Neece Brown's to Corlust Mi Mill Acton: From Acton Church to Tanyokie .

From Poyntzpass to Tanyokie.

From James Grimess house to Bal Ballynaback Irish churchvard , Signed Hen. Leslie , rector , George Tegart and James Bennett, churchwardens, Thos. Dawson, George Lawson, Thos , Terris , Peter Quinn and Robt . Boyd.

Aprl l 12

1773 ,

Nicholas Johnston, Esq. of Tanderagee and George Tegart of Drumanargil chosen chur chwardens.

Gess to be applotted by Mr . James Hughes and Mr . George Tegart and applied to various uses including repairs to roof and IDaintainence of foundlings, etc .

Mr. Streaton, Parish Clerk, £8.o. o.

Signed, Henry Leslie , rector, James Bennett and George Tegart , Churchwardens, Saml. Barker , James Hull, John Whitten , Saml.

Ferguson and Jno . Watts .

1W' 5, 1773, Applottment of money levied at previous meeting approved, churchwardens ' accounts passed, £12-16-1

in hands of Mr . George Tegart to be used for roof

repairs .

Signed Henry Leslie, rector, James Bennett and George Tegart churchwardens, SamuelBarker, SamuelFerguson,, Robert Marks, Jams . Hughes .

September 30, 1773, Hen. Leslie Rector, N. Johnston and George Tegart Churchwardens , Edward Lucas, Peter Quinn, John Finch, Alex. Patton, William Christian, John Young, Thomas Crothers.

April 1 4, 1774« Hen, Leslie , Rector.

Nicholas Johnston Esq. of Tanderagee George Tegart of Druminargill

Chosen Churchwardens.

Robt . Cosens, John Whitten, James Dobson, Robert Marks and James Walker,

April

12, 1775

Nicholas Johnston, Esq. Mr , George Tegart .

Churchwardens .

\ '3 i+

Septembe5r 1775 Road cess not to be laid on this year •

8. 1776

April

Nicholas Johnston, Esq. , and George Tegart, Churchward ens .

To enclosing Acton churchyard .

Roof repairs , painting gallery.

May 1, 1776, John Creary, Curate, first appears .

September 4, 1776.

31 March 1777, George Tegart, John Allen, Churchward ens.

John Creery, Curate .

September 3, 1777 Road Cess not to be laid on this year.

Isaac Younghusband attends Vestry with Saml . Livingston .

Anril 20, 1778, llr. Peter Quinn, Mr . Robt . Chas . Loftie , Churchward ens .

Lady Bernard and Mrs. St . John thanked for repairing churchya.rd Valls on north and west sides .

Nicholas Johnston, Esq. , late

Churchwardensthanked also for influencin g the two ladies .

Ai2.tlJ. 5'.

1779,

r. Alex . McAllister and Mr. John Jelly , churchward ens . pent on enclosihg Ballynabac k churchyar ds .

AIJ,ril 28

1779,

Floor of church and enclosing the burial grounds at Ballynaback.

27 1780.

March Mr. James Lenny and Mr . Thomas Whaley, churchwardens.

Al)ril 16 , 1781.

Valentine Dynes and John Corner, Churchwardens .

AJiril 1, 1782, William Marks and James Walker, churchwardens .

April 28 r 1783 • James Watson and James Ballance, churchwardens .

Mr. Stratan, Parish Clerk £10 instead of £8.

Sexton still £2 .

Stone style at Acton Church.

Aprj]

12 I 1784 •

James Rice and David Jelly, churchwardens .

Harch 20, 1785',

Seth Jelly and John Jones, Churchwardens .

Whereas a seat in the parish church of Tanderagee has been allotted to the proprietors of the Manor of Ballymore and a seat to the proprietor of the Manor of Acton it was agreed to allot a seat to the Manor of Clare and that said seat shall

consist of the first two rows on the north side of the parish Clerk's seat 1. the gallery

Wi 1 12, 1786, John Godley, Esq. , and Robert

Trotter, churchw ardens.

£7. 7. 7 1/2levied for enclosin g the churchya rd of Tanderag ee b:1 a wall eight feet high on S. and W. sides and building a house for the sexton of the parish in some convenie nt spot in the churchya rd - also the building of a bridge over the rivulet that divides the two burial yards in Ballynab eck.

April 9, 1787

John Godley, Esq. and Dr. Alexande r Patton.

March 24 , 1788, Robert Taylor and William Bradford , churchw ardens .

July 30, 1788.

Agreed by the minister and churchwa rdens that a church or Chapel of Ease be built on the lands of Brannock in the Manor of Acton in said parish for the accommo dation of the Protesta nt

parishio ners who reside at a distance of five .miles from the parish church and two miles from any other place of worship .

Present :

Henry Leslie, Rector, John Godley and Alexand er Patton

Churchw ardens , Robert Boyd, Hugh Small, Thos . Crothers , James Linney [Lenny?]

April 1 13I 1789 t Thomas Taylor and William Jackson, Churchw ardens .

April 5, 1790 John Mathers and James Fryer, churchwa rdens .

April 25 1291, John Benn and William Whitesid e, churchwa rdens .

Allril 9, 1792 George Armstron g and Peter Asdall, churchw ardens .

Aliril 1 , 1793 James Prentice and Peter Kain, churchw ardens.

August 22, 1793 Vestry held in the Parochi al Chapel of Acton.

By the authorit y

of the Primate it was agreed that Alex. Thomas Stewart , Esq. , and Mr . Charles Magarry should serve as churchw ardens for remainde r of year .

Pew on right of Chancel to be for ever appro to the Manor of Acton.

Pew on left of Chancel Pew on left of reading desk.

For a poor box 11/4 1/2 John Sefton, Parish Clerk £6 .

Alex. Macaula y, ministe r.

Manor of Ballymo re . for ministe r .

4 1793 September Henry Ashe curate for the Rev. L. Creery •

April ,, 1794 Mr. Richd. Rogers and Mr . James Prentice, churchwardens .

April 6. 1795 Mr. Christopher Bickerstaff and Mr. James Prentice, churchwardens

Mmh '6, 1796 Mr. Daniel Quinn and Mr . James Fryer, churchwardens .

April 1z, 1797 Mr. Wm. Loftie and Mr . James Fryer, churchwardens.

ApriJ 9, 1798 James Fryer and James Rowley, churchwardens .

March 25. 1799.

James Rowley and James Fryer, churchwardens •

.Anrn J14, 1800, James Rowley and James Fryer, churchwardens .

April 6, 1801, James Fryer and George Trotter, churchwardens .

4w.1 )9. 1802.

1 11111ee Fryer and Thomas Whaley, churchwardens.

John Creery

ry , Curate .

.4J2ril 11 , 1803, James Fryer and Thomas Ferguson, churchwardens.

John Creary, curate •

.uirU , , 1804 James Fryer and Kain Glenn, churchwardens .

Thomas Carter, rector.

5, 1805 April 15 Kain Glenn and Richard Wilson, churchwardens .

Thoma s Straton, Parish Clerk £12, Sexton £3 .

April

2, 1806.

William Loftie and Hugh Alexander, churchwardens .

Gat es for Ballinabeck graveyards £5,3 , 7½ to £6.16 . 6 .

Painting the church £15 .

Harch 30, 1807.

Wm. Loftis, Esq. and James Barker, churchwardens .

Mr. Bann, - sexton £3 . 0.0 .

Jktober z, 1807.

A sum of £230.12 , 0d. to be raised off the parish under the Act

for increasing the militia of the county .

lr. J ame s Prentice and Mr . Robert Trotter applotters and to appoint collector.

wn 10, 1808.

William Loftie, Esq. and Thomas Best, churchwardens . parish Clerk's salary £12 . 0.0.

Sexton. £3 .

April 3, 1809.

William Loftie and Richard Greenaway, churchwardens .

April1 23,

1810.

William Loftie and Richard Greenaway, churchwardens.

I')-\

APPENDIX I,

Dates or Curates' signatures , st . John Blac ker signs as curat e July 22, 1772 , John Cree· ry signs as curat e Apri l 8, 1776.

Septe mber 4~ 1776 .

March 31, 1777 Apri l 16, 1777.

Septe mber 3 1777, Apri l 20, 1778 Septe mber 4, 1787 .

Septe mber 4, 1787 .

Septe mber 1 1790 .

Apri l 25, 1791 Septe mber 5, 1792.

Apri l 1, 1793 , Septe mber 4, 1793 "Hen ry Ashe curat e for Rev . J . Cree ry Apri l 6, 1801.

Apri l 19, 1802.

Apr il ll, 1803.

Apr il 15 , 1805.

April 7, 1806 .

Septe mber 3, 1806 .

Septe mber 9, 1807.

,~.

APPENDIX II,

Expense

of the Er ect ing The Ga lie ry. s. d.

£

June 16

Re cei ved from Mr , Jam es Pu rdy and Joh n Ma gen nis .

Re cei ved from Sam uel Bl ack er Es q.

Fo r bri ck s fro m Joh n Mu lla n.

17 17 27 2

8 4-

l

7½

17

44-

To tal rec eiv ed June 10 11

19 20 Jul y

6

8 16

20 20 20

ton s To Jam es Co nlo n for fre igh t etc . 4at 4s 4d. pe r ton . · saw ing To Mr . Adam Mait lan d for tim be r and To Do. for tim be r for the St air s To Tu rni ng t he 4- Colums yin g To Jos eph Gle nn & Ar cd. Ev ans for saw san d etc .

To Jam es Gle nn for dra win g lim e and ov al T0 Edward Du ffy for gla zin g the two

18 4-

,·2

10 10 1

1

1

6

18

7

2

9

win dows .

To De als for she eti ng the Ga lle ry To Tu rni ng the ra ils

1 19

To Na ils

1

10

To Liq uo r gav e the men at Su nd rie s r Tc, Mr. J ohn Montgomery the Ca rpe nte To the Maso n for. bre aki ng the ho les windows etc

6½

7

6

4-

!i-

5

ll

for 1 5 10

To George Co rne r one day To tal Ex pen ded Re cei ved £4-5,1,7¼ El>Cp end ed £4 1.2 ,9,

Ba lla nc e

To Jos eph Gle nn one day ,

10

4-1

2

9j

31 8 l~ 2

Ballymore

PARISH,

We have been Uilable to discover any reference to a school in the parish of Ballymore or earlier date than the middle ot the 17th •cen'tiury. It is very pro\>able that in earlier days such of the parishioners as were desirous ot study (a_n d able to afford it) were sent to Armagh, a scholastic centre going back to · t)le mid-fifth century.

The early schools were, or course, monastic in origin and as regards Armagh there is ample evidence of activity They were at first little disturbed down the centuries. ot Ireland but they gradually conquest by the Anglo-Norman became impaired through conflict between British and Irish They did not, however, opinion on matters ot education . suffer actual extinction until the dissolution of monasteries

by Henry VIII in 1537, by which decree Ireland was left for a time without any educational tacilitios whatever . Armagh may not have been so quickly attected as other places more directly under English influence but just when the last ot its monastic schools finally closed down is not easily aecertainable now , In 1608 at the time of the Plantation or Ulster lands ••re set apart for the erection of Free Schools in the various counties concerned,and in County Armagh 720 acres ••re set apart to provide an endowment for the upkeep of a school at Armagh. The site chosen was the old Collegiate Church of St. Columba, one of the city•s many eeclestastical foundations . Like the other Royal Schools it had a very modest begiibning and could only have served a minute percentage ot the county population. It would not have been acceptable to the native people and we have no information lS to whether they were then educated privately or abroad few other than those destined tor the church received any schooling at all, a state of affairs applicable to the aettlers also.

In Elizabeth's reign plans were made tor the establishment ot such schools in the principal shire-towns or each Irish Diocsss. An almost similar system had been proposed by her father, whose councillors had suggested that a share ot the revenues derived from dissolved monasteries should be devoted to that purpose. So far, however, as tar as Armagh is concer~•d there is no proof that any schools were formed llnder those Act•• Armagh was still definitely Irish in aind

Ballymore Parish

Schools.

and outlook, and even 1f such schools had been founded they ,ould have been unacceptable to the Irish inhabitants who ,ould have resented being compelled to speak English or study under English masters.

The first actual historical notice ot a school in the parish of Ballymore that we are aware of is that in Cromwell • s •Inquisition of Parishes in Co. Armagh• taken in the year 1657, ,herein it is stated t hat Mr. George Harrison •lately come out of England was to be placed in a school thought necessary at Tanderagee•. The next schoolmaster that we have any record of appears in a Diocesan Return of 1693. He was a 11r. Jo. Leslie and was still in office in 1702 Daniel Smith schoolmaster of Tanderagee" signed a local deed 20 April, 1715, and in 1732 tile Rev. caleb de Butts and tbe churchwardens conveyed an acre of land in Drumnaleg for the uae of a schoolmaster. Whether there was then a school in the \ownland was not disclosed but it would seem to have been a new building. The grant specified a Protestant schoolmaster competent to teach the English tongue, from which we may assume lhet the par ishioners were then familiar with the Irieh language . The ordnance Survey Maps of 1835 show the school, and the •survey Memoirs• of the same period mention it as "being almost a century in existence."

A "Visitation of 1754 shows John Overend as school-master year and a similar source notes Hugh McConnell in the that in There was probably a school in same position in 1798.

At a nyrate a Directory of Drumnaleg. as well as Tanderagee 1819 notes two masters, Hugh McConnell and J. Culbert but gives no clue as to the actual situation of the school s other than their inclusion under Tanderagee.

The first official census of Ireland was compiled three Years later (1821) but it is not very helpful as regards 8•1lools. It does give the number of pupils in the parish of Pupils ln Tanderagee, Ballymore as 270 Male and 167 Female. ~cton, and Poyntzpass are given separately and as under:Tanderagee, 111 Male and 27 Female.

17 Male and 15 Female.

Acton 73 Male and 70 Female Poyntzpa••

Ballymore Parish

- Schools

annotation to the above list states that •a school for 130 boys and 130 girls supported by lliss Sparrow was tben in existence in tile parisb of Ballymore. Census Reports appear 10 sequences of ten years from that date onwards and are very informative , and we may again refer to them.

An

on Education• (published 1826) gives particulars as to tour school s in tbe parisb working in connection with tbe Society for Promoting the Education of tbe Poor based on en inspection of 22 November, 1824.

A "Report

1. Tanderagee - 109 male and 101 female pupils 20 28 2. Acton 15 29 3. Corlust 4. Derryallen - Number o! pupils not noted,

A more detailed account occurs in tile •second Report ot Commissioners of Irish Education Enquiry• in wllicb we get a summary of pariab ecbools as under:!. Tanderagee. Master, James Gracy. Church. Income £40

Good sc ool built at expense of st. John tamily.

40 Male and 20 Female pupils, 44 of whom were church 9 Presbyterian and 7 Roman Catholic Supported by st. John family.

2. Tanderagee. Master, James Ferris, Roman catholic.

Income about £30 House rented at £5.5.o per annum.

32 Male and 18 Female Pupils, 13 of wbom were church 6 Presbyterian and 31 Roman Catbolic. No financ ial assistance.

3. Derryallen. Master John Cuthbert Income about £50.

Eliza Fitzhenry, Mistress. Income about £42.15.

A very bandsome scbool, cost £800.

Both Church 75 Male and 75 Female pupils, of whom 97 were Cburcb, School 13 Presbyterian and 40 Roman Catholic tile master assisted by tile Kildare Place Society receiving an annual salary of £yo, and tile mistress £22.15 trom Lord and Lady Mandeville. Lady Mandeville built the scbool-bouse.

Ballymore Parish -

Schools.

Patrick McConnell, Church. Income 4. Tanderagee. o. Masters house rented at £10.10.0. per about £60 annum. 27 Male and 3 Female pupil~ of whom 12 were Church, 16 Presbyterian and 2 Roman catholic. Not assisted by ano, Society or Patron.

Robert lloore, Master. Church. Income 5. Cargins 18 Male and 10 £5 o £8. Good house, cost £50.

Female pupils, of whom 24 were Church and 4 Roman Catholic The scnool .b uilt by eubscription and kept in repair by Lady Mandeville .

6. Corlust. Isaac McCutcheon, Master . Churcn. Income £10. School bui lt for a Methodist Preaching House.

12 Male and 18 Female pupils, of wnom 2 were Church 21 Prasbytsrians and 7 Roman Catholic Supported

by Kildare Place Society. Master receives £2.2.o. per annum from Col. Graham.

A master wanted. Income not stated. A 7. Clare good schoolhouse lately repaired by eubscriptione .

Patrick Conroy, Roman catholic.

Income about £15. Held in a barn. 35 ~~le and 30 of wnom were ctrurcn, » PresbyFemale pupils, terians and 18 Roman Catholic .

8. Mullaghglass

,a

9. Terryhoogan. Mary Moore Church. Held in a barn.

35 Male and 25 Female, of whom 20 were church, 27 Presbyterian and 13 Roman Catholic.

Sarah cannon, Church. Income £10. lo. Tanderagee House rented at £3. 14 Male and 5 Female pupils, of and 7 Roman whom 6 were Church, 6 Presbyterian catholic.

11. Tanderagee. Rev. Robert Hawthorne. Seceding minister. Income £120.11.6. to £129.3.6. Private house-rented at £21 per annum. 30 Jlale and 9 Female pupils , of whom 22 were church and 17 Presbyterian.

12. Ballyshielbeg. Meredith Conroy, Master. Roman catholic. Income £4 to £5. Held in a barn.

16 Male and 10 Female pupils, of whom 2 ware Church, 16 Presbyterian and 8 Roman catholic.

_,_ Ballymore Parish

-

Schools,

Cllurch. Income about Taniokey. William Ellis £l2. Held 1n a meeting-house belong1ng to Secedere. 35 Male and 20 Female pup11s, or whom 50 were Presbyter1ans and 5 Roman Catholics 14. Poyntzpass.

James Whigham, a seooder. Income about £40. House rented at £5.17.0 per annum.

33 Male and 25 Female pup1ls, of whom 10 were Cllurch, 16 Presbyter1an, 15 Roman catho11c and 17 •other denom1nat1ons•.

15. Poyntzpass. Thomas Salmon, Church Income about ilo. House rented at £5 per annum. 35 Mal e and 20 Female pup1le, of whom 11 were Church 24 Presbyterians, 12 Roman cathol1c and 6 • other denominations 16 . Acton. David McConnell, Roman Catholic I ncome Good house, cost £60 to £100 at f irst. about £8 Pup1ls, 12 Church, Bu1lt by the Manor of Acton.

7 Presbyterians and 11 Roman Catho11cs.

17. Ballynaleck James McKeever. Income about £7 or£. sohool held in barn. 16 llale and 10 Female pupils, of whom 6 were Church and 20 Roman .

Catholic Roman catholic .

18. Poyntzpass. Thomas McCreash, [McCreesh?] income about £15. .House rented · at £2 per annum.

14 Male and 10 Female pup11e, of whom 4 were Church, 6 Presbyt erians and 14 Roman catholic.

Jane Shaw. Church. Income about £5. 1.o. Small cottage, 5 Male and 4 Female pupils, of whom 3 were church, 3 Presbyterian and 3 Roman catholic.

19. Poyntzpass

John Jackson. Presbyter1an.

20. Tyrone's Ditches ched Income £12 Thatched House cost £15. 25 Male and 15 Female pup11s, of whom 6 were Church, 28 Presbyterian, and 6 Roman catholic.

Ballymore Parish

Scbools,

Ace or ding to the ordnanc e Survey Memoirs of 1835 the pupils in the day-school in Tanderagee of the Rev. Robert Hawthorne bad increased to 50 and there was then in that town a "Female Boarding School• under Miss Atkinson with 20 pupils. There had been other and earlier boarding schools such as that set up by the Rev. Henry Ashe and bis brother the Rev. Isaac Ashe in 1789, and the school at Clare castle founded by the Rev. John Maguire in 1794.

The •ordnance Survey Place-Name Books of about the same period show the!. the Tanderagee estate had then a health and welfare system comparing favourably with the amenities of the present. There was then in the town 1. A Fever Hospital supported by private subscriptions .

2. Four houses given free by Lady Mandeville for poor widows, two to reside in each house.

3. Lending libraries at Castle and in the schools.

4. Twenty destitute persons receiving weekly ration• of meal at the castle·.

Lady Mandeville (when Miss Sparrow) built a handsome school for thirty boys and thirty girls - sometime previous to 1819 - possibly the school credited to the st. John family in our list of parish schools in 1826. According to the Topographical Dictionary of 1837, a very extensive and important charitable institution had by then been founded on the moral agency system by Lady Mandeville and her husband, the benefits of which were open t o the whole of their numerous tenantry, in the improvement of whose moral, intellectual and social condition, it bad, although in its infancy, produced most beneficial results. It included:A Loan Fund.

2. Clothing Fund.

3. Dispensaries.

4. . :An Or pban Asylum.

5. 25 Schools,to each of which was attachod a circulating library.

1

The Loan and Clothing Funds were conducted by the •moral agent•, of whom we shall have something to say later. The dispensaries were in Portadown and Tanderagee and at Tullybappy. There were open one .day per week and were

-7Ballymore Parish -

School s.

under the care or a physici an who devoted the rest of his time to diepen si ng medicin e and vieitin g the poor tenant s in their homes. The Orphan Asylum situat.. ll.n Tander agee was open to female orphans of the Protes tant tenant ry, who were boarded , clothed , and trained for service in respec table familie s. School s, spaciou s and handsome buildin gs with residen ces tor masters and mistre sses, bad been erected over the estate at Tandera gee Corvern agh Car gins and Ballym ore in which there were about 260 childre n and 100 infants .

School s had also been set up in Portado wn and Mullan tine in the parish of Drumcree as well as in the parishe s of Seagos , Kilmor e and Killevy , to each of which were attache d Sunday School s, the aggrega te number s in those An annual festiva l then took place at exceed ing 2,000. the castle and the childre n from the many schools were hospita bly enterta ined.

An even more valuabl e narrati ve· was written by Charlo tte Elizabe th• in tbat year, she states that there were then thirty teacher s on the proper ty, that is the Manors or Ballym ore, Kernan and Portado wn and that the girls attendi ng the schools were instruc ted in the making of shirts, knittin g of socks, etc., Mr. Porter , the moral agent, conside ring such accomp lishmen ts more suitabl e than the making or fine collars or caps. Five infant school s are mention ed and t wenty-t wo other schools s I J iq with a roll of 2,334 childre n daily.

She arrived at Tandera gee from Tullym ore Park where Lord and Lady ehe had been staying at Lord Roden Mande ville were abroad so Mr. Porter acted as host, 01 her arriva l at Tandera gee castle she found Dean carter, the then rector, awaitin g her. He seems to have been an old friend and his presenc e undoub tedly brough t her much pleasu re.

Lord Mandev ille then bad a chaplai n who preache d in each o! the country schools once a fortnig ht and in the two achool- houses in Tandera gee and Portado wn once a week previo usly he had taken such service s himsel f.

I C,-o

-sBallym ore Parish - School s,

The Infant School at Tandera gee lay half-wa y down ~he long hilly street, and is best describ ed in her own words •a very spaciou s room, remarka bly lofty and airy, holds the livelie st, most inte111 gent and comica l set or little creatur es admirab ly taught, They were kept consid erably beyond the regula r hour for our inspec tion and their own amusement as it proved , for we afterw ards engaged them in a regular game at play to the i nfinite deligh t of their parents and elder ' brothe rs and sistera , •ho coming to fetch the babies home, were provide d with seats and greatly enjoyed the sport• , The game consist ed of buildin g a pyramid of wooden bricka a nd then allowin g the childre n to fire a volley of the same upon command.

She later explore d the Boys• School and was much please d by the method of teachin g, and on Sunday ahe attend ed a Sunday School in that buildin g, It is clear , howeve r, that she disappr oved of the Nation al School system or educat ion, She was not alone in that respec t - other people were equally hostile , She was unlucky as regards weathe r , It rained all the way from Tullym ore, and was equally bad during her sojourn in Tander agee, Her descrip tions or the shop at the Castle , the working of the Loan Fund, local shebee ns, diepen saries, etc. is immens ely interes ting

especi ally a sugges tion of what •might happen if the town was not etrongl y garriso ned before the 12th or July•, and in fact· what did take place despite the presen ce or an army ~r occupa tion in the way or soldie rs •who had marched in, taken up their quarte rs, furbish ed their arms, primed and loaded them and retired to bed", They were there to preven t •a garland or obnoxio us flowers (presull lllbly Orange lilies, from being stretch ed across the street• .

At the end of her visit she drove to Portado wn to catch a coach for Belfas t. She learned that there were two - one Prote stant, the other Roman cathol ic, Having been advised before leaving the castle to try and secur,e a seat in the first to pass through , she made the Journey down in the Popish vehicl e to the great dismay of •r. Porter 's servan t, who aaid "his master would not travel 1n that coach for ten pounda •. The and should be read 1n all its atory is most amusing detail s,

15'1 .

Ballymore Parish - Schools.

In •A New Plan of Education in Ireland• (part II, 1075), issued in 1837, we gather that there was an objec\ion by Lord Mandeville's Moral Agent to the examination or schools on the estate •i n order to distinguish what the numbers of Protestants and Roman catholics in attendance were. The schools in question numbered sixteen and were supported by Lord Mandeville.

They had a roll or 1,629 pupils.

From the report it appeared that a Moral Agent was a person who had charge of the poor on the estate, superintending the schools established for the poorer tenantry and distributing blankets and clothing to them sometimes free and sometimes on reduced terms.

He was

distinct from the Land Agent. Mr. Porter, the then Moral Agent, had at his disposal £1,000 per year for schools, a nd £567 for salaries and procuring work for tb.e Female schools .

The report states that within the last year Lord Mandeville had built a school for males, females and infants at an expenee of £500 and tbat at that moment ( 19 June, 1837) he had a school in erection, the cost of which was estimat ed at £700 At that time the general character of National Schools in the county were either exclusively Protestant or exclusively Roman Catholic and many people objected to the change over owing to the tact tb.at the older system united the children of differen~ creeds, a factor in which National Schools had failed.

Slater• s Directory of 1846 allows the Duchess of Vancheeter•e Free school in Market street - Elizabeth Walker, Ellen McClelland and Harriet Welsh, mistresses.

Tb.ere was then a second school ip the same street taught

by Margaret and Fanny Wilson. Miss Patton•e school for Young Ladies was flourishing at the same time. The town Reading Room was then functioning and Samuel Mccune acting as Librarian.

Deapite the coming into exietence of the National Schools there was still a large proportion of illiteracy in the parish. Census Reports for 1851 ar e illuminating on that •ubJect. They show

Ballymore Parish - Schools.

1603 Males and 747 Females who could read and write.

948 who could read onl y .

1639 1334 who can neither read nor 1727 write.

Ten years later we get a 11st as under trom the same source. The parish then contained 1431 Males and 1103 Females who could read and write. who could read only.

1037 588 who could neither read nor 936 929 write.

Separate ,tables are given tor the villages or Acton and Poyntzpass, and Tanderagee appears as under 286 Kales and 286 Females who could read and write. who could read only .

154, 87 who could neither read nor 213 159 •rite.

At that time there were still i n Lower orior a tew people ( 11 llale and 7 Female) able to speak Irish and Engl'ish, a nd in the Upper half of the Barony 51 llales and 102 Females speaking Irish only, besides 2,919 males and 3,177 females who were conversant with both languagea.

Belfast and Province of Ulster Directories for the period 1854-1877 give further _p_articulara of schools For convenience sake we group the.r,:"under ~ ~ secondary dates show that the persona named appeared in those years.

1. Duke of Manchester's School, Common Hill.

J. Cuthbert Master, 1854.

George Johnston, Master, 1856 .

ThomasK err, Master, 1861, 1865.

Miss Hulland Mistress 1865.

Jane Aird, teacher, 1870, William Harland, Master of Male School 1877, Sarah Redmond, Mistress of Female School 1877,

,-11-

Ballymore Parish

Schools,

2. Duchess of Manchester 's Free infant School Market st. ' Elizabeth Walker, lll1stress, 1854-56.

Eliza Scott, Mistress 1854-56.

Ann Bellew, Mistress, 1861.

Anna H. Rea, Mistress, 1863, • Anna H, Maginnis Mistress, 1865.

Miss H. Montgomery, Teacher, 1870.

Miss Louisa Tyrell, Teacher, 1877, 3. National School, Market Street.

Rev, B. Campbell P.P., Patron, 1854-56.

Rev. Daniel O'Toole, p,p., Patron, 1861-1870.

Peter Murphy and Mrs Letitia Rice, Teachers 1877, 4. Ladies School, Market Street.

Mrs.

Caroline Clarke, 1861. ( 0rganist).

5. Boarding School, Market Street.

Miss Ann Emerson, 1877,

6. Young Ladies School, Market Street.

Miss Ann_e Patton, 1877.

Bassett's •county Armagh• was published in 1888 - besides giving much information on local history it is a guide to the inhabitants of the town and district. Historicall y there are some blunders - but at the moment we are only concerned with the educationa l institution s noted therein,. They were as tollowe:1. A Ladies

School", Teacher Miss Moore .

2, National Schools, Teachers Robert Ross, Miss F, Harvey, James Deblin ( Devlin 7) and Mrs. L, Rice.

.

Strangely enough no traditions survive amongst the native or Plantation families as to Hedge Schools though they must have flourished in the pariah in the 17th and 18th centuries, Such schools would have been deemed illegal, but ev,n the humblest of them dealt with reading, writing and lritlaietic , and many ot them taught higher subjects such as Latin Greek and mathematic s,

-12Ballymore Parish

Schoo ls.

Pen pictures of hedge-schools have come down to us, one of the most interesting being the institution portrayed

by Carelton the author of "Irish Traits and stories• who was himself educated in a school of that type in County Tyrone. Methods of teaching are explained in detail in Dowling' "Hedge Schools of Ireland•. They served a useful purpose in days when scholastic affairs were a monopoly in the hands of the State and "Popish Schools" barred financially end legally to the great hardship of members of the Roman Catholic communion.

Teachers were paid small quarterly sums by the parents but in country districts they fared better than their contemporaries in towns owing to the custom of paying fees i.n kind - turf, butter, eggs, etc. being in lieu of ten or in part payment thereof. Their social standing ranked high with the parents of the pupils who looked upon them - with good reason - as men ot learning capable of counsel and advice in many matters besides schooling.

The introduction of a State system of primary instruction in 1831 brought about the gradual disappearance of the Hedge Schools. In so far as Ballymore Parish is concerned we may take it for granted that schools appearing in the Report of 1826 and described as "held in a barn• were of that type though no information ie now available that would definitely class them as such.

It is a strange fact that Hedge Sch ools were from the 18th century onwards mostly against teaching in the native tongue. a policy due to the fact that English gave their pupils better advantages and a chance of getting on in the •orld.

- I.Sb,

PARISH SCHOOLS

in 1824.

Tanderagee Male and Female School, 22nd November , 1824, bad 109 male and 101 female children on roll of whom 57 boys and 41 girls were present at inspection on 22nd November , 1824,

Acton School, 28 male and 20 female pupils, 5 boys and l gir l present at inspection on 15th November, 1824 .

Children employed in field work when visited.

Cor lust School, 29 Male and 15 female , Present at inspection 23rd November, 1824 , 7 boys and l girl.

Above tbree schools were worked in connection with

the Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in Ireland and a school is shown in Derryallen in the same year ( p.215) under same Society.

Second Report on Education, pp,138-139 1 published

1826

PARISH SCHOOLS in 1826 .

tract from second Report ot ~· cation Enquiry.).. \

Number of pupil s in att

Name of

Jamee Gracey ( Prot E. Church)

£40

Tanderagee Ballymore.

Jamee Fariss (R.e) about £30

good, .£60 bu tba expense st. John's r rented at 5

Derryallen

John Cuthbert Eliza Fi Fitzhenry (Prat. E.Churcb)

about f.50. abt,.!.42 .15.

very bandsom £800

annum.

11itb Societiea.

J.!aeter•e h ou rented at l C good, cost t

Patrick McConnell (Prat. E.chureb.)

about £60.

Cargins

Robert Moore (Pr ot .E . Cb'llrcb)

f.5.to£8.

Isaac McCutcheon

about !.10.

Built for e 11>reacbing ho

A master wanted

not stated.

Patrick Conroy (R.C.)

about t.15.

a good achoo lately r ep-1 nubeor ipt.i on held in a ba

about £20.

held in 11 bi

Mullaglass..a

1

lzo

the St. John family

read; A.v. read;

ly.

~er

lo••

A.v.

13

6

31

18

none,

97

13

40

,5

Kildare-place read; A,. V • Soc. The master receives an annl.

•p.a.

12

16

••

2

Ii ,

• 1:

10

from Lord Mandeville ~n'f.a~:y · 11. built &eh. ho . none. r•ad~_; A.v.

Tbe sch.bse. built read. by subscription, I

A.v•

and kept it repair

( Pr ot .E. Church

Terryhooga n r:~~t~;:~~urc b)

••

sallery of .tii?i5.

Mistress

Tanderagee Ballymore

Clare

.,

the

=~!ft!~rea read or not

;

lnBwi.a.• r,

Cortust

ftn c~ Assistance b)

hllooll'c',~;::u.:.ro:.:h--,.:.Pr:...e.;.s-'i.,~t;, .'!.c,-i~:.:e"°r=ib'.-"C-.

- ~1-,!.._ •·~,'-ri ~~c~~n~:~u~~8•

town land

Ballymore Parish Tanderagee Ballymore.

ssionera of Ir1e,h

-

21

7

11 ~·

by Lady Mandeville.

Kildare-place Soc. read,~ 1i.v The maeter cecelvee

Col. Grahaman. trfo~.. \ •

lo• • •1

12

35

1a

39 bo

-

•o

27

13

35 ;!5

-

.. . . ~

Rd botb v.

read: A,V .

-i-

Tanderagee

Tanderagee

Ballyseheilbeg

-Sarah Cannon ( Prot .E. Chur o b ) Rev.Robt.

Hawthorne.

~~~~:~!~~ .

llereditb. Conroy (R.C.)

Tanioke

Poyntzpass

I

Poyntzpass

Acton Ballynaleck: Poyntzpass

Poyntzpass

o1t. --~ , ~

Tyrone a D1tob.ee.

William Ellis ( Pr ot .E. Gb.urcb. )

£10.

t.120. lle.Gd.

to

Rented at t

r •·

6

6

-

7

5

None.

Read; .A.V.

Private hou at 20 gne .

ented IM•

22

17

-

-

9

non•.

Road;

16

-

8

10

none.

reed; A.V .

50

-

5

!

20

none

read; A.V.

10

16

17

15

31 25

none ..

11

24

8

12

20

none.

read; v.not etated. reed; A.v.

12

7

-

Kildare place

read; A..,V.

6

-

-

20

10

none.

~sad bqtb. v.

6

N

14

10

nono .

r eed; A.11'.

-

3

4

ncne.

r~d; .A..v .

6

15

The ecbool hae

~•'Id; ·A.4,.v.

£129.3e.6d. £4 or r..s.

he ld 1n a b

about £12.

meeting ho1

elong

Kl•ra:

a b out

1ng t o the t.20.

Rent ed at .l

James Whigham (a seceder) uo.

Thomas Salmon ( Prot .E. Cb.ur cb.)

David McConnel (R.C.)

a bout £30.

r ented at 5

about £8.

James McKeever

L7

or £B.

good; £.60 first b u il Manor of A( held in a

a b out £16.

rented at

about i.S.17 e

small

u2.

thatched h1

(R.C.) Thomas McCreesh (R.C.) Jane Shaw E. Church).

John Jackson (Presbyterian )

A.v.

11 Iaken rrorn ft.C. retqrfu_

.2

..

SoJloll

co. at \be

.., en .

cot1. ,t .15 .

• •• X 6

3 28

11

,,

Society.

buil t by subscription

,,.

,1 .J

SCHOOLS IN THE PARISH 1837 , Minutes of Evidence .

Newplan of Educatio n in Ireland, Part I I

The Rev. Leonar d Roblnson in examinat ion - then per petual Curate of Kilc luny .

"Sinc e the first of Jan. I have visited 154 Scriptur e scbools in County Armagh containin g on their r olls 8 , 394 protesta nts a nd 3 , 073 Roman Catholic s. To those I would observe must be added sixteen schools which are supported

by Lord Ma ndeville containin g an attendanc e of 1,629 children .

Tnere was an objectio n by Lord Mandevi lle•s Mo ral Agent to my exami n ing the schools in or der to distingu ish what ttte numbers of Protesta nts and Roman Catholic s in attendan ce were " . See p . 1077.

From the evidence it appeared that a Moral Agent was a person who had char g e of the poor on the estate , superint ending the echools establi shed for the educatio n of the poorer tenantry and dist ri buting blankets and clothing to the poor sometimes free and sometimes on reduced terms . He was dle ti nct from the Land Agent.

The t he n Moral Agent f or Lord Mandevil le was Mr , Porter .

He had at his disposal from Lord and Lady Mandevill e upwards of £1,000 per yea r for schools and £567 was devoted to salaries and procurin g material s for work in Femal e Schools .

Fr om the same source we learn that 11 wi thin the last year Lord Mandevill e had built at an expense of £500 that furnishe d accommodation for males and females ard also for i nfants and at that moment ( 19 June, 1837) had a school i n progress of See p ,1078 , erec t ion that would cost about £700," Robinson was asked whether the National System Tlhen Mr of Educatio n in Co . Ar magh bad succeeded as well as tbe Scr ip tural School System in uniting children of differen t denominat ions he stated that he "was prepared to show tba Committe e that t be Scriptur e Schools of the county had :occeedad to a very great" ext~l'lt. in uniting the children of 0• d ifferent creeds in educ ation, but that he was also Prepared to show that the National Schools bad signally failed He had arrived at those views from an ins pec tio In doing so.•

of the Na tio nal Sch ool s of the Dio ces e of Armagh - See p . 107 9.

Ge ner al cha rac ter of Na tion al Sch ool eith er exc lus ive ly Pro tes tan t or exc lus s in the cou nty ive ly Roman cat hol ic, P• 108 0.

Lis ts of Sch ool s on Chu rch, Cha pel or gro und or con nec ted wit h any hou se of Div Me etin g hou s e ine Wo rshi p or wit h any Re lig iou s Est abl ish me nt, s ee p,1 414 .

Bal lym ore Par ish .

Poy ntz pas s Sch ool on Cha pel Gro und .

I '7 I

Notes on the various Manors whose lands formed part of the Parish of Ba llymore in 1623 .

I.

Man or of Acton . I ~-

II .

Manor of Ba lly more, \ ~ ·

III .

Manor of Clar e.

l'f &;,

IV.

Manor of Dr urnbanagh.ar.

v.

Lands of Moyry Castle .

VI.

er heny .

Lands of Munterheny

VI L

Lands of Tamnavalton by then incorporated with Clare

VIII ,

Manor of Te emor e .

GRANTS TO CHARLES POYNTZ . to Char lee Poyntz .

Grant Brenoge, one bb. stray, two-thirds Kistray

bb .

200 acres . and a ~~~;:d Manor

of Brennoge w1 th 100 acr es 1n demesne

30 November 8 James I , 16 10 .

Carew's s Report. 1611 Lieutenant Charles Poyntz, 200 acres as servitor; has pr ovided timber and materiale for buildings.

Grant to Charles Poyntz 1 Esq. Ballinegree

Orior Barony.

alias Li Lisnegree 120 acres .

17 May 13 James I , 1615 .

King's letter for sur render and regrant of lands to Cb.arles Poyntz , gent .

1Ll.uly 1 14 James I , 1616 ,

s . n a r '1619 P y nSurvey Upon tb.is Lieut. Poyns hath 200 acres called CUrr1ator , t . :•re 1e a bawne of BO feet square, the lower part whereof 1s stone and clay with a house in it , but he not liking the 8 seat hatb. begun a bawne of 100 feet square wit.b. three flankers •h a large house, all of wh1ctl shall be of brick and lyme, 10 b there 1 8 now 1n the place with workmen labouring v ery

163 -2-

1ard, and is undertaken to be finished by August.

Gra Charles n t Poyntz t o 1 gent.

1,, 11anor of Brewnoge alias Brenock.

Brewnoge .

Mullockbrenock eno ck Brocarnande h Larkine Brockermor e rn, hi 11 of Br enock ½ of Goriotor I of Lisray ~of Tollywarick and Lisray Ballynegreth als . Lisnegreth or Ballynegree or Lisnegree iollynegreth · Glassdromenine ½ of Corietor

Reaghan als Ballereth Garveth Lisneferin

Lisloghtie and Lataninath Tullinecross als Ballytullynecross Towernegrath · Lissenedder Lugnecallig Knockbegg Corcrum als Carcrum Ughtnecnedd ie Knocknecarnavan

Tollinaseotkenne

als

carronure or Cornearagh

Carrownare Liswolvie Curfubball Theh ill of Correnare or Corneagh Rathconwell als Rathconvale a le Ballynebrackh Resranny Marbethoullan Dr 8 hill of Bracklagh als Ballynebracky f Dromenesooghals Dromnesoagh als Drommenefouth ou

Bracklagh

Corren

The Cr field of Dromennesough Crevaghmore als Crewmore

field of Crevaghmore i~~1ytullin als Tollil1nn C)onsbarrow 1,1Sli•dock and Cullindretb ightarraghan als Antbytarras rarmagh Kilcronan

JnthUrennaleck Jnthyhennesceth ;or!astoneth sbanmollagb. curlugganet b. ea,an o Kel l1g ![llbarr is Ednegarvan 1nocknervill Tb• field of Aghtarragban Ji of Nederny als Nedernagb. creevagb one sessiagh conhin!ng 120 acres, The lands to be tb.e Manor of Acton with 500 acree in demesne , etc. "The tenants to build tb.eir o.ouses togetber and near the chief mansion and not scattered and detacbed, lo llave a musquet or ca11ver and a nand weapon U arm two un.

I 6 S°.

MUSTER ROLL 1630.

Poyntes, Kn1ght 1 has Br1ttisb. tenants 51 r Charles residing on b.is native lands, being 500 acres, his ~and armes 1 as followeth. -

John Browne, s . only Walter Scot, S. only Tb.omas Wilson, s . only William Wi lson, s. only John steward, Pike only James Steward, Pike only William Irwin, Calliver only Christopher Irwin s. onl y Archball Ellot, s. only Richard Browne, S. only Owen Powell, sword only John Smyth, sword only J ohn Irwin ) John Thomson ) Wi lliam Dod ) John Irwin, younger ) Hobert Steavensonne ) James Anderson · ) Roger Wi lkinsonne ) Robert Fryer ) John Ricb.ardson ) Archbald Ricb.ardson ) Christopher Wilson ) John Taylor ) Richard Cooke ) George Vincent ) William Ellot ) Roger Williamson )

No armes

t!. -z Grant

to Sir Oliv ar St John the Cas tle and town of Ton regi e 0.tho I erwi se Ball ymo re.

• Mul lagh bedy , one bb.

Tull agh- Hug h • Dar row gallo n Lisb ane two bb. carg ines Mul lagh glas se one bb.

Tawner·eogh Taw nate e Coro nagh t Cree nagh begg one -thi rd bb.

Lisr ay

In all 1500 acre s.

Crea ted Manor of Ball ymo re wi t.h 600 acre s dese mne · and cou rt baro n.

28th Dece mba r, 8 James I• 109/ 1610

Care w's Rep ort 1611 .

Sir Oliv er St. John , Knig ht, 1,50 0 acre s as serv itor , is making prep arat ion for buil ding .

y Oliv er st. John gran ted lice nce to hold a Thursda Joh n's Day market. and a yea rly fair at Tanr egee on st. said day fall s and the two follo win g days unle ss when t.he on Sat. urda y or Sund ay, then fair to· commence on the 6 May 10 Jamee I, 1612 , foll owi ng Monday.

st. John surr end ers fair and market. at Ton rege e.

29 Octo ber 10 Jam es ·1 , 1612 ,

· power of Attorn ey from Sir Oliver St. Mauri ce ta John t ith, gent, empow ering him to perfec above surren der, ~ octabe r 10 James I, 1612.

Grant to Sir Olive r St, John of a Wednesday Market Market and a yearl y fair at Tonreg ee -- on the feat day of \llo Nat1v i ty of St• John the Bapti st and the ho days follow ing unles s when the said feast happen s on Saturd ay or Sunda y, then fair to commence Monday, 30 Januar y 10 James I, 1612-1 5,

Licen ce to Olive r St. John, Knt. and Richar d Athert on of Dublin City, gent , to keep tavern and sell wine and aqua vitae in the Manor of Ballym ore otherw ise Tonrog ee in Orler baron y in Armagh Co, and in all other places in the barony excep t the lands of the Archb ishop of Armagh paying one-fi fth part of the moiety of the licenc e of wines and Ille same of aqua vitae to Samue l Smith and Georg e-Rich ards, usigne es of the Right Honbl e, James, Lord Hay, and Sir Henry Yelve rton, paten tees for those licenc es .

4 Octob er 14 James I, 1616.

Licen ce to Mauri ce Smith , gent, to hold a fair at Tonregee in Armag h ea. on 25 Octobe r and two follow ing . days unles s said day occurs on Saturd ay or Sunday , in which case fair t; be held fallow ing Monday • 3 Octobe r 14 James · I, 1616,

1619, r's P y n n a•survey•,

sir oliver St. John, Knight, hath 15.00 acres called

for building there cannot. be mor e spoken then Ballymore ,Mt hat h been formerly by Sir Josias. Bodly, only the town , increased in buildings, being all i nhabited by English 1 There are 9 Irish families in the town whic h tenants , om• to t he church and who have ·taken the ·oath of supremacy.

Grant. from the King ·to Oliver St, John, Knight Grandison of Limerick,

Viscount

The castle and Manor of Bally more.

The lands of Tonaregee allae Ballymors ( 1 bb.) containing t he hamlets or parcel of lands called Cor g reagh Aghinlogh Corglesse Uslarten cavanballamore Disert Sheanne Clonlick Brackagowencar Killevarre Corglare Auchyc osecaple also the lands of Mullaghhedie containing. tb.e lands. of

alias Mullaghbeddie l bb,'

Brackagb.

Shanbrackagh Cornsynagh Lisdrsam Clone lack Corin Aughmagarvin K1llnevargey

Shanagarvey

Attymorrchybrick

Uacourty

boeDoro gngal lyn alias Dorow allen conta ining bally of the b11ll1 f \ne 1ande "

1)SO

corgr ogan Corn esilla gh Tequ induf f e Brou ghne fourr e Lurg eshan ville Mulla ughsk e ag h Knoc klean Brag hahle gh cargu aghc orry Kilm allog h Roaneboy Tawn ahirk Eden ticon oche r corm ackva gh l Knocknanave11 Lurg nefar ney Eden tyris se Tawnacowsher The balli boe of Tulla ghug h conta ining

Corra gbne bevie Cooln enean Corne muck le Morra gb Broug hdona chy Brack negra ny Augh nepl ockoc k Anag hvada h Domone llone lagb The balli boe of cargu is conta ining

Shanbrackagh Clone cosn Lurga more Sham acarr ick Derry inger ny Murragh Carg eighc alleg lass Agho lisse Tawn more Knoc kfeld y Corg ary Clone narny Clonk aha Clons puble

5 ..

Tanaghbrenagh Deraughdoraugh Shanemullagh Corgan Corhighshaune The balliboe of Mullaghglasse containing the lands of Clanteer eboy Braghgownegan Mullaghlasseowtr agh Carnerappoll Mullan Edermeine Killnema The balli boe of Li Liebanecontaining the lands of Cl a nanagh Car genet tenan Mu llaghli sbane Re skelane Kno ckf adagh Knockonagh Knockvey Knocknecard Knocknegelpe Carnefragh Knocknemengan The balliboe of Tawnadee alias Tawnadee containing Cargroighet.

Tawnaghty Lurgaghtawnak Lurgaghcrannat.

Lurgaghnaeherna gh The balliboe of Tawnaghneogh containing the lands of Lurganenagh Knocknecardee Knocknegawishe Lurgaghneknock

Meanagh Lurganowtra part. of Lurgacorcooahie

72 -6-

Tile balli boe of Coron agh conta ini,ig lands of Lurg agh Kede nshar ragh Lisco ranag h

Roav ecoro nagh

The balli boe of Creev aghbe gg conta ining tbe lands of Knoc kduff e Cor Cornmedmund Mulla ghnee reevi e

Carr Carri ckned romon

part of Clonc arr

The lands of Lisra y alias Liera th conta ining one-t hird bb.

Tully wirro gg Shan icarg ie - Liara th The lands of Nunchenagb alias Vuchenagh, two-t hirds bb.

L1str inagh alias Liedr inagh ½ bb.

Tulle harpe e, 2 bb.

Corne shoga gh 1 bb.

Bally mekr annig an 1 bb.

Lisn ely, ¼ bb.

All in baron y of Orier , Knoc kbally br1an boy alias Bally knock , one bb. in or near Clanc an, Crea ted Manor of Bally more witb power to empark 1000

&crea in free warre n, . court s. etc. also licen ce to llold a fair at Tonra ge~ alias Bally more on 25th Octob er for ever.

,!!ih Febru ary 19 Jamee 1 1 1621,

'H.

J)eed wtu,reby Oliver Viscount · Grandison, granted to Henry wra Baron Culmore Edward

~gie~, Kt., Master of the Rolls Blayney, Sir Francis 1 Thomas Rotherham Kt. • Sir Fulke Conway, Knight, Brayton, Rector or the Nathaniel thand • i ' Tonnellatly of h sir e county or Armagh, tb.e land or the n ebarc

2 Tullyhappi es, 2 bb.

cornesb.ogag b., 1 bb.

BallymcKra ngan l bb.

Lisnely t bb.

500 acres ,ball direct etc.

to b.old to sucb. uses as tb.e aaid Viacount

1 August, 19 James I 1 1621

Inquisition taken January, 1621.

"The said Lord Viscounta Grandison of Lymericke b.atb. erected upon t b.e said towne and land a called Ballymore al• Tonregee, one faire stronge castle and bawne of lyme and stone a town thereunto adjoining, consisting of 35 Englisb.-lyk e houses and a parke enclosed with a pale or 8 foote in height, upon conteyninge 300 acres of lande; and also one water mylle [mill] runeing upon the south side of Ballymore• • !be river Cowsher [Cusher]

SeeHill's "Plantation ~6 Ulster•, page 570.

Muster Ardmagh

•

ROLL 1630 Barony de Orier

ThO Lord Viscount Grandison has Brittish tenants dwelling on servitors lands being 1500 acres, their names and armes ~

James Pringle, S . and Snap.

John Layfeild, s. and Musk, Peter Welsh, s . only Richard Pearson, s. and Snap.

Henry Duffeild, s. only Charles Watkin, ) George Copeland ) Nicholas '//ray ) Phillip Cassment ) John Ralf ) Ralph Steward ) Richard Able ) Richard Barnet ) Robert Pringle ) No armes Francis Watkin l, Godfrey Watkin ~ s teaphen Booth ) Jamee Pringle l Nicholas Wray l Vi n e en Leigh igb ) Charles Watkin l

MUSTER ROLL 1630, Ardma gh - Barony de O Nealla nd.

Lord Grand ison. Under taker of 1000 acres. Toa names of his men and armes as followt-tli:,

~

Rober t Balme r , Pike only.

Thoma s Hall, s. only Georg e Roger e s. and Call.

Roger Birch all, S . only Mathew Duke, s. and Call, John Willia ms, s . and Call, Rober t Ingled ue, Snap. only, Thoma s Wilso n, S , and Snap, Thoma e Barrow es, S , only Ralph Jackso n, sw. only .

Melch eeedac k Murtea nt , s. only Thoma e Warrin er ) Rober t Tynsly ) Humph rey Wisedome ) Willia m Lambe rt ) Edwar d Calve rt ) Calve et? ) Jamee Chamb ers ) John Dale ) Rober t Atkins on ) John Rogar e )) John Gobbe t No armee, Rober t Calve rt )) catvae t?

Lance lot Hodgso n ) Alexa nder Brown • )) Willia m Atkins on Christ opher Seggs ~ John Ward Morri ce Willia ms ~ John Robins on Georg e stock dal John Mered ath

S

l

176

I 11.

Manor OR of CLARE.

Q1 the ~oth November, 1610, King James I granted

1,000 acres 1n Orior Barony to Francis Cooke Esq. 1ands consisted of , Tawnamore (.1) Ballyclare ( 1) oromeneure ( 1)

Ballymoydagb. ( 1) Cloghoge ( 1)

The

Ballysheales (2) Jloyculleneigb.tra ( 1½)

f he property was created tb.e Manor of Clare and tb.e grantee ~ • • given a licence to hold a Saturday Market and one yearly fair at Ballyclare .

The owner, b.owever, shortly afterwards sold to Sir Jobn Bouc b.ier, Knigb.t , (grante~ of the nearby Manor of Tamnavalton) wb.o died in 1613 1 owning both manors, being succeeded in tb.e combined properties by bis brother Henry, Ear 1 of Bath Lord Bath died in August , 1654 2 and by deed perfected before his death conveyed the two manors to his widow, Rachel , Countess of Bath, wb.o died in 1680 leaving the two manors to her brother, Si r Henry Fane, third son of ber father , Francis Fane, Earl of Westmoreland .

Sir Henry Fane died in 1705 leaving an only son Cb.arles Fane wb.o was created Viscount Fane in 1718 and died 1744 leaving issue 1. Cb.arles, 2nd Viscount Fane , wb.o died without iesue

in 1766 .

2. Dorothy who md. in 1740, Jobn, Earl of Sandwich.

3 . Mary , wb.o married in 1735, Jerome, Count de Salis.

At the death of charles Fane, second Viscount Fane, tb.e two manors became the property of bis sisters, one of wb.om inb.eri ted Clare, and the other Tamnavalton.

1 Chancery Inquisition Co. Arm. No . 32 Cb.as . I . take

131~;~:·

2 Chancery Inquisition, co. Arm, , taken 24 Marcb., 1661-62.

JOHN Bouchier Grant to

J o hn Bouchier

Esq.

one bb .

Ballibrackagh (otherwise unchenagb.) one b b.

Ballylisky

Mullavillie ½bb . one bb.

Balliknock Tawnnavaltiny one bb.

Cornescribe one bb.

Cabie , Cloncoose -S bb. cor treen "I\ bil .

1000

a cr e s.

Manor of Tawnavaltiny witb. 300 acres in demesne and court baron 30 November 8

James I, 1610 .

Sir Job.n Bouchier knight providing material for building. 1000 •?res as servitor, is Carew's Report, 1611.

Grant to Franc is Cooke., Esg. Tawnamore,

Balliclare

one bb.

Dromeneeure a Ballymoydagh

Claghoge • Ballysheales, two bb.

1000 acres.

f•ated Manor of Balliclare

with 500 acres and court baron • •~~t £8 fr om Easter .1614.

Licence •to b.old Saturday market s, tair on eve, day and morrow of s.s .. Philip and Jacob at 11 Balliclare at rent of j/8 Irish. ~vember a James

I, 1610.

Capt ain Francis Cooke, 1000 acres as servitor.

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Henry Bouchier Esq. hath 2000 acres called Claire. n this proportion there ie a bawne of lyme and stons Upon 100 f eet 1n length and 80 feet in breadth and 14 b• t high w1 th two flankers. There is now in building a roe d stone house which is fully two stories high and a ~:bar of workmen labouring "for the s peedy finishing iner eof • Pynnar 8 •survey, 1619

I

180 MUSTER ROLL 1630.

Ardmagb.

Sir Henry

Barony de Or ier,

Booce r, b.is servit or• lands being 2000 acres, The name e of bis men and ar mes.

Ensign e Ricb.ard Ball, s . only Willia m Greer e, S, only Willia m Carle l, s. only Henry Hunte r, S, only John Glendo ny ) Rober t Robine on, ) Henry Hunte r, younge r, ) Olive r Kenni ttee ) No armos, John Halliw ood ) Tb.omas Ball )

l'irf.

The Man ors of Clar e and Tam nave lton 1n 1722 .

Deed ot 26 May 1722 .

Reg1 stero d 18 July , 1722 •

Jerom e, Coun t de Sal1 s and h1s w1te daug hter of Char les Lord V1s coun t Fane dece as' Mary last visc ount Fan e, dece ased , and Susa n ei,;d athe r of the Y V1ac ount ess oowager Fane , w1dow of Cha rles Lord , Geor ge Wilson Simon Lun nand William Lunn Dub lin n,Fane Esqu 1res , actin g as trus tees .

To Jame s Daw son ot Dub lin, Esq. , An und1 v1de d half of unch ena and t b.e town land a of Ball yl1s k Ball yeb. 1elb eg Ball ysh1 elmo re Ball ykno cke Cloghoge Corn escr iebe let to Jobn True man Edward Ove rend Thoe. Irw1 n Ralph Str 1nge r Ralph Mel r1ck John Harf ord Jona than Ben1 son Rich ard Tro tter Ben. McC lella nd Hugh McS pade n Henry Hard en Thomas Snow den Dan. Mccu en Ralph Rob 1nso n William Snowdon den

John G1bson Jame s Adams John McCraw John Str1 nger Cormick Kell y John Wright Thoe . Pedl ow Wm. Gibs on Nath . McC lella nd John llcllo otne y John Odge rs 11 Maxwell William Exo rs of the Brac kley s Rob ert McCann

Thomas Cam pbell Dan Drew

La. Marl ey John over end Will iam Harf ord John Ben1 son Wm. Snowdon Jame s Mccoen Alex . llcC lella nd.

John Bran d John Snowden.

Pat. Manesh Jame s McCutching n bson Will iam Gibso Mer edith Workman

who pay £442 18, 7i year ly, and intur Also Cla re, Corn eacr eibe , cord ra1n and Mullerson 13,4 , £14, Hend d b.alr of Corn escr eibe Davi undivided 11•o !arm s 1n Cor nese reib eof Job.n Montgomery let at £44 Farm s 1n Cord rain of Jame s Read e aet a\ ,t14 ;13, 4, £15, and Mag ill £87, 10, William Glen n 1.5 , Rob ert Ew art

;lld

Farm • in Cla rean d Mul lintu r, held l>y heir s of Dani el Madden £13 ,11, and Jame s McC lella nd t6,6 ,4t,

I 'ol

MANOR or Drumbanagher

The lands comprising th to Sir Garrett Moor e above manor were granted by the undernoted n:~e!n: ·• P . c. , 2 2nd July, 1611, Kilemodagb. als Kilnebodagb.

Demon Drombancher Lescomman of

Kilry Knockduff e als Kilmanaghan Ballineseorsagh Gavan Icallon

By tb.e above patent the property became the Manor Knockduff •

Garrett Moore, aboveJ was created Viscount Moore in 1621-22, and, dying in 1627, left an elder son , Charles , 2nd Viscount Moore , whose descendants are now represented by tb.e Earls of Drogheda; and a fourth son, Arthur Moore of Drumbanagher , who died 9 April , 1635, whose issue possessed Drumbanagb.er down to the failure of tb.e Newry Bank in 1816, by which disaster Jobn Moore , the then owner, a partner in the ill-fated bank, became responsible for a large sum of money ..

This resulted in the sale of the property to the Close family wb.o about the same time acquired the Acton estate .

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Drumbanagher The lands comprising the Manor of Drumbanagher were granted in 161 0 to Sir Garrett Moore, created Baron Moore in 1616 • . Four years lat.er he became Viscount of Mellifont Moore of Drogheda . His eldest son, Sir Edward Moore MP Co. Armagh) died without issue as did the Charlemont for Charles, the third son, became se cond so7: Sir Thomas Moore the 2nd Viscount Moore and his eon Henry wa s created Earl of nrogheda in 1661 . Sir James Moore of Ardee , the fourth son of Sir Garrett, also died without male iseue as did the six t h son Col . Francis Moore. The fifth son Arthur Moore inherited Drumbanagher and died 9th April, 1635, leaving a son: John of Drumbanagher, who died 1680 1 whose son, John, of Drumbanagher , ( born 1675, died 1752) was the father of John of Drumbanagher, He diod in . 1809, leaving a son John of Drumbanagher born 1726. ( born 1756) who died at Dromatine May 1834 without issue and so ended the Moore line of Drumbanagher in the male side.

The Close family, their successors, descend from a Richard Close of Easby, near Richmond, in Yorkshire, who held .a command in the army . despatched t,o Ireland by Charles I in 1640.

He acquired property in County Monaghan and at Lisburn, co .

Antrim.

Hie grandeon, the Rev. Charles Close (born 1683) married Catherine Butler of Ringhaddy , Co.Down, daughter of Capt.

James Butler by his wife Dame Margaret Maxwell, widow of Si r Co. Antrim daughter .., Robert Maxwell , Baronet, of Ballycastle heiree s of Henry Maxwell of Elm Park, Co. Armagh. He died leaving a son and heir, Maxwell Close, who succeeded his grandmother , Lady Maxwell, in possession of Elm Park and other lands s ettled upon him and who married in 1748, Mary, elde et daughter of Capt. Robert Maxwell of Fellows Hall, Co. Ar magh , brother of John Maxwell, 1st Lo.rd Farnham and was succeed ed by his eldeet son, the Rev. Samuel.

The Rev . samuel Close of Elm Park, Co._Armagh, born 1749 , died 1817 (his sister Grace born 1750, married in 1767 the Rev. st . John Blacker, to which family Elm Park later passed) married 1782 Deborah, daughter of ttu, Rev. Arthur de Robill ard Champagne Dean of clonmacnoise (and grand-daughter or Lady Jane Forbes dau. of Arthur, Earl of Granard) by whom he had an eldest eon, Col. Maxwell Close who eeems to have been the first Close or Drumbanagher .

Col. Maxwell Close, born 1783 , died 1867, marr-ied Eliz abeth Brownlow , sister of the let Lord Lurgan, by whom he had an eldest son, Maxwell Charles.

-2Maxwell Charles Close of Drumbanagher, M.A., J,P,, and D,L, 81 gb sh:ri~~ 5 of ~ountt/rJmagh 1854,. M,P, Co , Armagh 1857-1864 and 187 • orn une • 1827, married 23 November, 1852,

Catherine Deborah Agnes, dau, of Henry Samuel Close of Newtown park, co. Dublin, by whom he had issue an eldest son Maxwell Archibald Major Maxwell Archibald Close, born 5 October, 1853, ,arried 2nd June, 1891, Lady Muriel Albany Stuart, Eldest dau.

of the Earl of Castlestuart, by whom he hail an eldest son Maxwell Stuart•

capt. Maxwell Stuart Close of Drumbanagher , born let Feb. 1892 married Anna Dorothea Alexander Lowry Cramer Roberts, dau. of Marmaduke William Coghill Cramber Roberts of Sallymount, Co, Kildare, and his wife Anna Graves Fetherstonhaugh Lowry , dau, of John Fetherstonhaugh Lowry of Belmore House, Co , West meatb., and Doraville , Co , Tyrone, He died leaving issue one son and 110 daughters .

Major-General Sir Barry Close (born 1756, created a Baronet 1812, died without issue 1813), a very distinguished officer in the Honble. the East India company• s Service, was of this family also, being the second son of Maxwell Close of Elm Park, co . Armagh, by b.is wife, Mary, dau. of Capt. Robert Maxwell of Fellows Hall, Co. Armagh, Drumbanagher House, a fine mansion in the Italian style, ••s bJl.ilt about 1830 at a cost of £80,000,

South ~ ~o..-f Armagh R - ~ Rambler's ('.R,;.l,, ,,...,,:,.,,X1,. club ", ,I".~) minute May 9th 193 t-f\"-'{

IIH, CAPTAIN Anthony

Smith

£!.!1't to Captain Anthony Smith.

Towards the keep and maintenance 0 f ·the king's fort and castle at Moyry

carr Carrickbradagh Drumnad Oghillowtragh Oghill-Itragh Dromenty And a parcel of Feede ( Lands came to the Crown through the forfeHure of Sir ~hie O Hanlon) .

To hold f ·or 21 years if he live so long.

15th June 1 1600.

C.P.R.

Carew's Report 1611.

Castle, A pretty castle upon the park of The Moyre [Moyry] lloyry built in tile time of the late Earl of Devonshire's government hare, at tb.e Queen'ss charge, where Captain Anthony Smith is constable and has a ware of 12 men, Has drawn some families of British to dwell upon tile lands thereto adjoining, wllich is a good relief to passengers between Dundalke and the Newry.

187

The JCNESBOROUGH or Moyry

CASTLE townlands.

Poll tax 1660.

Carrickbrad agh

18 Irish.

Hearth MoneyRolls 1664. carri ckbradagh Patrick McEnally Owen o Haverty

Henry llurpby Art llcKeon

llanus Murphy

Foghilotrug h Anthony Murphy Patrick McEaowne

Pierce McCramir Shane lie Craner

Tirlogh Bane McGally

Foghiltragh : ldmond Duffe McMurphy

Rory O Brennan

Edencappagh : Christophe r Murphy

Patrick Murphy

Donna 11 11cGar ry

Shane O Hanratty Owen McArt

Pat . Bane McMurphy

Dromintee Donough McMurphy William Oge o Hanratty

THE

MOYRY

CASTLE.

The Moyry Castle was b . lt in 1601 by Lord Mountjo y to secure the famous Pass ui had great difficu lty in f or 1Gap, as the English always often been defeate d tb.eref' c ng a way through and had hills were thickly wooded n;nd At one time the surroun ding ,as the passage was very narrow , small numbers of m; consid erable forces at bay~ were often able to keep In the previou s year ' h owever, Mountjo y had defeate d O'Neil l in two battl his victori es decided to clear away some o;"than ~- fbollowi ng build a little keep e 1m er a~d f t a bawn and within d This was enclose ?r tower O stone.

1s still one of the chief landmar ks of that area and' a familia r sight to people travell ing by train between Goraghw ood and Dundalk .

When built the fort or castle ·•as equippe d with certain lands and Captain Anthony Smi th was given a lease on the 15th June, 1606, for 21 years of the underno ted Carr ickbrad agb.

Drumnad Oghi 11 Otra

Ogh111 Itra Domenty

and a parcel of Feede situate night to the N • and w. part of the mounta in of Feede, which lands were bounded by the "Four mile water until to and by the top of the mo11ntain of Fe ede until the river Kilnesa gart n1gb. to the castle of Moyry• .

Anthon y Smith was Constab le of Moyry and died 1 August , 1637 . He held two other townlan ds in Co. Louth, in all seven tonnlan ds , the whole accordi ng to a Chance ry Inquis ition of 1623 forming part of the parish of Ballym ore A more detaile d account aurv1ve s in an Award of 31 May, 161' Wherei n it is stated that the lands of lloyry Fort called Dromad , The Feed and Kilnasa gart, formerl y laid off to Moyry Castle , repu~te d to be part of Orior Barony 1n Armagh County and then in possess ion of Sir Oghie O'Hanlo n, had been c laimed by Lord Moore as part of County Louth. It was decide d tt,.e.t the land• should be equally divided , one half to Moyry Castle , end the other half to Lord Moore, who was require d to give a lease at £40 yearly to Captain Anthony then consta ble of the Fort, Smith

The bounds were set out as "beginning at the f ord where th e bridge is now over the river, in the trade way from Newr y to Dund alk, oallad the Four Mile water, about tw o st on es aa st of the river to a heap of stones oallad and so in a straight li ne through a corner of Firrbreage a wood to a rocky mountain called the Fadd, to the height of t his mountain Which seemth like a saddle from Firrbreage .

All the other lands allotted to the castle not to be challe nged by Lord Moore . " The lands challenged by Lord Moore seem to have been the townlands of Carrickkenanash als Plastere and Aghin skreagh, both of which ware undoubtedly in co . Louth but evidently then part of Ballymore Parish and attached to the ancient ecclesiastical establiewnent of Kilnasagart .

Following Capt. Anthony Smith's death the lande ·paesed to his grandson, Richard Smith, son of his son Edward Smith, The family held at which date Richard was aged 7 yaare, the lands up until 1661/62, at which time they finally eavarad their intaraet in them by ealling to Thomas Clarke, The lande afterwards passed than actually !.n possession. fortunes of the Jonas• the of to Roth Jones, the founder Jonasborough family of Moneyglass and to the Johnston's. of the kinsman a was who Roth above takes its name from the

Brownlow's of Lurgan and a very astute man of business. He died without issue leaving a large property to his nephew, - Morris, who assume_d tbe name of Jones and was the ancestor

of the family now living in Co, Antrim.

The Smith's eventually settled at Loughadeyne in Co. Down, and there Hanry Smith died loth May, 1649, owner of Leiste , Ballydogherty

Lisnagree Collintragh

leaving a son John Smith, his son and heir, than aged twenty-two ye~rs old and married, and a widow Mary Smith Who had rights of dower out of the above premises, they having been mortgaged to Henry above , by James Fleming and Abraham Dee both of whom bad bean in rebellion in 1641, There ls indeed a deposition made by Henry on June 11, 1642 , relative to events following the outbreak of the Civil War and containing an account of money due him on mortgagee on Lisee and Ballydoghartie and by tbe heirs of Abraham Dee of Dundalk upon the lands of Lisnagree and Cullentragh, the latter townlands forming part of the parish of Ballymor a.

Th8 docum enit contain s a long list of "rebels " amongs t them the fo 1 1 011 ng names of local interes t _ patr ick Moder O Hagan of Lissedo yne, Capt. Edmond Coggy O Hanlon of Tonrege e • , " Ardell Oge O Hanlon patr i ck Oge O Hanlon Murphy of the Moyry Anthony Capt . , John Murphy peter Murphy and_ divers or the Mc Cann• s, includi ng Toole ·Mccann , then residen t at Lurgan .

Despit e the connec tion of the lands of carrick bradag h and Dromen ty witrr Kilnasa gart and the parish or Ballym ore there is a record i n ar Inquisi tion taken at Mountn orris 5th Novemb er 16C6 'that the types of the four towns or Moyry end the towns of Carrick bradagh and Dromen ty were the propert y or the Abbey of Killeav y. If so, it is somewh at strange that they were not retaine d for the use or the rector of that pariah .

A Robert Smith of Moyry, Co. Armagh, married in 1616, Jane Colley , daughte r of Sir Henry Colley of Castle Carbery , Co . Cork (ances tor of the famous Duke of Welling ton) as his second wife , and by wrrom he had an only daughte r Isabell a Sir Henry Smith, wrro married the Rev . William Watson .

Colley as "Survey or of the Queen' s Victual s" was commis sioned on 13trr April, 1563, to comman deer three horsem ills and have them convey ed to Armagh for the use of the garriso n there, a task duly execute d.

Edward Smith, eldest son of Captain Anthony Smith (Const able of the Moyry) married before 1630, Anne West, daught er of Richard West of Ballydu gan, Co . Down, by whom Follow ing tier he had at least two sons, Richard and James, ry, 1638;.

Februa husband • 8 death, and shortly before 12th Mrs. Smith married secondl y Bernard Ward of Castle Ward, Co .

Down, .ancest or of the Viscou nts Bangor .

ny • THE LANDS OF Mu nte rhe

By an Inqu isiti on take n in Aug ust, 1609 , foun d tb.at the Arch bish opArmagh on 12 was it seiz ed of was gb.

Arma of s op the land s of Tire hog gan e Agh lyos e Myn clant

Drom narg ill Usse negl oise Tawnagh McE dmo nd

Sir Oghi e in Orio r Baro ny , whic h land s were then leas ed to tena nts• o•Ha nlon thou gb. •the llunt erb.e ny were tb.e anci ent that by • The conc ludi ng entr y is of inte rest and show ing then the sept of the 0' Hene y' s, from whom the pari sh essio n deri ve~ one of its alte rnat ive name s, had lost poss of thei r anci ent patr imon y.

1 O'Ha nlonb.sd The same docu ment stat es the sept of of s town then been in poss essi on of the six Taw nagh kaag h, Mul logl asse Car rigi neie trag h

Carriginotragh

Lisb oane , The half to•n of Kilt owe The half town of Drom lege,

bish op for thre e hund red ar,d fift y year s, payi ng to the Arch but that eigh t pork s by tb.e year or money in lieu ther eof, a puz zlin g This is t.hos e • 1a,,d s were neve r in tlis hand s•. in adm issio n in view of the fact that we have an entr yer, 1534 , Arch bish op Crom er's Reg istry unde r date 30 Sept emb s whe rby it is c lear that Patr ick Yhea ny, the Prim ate• Cha plai n, was then his tena nt on The land s of llon terh eny Dompnaghgreagh Mul lagh glas s Lyss bayn

Carg yn Netr agh Carg yn Yetr aghe Bay ll Drum nalag h Ister cow e

and but that Eug eniu s O'Ha nlow yn, Capt ain of his nati on, re.t ain ldnd Malachy 0 , Hanl owy n and othe rs of bis bret bern , e ntif f. usur ped the land s agai nst the will of the plaithre tb.e aten Prim ate took 8 seri ous vie• of the matt er and The regi ster doe s~ t 0'Ha nlon • s with exco mmu nica tion. ent dhc loe• how the o• Han lon' s reac ted but it seem s evid

Rol ls James I~ pp.3 74-3 75. l. Cal . Pat ent

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rro111 _the Inquisition of 1609 that they had been able to retain_ all th e la nd s, mentioned in the complaint of 1534 excepting the "towns comprising Munterheny itself - which roct c oupled wi th the entry in the Inquisition suggests O'Hanlon occupation of those lands from at least 1250 at which time the O'Hanlon' s would seem to have been pos;essed of the whole of 0ri or excepting such lands as ware the property of the church and the various monastic houses.

Just when the Heney's or 0'Heney's first became the tenants of the several townlands, that afterwards became known as the territory of Munterheny, cannot now be determined , nor can we with certainty date the foundati on of the ancient church that later became known by that name through its association with the family, a sept who are said to have bean originally herenachs holding directly under ecclesiastical authority.

Some people indeed go so far as to credit them with having been keepers of the so-called "Bell of Be lnaback", and there may be soma foundation for the tradition . At anyrate following it s rediscovery in the early 18th century, the then reputed head of the sept claimed and retained it • From the Archbishop's Rentals of 1620 we learn that the territory of Munter Heyney was then leased to Charles Pointz for 60 years - he to pay £5 herriot fees, build an Englishlike house and find a light man and horse for his Majesty's Service - at a rent of £18.

In 1676 there was a renewal at £36 per year and we find the list as under Derrycargan Moncklena Dromanargoole

Tawnamackan Shanuglasse Ballihalost

The Poyntz family later disappear from the rentals and tile lallds a ear under Francis Lucas, of wb.om later . We ban an acc~~nt of tb.e lands of tb.e territory in Ashe's Surve of the Archbishop's Manor for 1703 but ttie most impor{ant and by rar tb.e most interesting record is preserved in a rental of 1714 whicb. gives tb.a names of the undertenanta and their religions, thus providing a first census f or tb.ose lix townl ands.

The letters c, p and R appended to names indicate respectively church Presbyterian and Roman. e

li1t reads es over

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193,

Ter ryh oga n

sup pos ed to be same as Dor ryge an,

Cb. ief ten ant : Fra nci s Luc as.

Fra nci s Ton er c.

Joh n Bal lan e c.

Fra nci s Hall c.

Joh n Kin g P, Wil liam Cla rke R, Murta McC onw all R, Dan iel o Ffa ran R, Hugb. Ffe ina n R. Tb.OS, Atherwith p .

Jam es And erso n p .

Bry an Ffe ina n R. Ab. alis k als Bel yha lost Chi ef Ten ant: Fra nci s Luc as .

Pat . Pur dy P , Wm. Har vey P, Hugh Mit che ll P , Joh n Har vey P. Dav id Ken ned y P .

Par isb. of T,

Jon n Por ter P, Rob ert Por ter p .

Jam es Por ter p . p, Mit che ll Job.n WilliamHar vey p ,

Dr ome gar gol e.

Chi ef Ten ant: Fra nci s Luc as.

Joh n Boyd P, Jas . Tag gar t c.

Thomas Coh aran p.

Mu ncl int sup pos ed to be same as Monkclone .

Chi ef Ten ant: Fra nci s Luc as, Per cy McCoddan R, Rob ert Rus ke P , Rob ert Ham ilto n P , Dav id Erw in P. Joh n Gilm pre P .

John Ru sse ll P.

-4shan ugla s .

Chie f Tena nt: Fran cis Luca s. · Thom asHu tchin son P ,

Andrew Crot hers e.

John Gord on P.

Town amak en •

Chie f Tena nt: Fran cis Luca s .

John Crot hers p.

Jame s Crot hers P.

Owen carr o R.

MUNTERHENY. 9th Septomber 1633 • Inquisitio n, Armagh, - _ -~cary 1 .lell-ds of the Archbishop ric.

The said Archbishop and his tena t Mounterhey niewithin the Barony of Orior in the territory of are in possession of lh••• lands fo llowing , viz .

Tyrehowan

Dromenargil l

Aghloise Leschengloi se

Minclanit Tawnaghmackenna

and in the said patent mentioned by these names _ Tawnamacken

Derrycooga n

Shanuglas Menclone

Ballyhaglos ke Dromenargoo le

The said lands are now found by the namesfollowing , viz .

TirecooganI one ball1 boe containing Carghinoran , Knockannol an, Aghnaquirke with the bog of Aghnaquirk , Mullaghmor e, Cornegrally , Tawnyglass, Tawnydreoa gh, Corrynure, Carrycarra, Monywhigge rye, Aghnasce1g h, Moneknocki n, and Knocknemair elagb. with tb.e bog.

Annaglesk e one balliboe containing Annaghlesk e , Knockavoe , Logb.ter b.arran, Derrybarran , Barye , Lisdun , Tawneyreybe gg , Agbanereyni e , Killtheman with the waters, Eddanruskie and Timmericbam .

Minclunt

one balliboe containing

Uskerryha rran, Corryclare , Tullymacasy e, Tawnyemalc reevie , Aghnaglaun e, Tawnehallag h, Knockankno ckannoyle, Tawnyamanu sbattenye, Clountavely nee with the woods and waters . on e balliboe containing Drumen argilley Carrickeke enetenhera , Carrickeny gatt, Browagb.kill ye , Knockanaul e Corren Devillish, Correnlurga nagn Corringerna n Knocknybra ttegg Oorrinwoyle , Corrinlougb . and the logh: the Korconye Tourbanye, srannaghmor e about the lough and Loughseirk e

Shaneglish

one balliboe containing

Ussnequoinegga, Carrickeneewoogarragh, Drumbolg, carrick-Igoan, Tullaghwarverory , Lurgacueill, Ussneshaneglish and Monylish, with the turf moor or Lissneshaneglish.

TawnymacKenna, one balliboe containing Knockamoney, Assamoney, cormaccomiskie , MullaghtawnymacKenna, Torenigirragh, Urbullshinnge , Knocknaeglieh, Moneknocknaeglish, Knocknaegl ishmeadow, Torenefallow with all its part or the moor , Moneymoreand Tawny-

macKenna.

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1

The Lands of Munt erhen y 1n 1703.

Ashe' a Surve y .

This conta ins 140 acres 2 roods I 1 h Pl t Town amack lan.

John Croth er is tenan t and upon it 1~ : small -y 8 asure . farm house with a barn, stabl e, cowhouse and garde n. There are besid es some cotti ers wb.o 'bave small tenem ents or cabin s • This conta ins' 127 acree ~ roode Irish Plant . measure Shene glass Robe rt Allen , tenan t. He b.eth built upon it a small farmhous e witn barn, stabl e, etc. and has some cotti ers.

John Boyd is tenan t and bas upon- 1t a small farmDrum onarg oll house w1tn barn, stabl e, etc. Tb.ere is upon tb.is farm a fine young wood of oak and asb.. It cover s about 20 acres of" land .

A small house with barn , Monc lent. Adam MacN are, tenan t . stabl e, etc. and under b.im are some cott1 ers.

David Kenne dy is tenan t and has upon it a good farmAghli s. house , barn , stabl e, cowbouee and garde n, and has sever al cott1 ers with small tenem ents under him. (The great pass of 356 acres Irisb.

Scarv agh leads up to Kenne dy' e house Plant . Meas ure.

151 acres 1 rood profi table . 25 acres unpro fitab l Turrehuggan Thomas Ever en, tanne r, tenan t and upon it a farm house with a barn, stabl e, etc. and there are under b.im four tenan ts who have eac n a small house with garde n plots . There has been upon this farm a cornm ill but it is now gone to decay and the tenan t infor ms me that it wante d water and there fore was this usele ss . There are some scrub wood and alder trees upon farm as also four large ash trees which stand near the house .

•here Redm ond o Hanlo n, the great Tory, lived . , then held tb.e _six towne under tz] widow Lucy Point z [Poyn Mrs 1he Prim ate.)

Manor

OF TAMNAVALTON.

The lands compr ising tnis manor were grante d to John Thay includ ed the follow ing Bouch ier 30 Novem ber, 1610. townla nds Ba llybr ackag h als Us henog h ( 1).

Cortr aan ( 1/, ). ll1e ( 1/~ ) .

Mulla ville B. Knock e

o,.

Tawna valting (1) Corna ecribe ( l) Cabrie ( 1) Clone ooee ( l) Ballyl iskey ( 1)

The prope rty was create d the Manor of Tawna valting and listed as 1,000 acres .

John Bouch ier above, wae the 4th son of Capt . Sir George Bouch ier, son of John, Earl 1 of Bath. Sir George Bouch iar came to Irelan d in 1570 as a captai n in the army, was knigh ted 1579, Ila star of Ordnan ce ,in 1592, and died 24 Sept , 1605, leavin g by his wife Martha , daugh ter of Willia m, Lord Howard of Effing nam, with othee issue John ierier,.

Boucb .Bouchabove John, the grante e of the Manor of Tamna valton , shortl y afterw ards acquir ed the Manor of Clare . Re was knight ed in 1610/1 1, llembe r of Parlia ment for the County of Armagh 16131614, and died withou t issue 25th March, 1614, leavin g bis two manor s to nis young est brothe r Henry Bouch ier .

Henry Bouch ier was knight ed in 1621, made a Privy Counc ill or in 1641, and succee ded his cousin as Earl of Bath He marr'ie d 18th December , 1638 , Rache l 2nd March , 1636-3 7 .

Fane, daugh ter of Franc ie, 1st Earl of Westm oreland , and died witho ut issue in Augus t, 1654, whereu pon the two manors became the prope rty of hle widow and eventu ally of the Fane family from whom they passed by marria ge to Lord sandw ich (See under Clare) . and Count. de Salis .

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Also und1T1ded half of Ballybrackagh als Unchenagh balliboe Mullavilla one-\h1rd ball1boe.

BallyKnock ball1boe Cornescre1be ball1boe Gabri and Lismuchi ball1boe Clovecoose one-\h1rd ba111boe Clarchan Mullintur and L1sneqn1e Cortr1ne one-\h1rd ball1boe Also Tewnahmore ball1boe Ballyclard ball1boe Dorm1nure ball1boe balliboes The two Ballyshiels l~ballyboes eightra Myralling Ballymoydagh als Moydey ball1boe Cloghan als Cloghoure one ball1boe And the Mills of Clare All 1n Orior

Barony.

200 THE MANOR OF TEEMORE.

Tb.is manor , consisting of 1, 000 acres in o•Nealand Bar ony was granted to the Rev . Richard Ro lleston, 25 May , 1601 ' It contains tb.e undernoted townlande: Derrichora ( l) Shanecracken ( 2) ioyr orkan ( 1)

Downemadder ( 1 ) Dromard (1) Teemore ( 1)

Loughcoobeg ( 1) Loughc oomore ( 1) Aghorier ( 1)

Rolleston seems to have been an improvident grantee .

At anyrate by 13 August , 1638, there was a regrant from the Crown under a Commission for t he remedy of defectivo titles whereby the lands were passed to Franc is Anne sley, Baron Mountnorris This seems to have arisen from a mortgage by Rolleston to Annesley in 1610, probably executed to raise money for the purchase of the Manor of Ballywarren 1 later known as Portado•n, an estate that he later sold to Cope who in turn sold half to Obins.

His widow was alive in 1641 and made a deposition r elative t o affairs in the neighbourhood during the Civi l War that broke out in that year .

Chancery

Inquisition No.6. Chas . I taken 12 Jan, 5 Chas. r.