Armachiana Volume 6

ARMAGH MISCELLANEA.

V0L.VI

The Parish of Ballymore

The early history of the Parish

The · Parish from the 17th century onwards

Rectors and Vicars and Curates from the Ulster Plantation onwards

The town of Tanderagee

The Roman Catholic Church

The 0'Hanlons

The St. John, Sparrow and Montague families

Abstracts from the Ballymore Vestry Book, 1771-1 810

Schools in the Parish

Notes on the Manors of

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The Early Historv ;r the - Parish pf Ballympra

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 -

Tamlaghtliad

Tamlactglyid

Tamlacklkieth

Tamlachta

Tamlaghtlege

Tawnaghslee

Tonnaghy

Taughnaghtaly

Townatelee

Tawnatalee

Mounterhenry

Myntereny

Monterheny

Munterhenyn etc.

Mynterany

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

South Armagh, where an inscribed pillar-stone bearing an Irish inscription yet respectable antiquity. survives, is suggestive of a Tb.at particular monument cannot than the year 714 and may well indeed be be dated later earlier. The connectiqn was remembered in 1634 when the Ty the s of Kilnasaggart ( which we are told had become separated) were restored to the then newly formed parish of Ballymore,

The patronage of the parish was formerly vested in the Prior of the Armagh Culdees but at the dissolution of the monastic houses it seems to have become subject to the Crown. Following the Plantation of Ulster the right of nominating the rector bec11111e the privilege of the Archbishop,

In late medieval times and do'illl to the Disestablishment of the Irish Church, the rectors were Prebends of Armagh Cathedral, a dignity no longer attached to the parish though the Prebendsbip continues. They held stalls in the cathedral but rectors of Ballymore are not now necessarily Prebendaries owing to the separation of the latter office fro• the rectorship, They are, of course, now known as Canons but their stalls still bear the older designation. Just when the cathedral economy was recast into its present form is a matter on wbicb there 1• little information but the re-organization

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 anyrate, 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 1343, 'Whilst living at the Papal Court. The gift was 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 others?

That we do not know.

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

Archbishop Fleming's Register 1454 in 1 as Mynterany or Tamlaghtlege

Why the parish sbould have then appeared as Mynterany is a subject on which we have 11 ttle material to guide us in our conclusions. The name simply means the district or territory of the Henys, a sept that are said to have been the hereditary keepers of a famous ecclesiastical bell, which after being lost or hidden for many centuries was again brought to light in the first quarter of the 18th century. The family gave a collective name to, six townlands held under the Archbisbop of Armagh, lands know to-day as -

Terryhoogan Aughlish Monclone

Druminargil Mullaghglass Tullymacan

but it is clear from an Inquisition taken at Armagh on 12th August, 1609, that the Sept had then lost possession of their ancient patrimony.

We know from other sources that they had not completely deserted the district -for instance, Owen O Hinan was resident in Federnagh 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 graveyard of Relicarn and was immediately claimed by the Heny t11111ilY in whose possession it remained until 1 t vas acqaired by Dean Dawson, circa 1840. The bell iS

It bears an Cummascach Mac now in the National Museum, Dublin. inscription asking for "A prayer for Ailell 'Who, according to the Annals of the Four Masters, was an ecclesiastic attached to the Cathedral of Armaghhe 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, otherwise it is an accurate description. By that date (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

that it might be rung at intervals between keening 1n funeral processions d th an at 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) contributed a paper to the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, wberein the story of the bell's preservation in Seagoe is told in some detail. He states that "Some aged parishioners remember the use of this Clog Ban at the funeral processions 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 \olhich the Clog Ban was rung at intervals. One intelligent 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 alternately.

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

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 grandfather's cottage and was regarded ldth great veneration. It was publicly used for the last time at the funeral of his father, John Hennon, about the year 1836. •t this time, his grandfather 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 grandmother, 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:-

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 and bewail the dead. It was an ancient custom to place the bell near any of the Hennings vho were dangerously ill. I visited Krs. Henning, the widow of Paul Henning, on her death-bed. She lay in a large,

badly lighted apartment cro-~ed • ., vith people. The bell, wich had remained several days near her to be regarded by those vho vere present head, seemed 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 the bell vas not rung at her funeral. On her death, 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 jail, The late Archdeacon Saurin, rector of Seagoe, took llllch interest in Hennon's case, visited him in the

jail and eventually b hi Y s exertions and representations got th e fine almost entirely re-•tted d ..... an 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 h e bell pas s ed 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 tbe bell was in Seagoe Parish sb it was knollD as the Clog Ban and Clg Beanuighte terms signifying respectively

the white bell (a reference to the metal or which it was made) and the blessed bell from its consecration to sacred and solemn uses. Locally it was k:novn as th e "Bell or Belnabeck", the collective name for the graveyards or Belnabeck and Relicarn, cemeteries that may well have been joined in early times.

In passing we should perhaps mention that the Blacker manuscripts give a different origin for the bell. They state (Vol.6, p.122) that it went by the name or Clogh Ban, and that it was the property of a family named Hannan. The tradition given on the authority of Arthur Hannan, the then head of the Seagoe branch was as follows:-

"A number or years back two priests were taking a walk one evening in the Parish of Drumcree, one was named Hannan, the other Mccan, i;hen suddenly they beard to their no small astonishment a bell ringing under ground, The holy fathers returned home pondering on wat had taken place but each with a full determination of returning at the earliest hour of the morning to the spot llhich they had carefully noted for the purpose of inspecting this buried wnder. Father Mccan was first at the place but not a sound was stirring to aid him in his search. At this moment up came Father Hannan and at once the bell was heard to send forth its clank.

The father followed the sound and his perseverance was rewarded by finding the wonderful bell. Such is th e lege nd but I have heard another and more probable version of the tale, viz., that it was found while digging a somewhat deep grave for one of the Hennans in Drumcree churchyard, still the burying place of the family.

It is now in the Museum

The bell remained and was held in high veneration in the family. I have heard it rung or rather clanked at the funeral of one of them. After the decease of the head of the family and his wife it remained in their house in charge of a female relation who lived with the old couple. By some chance the late Dean of St. Patrick's (Dawson) who was a collector of those sort of matters, heard of the bell and through the instrumentality of our rector, Archdeacon Saurin, became possessed of it at the cost of seven pounds, which, however, I have reason to believe found its way into the pocket of the spiritual adviser of the female above mentioned 'Who said some masses for the soul of the deceased proprietor. This was in 181.iO and the Dean died some months after. of the R.I ,.1.

The present head of the faJllily, Arthur Hannan, is bigbly indignant at ite removal and threatens proceedings

to recover it. On my talllng him that Dean Dawson had died a few months after bec--•ng d t """" possasse of i, 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 1839-

Talas 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.

With regard to the O'Henys a rather curious entry is preserved in the Register of Archbishop Cromer under is t a e 30 September 1534 in the form of a letter from the Archbishop to the Dean, Treasurer, Culdees of Armagh, etc. 1'herein the Primate states that he had received a complaint from Patrick Yheany (O'Heaney), Chaplain, his tenant on the lands of Monterheny,

Dompnaghgregh Mullaghglass Lyssban Istercowe

Cargyn Netragh

Cargyn Yetraghe

Bayll Drumnalagh

setting forth that Eugenius O Hanlowyn captain of his nation and Malachy of the same nation with their brethren had retained and usurped the aforesaid lands against the will of the plaintiff and had thus incurred major excommunication and warning them to leave the lands to the free disposal and renting of O'Heany and to make restitution within six days of all that had been taken, otherwise they would be denounced publicly as excommunicated and all lands and domains in vbich they might betake themselves placed under interdict.

Possibly the matter was settled to the satisfaction of the parties concerned, at any rate the matter does not crop up later in the Register, 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 disputed lands in the possession of the Sept

of the O'Hanlons wh 0 acco rdi ng to the Inquisition had then held them for three-and-a-half centuries, We are thus left in doubt as to whether 0 1 Heany was the rightful tenant in 1534

The O'Hanlons figure 1 arge1y in the Archiepiscopal Registers. For example, Malachy O'Hanlon King of Erthyr (Orior) was admonished by Archbisbop Sweteman in 1367, with his sons Eugenius and Donald o•Hanlon, and Odo, son of Peter. An earlier entry dated 7th December, 1366, shows that the Archbishop since his coming to Armagh had many times proceeded by e:xcommuniation and interdict against the above Malachy and his people as usurpers of the church. It also informs us that on promise of amendment and restitution o•Hanlon and his followers were absolved and the interdict relaxed whereupon they behaved worse than before and fell again under the same sentence. Similar accounts regarding members of the familY occur in other Registers. Ex:oommunfation seems to haTe been ,. little dreaded by the heads of the clan generally.

From Prene's Register - he was Archbishop from 1439 until 1443 we learn that Felimy o•Hanlon, Captain of his nation, had taken the Primate himself prisoner on one occasion and on another, his chaplain. For these crimes he and his accomplices were publicly 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''. Tbe form of cursing varied. 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.

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.

mE ParishSH OF Ballymore

Fr . . ' . pm th8 17th century onnrds

The 'Project for th e 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 1 - e paces 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.

Chas. I) Inquisition taken in 1621 (22 June 7 states that the Lord Viscount Grandison had erected upon the lands of Ballymore one fair strong castle and a bawn of lime and stone, 1d th a town thereunto adjoining, consisting of thirty-five Engglish-like houses, a park enclosed ldth "a pale of eight foot in height containing 300 acres therein", and built a watermill upon the river Cusher on the south side of Ballymore called Ballymore Mill.

The Regal Visitation of the next year states that the new church had than been completed on its present site by Lord Grandison, assisted by the subscriptions of his tenants. It is clear, however, from the Visitation that some parishioners, possibly the nine Irish families already mentioned and certain other inhabitants wbo had refused to confonn to State authority in the matter of religion, were called upon to share the cost. Thay pretended an interest in the rebuilding of the old Church at Belnabeck but it is to be feared that their greatest concern was an evasion of responsibility towards expenditure on the new edifice. At any rate they were out-voted by Lord Grandison and his supporters.

On the erection of the church Lord Grandison donated a Silver chalice and pulpit cloth, both of which vere loat no doubt 'llben the town vas captured by

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.

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

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 memory of man".

The prayer or petition was duly granted and the new church at Ballymore became the parish church of Taughnatalay but was to be know b81lcaforth all Ballymore. A silllilar change took place

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 in their beds.

Captain St. John however, escaped and eventually reached Lisnagarvey - now better known as Lisburn_ vbere be took part in the battle for that town.

From a letter itt wr 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 repre s ented 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.

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 approachin g 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

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-generalled 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 accomplished 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

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 ofa 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 burial, by the Rev. Laurence Po··-r -~ ••, ...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 to have been the gift of Lady Olivia Sparrow. The St. 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

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 afterwards, 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 schoolmastership, in 1702 and JohnStaples and Thomas Donaldson were churchwardens.

Daniel Smith Schoolmaster 1 - co master 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. WilliamGodley 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,

A m811lber of the Cope family figures as rector in a Visitation of 1754 _ Barclay, son of Anthony Cope, Dean of Elphin. H h ld e e 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 286 Roman Catholic families.

Subsequent census reports 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

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 ''Methodism in Tanderagee and district". There vas a 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

British forces. To that rebuilding tower, bearing Lady Olivia Sparrow's displayed wi t bin a shield of lozenge dates the present arms correctly 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. It was, however, brought back some days later. 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 the door. Locally it was thought to have been the 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

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 ti b me 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 each parish nominating in turn. A.t the Disestablishment 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

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.

William McEndoo was then rector and the bells were the result of an appeal m d by a e 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 in financial and other matters. Apart from window 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 was ramoved and the stones caref'ullY pointed.

At ttie

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:-

The Chalice and Paten of 1686.

Two Patens inscribed "Tanderagee Church 1836•.

Two Chalices) ) bearing same inscription and date. One Flagon )

Two collection plates dated 1836.

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

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

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

of th e parish being more than five times larger than his land affording very few that frequented any church at all. Yet some of the parishioners out of mere malice, without ground or reason daily threatened to draw the church again to Tawnataly were there was no church at all, and the pretended site of the old church lay upon the edge of the county and parish and no Protestants dwelling within three miles of it, the way leading to it being through dangerous wood of two miles long, were often rebels and other evil persons used to haunt and for that no Divine Service had been celebrated there within the memory of man, and the church already built being the most convenient for the whole parish, having also had the consent of the late Primate wo was patron, and of the Archdeacon Usher, the incumbent, with the consent of the greater part of the parish excepting very few wo had since consented to assess for the repair t~ereof and that consecration was performed by the said Archdeacon at the said Primate's special command and withall having preferred that if any of the parish would give as much f'urtherance for the building of it, as be, that they should have nomination of the place for the church which they utterly rejected.

He therefore prays the Commissioners to give the present order for the confirming or establishing of the

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

Accordingly an Act was passed for that purpose 16 March 1626, and received the King's confirmation 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).

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 conti nued 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 acquired Ballymore. He appears in various documents up 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.

From th e 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 Ballymore. He seems to have held the parish until 1678, 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 , whe n St . John was killed by the followers of Redmond O'Hanlon. Seven days later he preached a funeral sermon at his fr i end's

burial. Hi s remarks on that occasion were printed and publis h ed in the following Year and provide us with a picture of the lawlessness prevalent in the parish at that period.

Laurence Power died in 1696 • His successor was the Rev. Christopher Sheares who died in 1704, leaving by his widow, Lady Mary Sheares (daughter of Lord Barrymore), a son and two daughters.

The next rector was the Rev. William Major. He was collated in February 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. Acton was, of course, at that period within the pariah. He must have died shortly afterwards as his will was proved 7 March, 1725, and his successor the Rev. Thomas Blennerhasaett collated 16th May of that year. He seems to have been Chaplain to Archbishop Boulter when that prelate was Bishop of Bristol, so we may assume that was the reason for the Primate placing him in Ballymore. He seems to have vacated the parish early in 1732, whereupon the Rev . Caleb de Butte was collated on 19th June of that year, but he resigned on 7th March, 1732-33 for Mullabrack. He was succeeded by the Rev. William Godley on June 19 , 1733. He resigned for Mullabrack in February 1741 and was the ancestor of the Lords Kilgar.

The next rector was Berkley C ope, son of Anthony Cope, Dean of Elphin, and member of an old County Armagh family . He was collated 29 June 1741, and held the parish until his death in 1757, in June of which year he was followed by the Rev . Alexander Bissett, who resigned for Tynan in 1759, and in 1765 was appointed Chancellor of Armagh 1n which offics he died in 1781-82.

The next rector, the Rev. Henry Leslie , was collated in 1759 and died 1803. He was a wealthy man, able to leave his two daughters £5000 each, besides an estate to his son, and we know from various sources that he was both hospitable and generous.

Dr. Leslie was followed by an equally generous rector, the Rev . Thomas Carter, who came to Ireland with the Honble . and Rev. Wm. Stuart as Private Chaplain following that gentleman ' s appointment as Archbishop of Armagh, Whilst at Cambridge he was Domestic Chaplain to His Royal Highness William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, brother of King George the Third and tutor to his son Prince William Fredrick, who, as Duke of Gloucester, was godfather to his two eldest children William Fredrick Carter and Wilhelmina Fredrica Carter. He held the parish for forty-six years and dying 18 August, 1849, was buried by hie own wish in the graveyard of the church he had served eo faithfully, His successor was the Rev. Mortimer O' Sullivan. Collated 2nd November, 1849, He had originally bee n a

Roman Catholic. He was an eloquent and popular preacher a nd ultra-Protestant in his views, besides being an author of many works mostly on controversial subjects. 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 1 5, 1885, and is commemorated in the church by a Lectern erected by the parishioners in bis memory.

After hie death the Pretend was separated from the Incumbency and henceforth Rectors or Incumbents did not necessarily hold a Cathedral Stall.

The first rector under the new arrangement was the Rev . William McEndoo , instituted 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 windows, one erected by hls widow and the other by his parishioners. During his rectorship his brother, the Very 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 predecessor was instituted . He died January 26, 19 22 and was succeeded in that year by the Rev. Robert Samuel Morrison who died 25 May 1 925 .

The next rector, the Rev. Percy Marks, was instituted in 1925, appointed Prebendary of Mullabrack in 1 928, Precentor of Armagh 1 939 and Archdeacon of Armagh in 1 945 .

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 ,

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 Archibald Stewart in 1714, He was of Acton and provides 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 1 684 ,

Many of the curates cannot be identified, so for convenience sake we shall continue the list under datebeadings . 1724, 1765, 1765,

Thomas Power Thomas Powercollated Ballinderry and Tamlaght in 1725 •

Robert Martin.

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

1808. 1822.

1823 , 1830.

Leslie Creery f1 to a well-known firstappears, He belonged of Orange Hill local family, the McCreery•s T.C.D. in 1799 (B~ Tanderagee He entered curate of Ballymore • · 1804M,A.1818) and was Incumbent of ymore as late as 1819, Rector of Ramone, BallycastleDown, 1819-1831, Later Archdeacon of Connor 1831-1834,

William Wilson Rector 1868 and Ballybay actor of Newbliss 1850o allybay 1868.

James Wilson. Perpetual Co. Armagh, 1844-1858.

J. E. White.

1836 . Edward Ellwood,

Curate of Clare,

1840. Henry Burdett, son of Rev. Jobn Burdett and grandson of George Burdett of Queen's County, M.P. Died 1875,

184 7 . George Robinson. Later Rector of Tartaraghan .

1849 . Richard Jobneton. Rector of Kilmore, Co. Armagh, 1871-1906.

1859. Henry B. Carter. Rector of Derryloran, Co . Tyrone, 1879-1895.

1859 . John Philips Bushe. Perpetual Curate of Acton 1868-1873, Hie grandfather, the Rev. Thomas Bushe, Rector of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny, married Catherine, sister of General Sir John Doyle , who raised the Royal Irish Fusiliers - now the County regiment - in 1793-

1862-65 , 1869-71.

Lewis Reynolds Hearn, Curate of Charlemont. subsequently Vicar of Manchester.

131'.terwards Perpetual Resigned 1874 and was Astley Bridge,

Lorenzo Shepherd, Chaplain R . N. 1871-\88\ . Later Rector of St . Paul's , Rapid City, Manitoba, and subsequently a missionary in Rupertsland.

1871-74 . Joseph Adderley. Later (1877) Rector of Coromohide, Limerick.

1874-76. William Wilson who, after various Irish curacies , settled in the Diocese of York.

1876-78. William Doherty, Rector of Culdaff 1883-84 , Went to Australia.

1878-81. Charles F. Wilkinson, later (1901) Hon. Canon, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.

1881. Matthew Banks Hogg. Later Rector of Keady.

1883-86. William McEndoo . Later Rector of Ballymore.

1888. T. J. McEndoo. Now Dean of Armagh. 1894-1903. Jamee White. Afterwards of Cashel Diocese.

1903, 1906.

1908.

19t2. 1913 1915 . 1915.

Percy Marks. Afterwards Rector of Ballymore and later Archdeacon of Armagh.

Henry Egerton. Afterwards Rector of Donoughmore Upper.

John Thomae Armstrong.

wm. Rutherford.

H. B. de Montmorency, now Lord Mountmorrea. James Brannagh.

R. H. Bryan, since when no curate has been appointed.

THE TOWN OF Tanderagee

It was suggested in 1609 that Tanderagee should be created a Borough with power to make Burgesses and liberty to send two members of Parliament to represent the town 1n the old Irish House of Commons. Had it then been incorporated it might well have become the most important town in the county. Its geographical position was excellent, sited on well-known and much utilized routes leading from Antrim and Down to Armagh city and the county generally . The situation was indeed a valuable asset and, properly developed, might have resulted in Portadown remaining a simple crossing on the Bann.

A few months later Sir Oliver St. John was granted the castle and town of Tonregie, alias Ballymore, with the additional lands of -

Mullaghbedy

Tullagh-Hugh

Darrowgallon

Lisbane

Cargines

Mullaghglasse

Tawnereogh

Tawnatee

Coronaght

Creenaghbegg

Lisray

(Mullahead) (Tullyhugh

the estate comprising some 1,500 acres , was formed into a Ballymore with 600 acres in demesne, manor designated courts, etc.

Carew ' s Report of 1611 states that preparations were then in being for building. Two years ft ( a er 6 May, 1612)

St. John was given permission to hold a Thursday market and a yearly fair on st. John ' s Day , and the two succeeding days, excepting when that d ay fell on Saturday or Sundayin which case the fair was to commence on the next Monday .

On 29 October of the same year the above patent was surrendered. On the same date Sir Oliver gave power of attorney to Maurice Smith to perfect the deed, and on 30 January, 1612-13 a new warrant was authorized making Wednesday the market day, but leaving the arrangement of faire as it was before .

On 3 October, 1616, Maurice Smith was given sanction to hold a fair at Tonregee on 25 October, and two days after, unless when said day occurred on Saturday or Sundaythe fair then to take place on Monday . He was very like].J" agent for Sir Oliver . On the following day (4 October, 1616) Sir Oliver and Richard Atherton of Dublin procured a joint licence to sell wine and aqua vitae in the Manor of Ballymore, alias Tonregee in Orior Barony and in all other places in that barony other than the lands of the Archbishop of Armagh This indicates an early ancestry for the Tanderagee "houses of call" and was no doubt profitable financially to the persons named. Atherton, indeed, s e ems to have come north to super intend ·the business. At any

rate he received a grant of Knockballybrianboy , otherwise Knock, in 1617, and held it until 1622, in which year he sold to his partner. Knock had formerly belonged to the Earl of Tyrone who had a small castle there on an island formed by a division of the Bann at that point, a little blockhouse defending the passage between Armagh and Down, The date of the original fair is of interest. The feast of St . John the Baptist on the 24 June was a great festival locally. Bonfires, the driving of cattle through the ashes, and other ceremonial activities were then a feature of St. John's Eve, and indeed continued so until about 1830.

From Pynnar's "Survey" of 1619 we learn that the town had grown and that all the houses were inhabited by English tenants. The same authority tells us that there were also nine Irish families in the town, all of whom were going to church and had taken the oath of supremacy .

An Inquisition of 1621 gives a rather more descriptive picture of the new town. Sir Oliver had by then been raised to the peerage as Viscount Grandison and had on the lands of Ballymore "one fair strong castle and bawn of lime and stone with a town of thirty-five English-like houses, besides a water-mill upon the Cusher" . He had also enclosed his three hundred acres of demesne lands by a "pale" eight feet in height.

Some years previous he had acquired by purchase the Manor of Kernan, had constructed thereon "two bawnes of timber moated about and made very strong" . One of these had been begun by James Matchett, the first grantee in 1611 who had then onJ.y two tenants. By 1619 St. John had seventeen families planted who , with their undertenanta, were able to make thirty men with arms, and the number was further increased by 1621, at which time twenty English-like houses had been built and a water-mill in Balteagh.

On February 8, 1621, Lord Grandison obtained a regrant of the lands of the manor which provides us with a list of the sub-denominations of the various townlands a moat instructive document from the place-name point of view .

A Regal Visitation shows that the church had by 1622 been completed in part "by Lord Grandison and ye parishi oners" and that his lordship had given a silver chalice and a pulpi t cloth. The removal of the church from the old site at Belnabeck was not approved of generally , of which late r.

On 23 October, t623, an Inquisition was taken at Ballymore, and it was found that the parish of Tawnaghtalty consisted of fifty-two townlands . They were scattered over different estates and the facts discover e d are useful as evidence of the extent of the parish in that year, In 1 630 a Muster Roll was struck of the men and arms on the St. John estate . It g ives the names of all the male

tenant s able to bear arms and is the first list of surnames we have of British settlers on the property . In the same yea r 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 Taughnatalay (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 preac h ing had been continually exercised there by a learned man before a good congregation,

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 the ancestor of the Earls of Jersey with Edward Villiers, which family the title remains,

Capt. John St. John took up residence in the St.John Castle at Tanderagee, an edifice occupying the site of an earlier O'Hanlon structure, of which we know but 11 ttle. He was living there in 1641 when the Civil War broke out and had a troop of hie kinsman ' s h horseat his diepoeal. A letter in the O d Ormond e Manuscripts dated November 5, 1641, tells us that on the outbreak of hostilities the Irish "surprised the greatest part of a Horse Troop of Hie Majesty's in the County of Armagh commanded by Lord Grandison and possessed themselves of their arms. n Carte in his "Life of Ormonde" relates that "Lord Grandison's troop was quartered at Tanderagee in the County of Ardmagh on the confines of Dawne under Capt. St . John. The place was surprised by the sept of the O'Hanlon 's. The captain escaped by leaping over the Castle walls and got off with a violent sprain of his leg and several of his troopers to Lisnagarvey, leaving the rest with their horses and arms a prey to the enemy". We can accept Carte's story as accurate and we know from other sources that Capt. St. John reached Lisnargarvey in safety and was later present at the battle for that town. As a matter of fact a letter survives which says that "a squadron of the above troop got away but that the rest perished in their quarters at Tanrogee".

The capture of the castle and town took place on the 23 October , 1641, and the victors were captained by Patrick

Oge O'Hanlon, but w ha e ve little im'.ormation on subsequent happenings . According to O'Mellan ' s Journal O'Hanlon was killed the day after , but we are not told how he met hie fate or by whom.

It is difficult to picture what happened. They were possibly herded together and imprisoned until decisions were made as to whether they should be held as hostages or be allowed to depart the country . Depositions made by certain British re sidents of the town and countryside have been preserved and make rather sad reading. The moat informative perhaps of those that have come down to us is that of Margare t Bromley of Tanderagee, It is too lengthy for insertion here but it specifically charges Phelimy Magennis, Glasny O'Hanlon, Nice McMurphy, Callogh O' Hanlon and Loghlin O' Rorke with having killed -

1. Her husband. 2 , Jemes Bromley . 3, Richard Wigton, 4. William Todd and his wife and child. 5. George Copeland and his wife. 6. John Toft and his wife and three children , 7. John Hartley , 8. Ann Watkins , 9 . Anne Cooke and two children. 10 . Adams, an English youth, and further accused Oghie O'Hanlon, Turlogh O'Hanlon

Edmund O' Neill, Henry O' Hanlon and Shane O'Neil with having murdered John Draiton her father and Mr, Charles Perkins . make some wild statements as to drownings She does , however ,

at Scarva Bridge of parties of British in groups of one hundred four score, fifty and three score odd, which cannot very we ll 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 outb reak , therefore it is improbable that the population of the t own wa s much gre a ter unless, of course, prisoners had been add e d later from the surrounding parishes. Mrs. Bromley made her deposition 26 August, 1642.

Mrs . Francie St. John managed to g et to Lisnagarvey under the protection of Col. Oge O'Hanlon but some two miles beyond Lurg an 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

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 60 years. In his sight they shot the said Mr. Draiton and 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 neigh bouring Manor of Teemore, was captured and impri so ned 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. Thomas Tatton and hie son William.

2. William Clay .

3. John Thompson.

4. Thomas Smith.

5. John Grantham.

6. John Parker.

7. John Grear.

8. Matthew German.

9. 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, 164 2 , 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. Lord Montgomery with 700 Foot and three Troops of Horse . 2 . Lord Clandeboy ' s Foot and Troop of Horse.

3. Lord Conway's five Troops of Horse .

Af ter discussion it was agreed to advance to the Bann

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 oppo s 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 quarter s 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.

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 n ow in Trinity, O'Mellan in his "Journal" under date 1 2 May, 1 642 , infers that Monroe entered the town on that day wit h 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.

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, 164 6 , Monroe was out-generalled and defeated. On that occasion Monroe passed through the p arish 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 fo r tillage and that there wa s o ne eminent river called t h e "Cowsher". [Cusher] It also shows lands forfeited as unde r -

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 o f Tho mas Ball.

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 devicea 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 .

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. Redman O'Hanlon is their chief and has been for many years . 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

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

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 The above bears out the rector's observations . 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 b e att r ibuted to the unhappy event

at Drumlyn From that date he was a fugitive with friends afraid to help further and companions willing to betray him.

Tand eragee wa s still in a state of unrest in 1681. A letter despatched from there on May 29 by Captain Thomas Whi tne y to the Duke of Ormonde tells how on the above day h e 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 ,

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 1 641-42 . 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 house s 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

wa s the mother of Brig-General Robert Bernard Sparrow of Tand e 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 centuryt 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 smelting 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 1703 a 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 developing 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 Decembe r 1723 ) as "the Tanderagee Forge or Bloomery'' . Blomary describes the first forge through which iron passes after it is smelted into ore . '!'he word frequently appears as Bloomery .

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 . ?

Papers of the PhisioSocietyHistorical , a manuscript 1n the 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 1 743 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 1 3th April, 1 92 1.

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

and introduced Methodism to the north. He again visited that place 1n 1758, 1760, 1 762, 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 ,

It arose from an "Act for the Making and Repairing of the Highways" , g enerally 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. Th ey were besides frequently compelled to wo rk at roads made for the convenience of particular i ndiv i d ual s 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 b e ing 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 mend e d 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 wo odranger is also noted, costing £1.7.6 and thatchers and attendants working at offices and houses were paid a sum of

£1.3.6. 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 177 9 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 1 786 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

houses to exercise their folly upon. 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 Re v . Henry Ashe opened a school in Tanderagee - the former had previously had one in Armagh. Boarders paid twenty guin e as per year and four guineas entrance , a very r especta ble sum for those days. Day scholars we re a dmitt ed for four guineas per year and o ne guinea entrance . In 1 799 the Rev . Henry Ashe became Perpetual Curate of Acton, the sc h oo l was moved to the Acton Gl eb e Hous e. In 1823 he leased Acton

Rouse and deme s ne for t he same purpose - fees to be thirty guineas wi t h thr e e guine as entrance. Other private schools in Tander agee ow e d their orwn t o the Ashe institution but n on e surp a ssed i t in educatio nal facilities. The Irish Volunteers were disbanded in 1792 and their passing was much regretted. The country was still in a v er y di s turbed condition. The Blacker Manuscripts assert tha t on the 12th July, 1791 or 1792 a partyof "Defenders" well armed took possession of Lisna.gade Fort near Scarva h o ping "t o prevent the Protestants celebrating the day as u s ual with a procession". There was a clash between the tw o part ies, both of whom had fire arms. The "Defenders" we re, in due course, driven out and retreated to Loughbrickland land. Bla cker 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 . have been earlier squabbles at Lisnagade . There seems to Knox'a 11 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 1 789 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

were given for the return of "lists in writing of the names of all men usually and at that time dwelling within their re spective 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 culminat e d 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

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 . No relics of either corps seem to now exist. lie do not know what happened to the Muster Rolls nor have we ever seen beltplates, 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, 17 96, carries an appeli.l from Daniel Quinn of

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. He found the district a superb 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 .

Events were then moving towards the Civil War of 1 798. 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. They may well have been on duty in Antrim or Down. 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

became a pupil of Moorehead, a famous Armagh violinist, at the age of 13 years . During his stay in that town he 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

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. The town is reported as having "a neat appearance". 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

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 In 1821 the first official Census of Ireland was taken, by which time it had increased to 1, 1 58, and there were 217

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 c redit upon the master.

In 1820 a Directory was compiled by Bradshaw of Newry. It gives names and occupations of the inhabitants for the year 18 1 9 . 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 , occupi e d 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

crowds as are astonishing to strangers, and the dealers frequenting it are particularly commendable for their correctness and punctuality . 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 tho se days show a very self-supporting community. Linen merchants, yam-dealers, muslin manufacturers, chequer manufacturers, diaper-manuf'acturers, and linen bleachers appear. Other pr ofessions, occupations, crafts and trades were - tinsmiths, stone-cutters, whitesmiths , breeches-makers, apothecaries, surgeons, wheelwrights , carriers, blue-dyers, nailers, sawyers, brougemakers, book-binders, leather-sellers , tallow-chandlers, slaters , reed-makers, watchmakers, clockmakers, land surveyors, tailors, huxters, publicans, grocers, haberdashers , 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 und er a peace-offic er .

In the f o llowing 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 af t er 1819 as the name does not appear in the Directory of that ye ar - the only clock and watchmaker then being a John Mc Auley of whom we know practically nothing. Other Tanderag ee clockmakers who have left examples of their handiwo rk are Stewart, Catherwood, McNaughton and Joyce . The latter was represented at Tallyho, near Scarva, by a cloc k fitted with a hunting calendar and moon dial. It is said to h a ve been made for Acheson Johnston who died in 1770.

From 1 824 onwards schools are well documented but facts had better be dealt with as a separate study . Almos t immediately afterwards a Presbyterian Congregation was established in the town. It grew out of Clare but the first minister, the Rev. Richard Dill (of the same family as t h e 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 John Neal , Ballymore

53 John Atkinson, Mullyvilly.

60 John Best Tanderagee .

61 Philip Jackson, Teemore .

74 Thomas Overend, Brackagh.

76 Robert McClelland, Lisavague .

102 Thomas McClelland Clare

105 William Tate, Gilford , •

108 Samuel McCune, Tyrone's Ditches ,

110 John Loughlin, Tullymacan.

115 Robert Liggett, Tullyhue,

116 Isaac Sefton, Cargins.

122 Hugh Jones, Tanderagee ,

127 James Quinn, Mullahead,

209 John Cochran, Gilford.

253 Thomas Clements, Demone ,

254 Edward Searight, Acton.

305 John Mulligan, Gilford.

306 John Vance, Marlacoo.

309 James McBurney, Monclone.

318 Joseph Dermott, Unshenagh.

710 James Hagan, Tanderagee.

739 James McClelland , Clare.

1594 John Mateer, Tonaghmore,

A "Pocket Road Book of Ireland" (1827) mentions "Hutchinson I s Inn" - probably kept by the John Hutcheson who appears as "innkeeper" in a Directory of 1819, Three years later the town was much perturbed by an outrage at Dromnaglontagh in the immediate vicinity, in which one unfortunate man lost his life. The testimony at the inquest was that a small party of people were celebrating St. John ' s Eve in the customary manner by haVing a bonfire and games . Persons of various religious beliefs were present and the field was owned by James Sandford who tried in vain to induce the invading party not to disturb the peace. It seems to have been composed of a group of men from Tanderagee who purposely went out to annoy the people at the bonfire , mainly girls and children.

The depositions give the names of the people concerned in the attack and of the witnesses and there were prosecutions at the Spring Assizes in 1831 .

On the 12th July of the above year there was an Orange demonstration 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 . Born a Roman Catholic he had by then changed his faith. He was at first a schoolmaster 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 n o notice of a brawl or damage to

property . It seems , however, that "a pole with a tar barrel on its top and an arm inserted into it, to give it the form of a gallows was erected opposit e the g a 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 1 0th 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 pa r ty tune on a fife and a companion distributed Orange l i l ies to the party . The officer in charge had, h owe ver, by then discovered that

the flowers had a political significance 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-General Macdonnell on July 21st, at which the true facts were found as above .

There was yet another assembly on the 13th July, 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 being District Master of Portnorris . 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

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 appear s 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 establishments 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

property of John Creery, Esq. with an annual consumption of 2,000 tons of wheat and 1,000 tons of oats. The market was t h en on Wednesday, and there were faire on the first Wednesday of each month in addition to the two Charter fairs. By then a Constabulary Force had been s et t l e d in the town. Particulars are given of Lord and Lady Mandeville ' s benefactiona :-

1 . Loan Fund.

2 . Clothing Fund.

3, Dispensary.

4. Orphan Asylum.

5. Circulating Library .

6. Schools .

7. And an annual festival for Sunday School children at the castle - in 1836 attended by more than 2,000 children.

We have a very detailed picture of the town, the Cas t le, schools, etc. in Charlotte Elizabeth ' s "Tour" made in the same year - in many ways it is the most interesting of all the local descriptions of that period. It, however, merits an almost verbatim reproduction so it must become part of our appendix. By then the present castle had been built and was a c tuall y in use as a residence a The architect was a very well-known Dublin man, Isaac Farrell., uncle to John H. Farrell, the founder in 1859 , of the "Portadown News".

Th e erection of the Castle was commenced in 1 830 and it was not anticipated that it would be completed before 1838, but it was ready for occupation by 1837 , Ordnance Survey

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 of the town and surrounding countryside. By then the Tanderagee spinning mill had been acquired by Mr . Thomas Sinton who is said to have taken it

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-established 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.

TANDERAGEE

The Roman Catholic Church.

In the 17 th and 18th century 2 theredoes not seem to have been any Roman Catholic Church in Tanderagee . The Penal Laws were still in operation and consequently 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 beautiful little pyx dated 1 649, now preserved in the County Museum.

Lists of parish priests may survive for those two centuries, but we have not had access to them. The Rev. Thady Galloghly, born at Ulleckin (Outleckan) County Armagh, is shown in a list of "Popi sh Parish Priests" registered at a General Sessions held in Lurgan 10 July, 1704 . He was then aged 53 years - therefore born in 1651 . He is described as "Parish Priest of Tannaghly alias Ballymore alias Tanderagee" and we learn that he received Orders in 1671 from Dr. Patrick Plunket , Bishop of Meath. At the Sessions aforesaid his sureties were Cormick McCana and Philip Murphy, both of Tanderagee , who were bound in sums of £50 each.

(2) One officiating priest, two Popish schools, no chapel. Tanderagee. Report on State of Papery in Ireland 1731

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 congregation 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:

"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 1 826 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 .

THE O'Hanlons

The first menti on 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 1 2th 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 1 246, 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 s urvives 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."

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-DaCrich, 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 ear t 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,

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 establishments and schools whose fame has been so often recorded in Irish Annals,

Patrick's contacts with Daire resulted in Armagh becoming the ecclesiastical 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

assembly place of ·the Ult onians. At the Plantation of Ulster it became n e c e ss ary to have an inventory of the church lands so an I nquisi tion was t a k e n in 1609 by whi ch it was found that the Archbisho p 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 thr ough the centuries the memory of the donor of the first lands donated to the Church of Armagh.

We cannot, in our limited surve y , attempt to d eal 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 influ ential family in the county when Brian Boru, the las t High King of I re l and, paid his memorable visit to Armagh in 1004, and the h e ad 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 appeale d in 1244 for aid in his war against the Scots. In the same century , in 1 273, Eochy 0'Hanlon is described as king of 0 rghialla. In 1285, the then head of the Clan receive d 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,

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. Such things had happened before. 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

Dundalk before the end of that year. bad submitted to Richard III In the meantime he

In 1422 the O'Hanlon's joined a northern force and acc o mpanied the English in a foray into Connaught, but in t h e 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

the same authority we learn that o O'Hanlonhad 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 c l 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, wi th 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, 1407and 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 ,

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 h e should surrender his patrimony .

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 1 December, 1587, whereby O O'Hanlonwas confirmed in the 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 th e old title of the O O'Hanlonof Orior which was thus to be abolished from future use . 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"0 O'Hanlonat the house of Mullagh 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 .

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 ha rd bargain but by then his son, Qghie Oge O'Hanlon, had been attainted for treason and transported to Sweden. Under the

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 1 608, 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 Februar y, 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

Edmond McColla O'Hanl on Glasny Mcowen O'Hanlon. And Donald O' Rourke. • all of Tonrogee, [Tanderagee] with Redmond O'Hanlon of Ginckinstown, 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 , 1 610, 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 gent lemen of County Armagh. A further list for 25 May, 1 612, s how s similar repetit ions . It reads as follows -

Redmond McFerdorogh O'Hanlon )

Richard McRedmond O'Hanlon all descri bed Patrick Oge O'Hanlon as " gents. Ardell McCullagh O Hanlon, Yeoman. Shane O'Hanlon (Mc Patrick McFerdorogh) gent . Phelim McDonel McTurlogh O'Hanlon. Laughlin O Hanlon and EdwardOge O Hanlon, all of Armagh county ,

Such instances could be multiplied , 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 lands and possession in so long as they behaved . Records show that following the Anglo-Norman invasion and down to the 17th century , they were sometimes with the English and

sometimes againe t , 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 certain persons of the clan received small grants at the 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 to Sweden in October 1608. 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 1 639.

Sir Eochy o Hanlon of Orior, surrendered his estate to the Crown in 1 587 and got a re-grant from the Crown in the same year. In June 1 611 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.

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

Turlogh O Hanlon. Attended as Standard Bearer of Ulster and commanded a body of Cavalry at the Battle of the Yellow Ford in 1598

III. Shane Oge O Hanlon. Pardoned B February 1 1605, and again in 1611.

IV . Bryan O Hanlon, who left issue a son, Edmond Lairdir O Hanlon who md . a dau. of Henry Ha gan 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 Tandra ge e.

Eochy Oge O Hanlon, the younger, eldest son and heir apparent Received a pardon 8 September, 1605 . Joined with Sir Cahir O Dogherty in 1608 Pardoned in 1609 and was sent to the King of Sweden. He married Margaret, sister to Sir Cahir O Dogherty, and daughter of Sir John Oge 0 Dogherty , knight Lord and Chief of Innishowen by whom he had issue -

1. 2. 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.

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 1691 . He (Bryan) married and had issue -

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

Shane or John who lived in the neighbourhood of Newry and dying left issue.

Shane or .Tffi, who lived in the neighbourhood of Newry, ,md dyilli: et 1811'118 -

�oger � ��n of Newry, b. circa 1704, who"emigrated ewry o or arlington in Queen's Co. and became a member of the Church of Ireland" and left issue -

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.

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 -

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

2. 3. 4. Patrick, B.L. of whom presently.

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

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

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

1. 2 . 3, 4.

Hugh Marmaduke , B.L. who died 8 June 1844Pringle, Capt . in the 1 st Bengal Cavalry .

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

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 1 0 October, 1610. Petitioned Parliament April 1 626 for sum of money. Held his estate in Orior until 1 639 - 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. Went to support Sir Eochy in January, 1599.

4. Edmond Groome. Pension not paid in 1626.

Pedigree of Redmond O Hanlon

Loghlin O Hanlon rod. and had issue -

1. 2 . 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 1 681, who got £50 for the deed.

3 Edmond Ban alive May 1 68 1 •

4. John.

"Count" Redmond o Hanlon married sister to Loghlin O Hanlon and had issue _

1. 2 . James of Killeavy of whom presently . 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 whom he had issue a daughterCatherine who married Thos . 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 Conve nt at Ranelagh. He married 2n d Alice Coleman of Dundalk and had further issue , _,

Neale O Hanlon of Mount Bagenal who married Anne Magee of Newry and had issue -

1. 2 . 3.

James of Mount Bagenal, B.L., b. 1812, died unmarried in January, 1851 , aged 38,

Terence , died unmarried .

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

Drogheda, by whom she hadd who died in infancy e 1849 so n Neale WilliamHoran in , and three daughters .

4 • Mary Anne James Gernon of Willville , who died unmarried . aughter Mary Gernon of Newry

TANDERAGEE - 1 1691.

The following members of the O' Hanlon clan were attainted in above year.

Shane Bane O'Hanlon

Oghy O Hanlon

Phelim McEdmund Tegue O'Hanlon

Bryan McOghy O' Hanlon

Phelimy McPatrick Oge O' Hanlan of Clara. (Clare).

Redmond O' Hanlon of Phecos .

Roger O'Hanlon o f Tonragee .

John Hanlon of Carlingford , Clerk,

Patrick Hanlon of Carlingford,

All of Tyrone ' s Ditches

A Captain Col in O'Hanlon was an officer in the army of King James II.

See "King James ' a Army Lis t of 1 689 ". Dalton, Vol.II ( s e cond edition) pp .31 0 - 31 1.

DATA ON THE ST. JOHN, THE SPARROW AND THE MONTAGUE FAMILIES

In 1 6 10 the O'Hanlon lands because divided up amongst c ert 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 wi th 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. He saw much service in Flanders , and ao distinguished himself that he was rewarded with a knighthoo d. Later, on his return to England, he was chosen by Queen Elizabeth for service in Ireland . He made rapid progress in the

accumulation of wealth and honours' holding in succession many high poets. Eventually he b e came Lord Deputy of Ireland, and in 1617 was created Viscount Grandison of Limerick. He died in 1631 leaving no issue, but bequeathing his Co . Armagh estates to Captain John St. John, son of his nephew John St . John, his v iscounty 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 re s ident in Tanderagee and in command of a troop of Dragoons when the Civil. War of 164 1 broke out , and from various sources we know that h e 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 , 1 679 , by some followers of Redmond O'Hanlon, the notorious Rapparee,

He had issue a son who died young,

and a daughter , Catherine, who inherited the property and became the wife of Ant h o ny Bowyer.

Mrs , Bo wyer doe s not seem to have taken much interest in Tanderagee fo ll owing her father's death. At anyrat e she and he r hus band sold the property to her uncle, Oliver St. John, bro ther of her mother, Mrs. Catherine St. J ohn, which lady d ied in 1681, This Oliver St. John lived at Tanderagee and married Elizabeth Hammond and had three child re n aliv e in 1 689 when h~ fled to England. He died 1715 and was succeeded by his son .Oliver St . John who was High Sh er i ff of County Armagh in 1717 and living in June 1740 at which time he settled Tanderagee on his cousin Sir Fran cis St . John, son of his uncle Francis St . John. Sir Francis St. John died in 1756 leav ing issue two daughters , one of whom, Mary St. John, married Sir John Bernard , Bart ., and had issue a son, Robert Bernard, who died wi thout issue in 1789 , and a daughter, Mary Bernard,

who marri ed 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 Olivi a Acheson, daughter of Arthur , Earl of Gosford , by whom h e had a son, who died young, and a daughter, Millicent Sparrow , who marr i e d , 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,

General Sparrow was, according to tradition, a somewhat hot-tempered individual. There is some confirmation for the fact. 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 courtyard . Why it should have been necessary to rebuild at that date is something of a mystery especially as there is evidence that Gaspare Gabrielli was commissioned to adorn its rooms with wall paintings, a form of decoration then much in vogue.

Gabrielli came from Rome in 1805, and remained in Ireland until 1819. During that time he was

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 11 Views of Herculaneum. and it is much to be regretted that compositions by so brilliant an exponent as Gabrielli should have been destroyed .

Margaret

Sir Oliver St. John d . 1437. (1st husband) and h . ' sister J John Beauchamp of Somerset , St. John Chart , L...Beaufort _

[ ti~ir=---J~o~hn ~ ~S~t. - --L _ ______

John of Bletso

Oliver t . John / heir, K.B. 1488 of Lydiard, Margaret, sole heir I Tregoze Wiltshire of he r father

Sir John St. 2nd son'. s. Edmund (Tudor) Earl

John of Bletso I of Richmond K.B.1502.

Sir John John I I son and heir Henry VII VII · King of

Sir John St. d , 1512. ' ngla.nd,

John, living 1549. ! I John St. John, son Oliver 'st. John and heir, 7 years Created Baron St . John old in 1512 . of Bletso 1559 . D. 1582 . I I Nicholas, his son John Oliver St. John and heir, living 2nd 3rd Baron. 1549. I Baron Died 1 618 h f / · ir John St, Oliver St . John,

Oliver St. John, John, ?0 n Viscount Grandison in created Earl of and heir· 1622 with special Bolingbroke 1624 remainders to his Died 1646. ' neice, Barbara Lady Villiers and h;r male issue .

Sir J ohn St . John. Created Baronet 1611, ancestor of the Viscounts St . John and Viscowits Bolingbroke .

William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison, whose daughter Mary became the notorious Lady Castlemaine, mistress of Charles II and was afterwards Duchess of Cleveland.

Sir Edward Villiers, brother to George Villiers , Duke of Buckingham. George Villiers, 4 th Visc0 unt Grandison, is now held b the Earls of Jersey•

Barbara St. ,. John whose posterity succeed<!d by special remainder to her uncle ' s viscounty . I . John Villiers 3rd Viscount Grandison.

In 1715 an I d Tanderagee IN 1715 n ependent Troop of Dragoons (Militia) was raised by Oliver St J hn

. • 0 ' Esq. The following commissions were issued under 15 September of that year.

Captain.

Oliver St . John.

Cornets . John Clarke and Thomas Dawson.

THE SPARROW ARMS.

The arms of Lady Olivia Sparrow or possibly those of her daughter Millicent as shown on the tower of the parish church. Stone difficult to see properly from ground level, and motto not easily decipherable from that point .

The Sparrow ' s of Preen Manor in the County of Salop bear for arms "quarterly 1 and 4, per fesse azure and argent, in chief three roses of the last barbed and seeded proper and in the b:..se an arrow .in pale proper for Sparrow 11 and in 2 and 3 the arms of the Hanbury family •

The motto under the arms on tower may be"JE SUIS CONTENT"

Tanderagee

The Dukes of~--Manchester and Tanderagee . their connection with Fore 1 ar ier generations and fUller details see Peerages .

George Montague , 6th Duke of Manchester Earl of Manchester etc . (son and heir of William 5th Duke' by his wife Sarah, sister of George, 5th Duke of Gordon) educated at Eton 1811-1812. Styled Viscount Mandeville until 1843 ; entered the Navy, February 1812, in which he became Commander in July 1822.

M.P . Tory for County Huntingdon 1826-1837. Deputy Lieutenant, Co. Armagh. He married firstly by special licence , 8th October, 182 2 , at St . James's, Westminster , Millicent (with £20,000 per annun), only daughter and after 3rd March, 1818, only surviving child and heir of Robert Bernard Sparrow of Brampton Park, Hunts, Brig.-General in the Army , by Olivia, daughter of Arthur Acheson, first Earl of Gosford. She, who was born 25th January, 1798, died 21st November, 1848 , at Kimbolton Castle, and was buried there . He married secQndly at Kilroot, Harriett, 5th daughter of Conway Richard Dobbs of Castle Dobbs . He died 18th August , 1855, and was buried at Kimbolton.3 His widow married 1 858 Sir Stevenson Arthur Blackwood, K.C.B. (3) eat Protestant and the author of several ;:m;~e~s ~n religious subjects .

William Drago Montague, 7 th Duke

1st wife , b . 15th October 1823 ( son and heir by ' ' at Kimbolton) generally 1<nown (during the lifetime of h" . is grandfather) as Lord Kimbolton to 1843. Entered G . GrenadierGuards January 1842' Captain 1846-1850 . St 1 d 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, educated at Eton 1866-68; Captain 3rd Bn. Royal Irish Fusiliers (Armagh Militia) April 1877 ·

He married 22nd May, M.F. Conservative for County of Huntingdon 1 877-80. (4)

h. "silly but not dull" and •a Diraireli wrote of ~1estone described him as Marquis of Huntly in and oddity . . . a well mixture of good nature intentioned bore", the 123,

1876 , at Grace Church N y • New York • Consuelo 5 , daught er of Antonio Y de Valle of Ravenswood . nswood, Louisiana, New York, and Cuba . He died at Tanderagee Castle, Co, Armagh, 18th August , 1892 , aged 39 , d an was buried at Tanderagee. widow died 20th November, 1 909 , at Kimbolton and was buried His there .

William Agnus Drago Montague, 9 th Earl of Manchester, only son and heir , b. 3rd March, 1877. Educated Eton 1891- 1 894 , Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard 1906-1907. Served in Great War of 1914-1918 as Lieutenant in R,N . V.R. A Liberal . He married (he was then 23 and she 21 ) , 14th November, 1 900, at St . Marylebone, Helena, onl;y daughter of Eugene Zimmerman of Cincinnati, U.S.A., a very wealthy railway director . She divorced him in 1931 , and he married secondly on 17th December of that year Kathl een Dawes . Alexander George Francis Drago, styled Viscount Mandeville , b . Tanderagee Castle 2nd October, 1902. Baptized at Chapel Royal, St, James Palace, Queen Alexandra being one of his sponsors . He married 5th May' 1927' at Kimbolton Parish Church, Nell Vere dau. of Sydney Vere Stead , of Melbourne , Australia. (5) Her second marriage was 40 A most beautiful woman, two days previous to the years after her first andthe 8th Duke, Besides her death of her eldest son,t over £400,000 personally English property she lef in America

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. Creery however signed firstly on April 8, 1776 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 Glassdrummond 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 Mullaghglass 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 Ballynaback .

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 Churchwarden, Peter Quinn -----, William Moody , William Moody and Samuel Parker .

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 . See Appendix I .

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

September30, 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, Ballymo re:

From Bell ' s Burn to Tullylln.

From Gilford road to Tullyhue. Fr om 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 BallynabackIrish 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 chu r chwa rdens .

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 .

September 5 1775

Road cess not to be laid on this year •

April 8. 1776

Nicholas Johnston, Esq. , and George Tegart, Churchwardens . To enclosing Acton churchyard. Roof repairs , painting gallery .

May 1, 1776, John Creary, Curate, first appears . September 4, 1776.

31 March 1777, George Tega rt, John Allen, Churchwardens.

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 , Churchwardens .

Lady Bernard and Mrs. St . John thanked for repairing churchya.rd

Valls on north and west sides . Nicholas Johnston, Esq. , late Churchwardens thanked also for influencing the two ladies .

Ai2.tlJ. 5'. 1779,

r. Alex . McAllister and Mr. John Jelly , churchwardens . pent on enclosihg Ballynaback churchya r ds .

AIJ,ril 28 1779,

Floor of church and enclosing the burial grounds at Ballynaback.

March27 1780.

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, churchwardens.

£7 . 7 . 7 1/2levied for enclosing the churchyard of Tanderagee b:1 a wall eight feet high on S. and W. sides and building a house for the sexton of the parish in some convenient spot in the churchyard - also the building of a bridge over the rivulet that divides the two burial yards in Ballynabeck.

April 9, 1787

John Godley, Esq. and Dr. Alexander Patton.

March 24 , 1788, Robert Taylor and William Bradford, churchwardens . July 30, 1788.

Agreed by the minister and churchwardens that a church or Chapel of Ease be built on the lands of Brannock in the Manor of Acton in said parish for the accommodation of the Protestant parishioners 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 Alexander Patton

Churchwardens , Robert Boyd, Hugh Small, Thos . Crothers, James Linney [Lenny?]

April 1 13I 1789 t

Thomas Taylor and William Jackson, Churchwardens .

April 5, 1790

John Mathers and James Fryer, churchwardens .

April 25 1291 ,

John Benn and William Whiteside, churchwardens .

Allril 9, 1792

George Armstrong and Peter Asdall, churchwardens .

Aliril 1 , 1793

James Prentice and Peter Kain, churchwardens.

Augu st 22, 1793

Vestry held in the Parochial Chapel of Acton . By the authority of the Primate it was agreed that Alex. Thomas Stewart , Esq. , and Mr . Charles Magarry should serve as churchwardens for remainder 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. Macaulay , minister.

Manor of Ballymore . for minister .

September 4 1793

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 J 14, 1800,

James Rowley and James Fryer, churchwardens .

April 6, 1801,

James Fryer and George Trotter, churchwardens .

4w.1 )9. 1802.

111111ee Fryer and Thomas Whaley , churchwardens .

John Creeryry , Curate .

.4J2ril 11 , 1803,

James Fryer and Thomas Ferguson, churchwardens.

John Creary, curate •

.uirU , , 1804

Ja mes Fryer and Kain Glenn, churchwardens . Thomas Carter, rector.

April 155, 1805

Ka in Glenn and Richard Wilson, churchwardens .

Thoma s Straton, Parish Clerk £12, Sexton £3 .

April 2, 1806.

Willi a m Loftie and Hugh Alexander, churchwardens .

Ga t 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. Ba nn, - 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 am e 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.

APPENDIX I,

Dates or Curates' signatures ,

st . John Blacker signs as curate July 22, 1772, John Cree·ry signs as curate -

April 8, 1776.

September 4~ 1776 .

March 31, 1777

April 16, 1777.

September 3 1777 , April 20, 1778

September 4, 1787 .

September 4, 1787 .

September 1 1790 .

April 25, 1791

September 5, 1792 .

April 1, September1793, 4, 1793

April 6, 1801. April 19, 1802.

Ap r il ll, 1803.

Ap r il 15 , 1805.

Ap ril 7, 1806.

September 3 , 1806 .

September 9 , 1807 .

"Henry Ashe curate for Rev . J . Creery

Expense of the Erecting The Galiery.

Received from Mr , James Purdy and John Magennis .

Received from Samuel Blacker Esq. For bricks from John Mullan.

Total received

To James Conlon for fr e ight etc. 4- tons at 4s 4d. per ton. ·

To Mr . Adam Ma itland for timber and sawing

To Do. for timb e r for the Stairs

To Turning t he 4- Colums

To Joseph Glenn & Arcd. Evans for sawying

To James Glenn for drawing lime and sand etc .

Edward Duffy for glazing the two oval wind

To Deals for sheeting the Gallery

To Turning th e rails

To Nails

To Liquor gave the men at Sundries

Tc, Mr. J ohn Montgomery the Carpenter

To the Mas on for breaking the holes for windows etc.

To George Corner one day

Joseph Glenn

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 nd 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 down the ce n turies. They were at first little disturbed by the Anglo-Norman conquest ot Ireland but they gradually became impaired through conflict between British and Irish opinion on matters ot education . They did not, however, 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 abroadfew 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 ain d

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 169 3. 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 see m 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 in that year and a similar source notes Hugh McConnell in the same position in 1798. There was p roba bly a school in Tanderagee as well as Drumna leg. At a nyrate a Directory of 18 19 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 Ballymore as 270 Male and 167 Female. Pupils ln Tanderagee, ~cton, and Poyntzpass are given separately and as under:-

Tanderagee, 111 Male and 27 Female. Acton 17 Male and 15 Female. Poyntzpa•• 73 Male and 70 Female

Ballymore Parish - Schools

An 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 a nd are very informative , a nd we may again refer to them.

A "Report 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.

1. Tanderagee - 109 male and 101 female pupils

2. Acton 28 20

3. Corlust 29 15

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 3 1 Roman Catbolic. No finan c ial assistance.

3. Derryallen. Master John Cuthbert Income about £50. Eliza Fitzhenry, Mistress. Income about £42.15. Both Church A very bandsome scbool, cost £800. 75 Male and 75 Female pupils, of whom 97 were Cburcb, 13 Presbyterian and 40 Roman Catholic School assisted by tile Kildare Place Society - tile master 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.

4. Tanderagee. Patrick McConnell, Church. Income about £60 o. Masters house rented at £10.10.0. per 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.

5. Cargins Robert lloore, Master. Church. Income £5 o £8. Good house, cost £50. 18 Male and 10 Female pupils, of whom 24 were Church and 4 Roman Catholic The scnool .built 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.

7. Clare A master wanted. Income not stated. A good schoolhouse lately re pa ired by eubscri ptione .

8. Mullaghglass Patrick Conroy, Roman catholic. Income about £15. Held in a barn. 35 ~~le and 30 Female pupils, ,a of wnom were ctrurcn, » Presbyterians and 18 Roman Catholi c .

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.

lo. Tanderagee Sarah cannon, Church. Income £10. House rented at £3. 14 Male and 5 Female pupils, of whom 6 were Church, 6 Presbyterian and 7 Roman catholic.

11.

12. 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.

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,

Taniokey. William Ellis Cllurch. Income about £l2. Held 1n a meeting-house belong1ng to Secedere. 35 Male and 20 Female pup11s, or whom 50 were Presbyter1ans and 5 Roman Catholics

Poyntzpass. James Whigham, a seooder. Income about £40. House re nt ed at £5.17.0 per annum. 33 Male and 25 Female pup1ls, of whom 10 were Cllurch, 16 Presbyter1an, 15 Roman c atho11c and 17 •other denom1nat1ons•.

Poyntzpass. Thomas Salmon, Church Income about ilo. House rented at £5 per annum. 35 Ma l e and 20 Female pup1le, of whom 11 were Church 24 Presbyterians, 12 Roman cathol1c and 6 • other denominations

Acton. David McConnell, Ro man Catholic I n come about £8 Good hou se, cost £60 to £100 at f irst. Bu1lt by the Manor of Acton. Pup1ls, 12 Church, 7 Presbyterians and 11 Roman Catho11cs.

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

Poyntzpass. Thomas McCreash, [McCreesh?] Roman catholic . income about £15. .House rented · at £2 per annum. 14 Male and 10 Female pup11e, of whom 4 were Church, 6 Presby t eria n s and 14 Roman catholic.

Poyntzpass 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 c atholic.

Tyrone's Ditches John Jackson. Presbyter1an. Income £12 Thatchedched 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:-

1 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.

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

Ballymore Parish - Schools.

under the care or a physician who devoted the rest of his time to diepensi ng medicine and vieiting the poor tenants in their homes. The Orphan Asylum situat..ll.n Tanderagee was open to female orphans of the Protestant tenantry, who were boarded, clothed, and trained for service in respectable families. Schools, spacious and handsome buildings with residences tor masters and mistresses, bad been erected over the estate at -

Tanderagee Corvernagh Car gins and Ballymore

in which there were about 260 children and 100 infants. Schools had also been set up in Portadown and Mullantine in the parish of Drumcree as well as in the parishes of Seagos, Kilmore and Killevy, to each of which were attached Sunday Schools, the aggregate numbers in those exceeding 2,000. An annual festival then took place at the castle and the childre n from the man y schools were hospitably entertained.

An even more valuable narrative· was written by Charlotte Elizabeth• in tbat year, she states that there were then thirty teachers on the property, that is the Manors or Ballymore, Kernan and Portadown and that the girls attending the schools were instructed in the making of shirts, knitting of socks, etc., Mr. Porter, the moral agent, considering such accomplishments more suitable than the making or fine collars or caps. Five infant schools are mentioned and t wenty-two other schools s I J iq with a roll of 2,334 children daily.

She arrived at Tanderagee from Tullymore Park where ehe had been staying at Lord Roden Lord and Lady Mandeville were abroad so Mr. Porter acted as host, 01 her arrival at Tanderagee castle she found Dean carter, the then rector,awaiting her. He seems to have been an old friend and his presence undoubtedly brought her much pleasure.

Lord Mandeville then bad a chaplain who preached in each o! the country schools once a fortnight and in the two achool-houses in Tanderagee and Portadown once a weekpreviously he had taken such services himself.

Ballymore Parish - Schools,

The Infant School at Tanderagee lay half-way down ~he lo ng hilly street, and is best described in her own words •a very spacious room, remarkably lofty and airy, holds the liveliest, most inte111gent and comical set or little creatures admirably taught, They were kept considerably beyond the regular hour for our inspection and their own amusement as it proved, for we afterwards engaged them in a regular game at play to the i nfini te delight of their p arents a nd elder ' brothers and sistera, •ho coming to fetch the babies home, were provided with seats and greatly enjoyed the sport• , The game consisted of building a pyramid of wooden bricka a nd then allowing the children to fire a volley of the same upon command.

She later explored the Boys• School and was much pleased by the method of teaching, and on Sunday ahe attend ed a Sunday School in that building, It is clear , however, that she disapproved of the National School system or education, She was not alone in that respect - other people were equally hostile,

She was unlucky as regards weather , It rained all the way from Tullymore, and was equally bad during her sojourn in Tanderagee, Her descriptions or the shop at the Castle, the working of the Loan Fund, local shebeens, diepensaries, etc. is immensely interesting especially a suggestion of what •might happen if the town was not etro ngly garrisoned before the 12th or July•, and in fact· what did take place despite the presen ce or an army ~r occupation in the way or soldiers •who had marched in, taken up their quarters, furbished their arms, primed and loaded them and retired to bed", They were there to prevent •a garland or obnoxious flowers (presulllllbly Orange lilies, from being stretched across the street•.

At the end of her visit she drove to Portadown to catch a coach for Belfast. She learned that there were two - one Prote stant, the other Roman catholic, 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 vehicle to the great dismay of •r. Porter's servant, who aaid "his master would not travel 1n that coach for ten pounda•. The atory is most amusing and should be read 1n all its details,

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 examinatio n 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 bl ankets and clothing to them sometimes free a nd 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 n d £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 e d 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 948 1334

747 Females who could read and write. 1639 who could read on l y . 1727 who can neither read nor write.

Ten years later we get a 11st as under trom the same source. The parish then contained1431 Males and 1103 Females who could read and write. 58 8 1037 who could read only. 929 936 who could neit her read nor wr ite.

Separate ,tables are given tor the villages or Acton and P oyntz pass, and Tanderagee appears as under -

2 86 Kales and 286 Females who could read and write. 87 154, who could read only . 159 213 who could neither read nor •rite.

At that time there were still i n Lower orior a tew p eople ( 11 llale and 7 Female) able to s p eak Irish and Engl'ish, a n d 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,:"u n dersecondary 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 . ThomasKerr, 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,

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 pub lished in 1888 - besides giving much information on local history it is a guide to the inhabitants of the town and district. Historically there are some blunders - but at the moment we are only concerned with the educational institutions 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 hav e 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 mathematics,

Ballymore 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 instructio n 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.

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 boy s and l gir l present at inspe ct ion 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

Name of town land

Ballymore Parish

Tanderagee

Ballymore.

Tanderagee

Ballymore. Derryallen

Tanderagee

Ballymore Cargins Cortust Clare

Mullaglass..a

PARISH SCHOOLS in 1826

.

Jam ee Gracey ( Prot E. Church) £40

Jamee Fariss (R.e) about £30

John Cuthbert Eliza Fi Fitzhenry (Prat. E.Churcb)

Terryhoogan

Patrick McConnell (Prat. E.chureb.)

Robert Moore (Pr ot .E . Cb'llrcb)

Isaac McCutcheon ( Pr ot .E. Church

A master wanted

Patrick Conroy (R.C.) r:~~t~;:~~urcb)

about f.50. abt,.!.42 .15. about £60. f.5.to£8. about !.10. not stated. about t.15. about £20. -

good, .£60 bu tba expense st. John's r rented at 5 annum. very bandsom £800

J.!aeter•e h ou rented at l C good, cost t Built for e 11>reacbing h o a good ac h oo latel y r ep-1 nubeor ip t.i on held in a ba held in 11 bi tract from second Report ot ~· cation Enquiry.).. \

lnBwi.a.• r, ; 11itb Societiea. =~!ft!~rea read or not

the St. John read; A.v. family none, read; A.v. Kildare -place read; A,. V • Soc. The master receives an annl. sallery of Mistress .tii?i5 . from Lord Mandeville ~n'f.a~:y · 11. built &eh . ho . none. r•ad~_; A.v.

Tbe sch.bse. built read. A.v• by subscrip tion, I and kept it repair by Lady Mandeville. Kildare-place Soc. read,~ 1i.v The maeter cecelvee

Col. Grahaman. trfo~.. \ • .. ....~ - Rd botb v. - read: A,V .

Tanderagee Sarah Cannon £10. Rented at

None. Read; .A.V. ( Prot .E. Chur o b )

Tanderagee Rev.Robt. t.120. lle.Gd. Priv ate hou ented

Poyntzpass

(

William Ellis about £12.

Road;

Hawthorne. to at 20 gne . IM• £129.3e.6d.

( Prot .E. Cb.ur cb. ) good; £.60 co. at 12

Acton David McConnel about £8. - read; A..,V. (R.C.) first b u il \be Society. Manor of A(

Ballynaleck: James McKeever L7 or £B. held in a 6

(R.C.)

,,. Poyntzpass Thomas McCreesh a b out £16. r eed; A.11'. (R.C.) about i.S.17 e small cot1. ••

r~d; .A..v . Poyntzpass Jane Shaw o1t. --~ , ~ E. Church). u2. thatched h1 ,t.15 . X 6 28 -

Tyrone a John Jackson buil t by D1tob.ee. (Presbyterian ) subscription

SCHOOLS IN THE PARISH 1837 ,

Minute s of Evidence.

Newplan of Education in Ireland, Part II

The Re v. Leona r d Roblnson in examination - then pe r pet ual Curate of Kilc lu ny .

"Sinc e th e first of Jan. I have visited 154 Script ure scbools in County Armagh containing on their r olls 8 , 394 protestants a nd 3 , 073 Roman Catholics. To th ose I wou ld ob serve must be added sixteen scho o ls which are suppo rte d by Lo rd Ma nd eville containing an attendance of 1,629 child ren. Tne re was an objection by Lord Mandevi lle•s Mo ral Agent to my exami n ing the schools in o r der to distinguish what ttte nu mbers of Protestants and Ro man Catholics in attendance we re " . See p . 1077.

From the evidence it appeared that a Moral Agent was a pe rson wh o had char g e of the poor on the estate , superintending the echools establi shed for the education of the poorer tenantry and dist ri buting blankets and clothing to the poo rsome times free and someti mes on reduced terms . He was dle ti nct from the Land Ag ent.

The t he n Moral Agent f o r Lord Mande ville was Mr , Porter . He had at his disposal from Lord and Lady Mandeville upwards of £1,000 per yea r for schools and £567 was devoted to salaries and procuring materials for work in Fema l e Schools .

Fr om the same source we learn that 11 wi thin the last yea r Lord Mandeville had built at an expense of £500 that furnished accommodation for males a nd fe males a rd also for i nfan ts and at that moment ( 19 June, 18 37) had a school i n progress of erec t ion that would cost about £700," See p ,107 8 ,

Tlhen Mr Robinson was asked whether the National System of Education in Co . Ar magh bad succeeded as well as tbe Sc r ip tural S chool Sys tem in uniting children of different denomin ations he stated that he "was prepared to show tba Comm itte e that t be Scripture Schools of the county had :occeedad to a very g reat " 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 In doing so.• He had arrived at those views from an ins pec tio

of the National Schools of the Diocese of Armagh - See p . 1079.

General character of National Schools in the county either exclusively Protestant or exclusively Roman catholic, P• 1080.

Lists of Schools on Church, Chapel or Meeting hou s e ground or connected with any house of Divine Worship or with any Religious Establishment, s ee p,1414 .

Ballymore Parish.

Poyntzpass School on Chapel Ground.

Notes on the various Ma nors whos e lands formed part of the P arish of Ba lly mo re in 1 623 .

I. Ma n or of Acton I~ -

II . Manor of Ba ll y more, \~· l'f &;,

III Ma nor of Cla r e.

IV. Manor of Dr urnbanagh.a r.

v . L an ds of Moy ry Castle .

VI. Lan ds of Munterheny er heny .

VI L Lands of Tamnavalton by then incorporated with Clare

VIII , Ma nor of Te emo r e .

GRANTS TO CHARLES POYNTZ .

Grantto Char lee Poyntz .

Brenoge, one bb. Kistraystray, two-thirds bb .

200 acres . and a ~~~;:d of Brennoge w1 th 100 ac r es 1n demesne

30 November 8 James I , 16 1 0 .

Carew's s Report . 1611

Lieutenant Charles Poyntz, 200 acres as servitor; has pr ovided timber and materiale for buildings.

Gra n t to Charles Poyntz 1 Esq. Orior Barony.

Ballinegree alias Li Lisnegree 120 acres .

17 May 13 James I , 1615 .

King's letter for su r rende r and regrant of lands to Cb.arles Poyntz , gent .

1Ll.uly 1 14 James I , 1616 , Pynnar's Survey 16 19 .

t Lieut. Poyns hath 200 acres called CUrr1ator , Upon tb.is . :•re 1e a bawne of BO feet square, the lower part whereof 1s 8 stone and clay with a house in it , but he not liking the 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

1ard, and is undertaken to be finished by August.

Grant to Charles Poyntz 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

Carrownare als carronure or Cornearagh

Liswolvie

Curfubball

Thehill of Correnare or Corneagh

Rathconwell als Rathconvale

Bracklaghale Ballynebrackh

Resranny

Marbethoullan

Dr 8 hill of Bracklagh als Ballynebracky f Dromenesoogh als Dromnesoagh als Drommenefouth ou

Corren

The Cr field of Dromennesough Crevaghmoreals 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 ne ar the chief mansion and not scattered and det acbed, lo llave a musquet or ca11ver and a nand weapon U arm two un .

MUSTER ROLL 1630.

51 r Charles Poyntes, Kn1ght 1 has Br1ttisb. tenants 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. on l 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

Grant to Sir Olivar St John of Tonregie .tho I the Castle and town • 0 erwise Ballymore.

Mullaghbedy, one bb.

Tullagh-Hugh •

Darrowgallon

Lisbane

cargines two bb.

Mullaghglasse one bb.

Tawner·eogh

Tawnatee

Coronaght

Creenaghbegg

Lisray one-third bb.

In all 1500 acres.

Created Manor of Ballymore wi t.h 600 acres desemne and court baron. ·

28th Decembar, 8 James I• 109/1610

Carew's Report 1611.

Sir Oliver St. John, Knight, 1,500 acres as servitor, is making preparation for building.

Oliver st. John granted licence to hold a Thursday market. and a yearly fair at Tanregee on st. John's Day and the two following days unless when t.he said day falls on Sat.urday or Sunday, then fair to · commence on the following Monday. 6 May 10 Jamee I, 1612, st. John surrenders fair and market. at Tonregee. 29 October 10 James ·1 , 1612,

power of Attorney from Sir Oliver · ith, gent, empowering him to perfect St. John ta Maurice octaber 10 James I, 1612. above surrender,

Grant to Sir Oliver St, John of a Wednesday Market Market and a yearly fair at Tonregee on the feat day of \llo Nat1vi ty of St• John the Baptist and the ho days following unless when the said feast happens on Saturday or Sunday, then fair to commence Monday, 30 January 10 James I, 1612-15,

Licence to Oliver St. John, Knt. and Richard Atherton of Dublin City, gent , to keep tavern and sell wine and aqua vitae in the Manor of Ballymore otherwise Tonrogee in Orler barony in Armagh Co, and in all other places in the barony except the lands of the Archbishop of Armagh paying one-fifth part of the moiety of the licence of wines and Ille same of aqua vitae to Samuel Smith and George-Richards, usignees of the Right Honble, James, Lord Hay, and Sir Henry Yelverton, patentees for those licen ces . 4 October 14 James I, 1616.

Licence to Maurice Smith, gent, to hold a fair at Tonregee in Armagh ea. on 25 October and two following . days unless said day occurs on Saturday or Sunday , in which case fair t; be held fallowing Monday • 3 October 14 James· I, 1616,

Pynnar's•survey•, 1619,

sir oliver St. John, Knight, hath 15.00 acres called Ballymore for building there can n ot. be mor e spoken then ,Mt hat h been formerly by Sir Josias . Bodly, onl y the town 1, increased in buildings, being all i nhabited by En glish tenants

There are 9 Irish families in the town whi c h , om• to t h e church and who have ·taken the ·oath of supremacy.

Grant. from the King ·to Oliver St, John, Knight Viscount Grandison of Limerick,

The castle and Manor of Bally more.

The lands of Tonaregee allae Ballymors ( 1 bb.) containing t he ha mlets 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 alias Mullaghbeddie l bb,' containing . tb.e lands. of

Brackagb.

Shanbrackagh

Cornsynagh

Lisdrsam

Clone lack

Cori n

Aughmagarvin

K1llnevargey

Shanagarvey

Attymorrchybrick

the b11ll1 ballyboe of Dorogngallyn alias Dorowallen containing 1)SO f \ne 1ande "

corgrogan

Cornesillagh

Tequinduff e

Broughnefourre

Lurgeshanville

Mullaughske ag h

Knocklean

Braghahlegh

carguaghcorry

Kilmallogh

Roaneboy

Tawnahirk

Edenticonocher

cormackvagh

Knocknanavel11

Lurgnefarney

Edentyrisse

Tawnacowsher

The balliboe of Tullaghugh containing

Corragbnebevie

Coolnenean

Cornemuckle

Morragb

Broughdonachy

Bracknegrany

Aughnepl ockock

Anaghvadah

Domone

llonelagb

The balliboe of carguis containing

Shanbrackagh

Clonecosn

Lurgamore

Shamacarrick

Derry ingerny

Murragh

Cargeighcalleglass

Agholisse

Tawnmore

Knockfeldy

Corgary

Clonenarny

Clonkaha

Clonspuble

Tanaghbrenagh

Deraughdoraugh

Shanemullagh

Corgan

Corhighshaune

The balliboe of Mullaghglasse containing the lands of Clanteer eboy

Braghgownegan

Mullaghlasseowtragh

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 c kf adagh

Knockon agh

Knockvey

Knocknecard

Knocknegelpe

Carnefragh

Knocknemengan

The balliboe of Tawnadee alias Tawnadee containing Cargroighet.

Tawnaghty

Lurgaghtawnak

Lurgaghcrannat.

Lurgaghnaehernagh

The balliboe of Tawnaghneogh containing the lands of

Lurganenagh

Knocknecardee

Knocknegawishe

Lurgaghneknock

Meanagh

Lurganowtra

part. of Lurgacorcooahie

Tile balliboe of Coronagh containi,ig lands of Lurgagh

Kedensharragh

Liscoranagh

Roavecoronagh

The balliboe of Creevaghbegg containing tbe lands of Knockduffe

Cor Cornmedmund

Mullaghneereevie

Carr Carricknedromon part of Cloncarr

The lan ds of Lisray alias Lierath containing one-third bb.

Tullywirrogg

Shanicargie - Liarath

The lands of Nunchenagb alias Vuchenagh, two-thirds bb.

L1strinagh alias Liedrinagh ½ bb.

Tulleharpee, 2 bb.

Corneshogagh 1 bb.

Ballymekrannigan 1 bb.

Lisnely, ¼ bb.

All in barony of Orier ,

Knockballybr1anboy alias Ballyknock, one bb. in or near Clanca n,

Created Manor of Ballymore witb power to empark 1000 &crea in free warren, . courts. etc. also licence to llold a fair at Tonrage~ alias Ballymore on 25th October for ever.

,!!ih February 19 Jamee 1 1 1621,

J)eed wtu,reby Oliver Viscount · wra Baron Culmore Edward Grandison, granted to Henry ~gie~, Kt., Master of the Rolls Blayney, Sir Francis 1 Thomas Rotherham Kt. • Sir Fulke Conway, Knight, sir h of Tonnellatly' i • thand Nathaniel Brayton, Rector or the ebarc n e county or Armagh, tb.e land or the -

2 Tullyhappies, 2 bb.

cornesb.ogagb., 1 bb.

BallymcKrangan 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.-lyke houses and a parke enclosed with a pale or 8 foote in height, conteyninge 300 acres of lande; and also one water mylle [mill] upon !be river Cowsher [Cusher]runeing upon the south side of Ballymore• •

SeeHill's "Plantation ~6 Ulster•, page 570.

Muster ROLL 1630

Ardmagh • 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 ,

Godfre y Watkin

s teaphen Booth )

Jamee Pringle l

Nicholas Wray l

Vi n e en Leighigb )

Charles Watkin l

MUSTER ROLL 1630,

Ardmagh - Barony de O Nealland.

Lord Grandison. Undertaker of 1000 acres. Toa names of his men and armes as followt-tli:,

Robert Balmer , Pike only.

Thomas Hall, s. only

George Rogere s. and Call.

Roger Birchall, S . only

Mathew Duke, s. and Call,

John Williams, s . and Call,

Robert Ingledue, Snap. only,

Thomas Wilson, S , and Snap,

Thomae Barrowes, S , only

Ralph Jackson, sw. only .

Melcheeedack Murteant , s. only

Thomae Warriner )

Robert Tynsly )

Humphre y Wisedome )

William Lambert )

Edward Calvert ) Calveet? )

Jamee Chambers )

John Dale )

Robert Atkinson )

John Rogare ))

John Gobbet No armee, Robert Calvert )) catvaet?

Lancelot Hodgson )

Alexander Brown• ))

William Atkinson

Christopher Seggs

John Ward

Morrice Williams

John Robinson

George stockdal S

John Meredath

ManorOR of CLARE.

Q1 the ~oth November, 1610, King James I granted 1,000 acres 1n Orior Barony to Francis Cooke Esq. The 1ands consisted of,

Tawnamore (.1)

Ballyclare ( 1) oromeneure ( 1)

Ballymoydagb. ( 1) Cloghoge ( 1) 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.

JOHN Bouchier

Grant to J o hn Bouchier Esq.

Ballibrackagh one bb . (otherwise unchenagb.)

Ballylisky one b b.

Mullavillie ½bb .

Balliknock one bb.

Tawnnavaltiny o ne bb.

Cornescribe one bb.

Cabie , Cloncoose -S bb.

co r treen "I\ bil .

1000 a c r e s.

Manor of Tawnavaltiny witb. 300 acres in demesne and court baron

30 November 8 James I, 161 0 .

Sir Job.n Bouchier knight 1000 providing material for building. •?res as servitor, is

Carew's Report, 1611.

Grant to Franc is Cooke ., Esg.

Tawnamore, one bb.

Balliclare

Dromeneeure a Ballymoydagh

Claghoge • Ballysheales, two bb.

1000 acres.

f•ated Manor of Balliclare with 500 acres and court baron •

• £8 fr o m Easter . 1614. Licence •to b.old Saturday market s, 11 tair on eve, day and morrow of s.s . . Philip and Jacob at Balliclareat rent of j/8 Irish.

~vember a James I, 1610.

Ca pt ain Francis Cooke, 1000 acres as servitor.

Henry Bouchier Esq. hath 2000 acres called Claire. n this prop o rti on there ie a bawne of lyme and stons Upon 100 f e et 1 n 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 p eedy finishing iner eof •

Pynnar 8 •survey, 1619

MUSTER ROLL 1630.

Ardmagb. Barony de Or ier,

Sir Henry Boocer, b.is servitor• lands being 2000 acres,

The name e of bis men and ar mes.

Ensigne Ricb.ard Ball, s . only

William Greere, S, only

William Carlel, s. only

Henry Hunter, S, only

John Glendony )

Robert Robineon, )

Henry Hunter, younger, )

Oliver Kennittee ) No armos,

John Halliwood )

Tb.omas Ball )

The Manors of Clare and Tamnavelton 1n 1722.

Deed ot 26 May 1722 . Reg1sterod 18 July, 1722 •

Jerome, Count de Sal1s and h1s w1te

Charles Lord V1scount Fane deceas' Mary daughter of viscount Fane, deceased, and Susan ei,;d ather of the last oowager Fane, w1dow of Charles Lord Y V1acountess

Wilson Simon Lunn and William Lunn Dublin Fane, George acting as trustees. n, Esqu1res,

To James Dawson ot Dublin, Esq. ,

An und1v1ded half of unchena and t b.e townlanda of Ballyl1sk

Ballyeb.1elbeg

Ballysh1elmore

Ballyknocke

Cloghoge

Cornescr iebe

let to

Jobn Trueman

Edward Overend

Thoe. Irw1n

Ralph Str 1nger

Ralph Melr1ck

John Harford

Jonathan Ben1 son

Richard Trotter

Ben. McClelland

Hugh McSpaden

Henry Harden

Thomas Snowden

Dan. Mccuen

Ralph Rob1nson

William Snowden don

John G1bson

James Adams

John McCraw

John Str1nger

Cormick Kelly

John Wright

Thoe. Pedlow

Wm. Gibson

Nath. McClelland

John llcllootney

John Odgers

William Maxwell11 Exors of the

Brackleys

Robert McCann

who pay £442 18, 7i yearly,

Thomas Campbell

Dan Drew

La. Marley

John overend

William Harford

John Ben1son

Wm. Snowdon

James Mccoen

Alex. llcClelland.

John Brand

John Snowden.

Pat. Manesh

James McCutching

William Gibsonbson

Meredith Workman

Also Clare, Corneacreibe, cordra1n and Mullintur and undivided b.alr of Cornescreibe David Henderson £14,13,4, 11•o !arms 1n Cornesereibeof Job.n Montgomery let at £44 ;lld James Reade aet a\ ,t14;13,4, Farms 1n Cordrain of William Glenn 1.5 , Robert Ewart£15, and Magill £87,10,

Farm• in Clare and Mullintur, held l>y heirs of Daniel Madden £13,11, and James McClelland t6,6,4t,

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

Kilry

Knockduff e als

Kilmanaghan

Ballineseorsagh

Gavan Icallon

By tb.e above patent the property became the Manor of 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, Arth ur 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

Drumbanagher -

The lands comprising the Manor of Drumbanagher were granted in 161 0 to Sir Garrett Moore, created Baron Moore of Mellifont in 1616 • . Four years lat.er he became Viscount Moore of Drogheda . His eldest son, Sir Edward Moore MP for Charlemont Co. Armagh) died without issue as did the se cond so7: Sir Thomas Moore Charles, the third son, became the 2nd Viscount Moore and his eon Henry wa s created Earl of nro g heda in 1661 . Sir James Moore of Ardee , the fourth son of Sir Garrett, also died without male iseue as did the six t h s on Col . Francis Moore. The fifth son Arthur Moore inh e rited Drumbanagher and died 9th April, 1635, leaving a son: John o f Drumbanagher, who died 1680 1 whose son, John, of Dru mbanagh er , ( born 1675, died 1752) was the father of John of Dru mbanagh er, born 1726. He diod in . 1809, leaving a son John of Dru mbanagh er ( 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 Rich ard 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) ma rried Catherine Butler of Ringhaddy , Co.Down, daughter of Capt. James Butler by his wife Dame Margaret Maxwell, widow of Si r Robert Maxwell , Baronet, of Ballycastle Co. Antrim daughte r .., 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 oth er 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 h is eldeet so n, 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 passe d) 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.

Maxwell 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 , Wes t mea tb., 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

Armagh Rambler's club minute May 9th 1930

CAPTAIN Anthony Smith

£!.!1't to Captain Anthony Smith.

Towards the keep and maintenance f castle at Moyry 0 ·the king's fort and

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.

The Moyre [Moyry] Castle, A pretty castle upon the park of lloyry built in tile time of the late Earl of Devonshire's government hare, at tb.e Queen's s 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.

The JCNESBOROUGH or Moyry CASTLE townlands.

Poll tax 1660.

Carrickbradagh 18 Irish.

Hearth MoneyRolls 1664.

carri ckbradagh

Patrick McEnally

Owen o Haverty

Foghilotrugh

Anthony Murphy

Patrick McEaowne

Foghiltragh:

Henry llurpby Art llcKeon

llanus Murphy

Pierce McCramir Tirlogh Bane McGally Shane lie Craner

ldmond Duffe McMurphy

Edencappagh:

Christopher Murphy

Dromintee

Donough McMurphy

William Oge o Hanratty

Rory O Brennan

Shane O Hanratty Pat . Bane McMurphy Owen McArt

Patrick Murphy Donna 11 11cGar ry

THE MOYRY CASTLE.

The Moyry Castle was b . lt to secure the famous Pass ui in 1601 by Lord Mountjoy had great difficulty in f or 1Gap, as the English always often been defeated tb.eref'c ng a way through and had hills were thickly wooded n;nd At one time the surrounding narrow, small numbers of m; ,as the passage was very considerable forces at bay~ were often able to keep

In the previous year h O'Neill in two battl ' owever, Mountjoy had defeated to clear away some o;"than~- fbollowing his victories decided t f e 1m er a~d build a little keep ?r tower O stone. This was enclosed within a bawn and 1s still one of the chief landmarks of that area and' a familiar sight to people travelling by train between Goraghwood and Dundalk.

When built the fort or castle ·•as equipped with certain lands and Captain Anthony Smi th was given a lease on the 15th June, 1606, for 21 years of the undernoted

Carr ickbradagb.

Drumnad

Oghi 11 Otra

Ogh111 Itra Domenty

and a parcel of Feede situate night to the N • and w. part of the mountain 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 Kilnesagart n1gb. to the castle of Moyry• .

Anthony Smith was Constable of Moyry and died 1 August, 1637 . He held two other townlands in Co. Louth, in all seven tonnlands , the whole according to a Chancery Inquisition of 1623 forming part of the parish of Ballymore A more detailed account aurv1ves in an Award of 31 May, 161' Wherein it is stated that the lands of lloyry Fort called Dromad, The Feed and Kilnasagart, formerly laid off to Moyry Castle, repu~ted to be part of Orior Barony 1n Armagh County and then in possession of Sir Oghie O'Hanlon, had been c laimed by Lord Moore as part of County Louth. It was decided tt,.e.t the land• should be equally divided, one half to Moyry Castle , end the other half to Lord Moore, who was required to give a lease at £40 yearly to Captain Anthony Smith then constable of the Fort,

The bounds were set out as "beginning at the f ord where th e bridge is now over the river, in the trade way fro m New r 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 Firrbreage and so in a straight li ne through a corner of a wood to a rocky mountain called the Fadd, to the height of t his mountain Whi c h seemth like a saddle from Firrbreage . All the other lands allotted to the c astle not to be challe nge d by Lord Moore . "

The lands challenged by Lord Moore seem to have been the townlands of Carrickkenanash als Plastere and Agh in skreagh, both of which ware undoubtedly in co . Louth but evide n tly 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 , at which date Richard was aged 7 yaare, The family held the lands up until 1661/62, at which time the y finally eavarad their intaraet in them by ealling to Thomas Clarke, than actually !.n possession. The lande afterwards passed to Roth Jones, the founder of the fortunes of the Jonas• family of Moneyglass and to the Johnston's. Jonasborough takes its name from the above Roth who was a kinsman of 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 doc1um 1 enit contains a long list of "rebels" amongst them the fo 011 ng names of local interest _

patr ick Moder O Hagan of Lissedoyne, Capt. Edmond Coggy O Hanlon of Tonregee

Ardell Oge O Hanlon " , •

patr i ck Oge O Hanlon

Capt . AnthonyMurphy of the Moyry

John Murphy , peter Murphy and_ divers or the Mc Cann• s, including Toole Mccann, then resident at Lurgan.

Despite the connection of the lands of carrickbradagh and Dromenty witrr Kilnasagart and the parish or Ballymore there is a record i n ar Inquisition taken at Mountnorris 5th November 16C6 'that the types of the four towns or Moyry en d the towns of Carrickbradagh and Dromenty were the prope rt y or the Abbey of Killeavy. If so, it is somewhat strange that they were not retained for the use or the rector of that pariah.

A Robert Smith of Moyry, Co. Armagh, married in 1616, Jane Colley, daughter of Sir Henry Colley of Castle Carbery , Co . Cork (ancestor of the famous Duke of Wellington) as his second wife , and by wrrom he had an only daughter Isabella Smith, wrro married the Rev . William Watson . Sir Henry Colley as "Surveyor of the Queen' s Victuals" was commissioned on 13trr April, 1563, to commandeer three horsemills and have them conveyed to Armagh for the use of the garrison there, a task duly executed.

Edward Smith, eldest son of Captain Anthony Smith (Constable of the Moyry) married before 1630, Anne West, daughter of Richard West of Ballydugan, Co . Down, by whom he had a t least two sons, Richard and James, Following tier husband• 8 death, and shortly before 12th February, 1638;. Mrs. Smith married secondly Bernard Ward of Castle Ward, Co . Down, .ancestor of the Viscounts Bangor

THE LANDS OF Munterheny •

By an Inquisition taken in it was found tb.at the ArchbishopArmagh on 12 August, 1609, the lands of - s op of Armagb. was seized of

Tirehoggane Aghlyose Mynclant

Dromnargill Ussenegloise Tawnagh McEdmond

in Orior Barony , which lands were then leased to Sir Oghie o•Hanlon thougb. •the llunterb.eny were tb.e ancient tenants• The concluding entry is of interest and showing that by • then the sept of the 0' Heney' s, from whom the parish derive~ one of its alternative names, had lost possession of their ancient patrimony.

The same document 1 states the sept of O'Hanlonb.sd then been in possession of the six towns of -

Tawnaghkaagh, Mulloglasse Carrigineietragh Carriginotragh

Lisboane,

The half to•n of Kiltowe

The half town of Dromlege,

for three hundred ar,d fifty years, paying to the Archbishop eight porks by tb.e year or money in lieu thereof, but that t.hose • 1a,,ds were neve r in tlis hands•. This is a puzzling admission in view of the fact that we have an entry in Archbishop Cromer's Registry under date 30 September, 1534, wherby it is c lear that Patrick Yheany, the Primate• s Chaplain, was then his tenant on -

The lands of llonterheny Dompnaghgreagh Mullaghglass Lyssbayn

Cargyn Netragh

Cargyn Yetraghe Bayll Drumnalagh Istercowe

but that Eugenius O'Hanlowyn, Captain of his nation, and Malachy 0 , Hanlowyn and others of bis bretbern, re.tainldnd usurped the lands against the will of the plaintiff. e Primate took 8 serious vie• of the matter and threaten tb.e 0'Hanlon• s with excommunication. The register does~ t dhcloe• how the o• Hanlon' s reacted but it seems evident

l. Cal. PatentRolls James I~ pp.374-375.

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 ro c t c oupled wi th the entry in the Inquisition sug g ests 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 founda ti on of the ancient church that later became known by that name through its association with the family, a sept who are said to ha ve bean originally herenachs holding directly under ecclesiastical authority. Some people indeed go so far as to credit them with ha ving been keepers of the so-called "Bell of Be lnaba ck ", and there may be soma foundation for the tradition At anyrate following it s redis covery 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 p ay £5 herriot fees, build an English- like 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 -

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 -

Terryhogan supposed to be same as Dorrygean,

Cb.ief tenant: Francis Lucas.

Francis Toner c.

John Ballane c.

Francis Hall c.

John King P,

William Clarke R, Murta McConwall R, Daniel o Ffaran R, Hugb. Ffeinan R.

Tb.OS, Atherwith p .

James Anderson p . Bryan Ffeinan R.

Ab.alisk als Belyhalost

Chief Tenant: Francis Lucas . Parisb. of T ,

Pat . Purdy P ,

Wm. Harvey P,

Hugh Mitchell P ,

John Harvey P.

David Kennedy P . Dr omegargole.

Jonn Porter P, Robert Porter p .

James Porter p .

Job.n Mitchellp, WilliamHarvey p ,

Chief Tenant: Francis Lucas.

Jas. Taggart c.

John Boyd P, Thomas Coharan p.

Munclint supposed to be same as Monkclone .

Chief Tenant: Francis Lucas,

Robert Hamilton P , John Gilmpre P . John Russell P.

Percy McCoddan R, Robert Ruske P , David Erwin P.

shanuglas .

Chief Tenant: Francis Lucas.

· ThomasHutchinson P , Andrew Crothers e. John Gordon P.

Townamaken •

Chief Tenant: Francis Lucas .

John Crothers p. James Crothers P. Owen carr o R.

~cary Inquisition, Armagh, 9th_ Septomber 1 1633 •

.lell-ds of the Archbishopric.

The said Archbishop and his tena t Mounterheyniewithin the Barony of Orior in the territory of lh••• lands fo llowing , viz . are in possession of

Tyrehowan Dromenargill

Aghloise

Leschengloise

Minclanit Tawnaghmackenna and in the said patent mentioned by these names _

Tawnamacken Derrycoogan

Shanuglas Menclone

Ballyhagloske Dromenargoole

The said lands are now found by the namesfollowing , viz .

TirecooganI one ball1 boe containing

Carghinoran , Knockannolan, Aghnaquirke with the bog of Aghnaquirk , Mullaghmore, Cornegrally, Tawnyglass, Tawnydreoagh, Corrynure, Carrycarra, Monywhiggerye, Aghnasce1gh, Moneknockin, and Knocknemairelagb. with tb.e bog.

Annagleske one balliboe containing

Annaghleske , Knockavoe , Logb.ter b.arran, Derrybarran , Barye , Lisdun , Tawneyreybegg , Agbanereynie , Killtheman with the waters, Eddanruskie and Timmericbam.

Minclunt one balliboe containing

Uskerryharran, Corryclare , Tullymacasye, Tawnyemalcreevie , Aghnaglaune, Tawnehallagh, Knockanknockannoyle, Tawnyamanusbattenye, Clountavelynee with the woods and waters .

Drumenargilley on e balliboe containing Carrickekeenetenhera , Carrickenygatt, Browagb.killye , Knockanaule Corren Devillish, Correnlurganagn Corringernan Knocknybrattegg Oorrinwoyle, Corrinlougb. and the logh: the Korconye Tourbanye, srannaghmore about the lough and Loughseirke

Shaneglish one balliboe conta ining

Ussnequoinegga, Carrickeneewoogarragh, Drumbolg, carrick-Igoan, Tullaghwarveror y , 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 TawnymacKenna.

The Lands of Munterheny 1n 1703.

Ashe' a Survey .

Townamacklan. This contains 140 acres 2 roods I 1 h Pl t -y 8 asure. John Crother is tenant and upon it 1~ : small farm house with a barn, stable, cowhouse and garden. There are besides some cottiers wb.o 'bave small tenements or cabins •

Sheneglass This contains' 127 acree roode Irish Plant. measure Robert Allen, tenant. He b.eth built upon it a small farmhou s e witn barn, stable, etc. and has some cottiers.

Drumonargoll John Boyd is tenant and bas upon- 1t a small farmhouse w1tn barn, stable, etc. Tb.ere is upon tb.is farm a fine youn g wood of oak and asb.. It covers about 20 acres of" land .

Monclent. Adam MacNare, tenant . A small house with barn , stable, etc. and under b.im are some cott1ers.

Aghlis. David Kennedy is tenant and has upon it a good farmhouse, barn, stable, cowbouee and garden, and has several c ott1ers with small tenements under him. (The great pass of Scarvagh leads up to Kennedy' e house 356 acres Irisb. Plant . Measure.

Turrehuggan 151 acres 1 rood profitable. 25 acres unprofitabl Thomas Everen, tanner, tenant and upon it a farm house with a barn, stable, etc. and there are under b.im four tenants who have eac n a small house with garden plots. There has been upon this farm a cornmill but it is now gone to decay an d the te n ant informs me that it wanted water and therefore was useless . There are some scrub wood and alder trees upon this farm as also four large ash trees which stand near the ho use . •here Redmond o Hanlon, the great Tory, lived.

Mrs Lucy Pointz [Poyntz] widow, then held tb.e _six towne under 1he Primate.)

Manor OF TAMNAVALTON.

The lands comprising tnis manor were granted to John Bouchier 30 November, 1610. Thay included the following townlands

Ba llybr ackagh als

Us henogh ( 1).

Cortraan ( 1/, ).

Mullavillell1e ( 1/~ ) .

B. Knocke o, .

Tawnavalting (1)

Cornaecribe ( l)

Cabrie ( 1)

Clone ooee ( l)

Ballyliskey ( 1)

The property was created the Manor of Tawnavalting and listed as 1,000 acres .

John Bouchier above, wae the 4th son of Capt . Sir George Bouchier, son of John, Earl 1 of Bath . Si r George Bouchiar came to Ireland in 1570 as a captain in the army, was knighted 1579, Ila star of Ordnance ,i n 1592, and died 24 Sept , 1605, leaving by his wife Martha, daughter of William, Lord Howard of Effingnam, with othee issue John Boucb.Bouchierier, above.

John, the grantee of the Manor of Tamnavalton, shortly afterwards acquired the Manor of Clare . Re was knighted in 1610/11, llember of Parliament for the County of Armagh 16131614, and died without issue 25th March, 1614, leaving bis two manors to nis youngest brother Henry Bouchier .

Henry Bouchier was knighted in 1621, made a Privy Councill or in 1641, and succeeded his cousin as Earl of Bath 2nd March, 1636-37 . He marr'ied 18th December , 1638 , Rachel Fane, daughter of Francie, 1st Earl of Westmoreland , and died without issue in August, 1654, whereupon the two manors became the property of hle widow and eventually of the Fane family from whom they passed by marriage to Lord sandwich and Count. de Salis. (See under Clare) .

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

The two Ballyshiels balliboes

Myralling eightra l~ballyboes

Ballymoydagh als Moydey ball1boe

Cloghan als Cloghoure one ball1boe

And the Mills of Clare

All 1n Orior Barony.

Tb.is manor , consisting of 1, 000 acres in o•Nealand Bar on y was gra n ted 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)

Loug hcoobeg ( 1)

Loughc oomore ( 1)

Aghorier ( 1)

Rolleston seems to have been a n 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 Fran c 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 depositio n 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.