The Parish of Kildarton and areas adjoining linked with it. l\.laterial used for talks to the Wastelands Women's Institute.
History of the Parish of' Portad01·1n by the Rev. J. B, Leslie, Curate of Portadown.
(A very valuable account by an old friend. Huch of the inforuation therein was destroyed in the burning of the Four Courts in 1922).
Lecture on the Parish of Mullaghglass by the Rev. J.B. Leslie, h.A.
Vestry Doings at Meigh
(Given to me by Dr. George Seaver, Dean of 0ssory) .
Tartaraghan townlands.
(From notes compiled by Canon Bookey, a former rector of Tartaraghan).
The Parish in 1657.
Recent burials in the "Toby Hole".
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KILDARTON.
Neighbouring parishes show pre-historic monuments of a type that may be dated to about 1,500 B.C. but in Kildarton no early relics remain excepting a travelling earthwork, contemporary with Emania, an enclosure raised in the year 350. B.C., and a number of earthen-ringed forts, all of which we shall consider later when studying the townlands of the parish individually.
For convenience and so that I may tell you as much as possible within the shortest time I propose dealing with the available material in diary fashion.
Patrick reached Armagh in the year 444 A.D. and was given a site for a church by Daire the then Chieftain, whose entrenched abode on the hill-top now crowned by the old cathedral, later became the site of his second church. We have no knowledge of how many years elapsed before the saint secured the second site, but we do know that he was responsible for Armagh's foundation as the ecclesiastical capital of our country, that he left behind him at his death churches and schools, and that Armagh soon became a place of pilgrimage and devotional study.
In the Tripartite life of St. Patrick we are told that the nine daughters of the King of Longbardia 1 and Monessin daughter of the >').ng of Britain, came on pilgrimage to Armagh, that they arrived at Coll-na-ningen (the hazel wood of the
virgins) on the east of Armagh and tha~ three of them diea and were buried there. The rest were directed to go to Drium Finned.ha but one named Crumtheris took up her abode at Cenngoba (the hill of grief) on the east near Armagh where she founded a religious cell which has been identified with a structure within ~c ,i.. the little circular graveyard nor~h of the present church. Petrie writing about a century ago described the building as an oratory co-eval with Patrick himself and stated that some ruins then remained.
T~e next reference to the little oratory occurs in 1861. At .that time there were certain old inhabitants who remembered it as a small oblong building showing well above ground level. a About the same time an excavation was made and portion of/wellfitting pavement was uncovered five feet below the surface. It would be interesting to learn how much now survives, but more interesting still to find references to it down the centuries from the days of Crumtheris. If portions were visible less than a century ago it must have received a certain amount of OM,cl,. care,Amay indeed have been a place of pilgrimage in preReformation days, but afterwards no doubt it quickly fell into decay.
Curiously enough it does not figure in the medieval registers of the Archbisho·ps ot Armagh under any recognizable name but we know from an Inquisition taken at Moyry Ca.stJe in 1608 that the
chiet rents of, Ternascobe and Mullyloughran were claimed by the Archbishop which pre-supposes antiquity in ecclesiastical ownership.
Having thus briefly dealt with that most important relic of the Early Christian Period and found myselI involved in the events 01· the 17th century I should perhaps say that the lands now comprising the parish then formed part of fourAestates for which we have Muster rtolls giving men and arms in the year 1630. The Rolls are of great interest especially when checked off against the Depositions made following the Civil War of 1641 - those we shall deal with also under our townland survey.
English and Scotch tenants had been settled on$ certain townlands before the war broke out but the district must have l;)een quite deserted on June 5th, 1646, when Monroe's Infantry and Artillery reached Hamilton's Bawn about midnight on the evening before the Battle of Benburb. We are told that the Infantry and Artillery rested there but that the cavalry pushed on to Armagh. The force consisted of 6,000 foot and 800 troopers and was, we may 01\JJ <1 . be sure, the largest bod~~of soldiers ever to pass through the /\ parish. The battle was fought the following day and resulted in Monroe being out-generalled and defeated by Owen Roe O'Neill.
In the Commonwealth period there· was a re-settlement of the area. A few families returned to claim the leases they held at the time of the Rebellion but the great _majority were new arrivalsthat is clear from the Hearth Money Rolls of 1664 _ from which we
get the names of the Irish inhabitants also. I\
We know very little as to what happened in the district in the WilliamiteWar. Armagh was occupied in turn by the forces of James and William just as in 1641-42 it had been held by the Irish and later re-taken by the English.
The Battle of the Boyne placed a Dutch prince on the throne, who besides having the distinction of defeating his father-in-law was a favourite with the Pope of those days, by whose orders the Bells of St. Peter's in Rome were pealed to celebrate the victory. As late as 1784 there was an old woman still living in. the neighbourhood whose husband had fought under William at the Boyne. In that year in a shop in Armagh she accidentally met an old man who had accompanied James on his visit to Arnagh and afterwards to the Boyne. They quarrelled bitterly about the political events of the pr,eceding century. That old lady lived to be 140 and her daughter died at the age of 120 years.
The opening years of the 18th century saw the revival and development of the linen industry in Ireland. Fifty years later practically every farmhouse boasted a weaving roomThe looms produced extra money DUt resulted in actual neglect of tillage so they were a bad proposition from the point of view of agriculture.
A few years later in 1769 an acre of l_an~ in Ternascobe was conveyed to Archbtshop Robinson for a church and churchyard
and in 1771 an estimate was set out for the churches of Kildarton and Ballymoran, now Lisnadill, the cost of the two buildings being estimated at £2,O13.12s.2d. The architect was the celebrated Thomas Cooley who added a note to the effect that if the galleries were not built and other minor economies carried out the cost could be reduced to £1,945.lls. Lisnadill wa~ afterwards erected on a new site but for some reason that I have not yet fathomed Kildarton did not come into being until almost the middle of the next century.
In 1?96 we have a rather amusing account of a journey through the parish written by a Frenchman named Latocnaye. He was coming 1P-M-Cl...v- o.. 1-=ll'-l"('"r'1 + from ArMJgh to Tandragee between which town and Armagh he met a company of Orangemen wearing orange cockades, some of them having ties of the same colour. Near Armagh he tells us that a woman said to him -"You have come from far my dear Sir, I hope your umbrella or the string of it will hot bring you into trouble". He laughed at her fears but on reflection thought that as his umbrella was greenish and the cord a bright green that others might make the same observation so he~ it off and hastened to the security of Armagh. The reference is of interest showing as it does that in the year following the Battle of the Diamond and the formation of the Orange Order, processions were in vogue in this area.
The parish or rather the townlands that now comprise the pariah had. exciting moments in the closing days of the lSth
century. We shall deal with those occurrences under the townlands concerned.
In 1840, Francis William, second Earl of Charlemontson ot the Volunteer Earl of Charlemont conveyed a site for the present church and the parish was formed out of Armagh, Lisnadill, Loughgall and Mullabrack. Under that arrangement the rectors of Armagh, Loughgall and M:uJ.labrack had alternative rights of nomination and paid £50, £26 and £24 respectively to the Perpetual curacy.
Strangely enough the communion Plate includes a chalice inscribed "Kildarton Church 1839". That pre-dates the church by twelve months. Other plate bears the dates 1841 and 1842.
The Rev. Henry P. Disney when appointed in 1840 had no church in which to officiate so the service was held in a schoolroom licensed for the purpose. With T.he Rev. Silver Oliver, REctor 01 Loughgall, he was largely instrumental in getting the church built. Seven years later he became rector 01 a parish in Go. Meath and died at Newtownhamilton in 1854 whilst on a visit to his brotner T,he -r,nen Incumbent ot that parish.
In 1841 the church was consecrated. Five years later the Vestry met and agreed to put an Act ot William the Third into operation regarding Sunday Observance. It was aimed at stopping "meetings on the Lord's Day in :.n..[ullaghbane, Drumbeemore, Edenknappagh, Edenvase, and Killeen or any other place within the pa,rish where such have been or sha11 be held which have hitherto
disgraced our parish". At the same time carriers were forbidden to travel, and persons playing hurling, commoNing, football, cudgels, wrestling and other games on the Lord's Day were liable to fines.
Disney •
In 1847 Mr.~~ was succeeded by the Rev. James Hardy who resigned in 1857 for the rectorship of Moylary in Co. Louth where he died in 1874.
In 1857 the Rev. J.R. Greer ,a former curate of Loughgall, was instituted. His tenure of Kildarton was an unhappy period from the point of view of the parishioners and his differences with them resulted in the Archbishop removing him for nonresidence in 1868. When he came to the parish there was no rectory - it was not built until 1860. In 1858 he was living in Victoria Street in Armagh. According to his story he was unable to find a house or rooms within the parish wherein to reside. By 1865 he seems to have been neglecting his duties. There is a letter of that year in the Beresford Correspondence from Archbishop Lord John G. Beresford ordering him to celebrate morning and evening service in the church. In the follo~ing year he published his famous pamphlet - nA Pastoral address to the Parishioners of Ki lda,rton on Orange Flags on Churches". From that time onwards there was much disagreement in the parish and from a study of the events leading up to it I think the troubles were largely of his own making. The most impartial account of the affair that I know of was published ih 1869. It shows that
when Mr. Greer was appointed in 1858 he was received with respect, h.Q.... ~that upon his marriage ha.d been presented with an address, a gold I\ watch and chain and later was assisted to build a glebe house. Af > that time it had been the custom to celebrate the victories of Derry, Aughrim and the Boyne, and we are told that the new pastor was already an Orangeman when he arrived.
It had not, however, been usual before he came to place a flag upon the church 1 but upon him remarking to some five or six young lads that the belfry looked bare without one they took the hint and a flag was flown without objection until 1865. In that y~ar he told the sexton he did not wish it put up but the sexton neglected to tell the young men in question consequently the flag was flown. This resulted in Mr. Greer refusing to enter the church pn Sunday, July 2nd, unless the flag was taken down. That was impossible so he was asked to hold the service and assured that the flag would be removed next day. He refused, however, to comply with the request and went home.
On the next Sunday he kept the church and gates locked. The following Saturday he had the flag taken down but that evening the young people put up another and placed a second on the east gable.
On the third Sunday he arrived at the church accompanied by a party of 25 police armed with guns and bayonets but the constabulary finding the congregation quiet refused to order the removal of the flags. One of the churchwardens then asked Mr.
Greer to take the service but he again refused unless the flags were removed. This was done the following morning and he held the services as usual on the following Sundays.
About that time charges of neglect of duty were preferred against -him. He remained in the parish a further six months but the congregation boycotted the services. He then applied for a year's leave of absence and never returned. He did, however, make allegations about his house having been surrounded day and night by a mob armed with guns and pistols and that shots had been fired, at the same time accusing his parishioners of not caring about any laws or indeed about anything excepting King William! These charges were refuted by the then churchwardens William Wiley and John Henderson and by the following ex-churchwardens William Barrett, Senior, Hugh Brown, William Emerson, W.B. Wilkins, Hugh McLaughlin, William Barrett, Junior, Alexander Hare, William Macartney, .James Crozier, Jacob Barrett, and G. Hampton, who made a very spirited defence.
His successor in the parish was the Rev. Alexander Staples Irwin. He was instituted in 1868 and in 1870 resigned for Tamlagh whereupon the Rev. Henry Crossle Irvine, one of the most beloved pastors to ever hold Kildarton, became the first Incumbentearlier pastors were perpetual curates only.
Mr. Irvine was accustomed to spend a holiday in E~gland .J!IWP]_ each year and generally made an interchange with an English parson. The first one to officiate for him read the service so quickly that
the congregation t·ailed to understand him. To make matters worse each time he crossed to the centre of the church in the reading of the Scriptures "he bowed to everything". The parishioners thought some form of Romanism was being intruded upon them so nobody turned up tn the evening. That Sunday was
long remembered in the parish as .the "day the Englishman preached"• On a second occasion during his incumbency another Englishman was preaching when the Miss Peels of Hockley walked into church. It was a fine day and they were dressed in white. As they walked up the aisle the minister gave out his text - "Who are these arrayed in white and from whence came they". He then looked round the church and repeated the text. By this time the ladies had almost reached their pew. He then coughed and gave it a third rendering whereupon a member of the congregation stood up and addressed the astonished parson. Said he "sure they're the Miss Peels and everyone knows they come from Hockley".
About that time an old lady kept a shop near the church who was able to tell fortunes, read teacups, etc. According to tDadition she was able to foretell how courtships would prosper so she was much in demand by the young people of the parish. She was somewhat odd I fear for one of her fixed opinions was that any woman who bore a son was sure of Heaven. She is reputed to have advised young mothers on the care of children. "Keep their heade cool and their bottoms dry" was the counsel most often given.
It may be that the same old lady solved the problem of a parishioner who had promised his wife on her death-bed that he would never walk into church to marry another woman. Tradition says that his wife was not long buried until he was looking around again. The whole parish was interested and when the wedding day arrived there was a great crowd at the church to see how he would avoid breaking his vow. He had talked the matter over with somebody and it was decided that he should go into the church on the sexton's back and thus keep his pledge.
There is another sto~y relating to that period concerning a young man from Drumbee. He was very poor and had not received any education. According to the tale he was born in the year of the bad praties -that is the year of the Famine. He is said to have turned up one Sunday during Mr. Irvine's incwnbency with the lady of his choice,to have a baoy baptized,and,that the rector asked whether it had been born in holy wedlock whereupon the father replied "No your reverence she was born in Drumbee .just by the~ bog".
Mr. Irvine died suddenly on Jun4 20th, 1885, returning from ~he Sunday School excursion and was buried at Kildarton. He was succeeded by the Rev. H.E. Sandford who resigned the parish in 1888 for Killylea. He married Miss Stanley of Armagh by whom he had four sons and two daughters, the youngest being the wife of Canon 1w,ltby, the present rector of Ballygawley. Mr. Sandford was followed by the Rev. Thomas Kingsborough who resigned in 1921
whereupon the Rev. W.F.A. Ellison (Director of Armagh Observatory) was a-ppointed. He died in 1936 and the parish then became united with Lisnadill and so continues.
Before proceeding to dee.l with the tovmlands ot the parish in detail we should perhaps brietly discuss the families in whom the lands became vested in the opening years of the 17th century. The parish consists of twelve tovmlands in the Barony of Lower Fews and seven in the Barony ot 0'Neilland West. The Fews portion contains -
Calone Drumbeebeg Drumennis Edeneknappagh
Derrynaught Drumbeecross Drumsavage Kileen and in 0'Neilland there are -
In 1610 Drumbeebeg, Drumbeemore, Ednaveaghs, Edenknappagh and Killeen ·were granted with other lands now situate in Lisnadill Parish to ClaudeHamilton, but were later successfully claimed as church lands by the Dean of Armagh. Hamilton was allowed to retain Killeen as he had built a bawn tnereon and settled some British families around it but another -cownland had to be provided for the Dean in lieu of Killeen. This reduced Hamilton's holding from 1000 acres to a mere five hundred so he quickly sold the remainder to John Hamilton of Monellan, now Hamilton's Bawn.
The Claud Hamilton property was known as the Manor of Edenveagh and although that particular townland reverted to the Church the remaining part of the estate continued under that name.
The quarrel between Claud Hamilton and the Church began in 1609. On August 12th of that year the Dean produced an ancient book by which he claimed the profits of the five townlands mentioned. The jury, however, decided against hi~ finding "that he did not appear a,t any time to have been in possession of them though they admitted that he received six shillings, one mutton and one losset of butter annually out of each of them. A year later they were granted to Hamilton but in the following year the Dean regained possession and from then onwards the Church held them.
Derrynaught, Derryraine, Drumbeecross, Drumennis, Drumsavage and Lenalea farmed part of e,n estate of 1000 acres granted to William Lawder in 1610 and styled the Manor of Killyruddan. Lawder sold out to John Hamilton in 1614 who in the following year purchased the adjoining Manor of Magheryantrim from James Craig to whom it was granted in 1610 and in 1629 he had a re-grant or confirmation of the two nanors under the title of the Manor of Johnstown alias Dromergan.
We have now dealt with all the lands of the parish situate in the Fews, excepting Calone - it was Church property and did not figure in disputes - we shall, however, have more to say about it later.
John Hamilton, the purchaser of the various Manors was a cadet of the ducal house of Hamilton, and brother of James Hamilton, Viscount Claneboye, ancestor of the Earls of
Clanbra.ssil of the first creation (a peerage that became extinct in 1675) and of William Hamilton, ancestor of the Earls of Clanbrassil of the second creation.
John Hamilton died in 1639 and was succeeded in his Armagh estates by his eldest son, Hans, who was an officer in the army in 1641 at which period the castle or bawn of Hamilton's Bawn is said to have been greatly damaged. It was, however, afterwards repaired. Hans was a Member of Parliament for Armagh and in 1662 was created a baronet. He died in 1681 and was buried in the family vault at Mullabrack with other members of the family. Of his children only one reached maturity, his daughter Sarah who married Sir Robert Hamilton of Mount Hamilton, Co. Armagh. She died before her father leaving a son Hans, of whom presently.
Sir Hans of Hamilton's Bawn left his esta,tes badly encumbered and his son-in-law Sir Robert Hamilton (who is reputed to have fought for King James) had also been careless in financial affairs with the result that young Sir Hans had to apply to Parliament for leave to sell portion of his estate to settle the debts incurred by his grandfather and father. Permission was given for the sale and the lands of the Manors of Edenveys, l Killyruddan and 1fugheryantrim became the property of various people. The Achesons of Markethill obtained Hamilton's Bawn and the castle and leased the latter to the Government for a barracks in 1731. The larger portion, however, was acquired by the Grahams of Ballyheridan.
We shall now investigate the lands in the Barony of O'Neilland. Mullyloughran was Church Land and as such was not dis:;,uted. Altaturk, Legavilly, Mullabane Mullansilla, Rathdrumgran and Tirenscobe were part 01' a grant of 1000 acres passed to .John Dillon in 1610. The lana_s were erected into the l.tianor of Mullabane but :rollowing a regrant of 1629 they became the Manor ot· Gastledillon
.John Dillon, the grantee of the estate, died in 1637. His eldest son, .John, predeceased him leaving a son Henry who became heir to his grandfather and sold the property in 1650 or rather as much of it as then remained. .Iii s mother vvas Mabel, daughter
of Sir George Sexton. She later married Michael Doyne, a Roman Catholic. She was living at Hockley in the troubles of 1641-42 and though unable to help her co-religionists openly assisted them in every way possible as may be verified by several depositions made by her tenants and ~s .
.John Dillon, the elder, like several of his neighbours seems to have been handicapped by lack of money. At a.nyrate by 1636 he had mortgaged Rathdrumgran part of Mullansilla, Altaturk, and 1art of Tirnascobe, with certain other parcels that do not come within the pa~ish -therefore need not be dealt with -to William, Lord Charlemont, for. a sum of £2,000, and not being redeemed the la.nde in question became vested in the Caulfeilds which brings yet another ~amily into the story of Kildarton parish.
Sir Toby Caulfeild, founder of the family fortunes, was a distinguished soldier and had served ~ueen Elizabeth in other countries before coming to Ireland where he eventually secured lands in nine counties. His estate contained every variety of landed property, including grants of rich abbey lands amongst which were the very extensive grange-lands of the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul of Armagh granted in 1607. Following the flight of the Earls in that year he was appointed Receiver of Tyrone's rents and from 1613 to 1615 he was a Member of Parliament for the county of Armagh. On December 22, 1620, he was created Baron Charlemont with rerrainder to his nephew Sir William Caulfeild who succeeded him as 2nd Baron Charlemont in 1627 ana{was the ancestor of the present Viscount Charlemont. The family became Viscounts in 1665 and acquired an Earldom in 1763 -the latter honour became extinct in 1892.
The Caulfeild mortgage deprived the estate of practically the whole of four townlands but Mullabane, Legavilly and Mullansilla remained with certain other townlands that do not come within our survey. These were all Encumbered by later Dillon mortgages, marriage settlements, etc. but by 1663 most I of these had been acquired by Samuel Molyneux, the then Chief engineer of Ireland 1 who eventually paid off all charges and thus became the ovmer. He was the son of Daniel Molyneux, a fe.mous Ulster King-at-Arms and grandson of Sir Thomas Molyneux, one of the benefa.ctors of Trinity College in the days of its foundation.
Samuel Molyneux of Castledillon died in 1692 leaving with other issue a son, William, the author of "The Case of Ireland I Stated". He died in 1698 leaving a son, Samuel, a great mathematician who died without issue whereupon the estate passed to his father's brother, Thomas.
Thomas Molyneux was created a baronet in 1730 and was the ancestor of the Molyneux baronets down to Sir Ernest, 10th and last baronet, who died without issue some years ago whereupon the ba.ronetcy became extinct.
Having thus dealt as briefly as families of the parish we shall now uossible with the landed ro Ct ~r;::c:lA.t ,r.f ,-:i.eo.~- -n 4 pass on~ the individual I\ townlands. For convenience sake we shall study them in alphabetical sequence.
In order to deterr•1ine derivations of place-names it is essential thc:t in each case fi1e oldest available form should be studied. This has been done in so far as is possible COLSidering ihe very limited sources at our disposal. For t:J.e r_;ounty generally ,.·:e :·1ave no to--rr1la1~d guide of earlier da.te than the ?lantation 1.Iap of 1609 and it cannot always be relied upon 0'.7i ng to lack of kno-··ledge of Irish on the -part of the uerson~ responsible for its com9ilation.
The medieval Registers of the Archbishops of Armagh are hel-pful as regards parishes but of little assistance in dealing with place-ne.mes of the townland type. The rn.a.jority of the r..arnes as 1,-:e know them date lJack to remote antiquity despite their now anglicised chara.cter. Such, for instance, is :r~avan, a tovmla.nd west of the Gity of Arma,gh, containing the rerr,ains of the asse:-:1bly--pla.ce of Emania f ov.nded about tl1.e year 350 !.'.S.c., and t.;reeveroe, an adj oinini:i,: to,711land associa,ted ·::-;ith t} 1 e Red Branch Knights a fa.r::ous Ulster order of chive.lry that flo~rished in the ~irst century A.D.
~he introduction of Christianity in the 5th century led to a nurrt~r 0f fresh names in our loca.l to7)orrrP.phy such a.s Kil], 'I'eL1ple, ~~Jish, etc. all of v~ich sipnify a church, hence Kildarton, :iJ""l0re, Y.ilcluney, KilleavyKilleen, Eglish c:-.nd other co,mty nr•~a of that ~rou~.
··:i th .,(i Kildarton c0·.)rise it, , shal 1 2,lso de2l YJith five ot·1~r +. 1-r-•n~r.:.rds, one i1 tll·:.- ··J&cis,1 of Arm2 gh and four i. n Mullabracka.bra.ck.
1. Kildarton. Darton seems to be a :personal name and the meaning would prob~,bly be "The church of Dart on". It may be that it derives from a Dartinne, Virgin, linked with Co. Wicklow, who being a contemporary of St. Patrick may well ~ave had a church dedicated to her at Armagh.
2. Altaturk. "The height of the boar". The pref ix 'a.lt 1 is pretty generally spread throughout the country and forms the first syllable of about 100 townlands in the four provinces. In Armagh, for instance, we have Altnamackan (the hill of the wild parsnips) and Altanaveigh, which may mean "the cliff of the ravens". It also occurs as a combination in Drurnaltnamuck "the ridge of the glen ofthe pigs". The wild boar ( tore) formerly abounded. :Boars are oft-en mentioned in old poems and tales and the pursuit of them was one of the amusements of the people. Altaturk must have been a resort of such animals as also Drumhirk - 11the ridge of the boar" - a tovmland near Keady.
3. Calone. "Owen's hazel". The hazel (coll) was in the past held in great veneration and figures in legend and folklore. Who Owen (Eogain) was we do not know. It is not likely, however, that
he was the same person as gave name to the territory of Tyrone - he died in the year 4n5 A.D. and was ancestor of that bra.nch of the O'Neill who later became all-powerful in Armagh.
4. Derrynaught. "The oakwood of the hill-breast". Derry (doire) is one of the most prolific roots in Irish ple,ce-na111es giving na.me to about 60 townland and entering as a prefix into the names of over 500 others, an indication of the former abundance of such trees. It occurs in County Armagh as a place-name and in ve.rious combina.tions. The situation of the townland on the breast (uchta) of rising ground is indicative of the origin of the termination.
5. Derrvraine. "The oak wood of the ferns". Raine is derived from 11rathain 11 meaning ferns. They probably grew in profusion in the days when the tovmland was wooded. They give name to numerous places.
6.- Drumbeebeg, Drumbeecross and Drumbeemore. "The ridge of the food or provisions", in other words productive ground. Drum (druim) is one of the most common root names and figures as a prefix to about 2,400 places besides an equal nunber in which it is combined. Bee (bid) means food or provisions a.nd the terminations of the three tovrnlands signify little (beg), cross, probably an ancient track or crossing, and big (or more) meaning the larger. Such terminations are frequent in the county -for instance Annaghmore, the great moor
or marsht Ballymore, the great town; Ballynahonebeg, the little town of the river; Ballynahonemore, the great town of the river, etc.
?. Drumennis. "The ridge of the holm or island 11 • Inis gives name to a vast number of places but in every individual case whether the word means holm or island must be determined by physical configuration of the place. It occurs in another form in Ennislare, the middle island or holm, a tovmland near Armagh on the main road to Keady.
8. Drumsavage. 11Savage's hill or long ridge". a family or clan.
Derives from
9. Edenaveys. "The hilJ brow of the ravens 11• Eden ( eudan) is a common term for the forehead but topographically denotes a hillbrow. It is in itself the name of a few places and forms the beginning of more than 100 other names, some in Co. Armagh such as Edenderry, the hill-brow of the oakvrood, etc. The raven is designated by the word "fiach". It was at one time to be found in every county but is now somewhat rare.
10. Edenknappagh. "Hill brow of the tummocks 11 • Cnap ~pronounced knap) literally means an knob or lump of anything, but in its secondary sense is applied to small round hills and gives name in various combinations to many places. It appears also as Knappagh, meaning a place of knobs or hillocks, a form to be found in the ~arieh of Eglieh some four miles from Armagh.
11. Killeen. "A little church". The root word cill is very well represented in each of the four Provinces and it is estimated that about 2,700 place names derive from it most of them urefixed 'by the names of saints or founders. In its diminutive form of Killeen it comprises the name of about 80 townlands. Killeen in South Armagh also contains a church site. Combined with other words it gives name to places like Shankill (old church), Mullanakill (church hill), etc. As a prefix it occurs in Killbracks (the speckled church), Kilmore (the great church), etc.
12. Legavilly. "Hollow of the ancient tree 11 • Lug "a hollow" appears in various county names such as Legahory, •~he hollow of the cauldron•~ and Legmoylan Moylan's s hollow". Billa, meaning a tree, • occurs as a termination in Mullavilly - "the hill-top of the ancient tree". Both words are common in other counties.
13. Lenalea "The grey meadow 11 • Lena means,in a general sort of way, swampy or wet meadow, a.nd is in common use in Ulster. Liath (pronounced leea) is the same as the English word grey and occurs also as a termination in Lislea - grey fort - of which there are four examples in the county.
14. Mullaghbane. Mullach signifies the top or summit, and as a root word it.forms the beginning of upwards of 400 names. Ban denotes white or whitish. Both words are common in the county in various combinations.
15. Mullansilla. ' "The summit of the willows". Mullan is the diminutive of Mullach and is generally apylied to a low and gently sloping hill. Saileach, now anglicised as 11 sillagh 11 denotes a place where sallows o-r willows grew in some profusion. Both words occur in other combinations in the county and Mullan appears in one insta.nce in its simple form.
16. Mullyloughran. 110'Loughran's hill-top". Derives from a I person or family. The prefix is a cornr10n one arising from llullach "a hi 11 11 •
17. Rathdrumgran. The f.ort of the bushy ridge. Rath, lis, etc. der:ote ringed enclosures and in their various forms are common throughout the county - the f ollovling examples illustrate the point -
Rathcarbry - Carbry's rath or fort.
Rathconvil - Conwell's rath or fort.
Rathcumber - fort of the confluence.
Rathkeelan - Keelan's fort.
Rathtrillick - fort of the three stones.
Lisadian - fort of the fastness
Lisavague - fort of the whey
Lisbane - white fort
Liscalgat - fort of the champions.
Lisdruma.rd - fort of the high ridge.
The list could be greatJ.y enlarged especially under '' li s".
Gran seems to be a corrtj.ption of 'greannach I meaning bushy. Dr~ we have already discussed.
Altogether there are about 48 townlandsnamed Ra.th and over 700 where Rath is the initi.al syllable of the name.
18. Tirnascobe. "Land of the brooms". Tir is a connnon word for land and in its various forms begins about 180 place names. Scuab (pronounced Scoob) means brooms. Possibly a place where me,terial was available for the making of brooms. The prefix occurs in a number of county names such as Tirsogue - the land of the fairies. The following townlands form part of the adjoining parishes of Armagh and Mullabrack -
I. Killuney. "The Church of St. Loona 11 • We have no information as to this saint but as the townland contains a church site we may assume the derivation to have some foundation in fact. Situate in the parish of Armagh.
II. Moynellan "The plain of the little glenside or cliff". The pref ix in this case deri i(es from the •11ord magh, meaning a plain and is fairly comm.on appearing a,s a narne or initial portion of a name in over 230 cases. The termination seems to be a form of ailla rock or cliff. Parish of Mullabrack
III. Killyruddan. "0'Roddan's wood". Mullabrack Parish.
IV. Drumorgan. Morgan s ridge or long hi 11 11 • Mullabrack Parish.
V. Drumachee. "Ridge of the way or pass". Probably derives from an ancient trackway that crossed the ridge. Mullabrack Parish.
ALTATURK.
The townland contains some evidences of antiquity in the form of two earthen-ringed f0rts, that known as "Allen's Fort" having been the larger of the two. It is, however, practically destroyed, but a portion remains preserved in a field fence. The second example kno"i'ffi as "Nichol's Fort" has a fairly well preserved ring with good enclosing rampart and trench. A stone hammer-head was found within it in 1912 by 1Kr • .John Nichol and is now in the County Museum.
In 1629 .John Dillon was given leave to alien Altaturke, Mullantrine, Rathdrumgran and Ternascobe to Irish tenants for periods not exceeding 40 years or three lives, provided they built close together and conformed to English manners, a liberty that seems to have been allowed because of the coarseness of the lands. From a settlement of the Dillon estate in 1631 we learn that those lands were "commonly knovm by ye name of ye Waste Lands".
It seems probable that the lands of Altaturk were let to Irish tenants as the Poll Tax of 1660 shows 17 Irish on Altaturk and Ternascobe. They must, however, have been in poor circumstances for only one name - that of Patrick Brannigan is shown as paying Hearth Money Tax in 1664.
From various sources we know that the townland had a change of tenants following the Williamite War. In the early 18th century most of it seems to have been in possession of the Dobbin
Altaurk ( 2) .
family. By 1752 other names appear with the Dobbinsuch as the MorrisonKiggan's, Filly's, Spence's, Gillespie's, Deakin's, Warren's and McCullagh but by 1762 the Spence family had been replaced by the Loney's. Another list for 1774 shows the Dobbin's, Morrison Gillespie's, Warren's, Pilly's, Deane's and McCullagh
A survey of leases of the Charlemont Estate made circa 1820 gives details as to dates of leases then in being and as under:-
Thomas Gillespie
Leonard Dobbin
James Morrison
Robert Dobbin
David Hamilton
Oliver Dobbin
Cormack Dougan
Hugh McKiggan
William Barrett
William Gordon
Henry Pilly
Thomas Pilly
William Morrison
Henry McKiggan ggan
William McCullagh
Robert Deacon
In 1824 the following names appear:-
William Gordon
William McCullough
Thomas Deacon
Hugh McKiggan
William Dobbin
William Mccart
George Morrison
Robert Deacon
William Barrett
William Morrison
Alexander Hamilton
1'7Tenty years later the same surnames were in evidence with the addition of Fair, Nichol and Pillow then replacing the older form of Filly.
Miscellaneous Material.
Freeholders' Lists for 1815-1819, 1825, 1826, 1832 and 1839.
Freeholders' Lists 1815-1819.
Barrett, William and Gregory 1815
Barrett, Gregory, John and William 1819. Deacon, Thomas 1819. McCullagh, Archibald, and William 1815. McLoughlin William 1815
Pillow, Samuel and John 1815.
Filly Thomas 1819. Pelby, Henry 1819. Waring, Carson, 1815. Whitrocktlock, John, 1819-.
Freeholders' Lists 1825.
Pillow, Henry and Thomas. Mccart, Willia.m.
Barrett, Wm., Gregory, Dobbin, John.
McKiggan Hugh. Deacon, Thomas. Morrisonson, John and William. Mccullagh, Archibald and William.
Freeholders 1 Lists 1826.
Nichol, David. Fare, John Senior and Junior and Edward.
Freeholders' Lists 1832.·
Gordon, William. Morrison, George, Adam. McKeegan, Henry. McCullagh Samuel.
Part of the Manor of the Archbishop of Armagh and held in earlier days by the Dean. According to the Poll Tax of 1660 it contained three Irish, - Laughlin, O'Heile and Teage McViney appear as paying Hearth Tax in 1664.
A rental of the Hanor of Armagh for the year 1714 describes it as a townland belonging to the Dean of Armagh and shows a complete change of tenants. List as under -
Wil1iam Bleane John Blaine. Archibald Gleney. Henry Ferguson Lowry Liggett all Presbyterians.
Alex. Blaine. James Eakin Daniel Gleney James Chambers
Miscellaneous Material.
Griffith's Valuation of 1864.
Gray, John S~nior and Junior Gray, James Senior and Junior. Woods, James Black, James. Ferguson, George. Corry, Samuel.
Bartholomew William. Hamilton, James. McMahon William, Samuel, James Frazeft, Alexander.
Simpson, James Somerville, Thomas. Jeffers, James Allen, William. Alexander, James H. National School.
Boll, David and Samuel. Hall, Alicia. Hutchinson, William. Black, James. Montgomery, William. Tate, James, John, Alexander. School House.
Largey, Michael. Kilpatrick, Mary.
MULLANSILLA..
Part 01· the }1Ianor of Mullabanelabane, later Hanor oi Castle dillon Dillon.
The Poll Ta."<: shows 4 British and 18 Irish in 1660 but in 1664 only tive people -paid Hearth Honey Tax -
Thomas Hodson, Samuel Hutchinson, Henry Seegerson, Ovren McDowne , Henry O' O'Neill le. Ui scella.neous 1'.1:aterial.
AntYquities.
Running's Fort. Sits on a high hill and has been~ very tine specimen but is now greatly destroyed.
The Ring Hi 11 on same tovvnland is a 1 e,ndlord' s 11 landscape plantation".
The :M:aps of 1835 show· a pound in this· town land close to the school-house.
Renta1s.
The CastleDillon Rentals show leases as under:-
29 September 1691.· Alex. Hall.
29 Septer'lber 1692. Alexander Hutchins on, son of' Sa2:1uel, son ot
old Andrew. The Hutchinson' s appea.r on a list 01 tenants I or 1631 but unI ortunately it gives no tmmla.nds.
Mullansilla ( 2) . Rentals. (cont'd).
25 March, 1693. Jonn Clarke, John Gill, William Duncan, John Black, and John Wright - the latter under date 1694, and Robert Running, the younger, Uichaelmas 1697.
Rentals of 1721-1722 give the following__}ist:-
Clark Harmon McCall Johnston Hutcheson Spence
Rentals of 1828 mention:-
Connor McLeveney Wiley Gervin Kennedy Graham Hutcheson Mallon Pillow
Armstrong McKee Harrison Running Wright Running McLeveney Hughes Ogle
Charlemont Rentals shovr that -
Lord Charlemont leased his part of Mullansilla 31st May 1692, to James Robb, Robert Dobbin, Thomas Dobbin and Joseph McClelland
Freeholders 1 Lists 1814-1819.
Conner, John 1819. Hutchinson, Thos. and John 1814. Kennedy, William 1818 Wiley, Samuel 181~. Running, John and 1:Vm.1814
Conner, Peter 1819. Hutchinson, Oge 1819 Jenkinson, John 1814. Kerr, Andrew 1819. McDonagh ':fr1. 1814. Whitfordtford, John 1814
Kennedy, William.
Freeholders' Lists 1825.
Running John and Hugh. Wyley Wm. and Sam.
Freeholders' Lists 1822.
Wright William
F~eeholders' Lists 1826.
HutchinsonJohn and Thomas. Mellan Hichael and 'Jilliam. Wiley, Alex. Whitfordtford, John.
Griffith's Valuation of 1864.
Kennedy, Wmlliam, Thomas. School House
Rafferty, '.ii 1 7 iam. Deery, John. Wright William. Ross, Rooert. Cullen, James McGill11, Henry Graham, In:argaret Jenkinson, John Hutchinson, Alex., Ogle, John. Girvan, Lrargaret Templeton, George Running, William, John Downey, James Quinnnn, Pa.t. Eoyle, Ann Creany, John Loney, Joseph
Hoore, James Bolden Thomas
Stewart, Ellen, Ogle. Orr, George. McKeegan Henry HcComb, Robert. Hughes, James JC:cDermott, Roderick Allen, Samuel. Lappin, John Pearson, Robert Senior & Jun. Wiley, Samuel and Ann. Whitelock Ha.urice. Birch, William, James. Mallon, Michael, John Dogherty, Joseph O'Hare, Ann
Jenkinson, Wm. Sen. and Junior. Allen, David. McGill11 , John Senior and Junior. Morrisonson, Adam.
DERRYNAUGHT.
In 1694, Sir Robert Hamilton, Bt., son-in-law of Sir Hans Hamilton of Hamilton's Bawn, leased the tovmland to John McDowell for 31 years. He was :probably the son of the John McDowell who with John Reilly paid Hearth Money Tax in 1664.
In 1?07 there was a release made by the trustees of Sir Hans Hamilton's estates of the lands of Derrynaught to John J•.foDowell, presumably the first named. Two years later (24th :November, 1709)
John McDowell leased to Daniel McDowell and on October 31, 1729, he made an agreement with John and William Moody.
On March 9, 1782, Caineham McDowell conveyed the lands to Ann McDowell - he was probably the son of James McDowell of Derrynaught who on March 31, 1748, married at Mullabrack Miss Cainehan of Markethill.
Anne McDowell described as the eldest child of James IicDowell resold her interest to Caineham McDowell, for £1,000 on same day and on October 18, 1782 he made a conveyance of portion of the townland to John Marshall. Both interests were bought out in 1794 by Archbishop Robinson who presented the townland to the Armagh Observatory as an endowment. In those days there was quite an extensive wood on the property - the maps of 1835 show it on both sides of the road.
The McDowells were an interesting family. They are said to have been descended from a John McDowell of Freugh, son of Patrick McDowell by his wife
MargaretHaltridge, ·whose sister married Iaaa,c Macartney of Belfast, member of a very di t · . s in~u1shed family
DERRYNAUGHT ( 2) .
that included the famous Earl Macartney and Sir John McCartney of Lish, Co. Armagh.
John McDowell married Elizabeth Dalrymple, sister of William Dalrymple Creighton, 5th Earl of Dumfries, whose father William Dalrymple had married in 169? Penelope Creighton, Countess of Dumfries,in her own right the holder of a title that could be transmitted to daughters as well as sons, and so it came to pass that Patrick McDowell, son of John McDowell and Elizabeth Dalrymple, became the 6th Earl of Dumfries. Miscellaneous Material. •
antiquities
The townland contains two fort sites, one known as "Browne's Fort" was broken up in 1921 by Ur. William Browne but is still easily traceable., The second, a large single-ringed example, is now known as "Hutchinson' s Fort", but the 1·arm seems to have previously belonged to the Noble family.
In a field near one of the forts (in 1929) there was an unlaboured portion of ground that according to local tradition was a cemetery of some sort.
Derrynaught H'l' ( 3) •
Tythe Payers' Lists for 1834 show the following surne.mes:-
Magennis Ferguson Aubon Daly Kilpatrick
Griftith's Valuation of 1864 gives a list as under:-
Kilpatrick, William and Robert. :Bell, 1.Villiarn. Thompson, Ed·ward. Hamilton, 'William, John George Senior and Junior. Brown, David. Hooks, William. Hutchinson, David. Noble, Thomas McLaughlin, .Tames Logan, Robert Sheppard, John Allen, John. Ballantine, Thomas McLaughlin, Richard Macartney, Lodwick
Derryraine
This townland formed -part of the manor ot Killyruddan a,nd appears in 1610 in t.ne origin2l gre,nt to William Lawder a,s Drewran
In 1660 it con"te.ined 6 British and 9 Irish 1amilies buc in 1664 t.he Hearth IJioney Rolls only show -;'"!illiam Kairnes and J'ohn Nixon.
Uiscellaneous Material.
At the sale of the Hamilton estate this townland was purchased by the Gra...11amfamily. It was re-sold in 1829 to Lord Gosford. From the Abstract of Leases attached to the Graham sale we learn that .Tames Bell was the original lessee, that his interest had been acquired 25th .Tune, 1827, by Isaac Glenny, Esq. for the lives of his two sons William and John Glenny. Bell's lease dated 1749.
Mullabrack Tythe Payers' Lists survive for the year 1834. The townland was then tenanted by the -
Moneypenny's Robinson's Sullivan's Scott's Hamilton 1 s Whittle's
Griffith's Valuation of 1864 shows the following families -
Mcclelland, George and Hargaret. Bell, Thomas, Benjamin, Hans, },.1atthew. Allen, Ann, Adan1, John, ~largaret. Scott, Adam. Dixon, John. Robinson, Ellen. WhittleWilliam Doorey, Eliza. McWhirterrter, William. Macartney, Williar.a. Laverty, Willi run. Hamilton, John.
Drumbee beg .
Part of the original Manor of Ednaveys but later returned to the Church. Whilst in the possession of the Hamilton's a lease for two-fifths of the· tov,rnland was made to Andrew Davison.
According to the Poll Tax of 1660 there were then 10 British and 8 Irish families settled in the to',·mland. The Hearth IIIoney Rolls of 1664, however, only show John McIlroy Alexander Cah and Thomas Carnaghan paying Heart:-i Tax.
A Manor Court Rental of 1714 gives a list of the tenants of the half town of Drumbeebeg, the property of the Dean of Armagh, as under -
James Kernohan Edmond O'Q.uin and John Giffen
John Dixon Thomas Hall William Wilson Villiam Giffen all Presbyterians.
Freeholders' Lists show Hugh Duncan 1819 and H. Adams 1839. Miscellaneous I\IIaterial.
Rental for sale of Graham Estate in 1829 shows -
Present ·oc cu:e..!_er.
Peter Mallon
Hugh Brown
Robert Atkinson
Hugh Duncan.
James Adams J"ohn Berkley
Peter Mallon
Ja.mes, Thomas and Robert McBride
Mary Berkley
( 2) .
Tenant No.l held under a "lease at will". The other three under leases of 177?. The lives in the Duncan lease were WilJ.iam now 66, and Hugh aged 62. In the Berkley lease John Berkley now ?O years.
·Alex. Berkley James Adams . Hugh Brown. Rental of 1843.
Part of the Manor of Killyruddan. The first tenant that we have any record of ii/as Fergus Flack who on 20th September, 1626, obtained a lease from John Hamiltonon of half the townla.nd for e, term of two years.
The Poll Tax Abstracts of 1660 show 8 British but the nearth Money Rolls of four years later give only two names - James Ferguson and John Brown - and leave us in some doubt a.s to their actual location as the townland appears in the Roll with Mullabane Miscellaneous Material.
Rental of Sale of Graham ~state 1829; Original.
1. Thanas Magee.
2. Thomas Jameson
3. John Brannigan.
4. John Stewart.
5. John McFarland.
6. James Brannigan.
7. Robert Wilson.
8. Arthur brannigan.
9. Daniel McShane
Peter McShane ) 10. John Kerr.
Notes.
No.4 original lease 1768. 5 II II 1800.
Present.
Thomas Magee
Thomas Jameson. John Brannigan and \lidow Brannigan
Wido·.;; Johnston.
Thomas Magee
Robert Wilson
John Whittle ttle
Widow Miller
John McParland
James Brannigan. Robert Wilson.
Dixon and Bra.nnigan.
Daniel McShane
Robert Mitchel
Drumbee cross - ( 2) .
Ho. 6 0riginaJ. Lease 1800.
7 II II 1800.
8 II II 1800.
9 11 II 1800.
10 11 It 1768.
Freeholders' Lists 1819-1839.
Mitchell Robert 1819, 18~9. Brannigan James 1830, 1839. McGee, 1'homas, 1830. Hooks, Ja~es. 1839.
Tythe Payers' Lists for Mullabrack show the folloYving families in 1834:-
Magee Whittle Waugh Dickson Wilson
Wilson Magee Hooks Rountree Mullan
Rental of 1843.
McMullanIen. Mitchell. Branigan. McClure
Anne Magee
Bernard McGee
Margaret Hooks
John Brannigan
Eliza Wilson
Robert Mitchell
Margaret Brannigan
Margaret Rountree
Griffith's Valuation of 1864.
Mccaul, Crozier. Deacon, John V/ileon, William.
Branagan, Sarah Wilson, William
John Whittle. Arcd. Waugh. Wm. Dickson James Brannigan.
Hooks, Margaret Mitchell, John
Drumbee more
Part of the original Manor of Edenveys but successfully claimed by the Church. Whilst in possession of John Hamilton a lease was made of it to Andrew Bell on 1st May, 1620.
The Poll Tax shows 8 Irish in 1660 and the Hearth lJoney Rolls of 1664 list Richard Graham as the only person paying Hearth Tax.
A Rental of the lands of the Archbishop of Armagh for 1714 describes it as a tovmland belonging to the Dean of Armagh and lists the tenants as under:-
Samue 1 McClanelane John Stewart all Presbyterians.
John Wilkin John Adams
James Strong William Mccrea
Miscellaneous Material.
Antiquities.
The only antiquity in the townland is a small earthen-ringed fort known locally as 1Tweedy 1 s Fort" at present planted with trees and di::fficult to inspect because of brambles and undergrowth. Only that it is shown on the Maps of 1835 one would be inclined to assume that it was a landlord's "ring", similar to those in the adjoining townland of Ednaveys.
DRIB~UORE -( 2) • Griffith's Valuation of 1864.
Wilkin, James, William B. McGarrity, Matthew Barnett, James MannWilliamThomas Ferguson, David, George, James Loney, George Henderson, James Donnelly, Henry
Druminnis
Part of the Jfanor ot Killyruddan John HamiJ.ton the elder and his son, John, shovm as resident on a lease of 12th August, 1622.
Poll Tax Abstracts give 4 British and 2 Irish and the Hearth Money ·Rolls of 1664 show John Richey, Robert Gordon, and Gilbert McHaghy.
The two chief families in the early 18th century seem to have been the Moore's and Bell's. George Moore of Drumennis by his will proved 14th August, 1?25, desired to be buried in Mullabrack and left issue three sons, Robert, William and Gawn, besides a daughter then married to a Dobbin.
The Bell's were a very prolific race. According to an account written by the late T.W. Bell of Philipstown, the founder of the tamily settled in Killyruddan in the closing days or the l?th century and his descendants later spread to Drumennis. They intermarried '.Yith the GiJlespie's, Dobbin's, McCullagh's, Barrett's, Watt's, Birche' s, Stanley's, etc. and were therefore kinsmen of many notable people such as Sir Isaac Wilson, the doctor who brought ~ueen Victoria into the world, Leonard Gillespie, Physician to the fleet under Nelson, Alfred Harmsworth Lord Northcliffe re, and his brother He,rold., Viscount Rothermere, William Hamil"ton Maxwell the author ot "Wild Sports of the West", Leonard Dobbin M.P. for the Uity of Armagh 1833-1838, etc.
DRUMENNIS ( 2) •
Miscellaneous Material.
Antiquities
'l'here is a fort site known as McCann'ss Fort" in this townland on the .Jackson :t'arm from which tne.ce is a very fine view of Cave Hill. Portion of the earthwork is preserved in a field fence. The Jackson family were formerly of Mulladry in Kilmore Parish.
The Presbyterian Meeting House was built about a century ago.
Graham Estate Sale Rental of 1829 shows:-
Original Leaseholder.
1. Thomas Bell
2. John Herron
3. James Rolston
Present Occupier.
Thomas Bell
Thomas Herron
Jaines Rolston
4. Adam Bell. Adam Bell.
5. Peter McParland Peter McParland
6. James Bradfordord. James Bradford.
7. Robert McCammon
8. Samuel Bodle
9. Guyan Moore
Robert Mccammon
Samuel Bodle.
R.C. Atkinson.
Note: No.l to 8 tenants at will. No.9 held under lease of 17.52.
DRffiwamrs ( 3) .
Bell
Morrison
McCardle
Bradford
McParland
Bradford
Crothers
Mullabrack Tythe Palers' Lists 1834.
Crothers
Rutherford
McCullagh
Conway
Cordner
Beck
Corner
Griffith's Valuation of 1864.
McCmmon
Rolston
Mccann
Herron
Bodle
Hanna
Quinn J"ohn
Atkinson, J"a.mes
Beck, J"ames McCullagh Wm.
Mccann, Catherine
Rutherford, James Bradford, James McCammon Robert
McParland lan, Owen
Rolston, James Kenney, Patrick Bell, TKatthew
"Here lyeth the body of John Lamb of Drumennis s who died 2nd ]·Karch, 1796, aged 73 years.
Bernard Lamb of Killyruddan and Anne Hutchinson of the Parish of Loughgal1 J"une 20th, 1780.
DrumsavageVAGE
Part of the Manor of KillyruddanPoll Tax Abstracts for 1660 give 2 British and 4 Irish but Hearth MoneyRolls of 1664 only show Adam McIlroy and John Irwin who may indeed be the two British noted in the Poll Tax.
In 1713 Arthur Graham, purchaser of .that part of the Hamilton estate leased this townland to John McCartney who by his will of 21st May, 1716, left his wife, Marion, half of the townland and the other half to his son James at the same time providing for another son named Hugh. Miscellaneous Material.
Antiquities.
There is a fort site on the farm of 1'ifr. James Hogg known as 11Rountree's Fort" and so called from a maternal relation of his wife. Portion of the earthwork forms the boundary fence of a field. The site commands an excellent view of Lough Neagh and the mountains of Antrim, Derry, Tyrone, Down and Louth.
Freeholders' Lists 1819-1828.
Ferguson, George 1819
Jameson, William 1819
Rountree, John 1819
Jameson, William 1828
Jameson, George James, Margaret Ferguson, Geo. Ferguson, Sam. McParland lan, Jas. 1828 1828 1828 1828 1828
Granted to Claud Hamilton in 1610 but re-claimed by the Church. The originaJ_ Manor of :.:Bdnaveys consisted of the townlands of -
Drumbeemore
Drumgaw
Edenknappagh
Lenalee
Ednaveys
Killeen
Outlack
Killycapple and Latmacollum
The Archbishop 1 s Rental of 1714 describes Ednaveys as the two towns of Ednaveybeg and Ednaveymore belonging to the Dean of Armagh, and lists as tenants -
Nathaniel Gracey
James McWilliams
Thomas Anderson
William Mcwilliams
John Cooper all Presbyterians.
Miscellaneous Material.
Griffith's Valuation of 1864.
Gribben, Thomas.
Neilis
Charles Beatty, James Anderson, Robert Jameson, John
Kennedy, Thomas
Shields, James Emerson, William O'Donnell, Jane
Sweeney, James
Edenknappagh H.
Part +·OJ. the Hanor of Ednaveys but successfully reclaimed by tr:e Church.
Poll Tax of 1660 1664 give -
John Andrews John McClure
sho~TS 3 British, and Hearth Money Rolls of John McCullagh Callowe McKee
Shown in Archbishop's Rental of 1714 as a tovm belonging to the Dean and tenants listed as under:-
Andrew Lightbody
James Lawry Hoses Lawson Robert Newell
Tur. Martin
John Lawson Henry Fitzsimrnons all Presbyterians.
1'.J:iscellaneous Material.
"The Knappagh Fleet".
This townland was rather notorious in the closing days of the 18th century because of its connection with the political events of that period. In the sum.~er of 1784 a quarrel took pla.ce near Markethill bet,,1een two members of the Presbyterian Church. In the succeeding fight one became victor throughthe assistance of two of his Roman Catholic neighbours. This brought about a challenge for a further meeting, the combat to take place at a horse-racing event at Hamilton's Bawn. The parties
ED~l\hl\APPAG H ( 2)
met and the winner of the first round with his friends again proved victorious. battles. That was ihe prelude to bigger and bloodier
In the beginning the two religions mixed indiscriminately and the parties were marked only by the districts to which they belonged, calling themselves "Fleets". One "Fleet", the larger, was named "the Knappagh" from the townland of Edenknappagh, the centre in which it was raised. It was commanded by a Roman Catholic - the other the "Bunker's Hill" or Markethill Fleet" was captained by a dissenting clergyman and was joined shortly afterwards by a smaller "Fleet" from Hamilton's i 1ton's Bawn.
There were many combats between the parties and on Whit Monday of 1785 a meeting was proposed to decide which was the stronger. The "Knappagh Fleet" had a roll ot 700, the "Bunker's Hill" and "Bawn Fleets" were much more numerous but reputedly not so well armed. That fight, however, was prevented by the intervention of William Richardson of Richhill who, with two other gentlemen, arrived on the ground before the battle had time to develop. With great difficulty they were able to persuade the parties to disperse without bloodshed.
Shortly after that the members of the various "Fleets" began to separate and enlist under the banner of religion, the Roman Catholics becoming known as the Defenders and the protestants as "Peep of Day Boys". The1·r q 1 b uarre s grew more itter and were a. disgrace to the county in the closi.ng days of the 18tl • 1 century.
Edenknappagh - ( 3) .
The Irish Volunteers of 1778-1792.
A company of Volunteers was formed in this tovmland at a time when Ireland was threatened with invasion by the .B'rench, and Britain involved in v.ar v:rith .A.merica. The exact date o!' its formation is unknown but it was present at the last County Armagh Volunteer Review in 1791. Its uniform was green edged with white and it is believed to nave -been captained by George Murray of Ednavey' s House, or his -brother William, both or· whom were original members of the First Armagh Gompany 1·ormed in 1779.
Griffith's Valuation o!' 1864.
Mccart, John Henry Kennedy, Mary Armstrong, Franc is, Andrew. McConnell, Roger Magee, Gatherine, John. Phenix, John, Finn PRtrick Edgar, James John Gilmore Hooert Donnelly, James Hart, Ann, John Magee, Edward McWhirter James Tweedy, David, George Haughey, Pa.trick
Woods, Robert McGarrityty, Geo. , lfa.t thew, William. Scott, William. Hall, George, Alicia. Weir, Anne, Jane. Irvine, Robert. Hamilton, Hans Kilpatrick Robert Ferguson Samuel Frazer Ho uer~ McParland:;};llen, Owen. Crozier, James. Simpson, James Largey, Michael
Killeen
Granted to Claud Hamilton in 1610. On 26th September, 1611, by order of the Lord Deputy and Commissioners it \Vas decreed that the -
Two towns of Edenfeagh
Ballyedenknappagh
Ballyrawell
The half t 0 1.:m of Drumgoss and Ballykilline were Church property and that all should be restored to the Dean of Armagh, except the townof Ballykilline upon 1'7hich iiamilton had already built, the Dean to be given another to 1:mland instead.
Carew' s Survey of 1611 states that Hamilton 1.·:as tl1.en building a stone bawn with round flankers, 24 yards square and a ":7all 8 feet high; that he had raised stone to finish the bawnand to make a stone house and had drawn trees to the oui lding. It also gives tc.1.e information that he was then erecting three houses aa. 43 feet long, that five families 16 men and women were settled whereof six were masonsand that there was a stock of 80 cows and 14 horses and mares
From a re-grant to John Hamilton of December 8, 1617, we learn that there had by then been bui 1 t "one bawne of lime and stone, 80 feet square and 9 feet in height with rounds and f la.nke rs at the corners for the better defence of the sa.me 11 from which we may conclude t~at the bawn was completed oy the grantee following his purchase of the manor of Edenaveys from Claud Hamilton, a few years previous.
Pynnar's Survey of 1619 describes the bawn as stone and clay Pointed with lime. There were then six houses near the bawn
KILLEEN ( 2) •
inhabited with British tenants, and a total of 10 families who1 with their undertenants,were able to make 22 men with arms.
The Poll Tax of 1660 sho,Ns 10 British and 2 Irish and the Hearth Money Rolls of 1664 show Cuthbert Gr,aham, Alexander Youth and William Flermner paying Hearth Tax on one hearth e.ach. At the sale of the Hamilton I s Bawn estate in the early 18th century this tmmland was purcaased by the Graham family from whom it passed to the Acheson 1 s in 1829.
Miscellaneous Material.
Antiquities.
On the farm of Mrs. Neville there a.re some remains of an entrenchment. It is shown on the maps as Dane's Cast but locally known as "The Bank" and is believed to have formed the southern boundary of Emain Macha.
The earthwork is better preserved in the adjoining townland of Killycoppleand there are even better portions elsewhere in Lisnadill parish.
On the bank of the Killeen 1 river on the farm of William I Hamilton there is an ancient church site of vn~ich nothing is now kno~n. In Drumgaw townland separated from the Church site by a tiny stream there is a field known as the "Graves Field on the farm now ovmed by Mr. Hughes.
Killeen ( 3) .
Tenants Period 1731-1829.
Abstract from sale of Graham Estate.
Original Leaseholder.
John Haughey
James Hart
Patrick McArney
Matthew McKeowne
Felix Hart 6. Owen O'Mallon 7 • Henry O'Mallon 1 Mal 1 on s. Peter O'Mallon
John Wright
David William
John Wilson
Terence O'Malle
James Montgomery
James Hogg
Alexander Hogg.
Patrick McAvinchey
Teague McAvinchey 20. ::Elizabeth McCullagh 21. Joseph Montgomery •
Present Occupier.
- McMahon
Widow Hart and others
John Hart
Terence and A. McKeown
Edward Hart and others.
John Clinton Alex. McClure. John Mallon and Robert Hamilton.
Alexander Wilson and Scott. George Scott and Jas.Black. James Wilson and others.
Robert Hamilton. John Slane and Trodden
John McGarrityt ty.
Robert Willis
John Somerville, vm. Simpson, and William Mitchell. Wm. Simpson, Alex. Hogg. Wm. Simpson. John Rice Wm. Simpson. Mrs Leebody. Mrs. Neilson ~: No.2 held under lease of 24th December, 1731. No.19 under date 1781, all others 24th December, 1781.
Freeholders' Lists 1819-1839.
Curry, John 1819 Kilpatrick, Samuel 1830. Scott, George, 1819, 1830,1831. Simpson, William, 1826, Slane, John 1830, 1831. Hamilton, Robert 1826. Hart, James, 1830, 1831. Carroll, William 1832. ClintonJohn 1830. Herron, Robert 1839. Hart John 1830. 1832.
4) • Rental of 1843.
Ed·ward Hart
John McGanty
Wm. Leebody
Robert Willis
Alex. McClure lure
Samuel Strain
George Scott
Vlm. Simpson
John Hart
Ann l{eilson
James Trodden
John Slain
Robert Hamilton. Griffith' s Valuation of 1864.
Hart, Matthew, John, Pat Haughey, Patrick Porter, John llcCutcheon, Robert Strain, Samuel Alexander, Robert Drainen, Ann Wilkin, James Henan, John McParland John Schoolhouse Simpson, William. Browne, Rev. Wm. J. Wilson, Thom.a,s. McWhirter, David Coppleton, John McCallRose Dougan, William Mitchell George.
Hogg, Alexander. Scott, Jame.s :Neill, Robert Rice, John Benn.ett, John Scott, John, Samuel Jamison, Robert Hamilton, Robert Woods, Henry McCarn Charles Larkin, Pat. Moffitt, James MageeBernard woods, James Roberts, William Hewitt, James McCaraher, John Somerville, Thomas Hami 11, James
LEGAVILLY.
Portion of the Dillon estate and originally a subdenomination of Rathdrumgrana.
The Whitlock tlock family apP.ear in rentals of 1721-22 and with the Runnings figure in rentals of 1807-1828.
Griffith's Valuation of 1864 shows the following families:Running, William Gray, James Doherty, John Marshall, John Mallin, Thomas Allen, John Whitelock Maurice Running, John
Part of the llanor of Killyruddan and leased by John Hamilton on 20th September, 1626, to Alexander Sym and John Ritchie.
The Poll Tax of 1660 shows 8 British and 2 Irish and the Hearth Money Rolls of 1664 give tli lliam Williamson and Thomas Taylor paying the tax on one hearth each. Miscellaneous Material.
Graham :;::i;state Rental. Sale. 1829.
Original Leaseholder.
1. John Adamson
2. Wm. Dixon and John Jameson
3. John Bell
4. Robert Clarke
5. John and Isaac Lightbody Notes:
• Present Occupier.
John Simpson ~m. Peebles
71m. ~!c-:ii l McWilliams
MatthewBell
Dixon and Ja.meson
Reps. John Bell
Robert Mccullagh
Matthew, John and Moses Fennix.
1. Lease demised half of the townland to preseat occupiers under lease of 25th June, 1827. Original lease 1710.
2. Demises the upper quarter. Lives in last lease 20th June, 1794, John and Jose-ph Jameson and Williamam Dickson. Original lea.se 1743.
3. Renewed by Indenture 13th February, 1790, lives in being mary and Jane Bell, sisters of Wm. Bell, son of original lessee and late occupier. Original lease 1774.
Lenalea
Granted to present occupier 25th June, 1827, for lives of 4.
John McCullagh aged 36, James aged 32, and John aged 82 •
Original lease 1746.
5 . Renewed 25th June, 1827, for lives of present occupiers.
Original lease 1743.
Freeholders' Lists 1820-1839.
Phenix Giffen
McWhirter
McWilliam Ring Ferguson
Murphy
McClure
Haire ,
Dickson James 1819-1939. Dickson, William 1820, 1839. Ferguson, Samuel 1820. Ferguson, George 1820. Dixon, William 1819. Whitlock Morris 1822. Bell, John, Edenknappagh and Lenalea 1832. Dickson, John 1839. Kernan, Peter 1839.
Tythe Payers' Lists 1834.
Mcclelland
Dickson
Irwin Carrol
McClure Adams
McWilliam Ferguson Bell
UcCracken
Ja.meson
Bell
Mallon
Pillow
Boylan
Adams
Given Jameson
lenalea ( 3) .
Griffith 1 s Valuation of 1864.
McClelland John
Giffin , Dani e 7 _ , Uar i. a• ·-. . v,, Phenix moses townleyJohn, william .• Ferguson, Robert, Sanuel, '!'homas, Georfe. Hare, Alexander. Dixon, John, ,.iilliam. Hooks, John. irwin david
The Armagh mail came flying in Well laden to the ground, He put his spy-glass to his eye And viewed the coach as it ~ent by. He hastened quickly to its side
There to assist a f a.i r maid c,o,~'Y.., He took her by the :nilk -rhi te l1and And gazed into her oright blue eyes. Said he, 11J1Iy dearest lady ~ome with me to yonder inn
And take with me a glass or ~ine Our t'riendship to -begin 11 •
Said she II I am no lady, Sir, a,s you can see Hut a poor farmer's daughter rro~ LenaJea, I have no education and money I ao lack, The clothes are borrowed, Sir, the.t I r1.a.ve U">Jon b , 11 !"'."~e ac L( •
~NALEA. -( 4) .
The Ifa,id trom Lenalea.
(cont' d.)
Said he, " Hy dearest la.dy :..i 11 ye take a coach 1"i th r.1.e And we'll speed to bonn~e Lenalea Your 1·a.ther 1 or tilJ see"
"I have !. i ve hundred ":louncis 11 , says he "A d 11 ....-h • l d - • - • 11 t n a L, _a,~ go__ uyon :11:'1 1' _ ces o~ It you ~ill ride nith me to Lenalea Your I ather 1 or til 1_ see 11 • "Och, I'm sorry, Sir", said she 11Sure Ii m promised to a boy ! ro:t!l Al altaurk This seven long yee.rs and t':ore And he's the man that I a.dore''. "Your 011er's good", said she, "but to marry you I'm not disposed So your plea must be denied lt'or I wi 11 only be my true.love' s bride".
Two other versions survive in which Drummonu and Hamilton's Bawn are mentioned instead of Lenalea.
In Augu st , 1596 , Sir Henry Bagenall was despatched to quell the I nsurrection in Ulster and marched rnro"'." ]T • eury to relieve the Yort or castle of Armagh. Con o'neill an ill~~_,1·t1·~:at~ son of tl 1 _ 1e -'-'ar of Tyrone, because of a difference ·7i th his fat·~er deserted. to the English and fror:1 him Sir Henry learned of an unfrequsmted r0ad ty Kilcluney, ifollabrack, Lough ~orkan, :farlacoo and ~:ul]abane by ·:,hich a large body of his troo-ps evaded ~yrone' s arrey a."!.tor:ether ar:d arrived safely •.,.ith stores for the garrison at Arnagh.
In August, 1598, Bagenall came again nort:-1'.1ard.s on his -r:ray to Armagh and the Blackwater and dislodged a party of the Irish here, almost succeeding in ca.-pturing the 3a.rl hir11self. Unfortunately he waited in Lfollabane for reinf oreements before continuine to ArI!lagh so that upon arrival in the city he found that the Iri~1 forces had already taken up yositions blocking his passa~e to Portmore. The subsequent battle resulted in Eagenall's death at the Yellow Ford, and in the defeat of the British troops.
Mullabane next Dakes its appearance in local history in 1610, in v1hich year it was granted to John Dillon
Rathdromgreny
Uullanesillagh
Tirechary
Tirenescobbe
Ba11irvraner
Cloghan
Dromnesough
Dromogher
KiJlivuny
Grange
•vi.th -
Altaturke
Kilnemanin
Killmerhugh
:Dromod the premises to be created the Uanor of Hullabane, but by a re-grant of 13th August, l629, they became the Hanor of Castledi lJ.on.
Mullabane ( 2) .
By an Indenture of 31st :1:a.y, 1636, Dillon mortgaged to William, Lord Charlemont, for £2,000, certain lands, namely
Rathdrumgran Part of Mullinsillalinasillagh, Altaturk, Mullanacrine, Part of Terenescobe, Part of Kilmahugh
Half town of Balli BallyvranerHalf town of Drummon beg
Part of Drumogher, and the bog rr;.eado-r.•of Drummon more
The lands had previously been mortgaged to the Rev. John Richardson of Loughgall l and by the new arraneement Lord Charlemont covenanted to return the lands if the rrortga.ge r.ioney ·.vas_re::.:>aid by Dillon or his herirs wit~in seven years. They failed however, to redeem the mortgate so +,he lands remained with the Caulfield ulf ei ld family.
A list of Dillon 1 s tenants survives for 1630 - it gives the following families -
Hutcheson Chandler Gerratt
Brookes (2) Millington
Leland ( 2)
Masson Trundall
Wrench Burdett Dillon (2) Leurock
Harrison Stibs Roe Newberry ( 2)
Saltersonson Newman
Woodward Newman
Starr Chappell
Malto Scull
Thorne Russell
Small
Roberts
Of the a.bove only seven were armed. A settlement of the Us.nor for the following year mentions the fol10 1 7ing lease-holders, but, unfortunately, does not reveal their locati.ons -
}.{ULLABAl~E ( 3) • -
William Pearson
Richard Taylor
Robert Millington
Henry Chamberlaine .1a1 ne
Hugh cross
}!ic11ael Stones
Nathaniel Dillon
:Nicholas Husse
Henry Newbury ez1bury
Uichael Obbins
Thomas Cross
John Wilson
Anthony Dillon
Elizabeth Atkins, widow
William Hutchinson
William Mutley
Henry Grace i:7il1iam Pringle ~rasmus Dillon
the last three being sons of the 0 1:-.rner of the property.
On the 25th March 1637 John Dillon died. He had been married twice and left issue by both wives Of these, his eld'=st son, John, died before his father, leaving issue by his wife, Mabel daughter ot Sir George Sexton, whom he married in 1623, a son, .Henry, born 1626, who sold those :9orti ons of the est2,t e tl1a t r e!!lai ned to hi!Il in 1650. His mother later 1Il8.rried Michael Doyne and "lets living at Hockley duri.ng t::ie War of. 1641-42.
John Dillon, the elder, had tesides John, five other sonsRobert, Anthony, lTathaniel, Earasmus and Charles - and four daughters by his first marriage. Robert and his wi.fe were murdered at the outbreak of the Givil War.
The Poll Tax of 1660 shows 2 British and 2 Irish and the Hearth lloney Rolls of 1664 show that Hearth Tax was paid by,:iirs. :Zllis, Bryan McCloosky a,nd Knogher O'Dorrie.
The first available rental t'o!' the estate after its purchase by the Molyneux family shows Mullabane leased to -
( 4) . Arthur Johnston, 25th 1'1Iarch, 1694.
James Hutcheson, 140 acres in the lo·vrer half of , Mullabane 24 in Drumnasooand 24 in Tirecharry, the :ownlar..d ir:. which the Dillon bawn ,vas built - "formerly old Andrews 11 - 25th Harch, 1694. ("George, son of old Andre7;"~ 11 i.1ad. 68 acres in Drumnasoo and 58 acres in Turcarra un.:::.e:: a lease of 25th i~rch, 1696).
Note: Andrew Hutchinson of Hoe Hockleyescaped to Li Lisnagarvey rvey at t~:!e -time of the Civil war and made a deposition there 16t}i April, 1653. The document is of interest a,s it s:1oyrn that those of t .. e settl~rs who lived in the vicinity of Armagh tried to aet t~eir JOssessions into the city. Hutcheson gives narre s of several -peopJ e 1..rr:.o,,r:.to himself who were murdered during the troubles. ~e saw the turning of the house at Shewis in which he says 30 English r:en, ··:or:en and children perished. His house was taken and he lost 200 barre~s of corn, and all his household stuff. At the same time he lost one of his children who was reputed to have been taken to Shewis
A rental of 1721-22 for Mullabanegives the following names
Jenkinson, John Girvan, Hargaret O'Hare ;•iurtagh McGuinness John Kelly, Francis, Thos. Vallely, Judith McDermott, Lawrence
Proctor, Eliza Pillm,v, John Running, William Murphy Pat Wright ':Villi am McAllen, Bridget Morrison, Adar.i 1'he Hutcheson's.
Kennedy, James Hutchinson, Ogle. Loney, Joseph Maguire Peter Pi Pillow Thomas Curran, :Dennis Orr, Robert
The Hutcheson f a.miJ.y are probably the oldest f anri.ly in the townla,nd. It is clear that they were amongst the original settlers a.nd t~at they survi vea the 1v"far of 1641-42, the Cromvrellian aftermath and the period of the Boyne.
The Pillow' s.
The Pillow's of Mullabane had a tradition that the first Pillow's ea.me from England at the PJ.anta.tion and settled on some land beJ 0\7 the Grange, but that they a.11 perished in 1641-42, with tne exception of one named Thomas who was ill of fever at the time
the rebels came upon theI!l. Thomas they did not touch but the rest theY drove into Arrna.gh a.nd imprisoned in the old cathedral where they were all burnt to dea.th in the destruction of the city d cathedral by Sir Phelim O'Neill an
According to the tradition the descendants of Thomas removed fron "below the Grange to Mullabane This seems to be based on fact for the Hearth Money Rolls for Co. Armagh of 1664-1665 show Peter Filly in Aghanligh.
According to the rentals of the Castle Dillon estate, William and John Filly were of Mullabane in 1721. Loughgall Parish Registers show in 1718 the baptism of Peter Filly, son of William, but do not disclose whether he was of Aghanligor Mullabane - both tovmlands vrere then in that pa,ri sh. Fron that date omrrards there is much information.
The Irish Volunteer Period of 1780-1792.
Firelocks were supplied from Charlemont Fort May 12, 1780, for the Castle Dillon Volunteers and in 1782 Sir Capel Molyneux erected the Volunteer Obelisk, a landmark well-known to travellers by rail between Armagh and Portadown. It is very probable that the Hockley Volunteers raised in 1779 are identical with the CastleDillon Corps
Mullabane ( 7) •
Yeomanry.
The Castle Dillon Yeomanry were rsised in 1796 by Sir Capel Molyneux. In April 1797, though then aged 80, he toug~1t a duel in the Palace Demesne with a Maj or McMahon who ha.d interfered with his men on par2"de. He died in August of t e sa:--ie year.
Mullyloughran • -
Church Property. Poll Tax gives 13 Irish in 1660 and in 1664 shows Hearth Tax paid oy -
James McInkilly ly Bryan O'Berie
Pat Mcinkilly Hugh McInkilly
Griffith's Valuation of 1864.
Watson, Thomas McKee, Henry Junior and Senior. Mccann, Thomas Mccann, Patrick McGowan, Thomas Jones, Robert McKee, Bernard Deacon, William Redpath, Samuel Hampton, ::2:;sther Adams, William Davison, .William.
Preston, 1Vi lliam. Jones, \7illiam. McGowan Rooert Birch, Eliza West Wm. Senior and Junior. McWhinney ~avid Kearney, George Jenkinson, George lvfcArdle, Gro rge Boyd, James Donnelly, Henry Glebe lands.
Rathdrumgran
The Poll Tax of 1660 shows 4 Irish,and the Hearth Money Rolls of 1664 give Henry O'Neill and James Brannigan, each 9aying Tax on one hearth
In 1700 Lord Charlemont leased 100 acres to Thomas Dobbin and James Reed. A rental_ of 1752-1762 shows -
Edgar's Fort alias Jenkinson's Fort. A very fine singleringed example in excellent preserva..tion. The fort was known to t, ' the old people as the rath of the rising sun.
Leaseholders 1749-1818.
William Dobbin 1749.
Mary Wyley and Thomas Trouten 1794.
Thomas Gray 1796.
James Reed 1803. John Fare Hugh Gribben, R. and J. r:'Ioore, John MCCullagh Andrew Villars Villiers1818.
Rathdrumgran - ( 2 J.
John Fair
Ja.mes Heatley
Adan Dobbin
Hugh Gribben-
Rental of 1824.
John Kenkinson
Geo. Somerville
William Dobbin
Hugh Runnet
John Moore .Ta,s.Donnelly
John Dobbin
Hary Wiley
Freeholders' Lists 1815-1822.
Villarsly, Andrew 1815. Dobbin, Adam 1822.
Robert Moore ore Thos. Somerville WilliamJenkinson Andrei." Villarss
Freeholders' Lists 1825.
Gr i Gribben Hugh
Moore, Robert and John Jenkins on, Ui lliam Running, Hugh Somervillelle, James, George Villars, Andre-:.r
FreeholdersLists 1832.
Moore John and Robert Runnett, H. Somerville, T. Rental of 1840.
Barrett lfoore Trouten
Dobbin McCullaghl.agh Villars
Gray Pil Pillow Wiley
Jenkinson Reid Hewitt Somerville
RathdrumgranRAJ': ( 3) . Griffith's Valuation oi 1864.
Jenkinson, William
Orr, James
Regan, Michael Albin, John QuinJoseph Moore, MaryRobert, and John.
Mallin, Thomas Carbery, Hugh Allen, John Williamson, Wm. Cullen, 111ary Somerville, Thos. and YYilliam •
Hughes, William Dobbin, John Sleith, Alexander Deacon, John Nichol ;/i Ilia.JU
The troubles of 1798.
In 1798 William Steele Jenkinson and his family of sons and daughters defended the house we now know as .Mount Pleasant against a party of "Defenders". His son, William, ::-narried 21st July, 1819, at St. Patrick's· Cathedral, Armagh Susanna Barrett, daughter of ' Jacob Barrett, by his wife Constantia Wilson, daughter of Gregory Wilson from which family the Christian name of Gregory into the Barrett 1 s.
Gregory Wilson, by his marriage which took ~lace Novenber 8th, 1751, had two da.ughters Sarah (born Au.gust 23, 1752) and Constantia (Born June 22nq., 1'754) who married 11th August, 1775, Jacob Barrett (he died 18th April, 1808) by whom she had nine children.-
I. Frances, born 5th Nover1ber, 1776.
2. John Dobbin, born 4th October, 1778.
3. Sarah born 16th June,. 1781.
4. Gregory, born 29th October, 1783.
5. William, born 26th Hay, 1768, married at Grange Church 26th llay, 1836, Francis Ann Pringle of Salters Grange, member of an old Co. Tyrone family.
6. Jacob, born 11th Decer11.ber, 1'78<J.
?. Susanna born 11th April 1791, married Wiliam Jenkinson of Rathdrumgran, father of Jacob Jenkinsonof Rathdrumgran gran and Arnagh and grandfather of I.:r. W. Jenkinson, now Secretary of tlie Armagh County Council. :re died 16Sh Uarch, 1865. She died 31st January, 1870.
8. Jacob, born 18th Fgbruary, 1794.
9. Mary Ja.ne, born 25th July, 1796.
From the Will of Jacob Barrett the youni:;er, 1:rho died 18th October, 1866, we learn that he left his wife uell provided for besides leaving legacies as under:on
I. My sister Sarah Jameson £200 to be put on trust and/her death the principal to her daughter Charlotte.
II. My unmarried sister Jane £400.
III. Isabella McCausland daug~-iter of my $ister, Fanny Bell, if living· £100.
IV. William Gregory Wilson, Elanor Blakely, and Constance Barret, son and daue;hters of ny late brother, John Dobbin Barret, £200 each.
V. Mary Anne Fullerton, ElizaBarrett and Jacob Barrett, daughters and son of my late nephew, John Dobbin Barrett, £100 each.
VI. William, Constance, Sarah, and Susanna, son and daughters of my late brother, William Barrett, £200 each and to their brother Jacob £500 and "my gold watch".
VII. My sister Susanna Jenkinson £200 and to each of her children £200.
VIII. Nephevr Jacob Jenkinson £200.
IX. £500 in trust for the poor of Armagh.
Tirnascobe •-'- t ,..,1a.deat -'-v'i1P .• Moyry castle OT! 2nd August, 1608, A Presen ,_.rnen lJ, • ..c- rc.nts out shOWS that the Archbishopshop of Arm2,gh C laiT':e'd the C tll 8.l.-
1"' Jl J h ' Inq 11 is;_tion taken in of Tirnascobe c>.,nd -LU _ y .ov,rarnag , anCl an _,._ Armagh City in 1609 reveals his continued interest in Tirnascobe • The tm".fnland next au-pears in the grant to Jann ::-Jillor: in 16 lO, by which 90 acres of Mullyloughran v7ere exceptea •• August, 1629, Dillon ·was given leave to alien tcii s tow-c.lar.d -7i t'c
On 13th Rathdrumgreeny, Altaturk etc. to Iris~1 te1.aLts for _9erioc.s of 40 years or three lives and it seer:·s evidei.1t ttat t·_-iis liberty ~ras granted because of the coarseness of t:1.e la.nds. Fror:. a set:.le:.:.er:t of the estate made 16th July, 1631, we le arr that there ·;as a great wood in this to 1:-:rnla,nd. -::.lentior:. is also 1=ade of a d.i tci..1.- that "partet'n t 1 ., P. ~la1· n 1 d.- " m • b,.__ ..c- h d" d •~- an 01 Tirnascobe ue .1.rom v.1.e uoo an we are informed that Rathdrumgreeny, part of Mullinasilla llagh, Al Altaturk and part of Tirnascobe from the plains thereof ':'ere cornr:only known as Ye waste Lands".
On 31st 1Kay, 1636, John Dillon 7 on ffiortgaged to William Lord Charlemont, Rathdrumgreeny, part of Mullanasilla lying on the south s • a ,.. t1 • ~.., 1;: 1;~~~~Y to Armagh, Altaturk, a:nd TireBescob~ from ~" ,~ ,.....1-,~-• ,,;}~--~ ,44..d..< i 1 ~ ;I!(..GL • • Mullabane, a mortgage that also included -
Kilmahugh
Ballivraner Drumogher
1) Drumman more Drumman beg 1-Iullencrine Dillon died 25th illarch, 1637, and by his 'Hill r.iade 25th 1.'Iarch' Charlemont mortgare, he left ·h1·s -~ a month previous to the Vi'l .1.e , 1636
TirnascobeASCO.E~ ( 2) .
Alice ~illon, the ?E.rce]s of Tirnascobe Mullanecrine 1 ...,'" s c o 1.; 1., e c:nc. v:ho at the sa~e ti:.:e 1 'T 0 s to h&,ve 2.11 the e-res "teir.q a,hout 500 depasturi ng on bal _i tra.n i r: -the ke~pi n,.,.__of u_~+.er +' • • d c· - - ,n-'- su~pt1er , ar:d all' the young rethe~ shee~ u~on Tirnascobe and Mullanecreecontaining a.bout 500. She to have Tirnascobe and :;ullanecree for life ~ith liberty to bequeath to such of "th--:i.r childr9n as si1.s s.~o"li ---i~l-... ':'he 1::'ill !!lade provision for other membe:-s of the rc:;r.ily ;:lso tut is much too lengthy and involvec. to be ct2;alt ..,i th :1~re ir: deta.il.
Gertain members of the family Pere ir.. residence or: tn-= estate ,:,;hen the Givil War of 1641-42 broke out a,r:d his son 3.otert ·-itn 11is wi:1" e ,as :rr..urderec. i r: that unhep:9y -pei~i o~.
'l'he Po 11 'Tax 01· 1660 +h t l ,., gro u:ps '-'•e •01m_aJ1, -·it!.". Altaturk a.r:ci ~ives a total or 17 Irish for both :.or:nls.nc'ls. ?he Hearth Money Tax of 1664 gives nine names for Tirnascooe -
McCree Patrick, Art, Donnell Henry, Pat Carrand Bryan Raverty, Bryan
O'Hanlon, Redmond
O'Mellan, Neale by the beginning or the next century tne Dobbin seem to have been possessed of most of the to 1 ·mland. On 9 th Jiay, 1? 11, Thomas Dobbin leased 41 acres to John Gillespie and on 7th .:rebruary, 1712, 270 acres in Tirnascobeand Altaturk to Leonardand Nathaniel Dobbin end on 12th Fovember, 1714, Robert Dobbin leased 50 acres to Samuel Bleakley a11 of ""'Thich J&.nds they held under Lord Charlemont
J.:iscel l aneous ":fateria,l.
Antiquities.
,
i. Graham's fort 2 lias .bin.:h 1 s .1ro.r:t. G-reatly de st.coyea. ou-c commands very rine vieTTs.
2. Pillow t s fort l:, alias Barrett's re-c t t s' ali c?vS Bri Bridgett's t 1 s ..l!'Ol't. ..cffOJ:re n up but portion preserved by roadway passing round instead of through it.
3. Fort site at Mount Dobbin inside Castle Dillon demesne. The farm known by this name ·;1a.s not included in the demesne until after 1835. An Armagh Vestry Book contains a refereLce in 1797 to the repair of a road fror1 the Richhill 1:i ~oad to Francis Graham's in Mount Dobbin.
4. Kildarton Old Graveyard. Shown as a circ11lar enclosure or.. Charlemontestate r1aps of tl1e early 19th century ar:d noted as 11Kildarton burial Place 11 • marked in same ii7ay on O. S. ~.::ap of 1835 but shown as Kildarton Graveyard.
Charlernont ~ental 1752-1762.
Dobbin Jackson McWilliam 11 iru:n
Jackson Johnston Newman Lappan Allen Gillespie Kilpatrick Birch
(In the above list no less than five Dobbin families appear). Allen Jackson Newman Loney.
Tirnascobe ( 4) .
Charlemont Leaseholders 1749r/il1
WilliamMcWilliams 1749
Leonard Gillespie 1749
John Birch 1749
John Redpath 1787
Alex. Newman 1795
William Jackson 1797
Jacob Barratt 1800
James McCullagh 1804
John Gillespie 1749
Alexander Johnston 1749
Charles Tiryars 1789
John Brooke s 1789
FrancisGraham 1796
Isaac McBroom on 1803 -7illiam Allen 1812
Thomas Allen, Thomas Deacon James Dobbin RobertDobbin
John Heatley, WilliamMorrisonWilliam Kilpatrick ) James Kilpatrick )
Frieholders 1 Lists 1813-1819.
Boyd, James 1815
Allen, Laurence, Jo"hn, Thomas 1819. Barrett, John Dobbin 1815. Brookes, John 1817.
Birch,. James, George 1818. Brannigan, John 1819. Boyd, James 1819. Dobbin, Robert (1818) James (1819) William (1819). Gillespie, John 1815. Heatley, John 1818. Jackson, George 1815. Morrow RicharJ 1816. Morrison, William 1819. McCullagh, James 1813. Thompson, John 1819. McCullagh, Arch. 1821. McWilliams, John and Robert 1815. Williamson, John 1815.
Allen, John
Birch, James Hamilton, Alex. Kilpatrick, Wm. Thompson, John.
Freeholders' Lists 1825. all 1817
Brookes, John Boyd, James Heatley, John Kilpatrick, James
Brannigan, John. Graham, lli &.m. Jackson, George Morrison Wm.-
Tirnascobe (4J_~
Freeholders' Lists 1826.
Birch, William Heron, John.
Boyd, James Hamilton1ton, Alex. Allen, Laurence. Barrett, Gregory
Freeholder~' Lists 1832.
McCullagh udden, J. West, George. Dobbin, James. JacksonGeorge. Kennedy, Thomas. Herron, George, John and :7i lliam.
Freeholders' Lists 1839.
Birch, William and James. Barret, John D. Dobbin, James and Robert. Heron, George McCullagh, Wrn. and Ar chi bald. McWilliams, John.
Charlemont Rental 1824.
Mccullagh, Archd. Heatly, John. Deac.on, Robert BarrettWilliam.
Branigan, John. Allen, John. McWilliamsRobt. Barratt, John D.
(The above three Barretts held under a Robert Dobbin lease)
Thompson, George Kennedy, Thomas Morrisonson, William Birch James West George Dobbin JamesHerronGeorge mcCuddan 2d·:,ard Acheson' James•
Dobbin, William Kilpatrick, James Mccullagh, Jara.es Birch, George Dobbin, Thomas Dobbin, Robert. Heron, John McKee Pat.
Jackson, George Kilpatrick, Wr:.:. Deacon, Thomas McWilliamsllia.··ns, J. and R. Acheson, Hugh Brookes, William. McCuddan James. Graham, William.
TIRNASCOE~ ( 5) .
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Charlemont Rental 1840.
Acheson birch Barrett Brooks Allen Boyd
Bryans Deacon
Heron Corp ot Ar iagh . Do·boin Jackson
Sir Thos. McCuddan Molyneux 41
McWilliams12.ie,ms
Newman
Grahan
1.,. C , 1 ·;,, ~C U .1. 2.g.Morrison Redpath
acres ~fani 1 ·con Kilpatrick
McBroom 00;~1 • • 1r McKee
ThompsonO)1T:r,)S O TI
Griffith's Valuation of 1864.
Kelly, Edwa1~d Donaghy, John licVallon, bridget Derry, Edwa,rd Scarr, John
Acheson, Samuel DoDobbinn, Thomas West Yi cho las McLoughlin Hugh Herron, Thomas and James Brooks, James Senior and Mccullagh, John Birchrch, William James
Deacon, Robert and l'homas. McShane Anne. Finn, Pat Barton Robert .barrett, \in. Senior 2r:.d Junior. Hamilton David. McKenna Jo nn. HeatlyMary Pillow Jackson Platt, Hans. Junior, Anne. McCullagh Archibald Dobbin, Ann McGuiggan James
( Ternascobe, Myllyloughran and Drumbeebeg -part or Lowry's lakeL2ke.)
11Detenders" in 179!:>.
According to an account written by William Blacker of Carrickblacker blacker 1 near Portadown who was present when the military 'beseiged the house. on 21st December, 1795, two young men both protestants ,,1ere fired upon from a house at Ternascohe near the two mile le Stone on the Old road from Armagh to Richhill, one of then l 1 eing slishtly wounded
Tirnascobe ( 6)
They im.rnediately proceeded to Ricbhill where tl1e -~ij'h - 0 constable turned out a party of Scotch Fencibles then stationed there. '~en the soldiers reached the ho~se they found it barricaded, the windows sodded up ar;d apertures left for musketry for admittance fire ',Vas opened upon them ar.d t:1e officer
On as~ing . ' 1n c.1c:rge of the party wounded. An assault was then made upon the house in the course of which three of the inr'lates were killed and t:1e renaining ten or twelve taken -prisoners to Richhill fror1 -,..hence they :tere conunitted the next day to Armagh Jail.
Newspapers of that date say that the party in the house at first refused to surrender saying they were "Defenders" and as SJ.Ch -would die rather than do so. :'hey also inform .us that some of the Richhill people who f ollovved the soldiers were also wounded t:1at five of the inmates of the house were killed ar:cl ten prisoners taken.
The Dobbin Fan1ilY.=_
Tradition says that Thomas and Robert Dobbinof the Co. Down branch of the Dobbin's their nephew John Gillespie, removed from the Moira district and settled at Tirnascobe shortly after the Revolution of 1688, and that in 1710 they were joined by their younger brother, Leonard,· who afterwards settled at cappagh near Banbridge and founded a family there for whom see "Dobbin of Cappagh Burke's Landed Gentry of 193?.
- sr,or ' TIRJ::A V .i.)....:., ( 7) .
Thomas Dobbin was born circa 1655 and died before 1728 leaving issue. Robert (born circa 1660 died in 1735) uas ~he aLcestor of Leonard Dobbin, M.P. for the City of Armagh. ':'he descendants of 00 th are set out in detail in Burke's Landed Gentry of 1912 and 1937.
The Deacon family
The founder of the family is said to have been a pikeman in the Army of William the Third and is belie:g-ed to have ::ieen from Gloucestershire. He settled in Altaturk in the closing days of tfle 17th century and was the father of John Deacon of Altaturk ·.-.rhowas born in 1679 and died 1698, leaving a son Robert of Altaturk ~nfr Tirnascobe who married Rachel '.t:'enr:.ant of Mullabrack 13th June, 1758, by whom he had a son Robert born circa 1760, ancestor of the Deacon's of Altaturk and Ternascobe for ,..,,-homsee Burke's Landed Gentry of 1937.
John Nissen Deacon, J1.C.; 11.B., medical Officer in charge of the Middlesex Hospital, London, is now head of the far:1ily.
They interma.rried with the Dobbin's and Gillespieand the Reid family of Little Castledillon are kinsfolk through the marriage of Elizabeth Deacon in 1863 with Thomas~- Reid, eldest son of rtobert Reid of Balleer and father of the late T.E. Reid, lI.B.E., a former Secretary of the Arrnagh County Council.
The Gillespie Family.
Descended from John Gillspie wbo came to Tirnascobe a,fter 1688. :'he moat interesting member of the family Y'8,s Leonardnard, son of Leonard of Ternascobebe.
7Etf Ternascobe ( 8)
Leonard Gillespie, the youn[rer, was born in 1758 and educated at the Royal School of Armagh ,-,,;1ere he had as a fellov7 pupil :Richard Wellesley, created Marquis of Wellsley in 1799 and ~lder tL~other of the famous Duke of Wellington On leavin~ school he studied medicine and 12-ter became Physicia.n to the fleet uncier Nelson::is account of life aboard the Victory, a diary, portraitetc. s~rvive. He died in 1842 and was buried in Paris.
R.H. Henderson
The most notable member of tbat family now lives in South Africa. He was born in 1862 and a.s a boy was a pupi 1 at Drumbee School. He left Ireland for the country of his adoption i~ 1884 and was Mayor of Kimberley during the famous seige. He later had a distinguished political career and in 1944 published an autobiography of great local interest.
He is commemorated in the County museum by a portrait by Bond Walker.
Lowry's Lake.
The water rights of the lake were purchased by the Corporation of Armagh about 1822 as an additional source for the town supply, and it is said that water from it first became available to the city in 1828.
In 1839, a circular was issued to the inhabitants of Armagh telling them of improvements. The memorandum set forth that II on
~rru:ASCOl:1£( 9) .
the embankment within the fence, the delightfulexercise-e;round is nearly a mile in length and is now available to subscribersbers and their friends alone. In the 1e.ke tl1ere ts a small island which has been tastefullylaid out and planted. A boat, the, -pro:perty ot one ot the subscribers has been generously placed by that gentleman at the corrr~&nd of those Jrivilesed to enter the grounds 11 •
There seer.1s to have been sone ri~if:'.:'iculty at first in preventing the ?eo::_:ile of the neighbourhood fron continuir:g to bathe in the lake but the autho~ities eventu2.lly succeeded in enforcing the law.
Between 1825 and 1868 over £2,000 was s:9ent on ir.1:;>rove~ner-.ts.
In 1878 an additional sill"l of ,r:l ,000 wa;s expended in t:1e purchase and embanking of 6 acres adjoining the lake and in 1884 another 5~ acres were added and a house built for a caretaker.
The history of a, Pipe watersupplyfor Armagh began in 1792 when Lady Primrose bequeathed £1,000 to two trustees to be applied at their discretion for any useful purpose.
Killuney
A tovmle.nd in the Parish of Armagh. Granted to John Dillon in 1610 and later Molyneux property.
The Poll Tax of 1660 show.s4 Irish and MrRobert Grier, but the latter name is a mistake for Gray, Jfr. Gray appearing correctly on the Hearth Money Rolls of 1664.
In 1696 Dr. Robert Gray held 83 acres in Killuneyand ?5 acres in Drummondmore Drumman more The originevl lease had been made to his father the Rev. Oliver Gray in 1631 by old John Dillon.
In 16?9 Gawn Walkinshaw had a lease of 100 acres and another lease was granted to Archibald Hamilton in 1696.
Edward Harcourt, Sovereign of Armagh was leased 100 Ecres 20th May, 1?53. This had formerly been leased in 1695 to Francis Leland. At the same time Harcourt sec'...1.red 60 acres f orr2erly in the possession of Dr. Robert Gray.
Tuiiscellaneous naterial.
Antiquities.
1. Site of Fort in field on Benjamin Stoop's farm. Portion of the ring remains in field fence.
2. On farm belonging to the late Jacob Barrett, there was a church site but it has now been laboured tor a cor:siderable period.
3. The graveyardField. So called because of burialsthere in the Famine Times. Lady Molyneux had Fever Sheds 0rected
killuney --(2).
the ne i~hbour}1ood.
School house s:10 1:.rn on ;raps of 1835. :3uiJdii1g r10•"J ~<r:::r'n a,s
Little castledillonlon. S t, h~ U\J.C.\A. rt, '..w-Y'
mrs henry caulfield
Castle Dillon Rentals 1721-22.
Gervaise walker held 194 acres. This tenant uas t~e grandson of the Rev. George walkerRector of kilmore 1664-1667 and r;epn.ew of the celebrated Rev. George walker of Derry fame, later killed at the Boyne. His fat her Godfrey walker served as High Sheriff for the county in 1678.
Castle Dillon Rentals 1814-1824.
Cochran mccann Hollywood Fulton Sergeant Rogers Hughes nugent wheelerer
Griffith 1 s Valuation of 1864.
Peel, John and Thomas G. mcwatty James. Girvan, Robert Scott, George Sargent, willis Wheeler, Patrick Acheson, William. Stoops, John and Benjamin. Mccann, John Duffy, James Hall, Walter Lindsay, Edward a.nd Richard
Kidd st george miller Lindsay walker
Drumorgan Ar:D H.AUILTO:H'S n~·.rr.
I. Drumorgan.
The old na.me of the to··mJ.vnd 110,7 "known as Hami 1 ton's Ba-:m was t::oynellan and it is so s:.1onn i.n the gr2nt to Sir James craig in 1610, but it a.lso a,p·oears ii, docunents of t·1.e sa~.e '_:leriod 2-s ~funellan. The villa~e, ho~ev~r, is situate in Dromorgan on the "border between that tovmland and the t o•rJnJ 2.nd of Hamiltonsbawn l ton's Bawn. Originally the tvvmlands formed :part of separa.te estatesDromorgan being within the manor of Ki llyruddan, t·.1e lands of which '\'iere granted to william Lawder in the sar.:e year as that in ··.rhich Craig acquired the :Janor of magherantrim
According to Carew's Report of 1611 both grantees were then resider..t. lawder had an aqent in cha,rc.:e of his -property acd certain -· houses had been built and re-paired, stone raised ar:d. tidber felledpresm:1ably for the erection of a. bawn - and craig had built a mill (probably at Corry as a mill there figures later as the manormill and built sone tenenents. Prepara.ti ons v:ere evidently '11&,defor the building of the Lawder bawn on the tovmlanc. of drumorgan and possibly on that portion of it which afterv"ards became Johnstown, 4t anyrate by 161? it was completed and was the property of John Hamilton who wa,s then also in possession of a bawn on the Craig 12.nds at Monellan Eoth bawns are mentioned in Pynnar's Survey of 1619. In 1629 the two manors vrere joined under the na1ne of Johnston which nar.'le TTe may assume to have arisen i.n the same way as Hamilton's Bawn both deriving from the then Ql'rner who also had an estate in Co. Gavan,
( 2) . known as Hansborough.
The earliest tenants for Dromorgan Drumorganthat we have any record of were:-
1. Archibaldbald Graham for part of the tounland, 11 th :iarch, 1618/19
2. John Willis and WilliamBell for half, 15t~ October, 1622.
3. Rorert Hamilton for one eighth 15th October, 1622.
4. Henry Grindall for Jart 8th February, 1619/20.
According to the Poll Tax of 1660 Ta.x was paid by 2 British and 12 Irish. The Hearth 2.foney Rolls for 1664 showHenry Stooper James Anderson Pat McIlroy
Henry Reid Richard Mathews
Vie have no ea,rly or mid-eighteenth cer..tury lists of tLe inhabitants of this townland but it is :possible tr·_a,t soL~e may survive at the Gosford estate office in Markethill
Mullabrack Tythe Payer's Lists of 1834 shon tie following families. -
MurphyWilliam Collison, James Bell, John B. Johnston Baptist McConnell Patrick StewartSanuel K Ashcroft, John Singleton, Daniel K Kidd, John Cowan, James McCausland Alex. McParland John x McConnellPat. Compton, John
Scott, Robert WardPeter Collison, Richard Johnston, George Corvan, James Noble Robert McParlandland, Pat. Singleton, Joseph K Boreland ~Irs. Greer, Eati::laniel x Parks, Matthew Bane, Mary Reid, Edward Ashcroft, John.
Lowden, Samuel Greer, Alex. Collison William Loughran Francis Sinton, William x Johnston Betty
Singleton Thos. x King, John. Beek, Jo:1n
Greer, Robert Gourley, 'Jm.
Bane, George Murphy , - William
Drumorgan and
Hamiltonsbawn S BAUJ'T
William Sinton and Samuel Stewart •n~re of Rockmacreaney. Daniel, Joseph and Thomas Singleton of Mullabawn
Nathaneil 1 Greer of Mullabawn7.abane, John McParlandand of Mullabawn and Killyruddan.
Griffith' s Valuation ot 1864.
Greer, Thos., Samuel, Alexander Cranston, Margaret Mulree, John Wallace, HugtI Kennedy, John Campbell, IHchael Allen, John Connolly, William Pierson, John Littlewood Robert Gibson, William Ward, Peter McHugh John McCammon W. J. Corner, John Mooney, Rose Parks, William McConnelBernard :U:ullhollancl, Wm. Kidd Rev. Henry Kidd, John McDermott, Thomas Spence, Robert Lennon, Patri.ck Elizabeth Johnston, Senior Johnston, Baptist Gillilan Anne Jane Anderson, Sidney
McCartney Robert. Gilliland, Frances Albin, Jacob McGeary John Black, Sarah Hadyen, John Molloy James Spence, William Hamilton, Matthew Sinton, 7iilliam McParland James, Teresa Gilliland robert Clayton, Isaac McHugh James McGovernEliza McCall, IIary Gourley, Vim. McConne;; , Daniel Fowler Arch&. Callaghan, Hans. McParland James Kidd, William Walker Thomas NobleThomas Elizabeth Johnston, Junio~ Bell, John B. Fullerton, Wm. McKee Wm.
Drumorgan AT1) .t Hamiltonsbawn ...
I I. Hfu~il ton' s Ba;;-111 alias Moneallen lJ
Half of this tow11J2.nn ·'"'c:.s lea.Eec<. to· Robert Allen c=·nd :.!.lS son
John by Jonn Hamilton in 162'7 -rrho a.i~ the sc:.r-1.eti .. e set ~11~ 0t.her
nalf to Brian Ban O'Neale O'Neil who may indeed have teen livir~ ir t.r_e
excepting a Hamilton e,rP:orial ston8 preserved 1r: tr:e gableor 2. house in the village. It is said to ~ave been damaged in 1641 or ln42 but neither it nor the bawn in the adjoining townland of Drumorgan figure in the depositions of that unhappy period.
John Hamilton died in 1639 and was buried in Mullabrack Church.
Besides his Co. Armagh property he left an estate of 1000 acres in Co. Cavan so his eldest son Hans, then a student at Glasgow University, was no doubt looked upon as an eligible partner by the daughters of the neighbouring landownersWe are told that Hans returned to Ireland immediately following his father's death and attended to the property caf.efully until the war broke out whereupon he became a Captain of horse and later attained the rank of Lieut. Colonel. His brother, James, also served in the army during those troubled ti.mes, and was the ancestor of the present Lord Holmpatrick who represents the Hamilton's of Hamiltonsbawn1ton's Bawn in the male line.
According to the Hamilton Manuscripts Hans returned to the management of his property when the troubles were -past and shortly s.ft erwa,rde married Maudlin Trevor, sister of the first Viscount
Drumorgan and Hamiltonsbawn S BAWN. ( 5).
Dungannon. He was knighted by Charles II and created a Baronet in 1662. Of his children only one reached maturity - his daughter Sara who married Robert Hamilton of Ardgonnel, later Mount Hamilton, co. Armagh, who was created a baronet in 1682 and by ·.f.1homshe had a son Hans. Sara Hamilton died before ner fataer but her son beca"lle heir to both :properties. Sir Hans of Hamilton's Bawn added to the family property in 1662 an estate of 1,860 acres in Co. Down forfeited by Art Magennis, but he does not seem to have been a prudent manager with the result that when he died in 1681 his affairs were in a bad way. This was no doubt partly due to becoming involved in a lawsuit with his relations in Co. ~01m. To make matters worse his son-in-law, Sir RobertHamilton of Mount Hamilton, was equally improvident with the result that when his son Hans (heir also to Sir Hans of Hamilton's Bawn) came of age it became necessary to sell some of the property so that the debts contracted by his grandfather and father might be liquidated.
Sir Robert Hamilton died in 1703 and was succeeded at Mount to Hamilton by his son who held on/the paternal property. He had, however, to part with most of the Hamilton's bawn retained the castle a few years longer. It was necessary to procure an Act of Parliament allowing the sale. Consent was given and in l?G8 the trustees of the estate sold the amjor portion of the Property to Arthur Graham of Ballyheridan, Co. Armagh.
Drumorgan AND I-1&'11:ILTON' S Hamiltonsbawn ( 6) .
sir Hans of Mount Hamilton married Jane Skeffington, daughter of the 2nd Viscount Massereene and dying in 1731 left a daughter Jane, who married James Campbellof London who took the name of Hamilton. In 1724 the castle of Hamilton's Bawn, with its demesne lands was purchased by Sir Arthur Acheson, Bart. ancestor of the Earls of Gosford, and in 1750 the Manor of Mount Hamilton was purchased by the same family. The Co. Down property was sold to the Innes family about that time also.
Why the Acheson's bought Hamilton's Bawn Castle is not quite clear. They may have had thoughts of using it as a dower-house or they may have known that there was a possibility of leasing it to the Government as a barracks. ·when the famous Dean Swift was the guest of Sir Arthur Acheson at Markethill in 1728 he thought of installing his friend, Sheridan, in the mansion and founding a school in opposition to that of Armagh but that scheme like the Dean's intention to build a house for himself at Draper's Hill on the Acheson property never came to anything. In the following year he wrote 11The Grand question Debated, whether Hamilton's bawn be turned into a barracks or a malt house 11 , a rather amusing set of verses of local interest.
The Castle became a Barracks in May 1731, its fi~st occupants as such being two troops of Horse. There is an excellent account of the structure and its amenitie-s in the 11 Irish Commons Journal 11 for l?no. It probably remained in use as such until the end of the 18th century. At anyrate 250 Erench prisoners were removed from Kinsale
DrumorganANDHAJJILTON'S BAWH( 7) .
to Hamilton's bawn in 1798 from which we may assume military occupation at that date.
We shall now retrace our steps a little. It has been stated that the castle le suffered badly at the hands of Sir Phelim O'Neill 11 but the only Deposition that I am aware of which mentions incider.;ts in the village omits the building entirely. Jane Trimble, then wife of Patrick Graham of Lurgan, deposed that on the Friday when Armagh was burnt in the first year of the rebellion, her husband Robert Trimble was killed, whereupon she fled to her husband's brother, William Trimble at Hamilton's Bawn and found him also slain. From his mother she learned that one Neale O' O'Neale O'Neilhad asked him to shoe his horse and when the worl< had been completed had II run him through" presumably with a sword. This was sworn to on 8th May, 1653. It is of interest to note that the Muster Roll of 1630 shows a John Trimble on the Hamilton estate in that year who may have been the father of Robert and William .
• John Bratten, Brattanthen of Derriaghey, Co. Antrim, made a deposition 28th February, ln52, by which we learn that at the beginning of thefebellion he was living at Marlacoo as a tenant under llrs. Rolleston, widow of the Rev. J. Rolleston to ;Nhomthe Manor of Teemore was granted in 1610He mentions by name various people who were murdered at Marlacoo and at whose burial he had assisted - one name. of Hamilton's Bawn interest being that of "Mr JamesCarr, Bailif to, llr. John Hamilton". Mrs. Rolleston made a deposition herself wherein
Drumorgan AND hamiltonsbawn BAWN ( 8). ,--
·she also mentions a number of victims by name - slie, poor woman lost three of her sons. Her a.ccount shows that :1er house, Capt. St. John's castle at Tanderagee, and the Earl of Bath's Castle at Clare were burnt as well as the churches of Loughgall, Mullabrack ana Ballymore. The Castle of Mulladry figures in a Sacheverall deposition of 1643 but none of them have a word to say as to the fate of Hamilton's Bawn -not even James Shaw of Markethill who swor,to a lengthy statement 16th August, 1653 which we can only believe in so far as the burial of 27 men of English and Scotch descent who ;:1.ad 11been killed within a musket shot of his house 11 is concerned. He was "given leave to bury them" but dare not carry them to the church or churchyard. We cannot, however, accept his further assertion that 1,500 Protestants were put to death in the parishes of Mullabrack, Kilcluney and Loughgilly without examining the available facts. That we are able to do by the aid of the Muster Rolls of the estates concerned. They were taken in 1630 and by 1641 there was probably a· slight increase in numbers. They show a. male population as follows:-
1. Lord Mountnorris 35 men.
2. Sir Archibald Acheson 56men.
3. John Hamilton 113 men
4. Mr. Richardson 8 men. a total of 212 men fit to bear arms. Lord Caulfeild who had the Abbey Lands of St. Peter and St. Paul is credited with 56 men but as hie lands in the Fews were but poorly settled and the figure covers tenants on lands in other baronies as well we would be safe in assuming 20 men as his limit in that area.. That gives us 232 men
Drumorgan AND HAllIL1'ON1 S BAWN ( 9) •
manYof whom were youths of sixteen to eighteen years, the remainder parents and uncles. With those fa.cts before us it is difficult to reconcile them with the numbers given in Shaw's a.ccount. There was, however, one very cruel event in the neighbourhood of Hamilton's Bawnin the townland of Shewis where a number of people, estimated at from 30 to 40, were driven into a thatched house belonging to Ann Smith and out of which only Ann and her daughter esca,ped. Later on 16th March, 1642, she made a svrnrn sta,tement giving the names of as many of the victims as ·were known to her personally. Several other depositions give a similar nunber.
From the fact that we have not found a record of the burning of Hamiltonsbawn 1s Bawn Castle in the depositions it seems probablt?, that Major General Monroe 1s Infantry and Artillery may have found the place fairly inta.ct when they reached the village on the evening before the Battle of Benburb. We know that the cavalry, 800 strong, pushed on to Armagh but that the rest, an army of n,000 foot, rested there until 4 a.m. before proceeding to join the cavalry. One thing seems pretty certain and that is that the place was then deserted. The British settlers had not yet returned and the native Population would have been with the Irish forces or in hiding. On th e next day Friday, 5th June, ln4n, the famous battle was fought , resulting in a disastrous defeat for Monroe at the hands of Owen RoeO'Neill in which perished Lord Blayney and Sir Hans Hamilton cousin, James Hamilton of the County Down branch of the_family and
Drumorgan .AKD Hamiltonsbawn s ( lC) .
whowas buried in Benburbwhere an armorie,l monument erected to his memory sti 11 remains.
The Poll Tax of 1660 shows 17 British on the townland of Monellanbut curiously enough the Hearth Money Rolls of four yea.rs later only gives Sir Hans Hamilton. He paid on five hearths and was evidently then resident in the castle.
There is no information as to how the castle f8red in the Williamite Wars. Young Sir Hans Hamilton was then only fifteen years of age and was possibly at school in Scotland. His father is said to have fought for King James but the fact that Mount Hamilton remained in the possession of thefarnily rather disproves the tradition
In the opening years of the reign of queen Anne the sale of the estate became a necessity owing to the many charges incurred against it by old Sir Hans. As stated before the greater part of the Co. Armagh property passed to the Graham family of Ballyheridan all indeed excepting the Castle and demesne and some leases tied up with that portion of the estate, retained possibly from seritimentaJ. reasons, but later purchased by the Achesons who, in the course of time, bought back the whole of the Hamilton lands and thus became the greatest landowners in the County.
The Graham's held their part from 1708 until 1829. They were descended from a family that settledon the See Lands of Armagh in the early 17thcentury. Arthur Graham who purchased the major part of the Hamilton estate, died in 1731 leaving (with other issue) a
~ Hamiltonsbawn S BAVl1if ( 11)
son, the Rev. John Graham, who lived at Hockley Lodge near Armagh. He died in 1743 and left -
1. Capt. Arthur Graham ·of Hockley of whom presertly.
2. The Rev. Isaac Graham.
3. Mary Graham who married Conway Spencer of Trummery, Co.Antrim, and was the mother of Gen. Sir Bent Spencer and Charlotte, Marchioness of Donegall.
Capt. Arthur Graham of Hockley married Penelope, daughter of John, Earl of Ligonier, by whom he had two sons who died young and four daughters. The eldest daughter, Penelope, married Henry Vernon of Hilton Park, Staffordshire, by whom she had a son, Henry Edward Vernon, who assumed the name of Graham on atfaining the age of 21 years and with it the Graham estate. He probably did not relish the idea of living in Ireland so sold out in 1829 to Archibald, 2nd Earl of Gosford. A few years later he re-assumed
the name of vernon A printed rental for the sale of the Graham estate is preserved in the Gosford Estate Office at markethill and is a document of special interest as it gives the names of tb.-e tenants and particulars as to the dates on which their leases were granted.
In the same office certain maps are preserved showing the ground plan of the castle of Hamilton's Bawn, but the Ordnance Survey Maps of 1835 show it as a ruin. Its decay is said to have been hastened by Lord Gosford allowing tenants in the village to remove stones from it for building purposes. The same maps show the Village pound. Another relic at markethill is a manor Court
drumorgan AND :ILTON' S hamiltonsbawn ( 12) .
Book beginning in 1838 and showing that Courts baron for the Manor were being held up until 1848. These took place before the Seneschal who with his twelve jurors met in the house of John Beck. Tythe Payers' Lists for 1834 and Griffith's Valuation of 1864 are useful sources for the families of that ~oeriod but as t_1ese notes are already somewhat bulky I shall content myself 0:ri th mentioning only two of the older families of the village, the beck'sand the Sinton' s. The Beck's are probably the oldest "settler" family in the village. A John Beck is shown on the muster Roll of 1630 on the Cope Estate. He does not a~pear in the Depositions relating to ln41-42 so we may asslU!le that he reached Li snagarvey (now Lisburn) in safety, in which neighbourhood other members of the family were already settled. A descendant later came back to Co. Armagh and obtained a lease in Ballymacally Ballymacawley in Mullabrack Parish. Adam Beck, his son, made a Will 14th December, 1699, and ordered that his burial should be near his father's grave in Mullabrack. He left a son, Robert, who was the ancestor of the Beck's of Ballymacally, Mecantrim, Corry, Rockmacreaney Drumlack Dromorgan and Hamilton's Bawn. Adam Beck, who died about 1699, was Probably a grandson of the John Beck who figures on the lfuster Roll of 1630. His brother, John, born 1650, settled at Lisburn, became a very prosperous linen merchant and died a very wealthy man in 1722. . . . Joseph Sinton A'"'I» , Benjamin Sinton
Drumorgan AND Hamiltonsbawn S BAVfN" ( 1~)
Unfortunately I do not know· the date of th t e pa ent for the famous fairs • They do not seem to have ~een Plantation u a grant and I have not found any record of t' b f 1 g nem e ore 82, in which year they first appear in data relating to Irish Fairs. They were then being held on the 26th May and 2nth November and are mentioned in an account of the village written in 1837 giving the addi ti ona.l information that the manorial Courts sat on the first iionday in each ·month. The fairs were perha"9s more notable from the poir.t of view of securing helpers on the surrounding farms than as places of sale for farm stock such as horses, cattle, sheep, etc. At anyrate they served a very useful purpose in that area and it is to be hoped that some old resident of the village will be enco:..1raged to -pu.t his or her impressions into writing so that TTe may have a :~enpicture of those fairs and their many side-s:1ows, the acrobats, candymen, ballad-singers, etc.
APPENDIX.
The Muster Roll of 1630
This gives a list of all the men on the th ree manors th at
Of John Hamilton in co: Armagh in the above year. formed the property
James Harrison
John Greere
John Robson
Thomae Curtis
Anthony Grindall
William Murrey
John Carlell
David Leach
John Hodg
John Flewry
Gilbert Greere
Thomas Grindall
David Murrey Murray
Thomas Norwick
Robert Jordaine
James Roe
WilJiam Leach
James Hodg
David Thompson
James Greere
John Harkness
Martin Browne
William Bell
Andrew Jordaine
James Fryer
Robert Sturgion
Francis Carrudas
The M:uster Roll of 1€130 - ( continued)
William Carrudas
Mungo Birres
John Sherley
John Carlell
George Bell
Alexander Browne
David Houston
Patrick Granton
John Ellot
Matthew German
Robert Thompson
Jrunes Key
John Krick
Thomc,s Hodg
Patrick Gordon
James Fryer
John Murman
Christopher Nixon
George Bell
William Palmer
John Armstrong
John FargisonnesonneFerguson
John Greere
Robert Johnston
Walter Scott
John Armstrong
Robert Howi:y
Robert Gargisonne
John Cowtard
John Moffet
Fergus Flack
Robert Christall
David Gass
John Lockmer
Gilbert McJ-Kurrey
John Brovm
Thomas Parker
Alex. Calagh
Thomas F Florry
John Trumble
John Wilkin
Patrick Richey
Richard Farbee
John Johnston
John Graham
Alex. McClose
Symond Carthers
David Moffett
Thomas Bridome
Robert Hammelton
William Atcheson
John Hall
George Gass
Humphrey Lee
William McCubby
John McDowall
Robert Thomson
William Gass
Thomas Clarke
John Henderson
George Bell
Phi li -p ::..rorton
Alex. Hammelton
John Allen
John Fleck
Robert Elliot
John Park
John McKall
John Deanes
Francis Wilson
Jammes Richey
George Hay
John Gass
Thomas McKnight
Andrew Nixon
Andrew Bell
Wm. Grindall
John Grundall
Michael Roe
Gilbert McCanny
John Raborne
David Cowtard
David Kirkwood
William Howy
John Hammelton
Robert Grindall
Killyruddan • -
Granted. in 1610 to Willam Lawder ,,-:rholater sold to John Hamilton1ton. Tl1e &:"rE..nted i nc ludeo. the to,;;nlarids ot -
Drumorgan
Druminnis
Lanylish Lenalea
Drumbee beg
Garnah
Derryraine
Ra.thornatt
Killyruddan
Drumnagloy
Derrynaught
Drumbeecross
in all 1,000 acres and incorJora.ted as the manorof Killyruddan.
Lawder short:!.y ai'ten··ards disposed of t~1.e -~ro:perty to John Hamilton. 1Ie built his bawn in Drumorgan tormland -,robably on the portion now known as Johnstown.
Tne property had uassed to John Hamiltonbefore 18th ::)ece.:nber, 161?, and on 29th July, 1629, he secured a neTI pa tent enabling hin to join his Tunor or Magheryantrim im ryi th the,t of Ki Killyruddan t~1e two to form the manorof Johnstown alias Dromorgan.
Miscellaneous Material.
Antigui ties.
McCartney's fort Partion of rampart and trench remain in a field called the "Fort Field", 1.,-_r11.ere it torms a bounda.ry fence. The farm tormerly belonged to the Allen's anct. later to the Wilson s.
Tenants in 1618.
Robert Gilmore, Adam Rae, ) David Letche, Robert Hamilton )
Tenants to John Hamilton for 21 years from 11 March, 1618.
Killyruddan-
Thomas :Berney. Richard Watken. James Twibil bi 1.
Graham Sale Rental 1829.
Original Leaseholder.
1. John Burgess
2. John Burgess
3. William McWhirther Present.
John Y. Burgess John Burgess ThoI!laS Bell
Nos. 1 and 2 held und.er lease of 1759. Fo. 3 under le& se of 1796.
Tythe Payers' Lists 1834.
Rafferty Morrow Robson Bell
Park_s Henry Loughlin Williamson
Corner McConnell Pillow Wilson McParland land McCann
Griffith 1 s Valuation of 1864.
Bell William, Jane. McLauglin James and George Kenny' Pat McCann Hugh McConnell , James Neile Eliza Jordan, Rev. Wm.
Corner, George. Robson, John Riddle, James Pillow, Jackson, Baptist, Samuel Barnett, Robert Lindsay, William Wilson, James (house unfinished).
Drumachee -
Situate in the Parish of Mullabrack and formerly pa.rt of the Grange of Ballymcally, Ballymacawley of t't"i.e Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul of Armagh. p1anta ti on.
Granted to Sir Toby Caulfeild before the
The Poll Tax of 1660 shows 18 Irish and the Hearth Money Rolls of 1664 give a list as under -
Donnell Oge O'Neill
Patrick McRory
Henry Cassidy
Daniel Dougan
Alex. McMullan
David Hanna
John McClure lure
Tole O'Mellan
Robert Scott
(By 1762
Cormick McRory
Shane McRory :M:iscellaneous ~Jaterial.
Charlemont Rentals 1752-1762.
James McClure lure
William Wilson
John Watson
Henry Browne
Hugh McAnerney
John Tweedy
WilliamHnna
Andrew watson
John Williamson
Jamesl Williamson
John Tweedy was replaced by Archibald Tweedyand Toole O'Mellan and Hugh McAnerny disappear, they seen to have been replaced in 1756 by Robert Scott, apothecary. Jaraes Williamson a new arrival.)
Longevity.
Ur. John Jenkinson, a tent farmer residing in this townland, hae reached the splendid age of 105 years. He is still able to walk With Blight a.id from sticks and makes many social calls on his
Drumachee ( 2) .
neighoours. He was in the yeomanry in 1798 co. Armagh, page 156, puolished 1888).
(See Bassett's
Robert Hamilton
Rachel Tweedy
James Allen
Robert Mcstay
William Cooper
Rebecca Allen
Thomas Dixon
John Jenkinson
Robert Lenahan
John Mee lure
John Trew
John Coburn
Francis Bell
Hugh Craig
Joseph Kerr
Ellen McParlandland
Griffith' s valuationof 1864.
:Bernard Smyth
John Wilson
Williai"il Ross
John Deans
Isaac Spence
liargaret McConnell
John McClure lure
Nathaniel McClure
John Nelson
':'.~ i 11 i am Hamilton 1 ton
William Lockhart
James Hutton
William Moffit
William Craig
Aenas McParland Par land
Eliza Taggart
Samuel McCullagh
Jane Waugh
MaryBrannigan
George Hamilton
John McConnell
Eliza Jane Hanna
Sarah Hamilton
1I2.ry Lenahan
John McClelland
Mary Jane Hamilton 1 ton
John Cully
John watson
Samuel Waugh
James O'Hare
CHARLEl'/iCNTTO!.'t1 LAND. ALTATURKE.
Leonard Dobbin, Jun.
Jame s Morrison or r i on .
Hugh Kiggan.
John Dobbin.
Henry Pilly.
J o hn S Spencec e ( 175 2 ) •
William Loney (1753-1765).
Thomas Gillespie.
George Warrenen. Wm. McCullogh.
John Deachan. Deacon
Robert Dobbin, Jun. (17~2-1765).
TernascobeASCOBE.
CHARIBM CNT T O'i.1N LA1'D •
Nathaniel Dobbin.
William Williamson
John Jackson.
Wm. Kilpatrick.
Hugh Dobbin.
James Lappan. AlexanderJohnston.
John Allen. ( 1752-1765).
John Birch; Margaret Birch (from 1753).
William McWilliams.
Leonard Dobbin.
1/llm. Newmanman.
John and Leonard Gillespie. Hugh Gillespie (1752-1758).
Thomas Dobbin.
CHARLEMCNT T 0 1fiNLAND.
DRUMAHEE (Drumachee).
Dani e 1 Dougan.
James McClure.
Archibald Woods. ( 1752-1765).
Job.n Tweedy; Archibald Tweedy (from 1756).
Alexander McMullan
William 11 i am Wilson 1 son.
William and David Hanna.
John Watson.
Andrew watsonson.
John McClure.
Henry Browne.
John Williamson; John and James Williamson 1755
Tole O'Mellan (1752-1755).
Hugh McAneny ( 1752-1755).
Robert Scott, apothecary. (1755-1765).
CHARLE1i GJT T 0'11/NL.ANDS .
Rathdrumgran ( 1752-1765).
s.amuel Willey and Rowland Trodden •
.Andrew Villars Villiers
James Morrison.
Wm. Dobbin.
Hugh McKenna.
Robt. Moore •.
George Somerville.
HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF P O R T A D O W N
by
The Rev. J.B. Leslie, M.A.,
Curate of Portadown.6 1894 -1899.
This account of the Parish of Portadown appeared in a Handbook for a Bazaar held in aid of Parish Funds in the Portadown To\m Hall, 27th, 28th and 29th November, 1901. Mr. Leslie was later Prebendary of Mullabrack (1925-28), Treasurer (1928-1934) and Chancellor (1934-1943), and Representative Canon of St. Patrick's, Dut::>lin, 191+3. For list of his publicatj_ons see "Supplement" to Armagh Clergy and Parishes, 1948.
PAROCHIALHISTORYOF PORTADOWN,
By Rev, J, B. Leslie, M,A,
The history of the Parish and Church of Portadown does not go back into the dim past, but begins in the Nineteenth Century. The Parish was created in 1824; the Church was built in 1826. But, though the Church is modern, it has its history, and that, like the history of the Town of Portadown, is one of rapid progress.
SEIORTHISTORYOF THE TOWN,
Portadown itself is a modern town. It may be that great men in days gone by trod·its streets. Perhaps St. Patrick himself passed this way in his journeys from Saul to Armagh, but the name first appears in history in connection with the rebellion of 1641, when it is said that seven score persons, chiefly women and children, were massacred at the Bridge of Portadown. Some historians, however, throw doubt on this incident. The name 11Portadown 11 is probably a corruption of Port-ne-dun, 11the fort of the fortified 81111nence, 11 and was so called from an ancient castle of the
McCanns,who were tributaries of the O'Neillsof Ulster, and occupied this very important station commanding the passage of the River Bann; though a different derivation 1s given for the name in a report on the district by William Brooke., dated November 26th, 1682, and reproduced in the Ulster Journal of Archaeologyof July, 1898, viz.: "Purt in Irish being a Port, and Dunam a place to land upon off the Bann River." This writer tells us that "a fair wood bridge near upon 1,000 feet in length" then spanned the river, that the Barony of Oneilland was 11the granary of the North 11 and "a perfect paradise of pleasure, 11 whose churches were "not so large as decent and well situated, having this to make them Renowned, that they are once a week filled with Loyall and Conformable Protestants." The market towns of the barony were, then, Loughgall, Legacorry (now known as Richhill), Portadown, and Lurgan, all inconsiderable, however, save the last. The origin of the town of Portadown is probably to be traced to the fact that the adjoining lands, under the name of the Manor of Ballyoran, were granted by James I. to William Powell, Esq., and afterwards by Charles I., in the seventh year of his reign (1631), to Prudence Obyns, Esq., and John Obyns, Esq., who erected a large mansion in
the Elizabethan style for their own residence and built fourteen houses, in which they settled fourteen English families. Hence the names "Castle Street" and "Obins' Street." In 1836, of this mansion there was scarcely a vestige except the gardens and the avenue, which were then totally perfect, though in the Post Chaise Companionof 1803 it is mentioned as being in existence and the residence of Michael Obins, Esq. In the 11Inquisi tions 11 of Car. I. 35, "Ballywarren al' , Portadowne, 11 is mentioned as having a market on Saturdays, and two fairs yearly, the Obyns family owning the customs. The town seems to have grown very slowly until the latter part of the Eighteenth Century, when it is mentioned in the Journals of John Wesley - who visited Drumcree -as being a little village whose inhabitants were not troubled with any kind of religion. The bridge was rebuilt in 1764, and the town once more reappears in history 1n 1795, when what Mr. Froude calls the 11Peace of Portadown" was signed in September, 1795 - three days before the Battle or the Diamond -between the Peep o day-Day Boys" and the "Defenders". This is probably the "Peace" which was signed at the residence of Mr. J. Atkinson, of Crowhill. The inhabitants of the town were at this time chiefly engaged in the linen manufacture, and the town, lying at
the passage of the Bann, which also connected it by water with other business centres, its market for corn and the products of the linen trade, began rapidly to grow, so that in the Post Chaise Companion,1803, we have it referred to in the following words: - 11Portadown is pleasantly situated on the River Bann, over which it hath a good bridge. The canal from Newry falls into the Bann within a mile of the place. Portadown. is noted for its extensive business in the linen manufacture." The adjoining residences of the gentry (besides Castle Obins, above-mentioned) ·were Carrick, the seat of Mr. Blacker; Dawson's Grove, the seat of Mr. Kelly; and Mahone, the seat of Mr. Workman.11 We have seen it mentioned somewhere that the Town of Portadown contained but 36 houses in 1816 -136 would probably be nearer the number, as the population must have been about 600, for, five years later, in 1821 (the date of the first general Census in Ireland), there were 167 families, numbering 833 persons, in the Town of Portadown (Townland or Tavanagh), while in the Townland of Corkcrain there were 43 families, numbering 231 persons. An examination or these Census Papers (now in the Public Record Office, Dublin) shows that the town was then fast becoming important.
Evidences of increasing civilization are apparent 'Whenwe find resident therein 11doctors, 11 "lawyers," 11attorneys," "drapers, 11 11brogue makers," and even 11strollin' beggar s 11 ; it boasted a market place, and there was a town Constable." There was than left only the remains of a distillery, which, however, was again in flourishing condition in 1836; and there was also a brewery, which consumed annually 3,000 tons of malt. The majority of the inhabitants were connected with the linen trade, being engaged in hand-loom weaving, flax spinning, etc.
The Minutes of the Town Commissioners (now the Urban District Council) of Portadown go back to 1828, when a memorial signed by twenty-nine householders, occupying houses of the annual value of £20 and upwards, petitioned the Marquis of Anglasea, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to put the provisions of 9th George IV. in force, entitling the toim to corporate government, as regards lighting, cleansing, and watching. The Lord Lieutenant, in consequence, authorized Curran Woodhouse, Esq., and Joseph Atkinson, Esq., Justices of the Peace, to summon a meeting on 1st October, 1828, of householders of £5 annual value an4 upwards, to decide whether the provisions of the Act should be adopted. The notice convening the meeting was posted on 11the door of Portadown
Churchand the Crane Box in the market place, 11 and in other places. The meeting resolved that the Act should be brought into force for cleansing and paving only. Twentyone Commissioners were elected at the meeting, as follows:Thomas Shillington, William Hutcheson, Rodger Marlay, Thomas Sinnamon, Woolsey Atkinson, William Overand, William Paul, John Obins Woodhouse, Henry Munro Saunderson, Benjamin Mallagh, Henry Atkin, D'Arcy Sinnamon, Henry Stanley, George Dickson, John Overand, George Woodhouse, Harford Montgomery, Robert Addy, Hugh Lavery, James Henry, Frances Marlay. A few of these refused to act, and others were co-opted to fill their places. The first meeting of the Commissioners was held on 13th October 1828, and Mr. Thomas Shillington was elected Chairman. Various officers, including a town clerk (at £4 per annum), town collector, and scavenger were appointed, and the streets were named and arrangements made for cleansing the tovm. An estimate was placed upon the houses of the town for valuation. Amongothers that appealed against this estimate was Rev. Robert Henry, who writes Nov. 6, 1828, as follows:- 11Sir, I beg leave to say that I consider the valuation laid on my house and concerns in this town too high and far above lvhat I pay for them, tho' lately taken by me at an improved
value, which statement you ·will make knoi:m to the Commissioners." _ R. Henry. The estimate was, however, confirmed.
There were 170 houses of the value of £5 and upwards in the town. It was ordered that the town inspector, on market days and at meetings of the Commissioners, wear a blue frock coat, with red collar; black leather belt, with sword; long staff, with gilt head; and black hat, with silver band. He must have struck terror into the unruly youngsters of the town - if there were any!
Among the Town Commissioners elected in 1835 was Rev. Chas. King Irwin, Rector, who was appointed Chairman in 1836, and attended the meetings of the Commissioners regularly during his term of office. In 1845 the Commissioners obtained an extension of their powers in order to control the lighting of the town.
In 1836 there were 315 houses in the town, containing 1591 persons, and the chief trade was in corn, pork, cattle, and agricultural produce, \\lhile the manufacture of linen, lawn, cambric, and sheeting was, we are told, extensively carried on, and the weaving of cotton goods also afforded employment for a large number of persons. There was a dispensary and a lending library in the town, supported by
Lord Mandeville (afterwards Duke of Manchester), who had also established a Loan Fund for the district -the tovm and manor being then his property. The principal seats of the gentry mentioned in LewistopographicalDictionary, as being in existence in the district in 1836, were 11Ballyworkan, the residence of G. Pepper, Esq.; Carrick, of Lieut-Col. Blacker; Clownaof J. Woolsey, Esq. (now
1 The Rectory'); Eden Villa, of W. Atkinson, Esq.; and Fair View, of T. Carleton, Esq. 11 In this year the town and district suffered greatly from agricultural distress.
In 1839, we find from the Parish Vestry Minutes that a small revenue was derived from market fines, which augmented the churchwarden's funds. Until the Poor-Law Act came into force, parish officials, appointed at the Easter Vestry, were officers of Public Health and overseers of Public Houses.
In 1855, Portadown adopted the provisions of the Tows Improvement Act of 1854. When Free Trade was substituted for the Protection tarriff the agricultural interests suffered, and the markets for grain languished until the advent of the Railway, which was opened to Belfast early in 1842, and which brought about
a general revival of trade in the district. The volume of trade with Belfast and Dublin increasing, it was, in fact, found necessary in 1848 to separate the passenger from the goods traffic, and to open the present passenger station, leaving the old station for the goods department. Ever since, the industrial history of the town has been a history of continuous progress, which even temporary depressions in the linen trade did not affect. Especially has this been the case during the last decade, the population now being 10,046, and the town containing nine large weaving factories, a spinning mill, several hemstitching factories, an underclothing factory, three saw mill yards, a jam factory, two peat moss litter depots, a rope manufactory, a foundry, several bakeries, two pork curing establishments, a steam laundry, three banks, two loan and deposit banks, a fine Town Hall, a handsome Post-office, and a large Public Park, near which is situated the well-known "Woodside Nurseries." Portadown has been fortunate in having at the head of its municipal affairs since 1828 a body of gentlemen lrlbose time and abilities have been freely given in promoting everything that tended to the improvement of the town and the welfare of its inhabitants. Floreat Portadown!
LIST OF CHAIRMENOF TOWNQOMMISSIONERS,
1828 • • • Thomas Shillington.
1829-30 • • • Curran Woodhouse.
1831 ... William Overend.
1832-3 ... Thomas Sinnamon.
1834-5 ... Thomas A. Shillington.
1836 ... Rev. Charles King Irwin (Rector).
1837 ... William Paul.
1838-9 '... William Joyce.
1840-2 • • • John Shillington .
1843-5 • • • Curran Woodhouse.
1846-55 . . . John Obins Woodhouse.
1856 . . . William Langtry.
1857-8 . . . Thomas Carleton.
1859 .·•. John Obins Woodhouse.
1860-l • • • Thomas A. Slillington. 1862 • • • John Obins Woodhouse.
1863-4 •
• Thomas Carleton • 1865-8
1869-71
• Thomas Armstrong
Arthur Thornton. 1872
John Kernan.
1873
1874-5
1876-1881
1882-3
1884-5
1885-7
1888-90
1891-2
1893-5 .
Thomas Carleton,
Averell Shillington.
William J. Paul.
Arthur Thornton.
Hugh Wallace.
George Dougan, 1'1.D.
William Hall.
John Malcolmson.
. John Richardson
1896-1901. . . . Charles Johnston.
TOWNCLERKS.
1828
1829
1845
1846
181+8
1854
1867
1868
1875
1875
William Colgan.
Daniel Bulla.
John Matthews.
James Graham.
Thomas A. Maitland.
Thomas Guy.
Robert B. Moorhead.
James Hall.
William John Guy.
Robert McClatchey . ) William Wilson. 1901.)
) Matt. Mcclatchey, Asst. Clerk.
HISTORYOF THE PARISH,
Having said so much with regard tc the history of the Town,let us turn to that of the Parish, with which it is so closely bound up.
The total population, of all denominations, of the district now included in the Parish of Portadown was, in 1821, 3,942. As this population was rapidly increasing, and as the Parish Church of Drumcree was unable to accommodate all the parishioners who resorted thither for Divine worship, a movement was set on foot, soon after, to establish a new Parish and Church in Portadown The result of the movement was that the Perpetual Curacy of Portadown was constituted by deed dating 21st August, 1824, Rev. J. Stewart Blacker, Rector of Drumcree, consenting. The deed contains the following:-
"Whereas the Parish of Drumcree, being a benefice with the cure of souls, is of very large extent, and the mother Church of the said Parish not being sufficient to accommodate the number of inhabitants 'Whoresort thither for Divine worship. . . and whereas it would greatly tend to the cotnf'ort of the inhabitants of the said Parish, as well as to the advancement of religion, if a part of said Parish were separated from the remaining part and erected into a new
and distinct Parish ••• the several townlands, Artabrakagh, Armagh, Ballyworkan, Baltylum, Clounagh, Corkrane, Drumnakelly nakelly, Drumnasoo, Garvaghy, Kilmararity, Mullentine, Mahon, and Tavanagh were to be constituted a Parish, •to be called and known by the name of the Parish of Portadown. • 11
Further on in the deed it is enacted that it is 11to be called the Parish of St, Michael, Portadown. 11
Viscount Mandeville gave a site for the Church and Churchyard, and a liberal donation towards the Building Fund; the Board of First Fruits contributed a gift of £831 and a loan of £461; and others (including Primate Lord J.G. Beresford) assisted, with the result that a Church was built which a writer, a few years after, describes as "a handsome edifice in the early English style, ~rl.th a tower at the east end." This Church was consecrated on November 14, 1826, under the name of the Church of St. Martin. The following special hymn, composed for the occasion by Lieut.Colonel w. Blacker, was sung during the service:-
Lord of life and light and power
Be w1th us in this solemn hour; High throned in heaven, with favouring ear, Our humble supplications hear.
And tho' that boundless heaven may be A temple too confined for Thee, Oh, let this house Thy servants build Be with Thy glorious Presence filled.
Unless Thine aid the Pile sustain The artist's labour is but vain· ' Until Thy grace the fabric bles;, All human skill is valueless.
Grant from the walls we here prepare For holy rites and praise and prayer, Our humble tribute still may rise An acceptable sacrifice.
And while unto Thy Name divine We consecrate this earthly shrine, Oh, let us from that hour agree To dedicate ourselves to Thee.
Till in our minds Thy "Word of Grace 11 And Spirit find a dwelling-place; And, built in Faith and Hope and Love, Fach Christian heart Thy Temple prove.
Rev. Robert Henry was placed in charge of the Parish as Perpetual Curate; and at the first Easter Vestry of the newly-constituted Parish, held in the Church before its consecration, on March 29th, 1826, the following resolution was passed, on the motion of Thomas H. Carleton, Esq., seconded by Rev. J. s. Blacker, Rector of Drumcree (who soon afterwards became Rector of Keady, and died, aged 40, on August 2, 1835):- "That the thanks of the Protestant inhabitants of this district be given to Rev. Robert Henry for his kind attention towards them, and more particularly for bis exertions in founding this Church." Besides those mentioned above, the following were also present at this Vestrys- c. Woodhouse and Thomas Shillington (appointed
church-wardens), Thomas A. Shillington, George Dickson, ThomasSinnamon, Wm. Cregan, Benjamin Robinson, Hugh Matthews, Thomas Clayton, Averill Shillington, William Fisher, Henry Stanley, Robert Hall. Rev. R. Henry held the living of Portadown until the summer of 1833, when he was appointed to the Rectory of Jonesborough, where he remained till he died in 1870, having lived to see a new church built in that parish. He was succeeded in Portadown by Rev. Charles King Irwin, father of the present Archdeacon of Armagh.
The site of the Churchyard was not enclosed for some time, until, in consequence of its being used as a public bleach-green, it was found necessary, in 1840, to build a wall around the Church, wich, however, it is said, did not fully enclose all the ground that was given by Viscount Mandeville. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners had, a few Years previously, granted £173 for the repair of the Church. There was a clock placed on the tower in 1833, and the present bell dates, 11Sheridan, Dublin, 1845. 11 Funds for the purchase of an organ were raised in 1857 by Messrs. W. Langtry, Thomas Carleton, and R. Pepper, and an organ was Purchased for £97, and first used on Christmas Day, 1857.
In 1859, at the Easter Vestry, Thomas Carleton moved, and John Ferguson seconded, that, "inasmuch as the accommodation in Portadown Church is quite insufficient for the present wants of the congregation, an application be forthwith made to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to have same enlarged and reseated." Soon after·wards -in October, 1859 - Rev. Augustine FitzGerald (the late Dean of Armagh) was instituted to the Parish, and during his long incumbency of thirty-seven years the Church in Portadown made continuous progress. We cannot but feel that to his pious, gentle, and unremitting care (strengthened as he was by the loyal support of the Churchmen and Vestry of Portadown) is due, under God, a great deal of the progress in Church life of which we now see the evidences in Portadown, for which the present clergy are deeply grateful, and which will be felt for good in all future wrork for the Church in the Parish.
On his appointment, he at once, in his quiet but effective way, set to work to bring about the enlargement of the Church desired by the Vestry, and absolutely necessary under the cireumstances; and in June, 1861, the project was carried out. At the same time a Faculty to
alter the seats was granted by the Primate. During the progress of the building operations, Divine Service was held in a house in Thomas Street, now a wholesale grocery store. On 18th Sept., 1862, the Church was reopened, Rev. A. FitzGerald, D.D., and Rev. Charles Alexander (Rector of Drumcree) being the officiating ministers, and Rev. c. King Irwin, D.D. (a former incumbent) being the preacher. About £1,000 was spent on the Church fabric on this occasion, Primate Lord John George Beresford, vJhohad helped to found the Church in 1826, obtaining a grant from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, which he himself supplemented by a large donation.
In 1863 the Parish was endowed with a Glebe House and lands -formerly the residence of the Woolsey family -in Clounagh, the deed of endowment, between Edward Atkinson of Carrickbrennan on the one part, and the Rev. Augustine FitzGerald and his successors on the other part, dating 5th October, 1863. An annual Head Rent of £6 2s. Od. is payable under the deed.
A few years before Dr. FitzGerald's institution to the Parish, it was found necessary to appoint a Curate to assist in the parish work. Primate Beresford nobly and
generously assisted this parish (and other parishes) in maintaining the extra clergyman required.
By the Disestablishment of the crnurch of Ireland, and the subsequent Statutes enacted by the General Synod,
Portadown became a separate and distinct Parish, the patronage vesting henceforth, not in the Rector of Drumcree, as hitherto, but in the Board of Nomination of the Diocese, the Parish being allocated, in the Diocesan Scheme, a rector (at the not, by any means, excessive income of £300, to which was afterwards added a Boulter grant of £40) and a curate (at income of £120, subsequently increased to £150). The delegates to the first Special Synod after Disestablishment were Messrs. R. Pepper and G. Kinkead; the members of the first Select Vestry of the free and independent Church of Ireland in Portadown were Messrs. T. Carleton, G. Kinkead, W. Hall, G. Quarry, Dr. H. Stanley, W.J. Locke, J. Ferguson, D. Sinnamon, J. Harrison, Dr. w. Stewart, w. Robinson, W. Woodhouse; Diocesan Synodsmen - J .. Wilson, R. Pepper, T. Armstrong, H.J. Harris; Parochial Nominators -D.
Sinnamon w. Reid, J.P.; T. Armstrong, J.P.
The Church Hymnal was first used in St. Mark's on 10th May, 1875'.
In 1877 a committee was appointed to consider what repairs were necessary to keep the Church "decent and in
order." It reported that it would be necessary to spend a considerable sum. An application was made to the Primate for a grant from the Beresford Fund; a sum of £250 was granted at the time. The plans, however, appeared to the Trustees of the Fund to be commonplace, and, on their suggestion, certain improvements were made in them. In consequence, a further sum of £1000 was granted in 1882, from the same source. The Vestry accordingly invited estimates for the work, which practically involved the rebuilding of the whole structure, and the addition of a new chancel. The estimate for the tower end {still unfinished) was £4000 The contract, made with Messrs. Collens Bros., for the building amounted to close on £6000. The Trustees of the Beresford Fund granted a second sum of £1000 in 1883, making in all a total of £2250 -the largest sum ever granted from the Fund towards the restoration or building of a parish church in Ireland. The balance of the amount paid to the contractors was raised in the Parish, chiefly by voluntary contributions, extending over a period of five years.
The Church, thus enlarged and restored, was consecrated on September, 3, 1885, by Bishop Knox, of Down, acting for tbe Primate, and was dedicated to St. Mark. It will be noted
that it was to be known as St, Michael's, according to the deed of 1824, but was consecrated as St, Martin in 1826. St. Martin' s Church was therefore the proper name of Portadown Parish Church until 1885; but strange to say, it was popularly known as St. Mark's long before, and we find Dean FitzGerald writing of it as 11 st. Mark's" in the Parochial Registers of 1870. The words 11s. Martin" were written in a small, indistinct hand, different from the rest of the writing in the deed of 1826, and it is conjectured that they may have been mistaken for 11s. Mark." Here we may add that it is a strange coincidence that it is ~ecorded of one of the curates that, like St. Martin (who is represented in ecclesiastical symbolism as presenting his cloak to a beggar), he returned to his lodgings on one occasion minus his overcoat - vmich be had bestowed on a poor parishioner.
When the Church was being enlarged, the late Miss Carleton asked to be allowed to collect subscriptions for a new org~. This request haVing been acceded to, a sum ot £366 was collected and an organ purchased. The cost of the organ ( constructed by Chs. Annussins Meunier, of Grammont)being £563, Miss Carleton generously defrayed
the deficit, and the organ was first used on 7th July, 1886. It has in recent years been improved, at the expense of an anonymous donor, by the addition of the following stops -Open Diapson (Pedal), Open Diapson and Principal (Great Organ), Oboe (Great Organ). The old organ was sold, and is now in Bessbrook Church.
The late Miss Carleton also erected in 1891 the beautiful East Window, which has the Ascension of our Lord for its subject, 11in loving memory of Elizabeth Casement Carleton; born 6th January, 1790; died 21st February, 1887. 11
In the Parish Report of 1886, the thanks of the Vestry are accorded 11to ( the late) Mrs. Stewart, whose devoted spirit and energy provided the Pulpit, which is so conspicuous an ornament; to the Misses Kinkead for the handsome carved oak Lectern; to the Misses Bredon for the beautifully-embroidered CommunionTable Cloth; (the late) Mrs. Bradon and (the late) Miss Carleton for other suitable articles of Church Furniture; and the Parochial Sunday Schools for the handsome Bible and Prayer Books."
The Holy Table and the beautiful carved oak woodwork at its back was the gift of members of the Bradon family, who
also erected in 1895 the handsome NorthK Transept Window ('Mbichhas for its subject the Transfiguration of our Lord • ' after Raphael) in memory of the late Dr. Alexander Bredon and Mrs. Bredon. To these gifts must be added that of a very handsome solid silver Communion Service of the Nettlecomb pattern (five pieces), by Miss Carleton in 1896the old Communion plate having also been a gift of Rev. J. Stewart Blacker in 1826; a bequest of the late Mrs. Ellen Bready of £9; a bequest of the late Mr. Wm. Cregan in 1896 of £100, to be expended in the building of a new Tower for the Church; a bequest (shared equally ~dth the Parish of Drumcree) of the late Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Carrickbrennan; according to the terms of his will (1866), as follows:
"I bequeath the sum of £500 to my trustees or trustee for the time being, upon trust, to invest the same, and to pay the interest and income thereof, from time to time, for ~ver herea£ter, in equal shares to the Protestant Ministers of the Churches of Drumcree and Portadown respectively, and to be applied by the said ministers for the benefit of the poor of the parishes of Drumcree and Portadown as the said ministers respectively shall, in their uncontrolled discretion, think fit"; and a bequest of £50 for the poor
K What 1s commonly called the Horth Transept, but the orientation of the church is not correct.
from a member of the Society of Friends, the late Mr. Charles wakefield.
An additional Curate was appointed in 1892, and has been found necessary ever since.
In 1896, Rev. A. FitzGerald, D.D., who had previously been Precentor of Armagh Cathedral, was promoted to the Deanery, and therefore resigned the Incumbency of Portadown, where he had so long and faithfully laboured. He was succeeded in the Incumbency on October 27, 1896, by Rev. E. Waller Hobson, M.A., who was formerly curate of the parish, and who found a most hearty welcome from all the parishioners. The opening of the new Century, therefore, found Church work in Portadown in a most flourishing condition. Much progress has been made, yet many useful projects still remain to be carried out; but we have no doubt that in future, with the zealous support of the many Churchmen and Churchwomen who have in the past generously given of their time, influence, and means to the glory of God and the furtherance of His work in the Parish, the rule Shall still be PROGRESS.
HISTORY OF THE PAROCHIALSCHOOLS,
From the Census papers of 1821 the following list of school teachers, with the number of pupils taught by them, in the Town of Portadown has been extracted:-
Anne Doran (Clounagh)
Eleanor World (Tavanagh)
Mary Guy
Thomas Conn
Gatherine Doherty
Eliza Mullan
Leaving out the school in Clounagh, we have a total of 44 girls and 53 boys of all denominations attending school in Portadown in 1821. There were then in the town of Portadown (Tavanagh and Corkrain) 1,064 persons. One in every eleven persons, therefore, only attended school. This will give us some idea of the enormous advance in Education. In 1836 a writer tells us that in the J;liU.'.l..fill "of Portadown about 550 children are taught in seven public schools, of which two are supported by the rector, four by Lord and Lady Mandeville, and one partly by Mrs. Henry. There are also five private schools, in which are about 100 children, and two Sunday schools. 11 Of course, these numbers include children of all denominations. At present (1901) there are nearly 1,200 children on the rolls of the Church Day and Sunday schools.
In 1846 the following academies and schools were in existence:- Boarding School, Thomas Street; Amelia Cowan. Duke of Manchester's Endowed School, Church st.; Thomas Guy, master; Mary Guy, mistress. Infant School, Eliza and Ann Brady, mistresses. Bridge Street, Jane Morrison. As regards the schools at present in connection with the Church of Ireland, KILMORIARTYis the oldest strictly Parochial school, the present building being in use for 60 years - 25 under the Church Education Society and 36 under the National Board. Before its erection at least one school existed near the same place (at Mr. Finnegan•s cross), taught by Mr. James McAllister and Mr. Foster Hadden. The lease of the school dates 10th July, 1840, and was made between thomas Carbery, of Kilmoriarty, farmer, of the one part, and Rev. Charles King Irwin, of Porta down, of the other part." For a certain consideration the former "doth give, grant, sell, assign, transfer, and make over that parcel of land ... free and clear of or from all charges or 1ncumbrances whatsoever. Present -George Woodhouse, John Hyde. Registered Dublin, June 22, 1849. 11 The present landlord is Sir Robert Hart, K.C.B., one of Portadown•s distinguished sons, who receives a nominal rent of 2s. 6d. per annum, the previous landlords being, in order, Messrs.
Bristow, Jones, Matheson, and Lieutenant-Colonel Valentine Jones Grame (Grahame?).
Additional ground was secured at a nominal rent as a ' playgrow1d, from the G.N. Railway in 1898.
The name was spelled "Kilmararity" in the parish deed of 1824, 11Kilmarearty 11 in the school books until 14th August, 1865, when it was taken under the supervision of the National Board, and altered to "Kilmoriarty. 11 It was the first National School in Portadown Parish under the management of the Rector. While the Armagh Branch Railway line was being constructed in 1846'-7 - the Irish Famine period - the children were removed for safety to a building in Mullentine, near Ballybay bridge. The following is a list of the principal teachers since its foundation, as far as can be ascertained:- J.S. Pentland, William Conn (1846-7), John Woodhouse, James Woodhouse, Joseph Totten, William Johnston, Joseph Totton (1854), Miss Hewitt, Miss M.J. Locke, T. Allen, James Mann, James Crotty, William Doherty, B.A. Mr. Doherty is also the &tperintendent of the Sunday School, which has been held here since the school was built.
The present MAHON(or Maghon) School is known as "The Queen Adelaide School," and is so called because the
Dowager Queen Adelaide gave a grant towards the building fund in 1847. A school was previously in existence about a quarter of a mile nearer Artabrakagh. Mahon School was assisted by the Church Education Society until 1885, when it was placed under the National Board. This school, with that of Kilmoriarty, passed into the hands of the Representative Church Body under the Vesting Order of the Irish Church Temporalities Commission after Disestablishment., and both were handed over by the Church Body to the "Armagh Diocesan Board of Education" -a body created by the Educational Endowments Act of 1885 - and this latter body recognises the incumbent as the "local authority" governing the schools, of which he is, therefore, Patron and Manager. Mahon School is subject to a small ground rent payable to Mr. Ripley. The present Principal of Mahon School is Miss Montgomery, and Mr. Robert Anderson 1s the Superintendent of the SUnday School.
BALLYWORKANSchool was originally built as a private school for the late Mr. w. Hadden by his father, about the Year 1830. It was entirely self-supporting until the teacher, Mr. Hadden, emigrated in 1860. An annual sum of £10 was, however, paid to the teacher by MadameKelly
to assist in the education of the children of her tenantry. The parochial clergy visited the school, and, by the request or the teacher, occasionally inspected it. A Sunday School in connection with the Parish was also held, and was conducted by members of the Pepper familyo In 1860 a Mrs. Biers succeeded Mr. Hadden as teacher, but the attendance became so low that in a short time the school had to be closed as a day school. It remained closed for eighteen years. In 1883, at the request of the Rector, Rev. A. FitzGerald, D.D., it was re-opened and placed under the National Board, Mr. Richmond Pepper being Patron, and the Rector Manager. On the death of Mr. Pepper in 1896, the school was purchased from his administrators by the Select Vestry (the tenant-right of the premises at the rere having been previously purchased through the exertions of Mr. J.G. Livingston), and became Church property, being vested in Parochial Trustees, and the Rector was appointed Patron by the National Board. Mrs. Fairley (formerly Miss Duke) is the Principal, the Sunday School Superintendent being Mr. Isaac Davison, -whowas preceded in the office by Messrs. W.J. Green, A. McLearn, J. Boyle, and Mr. McGahey.
The history of PORTADOWN(Church St.) National School,
popularly known as 11The Duke's School, 11 goes back to the year in which the Church was built, for we find in the vestry Minutes of 1826 a resolution of thanks to Viscount Mandeville for, among other things, "expending £1000 in building a new school. 11 One of the School Registers, however, states that it was built in 1828, while another dates its foundation from 1830; but these Registers do not go back very far. It was first opened as a school in January, 1834. The school was for a long time worked on undenominational lines, the Duke of Manchester, through his agent, having the appointment of the teachers. It was first placed under the National Board in July, 1860, the Duke of Manchester being recognised as Patron, and his agent, Captain O'Brien, as Manager. The position of the school as regards the Parish not being very satisfactory, and the building being in very bad repair, the Select Vestry proposed, in 1881, to build a Parochial School, which should be directly under the control of the Incumbent, and be in all respects adequate to tbe requirements of the education of the pupils attending it. On the subject being brought to the notice of the Duke by the late Dr. FitzGerald, the former handed over the Patronage and Management to Dr. FitzGerald on 13th February, 1882, and
after further negotiations with the Select Vestry, the building itself was, in 1888, vested in certain trustees for the Parish, to be used as a school only, at a rent of £1 per annum. The Select Vestry then applied for a grant from the Board of Works. This was not obtained, but estimates were invited and a contract entered into, and the school was rebuilt in 1889-90 at a cost to the Parish of nearly £800. At one time the boys and the girls were taught separately, and there was an Infant School as well, but the two former have since been united. The upper part of the building is occupied by this school, under the Principalship of Mr. George I. Browne, and the ground floor is given up to the Infant School, of which Miss Major is the Principal. Of previous Principals we can only give the following:-Thomas and Mary Guy, and Miss Brady (Infant School); Mr. and Mr$. English, w. Doherty, Messrs. McGahey and Watson.
There is an Infant Sunday School held in this building.
For the history of EDGARSTOWN No. 1 National School
we must go back to the time when the present Rector was Assistant Curate of Portadown. In consequence of the large increase of the population of the district, Rev. E.W. Hobsonstarted a weekly Service and Sunday School in a
small house in Montague Street on 8th December, 1879. After a little while this house was given up, and in a bUilding belonging to Mr. B. Matchett, on another site rurther down the street, a day school was opened on 14th May, 1883, and place:lunder the National Board. In 1887, the attendance having outgro,vn the accommodation, it became necessary to enlarge this building, and a lease was obtained for £80 from Mr. Matchett of the plot of ground on which the school is built, at a rent of £2. 2s. Od. per annum. The sum of £300 was borrowed from the Board of Works, and the school rebuilt. In 1892 an extra plot of ground of the same extent, and at the same rate per annum, was rented from Mr. Matchett, who has invariably shewn practical interest in this school. This is used as a playground. In 1898 it was found necessary to add classrooms and provide further accommodation, and for this purpose £250 was borrowed from the Board of Works. The school is vested in Trustees for the Parish. The Principal 1s Mr. Stuart Green; previous Principals, J. Ferris, Mrs. MullenSunday School Superintendent, Mr. c. Courtney, succeeding Mr. J. Boyle.
WATERSTREETSchool owes its origin to the rapid extension of the population of tbe tovJn towards the
oarvaghy district. Mr. W.J. Locke, J.P., who was working in co-operation with Rev. Ribton McCracken, seeing that it would be desirable to obt_ain a convenient site for a school in the district while building-ground was to let at moderate cost, purchased the plot of ground on which the school stands in 1890, and soon afterwards handed it over, at its original cost, to the Select Vestry, who, with the Rector, warmly took up the-movement for the establishment 01' a school. The sum of £250 was borrowed from a private source, a contract was entered into for the building, and the school -placed under the National Board -was opened in October, 1892. The attendance, as in the case of Edgarstown, was not large at first -only about 30; but the foresight of the promoters was in both cases seen to be justified, for, with the extension of the town and the opening up of the Park district, it was found necessary in 1899 to enlarge Water Street School, increasing the accommodation twofold, and greatly improving its interior. To do this a further sum of £263 was bonowed -the previous loan haVing been paid off some years before -and hence the origin of the present Bazaar, on the proceeds of which this School has a first claim. Mr. George Hunter is the Principal, succeeding Mr. Joseph Mccaughey on 1st August,
1893; Mr. s. McGredy, J.P., has been the Sunday School superintendent since the school was opened. The building is vested in Parochial Trustees.
The PAROCHIALHALL, Carleton Street, dates from 1870, when the site ~ras granted to the Parish Vestry, and vested in Parochial Trustees, reu~ free, by deed dated 10th May, from the late Mr. Thomas Carleton, who also gave £100 towards the cost of the building, which took over £800 to complete. Sunday Schools are held in the upper and lower halls both morning and evening, under the direct superintendence of the Clergy.
JOHNSTREETMission School owes its beginning to the zeal of an energetic lay worker of the parish, Mr. George Gregory, who, as honorary secretary of the Parochial Sunday Schools (of which there are now four open in the morning and nine in the afternoon), some six years ago urged the necessity for the opening of a Sunday School in the district. In 1896, therefore, a house was rented in John Street, and two rooms fitted up as a Sunday School, which soon began to fill. In 1899, the landlord wishing to dispose of the premises, Miss Carleton, at the suggestion of the Rector, Rev. E.W. Hobson, purchased the house, with an adjoining one;
and seeing how little adapted it was to its requirements, she generously enla.rged and improved it at her own expense. (Miss Carleton had, a few years previously, enabled the Vestry to clear off a debt or £500 on the Parochial Schools, subscribing herself one-third of the debt). The new and capacious Hall was reopened on September 24, 1901.
For all these improvements in Church and School building large sums of money were required, and it redounds to the credit of the parishioners that they willingly and ungrudgingly gave of their means towards every useful object for which the Clergy and Select Vestry appealed to them. We have calculated that, since the Disestablishment, the sum of £26,500 has been raised in the Parish, viz.:£8,700 for Sustentation Fund, £7,000 for Church Building, £4,250 for School Building and Maintenance, £6,550 for Church Purposes, Missions, and Chari ties. Looking back on the hi.story 01' the Parish, and realising the wonderful. progress of the district spiritually and temporally, the Clergy and people should "thank God and take courage."
LI ST OF CLERGYOF PORTADOWNPARISH SINCE 1826,
The subsequent history with dates of appointments to parishes is given ,-mere possible. Rector; c., Curate. Abbreviations -R.,
RECTORS,
1826 Robert Henry; became R., Jonesborough, 1833-1870.
1833 Charles King Irwin; R., Keady, 184o; R., Magherafelt, 1844; R., Loughgilly, 1861.
184-0 Arthur Molony; R., Derryloran (Cookstown), 1844; R., Tandragee, 1859.
1845 Henrx De Laval Willis; resigned in 1851.
1851 Francis Crawford; R. 1 Derryloran (Cookstown), 1859; R., Milton Bryant Woburn, Yorkshire), 1879.
1859 1896 Augustine FitzGerald (formerly c., Stillorgan, Dublin, 1851-2; c., Moneymore, Dio. Derry, 1852-9); Prebendary of Loughgall, 1884-6; Precentor of Armagh, 1886-1896; Dean of Armagh, 1896-9.
Edward Waller Hobson, Ex-Sch., T.C.D.l formerly c., Mariner's Church, Kingstown, 1817-78; c., Portadown, 1878-1881; R., Moy 1881-1895; R., Derryloran (Cookstown), 1~95-6.
l844 Patrick Moore.
Proctor.
John Cooke, Ex-Sch., T.C.Do; R., All Saints', Raphoe, 1863-1871; R., Dunboyne, 1871-1881; Chapl. Rotunda, 1881-5; R., Gleneely Wicklow 1885- 1901; Canon of Christ Church, Dublin.
Henry Bryan Carter~ afterwards c., Tandrageei 1861; C., Loughgall, 1~62-1866; R., Moy, 1866-1819; R., Derryloran (Cookstown), 1879-1895; Canon of Armagh.
William Frederick Archdall, Glanmire~Co. Cork; c., Lislee, 1863-1869; Co, Kanturk, 18 9-72; C., Queenstown, 1872-74; R.~ Rathcooney, (Cork), 1874; Canon of Cork, 18~3.
John Corvan; C.< Enniscorthy, 1872-18751 C., Great Bedwyn (WiltsJ, 1881-4; C., Swell (Bath and Wells), 1884.
Henry Ruthe Wilson (formerly c., Magberaculmoney, Fermanagh, 1867-8); C., Tartaraghan, 1870-5; c., Drumbeg (Co. Down), 1876-81; c., St. Mary's, Donnybrook, 1881-2; R., Kilcommick, 1882-5; I., Kilmood, Co. Down, 1885.
Michael Angelo Holden; R., Milltown, 1874.
Nicholas Hopkins James; Diocesan Curate and Inspector Board of Religious Educationi 1878-1882; R., Keady, 1882~ R., Tartaraghan, 18~2-96; R., Clonfeacle, 1890.
EdwardWallerHobson. (See list of Rectors.)
Llewelyn P.T. LedouxiR., Kilmore 1883-88~ c. 1 Bray 1888· R., Kilincheylinchy (Co. Down 18~8-9u; R., Calry (Sligo), 1890-99; R. st., Peter's, Drogheda, 1899.
l883 EdwardJ. Wolfe; R., Mullavilly, 1886-90; c., St. Saviour's, Brixton, 1890-98; c., Christ Church, Streatham (Dio. Rochester), 1898.
l886 William H. Johnston (formerly c., Donacloney, 1879-82; c. Newry, 1882-84; c., Newcastle, Co. Limerick, 1884-86); subsequently R., Desertegney, 1889-98.
1888
1892
Ribton McCracken (formerly c., Donaghmore Co. Down, 1870-83; c., Carrickfergus, 1883-$6; c., Christ Church, Belfast, 1886-88); appointed R., Jonesborough, 1892.
Samuel Carter Armstrong (formerly C.i Tramore, 1885-6; R., Shrule, Dio. Ardagh, 1~86-90; R., Tubbercurry, 1890-92); appointed R., Templederry, Dio. Killaloe, 1894.
1894 Anthony F.B. Tunstall; c., Ballyculter (Co. Down), 1896-99; C., Ballyhalbert, 1899-1901; R., Ardkeen (Co. Down), 1901.
1894 James B. Leslie (formerly C., Christ Church, Belfast, 1891-94); appointed R., Kilsaran, 1899.
189? James W. Auchmuty; formerly c., Derryloran (Cookstown), 1896.
1899 Enoch Storey (formerly c., Ardstraw, Co. Tyrone, 1883-86; R. Cloncha, Dio. Derry, 1886-98; c., Drumcree, 18981 c., St. Pater's, Drogheda, 1899); appointed R., Drumakilly1901.
LI ST OF Church wardens
1826 Curran Woodhouse, Thomas Shillington.
1827 George Dickson, Thomas Sinnamon.
1828 Hugh Matthews, Henry Stanley.
1829 William Paul, Christopher Armstrong.
1830 Thomas A. Shillington, William Cregan.
1831 Henry Atkin, John Culberts (Baltylum).
1832 Richard Edgar, William Morrow.
1833 Caulfield Pepper, Henry Atkin.
1834 Henry Atkinson, Stewart Fisher, Wm.Joyce, vice Fisher.
1835 Averill Shillington, John Harrison (Drumnakelly).
1836 John Corry, Thomas Atkin.
1837 John Hunt (Kilmoriarty), Dr. John Robinson, and John Mays, vice Robinson.
1838 Andrew Jelly, David Ferguson (Clounagb).
1839 Alexander Breden, M.D.; William Cregan.
18lto John Overend, John Conn (Baltylum).
1841 Joseph G. Woolsey, Wm.Monypenny.
1842 Richmond Pepper, William Joyce.
1843 Alexand-er Bredon, M.D.; Henry Atkin.
1844 Andrew Jelly, John Hunt.
18>+5 Richmond Pepper, Thomas May.
1846 William Joyce, Andrew Jelly.
1847 William Paul, John Ferguson.
1848 Joseph G. Woolsey, William Monypenny.
1849 James Searight, Benjamin Woolsey
1850 Richmond Pepper, Andrew Jelly.
1851 William Langtry, William Joyce.
1852 William Monypenny, John Hunt.
1853 Alexander Bredon, M.D.; Richmond Pepper.
1854 John Hunt, William Sloan.
1855 Henry Stanley, M.D.; John Harrison.
1856 Arthur Cregan, Thomas Berry.
1857 James Searight, John Harrison.
1858 William Stewart, M.D.; Stuart Monro.
1859 George Kinkead, James D. Mitchell.
1860 R. Pepper, A. Bredon, M.D.
1861 Thomas Carleton, John Ferguson.
1862 John H. Pepper, William Hall.
1863 w. Stewart, M.D.; George Kinkead.
186~ Walter Mitchell, Thos. Guy, and Henry Stanley, M.D.; yice Mitchell.
1865 Stuart Monro, William Woodhouse.
1866 Thomas Carleton, John Rountree.
1867 R. Pepper, John Leaney.
1868 George Kinkead, John Ferguson.
1869 James Wilson, George Quarry.
1870 John H. Pepper, William Carrothers.
1871 Henry J. Harris, Thomas Carleton.
1872 William Stewart, M.D.; R. Pepper.
1873 William Stewart, M.D.; J.H. Pepper.
1874 William Stewart, M.D.; Thomas Best.
1875 Thomas Best, Thomas Carleton.
1876 Thomas Carleton, Thomas Best.
1877 William Hall, William Stewart, M.D., J.P.
1878 William Woodhouse, W.J. Guy.
1879 H.J. Harris, W,J. Locke.
1880 Charles Johnston, G. Dougan, M.D.
1881 Thomas Best_, William H. Atkinson.
1882 William Stewart, M.D., J.P.; W.J. Locke.
1883 James McFadden, Charles Johnston.
1884 James McFadden, Charles Johnston, 1885 William Hall, J.B. Atkinson.
1886 W.H. Atkinson, Robert McCarrison, 1887 G. Dougan, M.D., J.P.; James Fordyce.
1888 Charles Johnston, J.P.; Samuel McGredy.
1889 William Hall, J,G~ Livingston.
1890 William Hall, S. W. Willis.
1891 Thomas Kernahan, James Boyle.
1892 Thomas Kernahan, W.J. Locke, J.P.
1893 G. Dougan, M.D., J.P.; W.J. Redmond.
1894 G. Dougan M.D., J.P.; W.H. Atkinson.
1895 Go Dougan, M.D., J .Po; John Campbell.
1896 J. Buckby Atkinson, W.J. Locke, J.P.
1897 Charles Johnston, J.P.; Clement Courtney.
1898 G. Dougan, M.D., J.P.; Clement Courtney.
1899 James McFadden, J .P •; G. Dougan, M.D., J.P.
1900 Samuel McGredy, J.P.; William J. Green.
1901 Samuel McGredy, J ,P •; William J. Green.
PAROCHIALTREASUF.ERSSINQE
18?0,
1870 George Kinkead.
1895 Thomas D. Atkinson.
1898 James L. Riggs.
1899 J.H. Chambers.
SECRETARIES
OF SELECTVESTRYSINCE 1870,
1870 D. Sinnamon.
1883 T.D. Atkinson.
1891 c. Johnston, J.P.
ORGANISTS,
18$9 Miss Magowan.
186, Miss Stanley.
1867 Miss McGuokin.
1868 Miss Greer.
1871 Mr. William McDonald.
1872 Miss Quarry.
1880 Miss Greer.
1882 Miss Hamilton.
1886 Mr. W.A. Taylor, A.Mus., T.C.L.
1897 Mr. H.B. Bruce, B.A.
MULLAGLASS PARI8H CHURCH.
80th Anniversary.
(Fromthe 11Newry Reporter", Thursday, October 16, 1913).
Interesting celebrations have just taken place of the 80th anniversary of the consecration of the Mullaglass Parish Church, of which the Rev. E. Fitzgerald Allworthy, l•1.A. has been the able and respected Rector since 1905, during which period extensive improvements, both to the church and the school have been effected.
On Tuesday night last at 8 o'clock a special service was held in the church, when a sermon appropriate to the occasion was delivered to a large congregation by the Rev. C.F. Archer, M.A., Rector of Moy, formerly Rector of Mullaglass
The Rev. Mr. Archer selected as his text the first verse of the 90th Psalm. The thoughts of this Psalm, he said, were the more familiar to them because one of the greatest of their hymns- perhaps the masterpiece of a great master hymn writer, Isaac Watts -was based upon it, namely, 110 God our help in ages. past". He then dwelt upon the two great thoughts of the Psalm - (1) the frailty and changeability of human nature, and (2) the unchangeability of God. Alluding to the fact that that was the 80th anniversary of the consecration of the church, he spoke of the many changes that had taken place during that period, and, in contrast to that, the great thought of the unchangeableness of God. In conclusion, he exhorted them as :~ey believed in God's unchangeableness ana presence, to give nemselves up more entirely to his service.
S Last night a social meeting was held in the Mullaglass schoolthe building being crowded with members of the church, ~oung and old, and representatives of all the Protestant ~rominations in the district. After a most enjoya?le tea, R eh was followed by a series of gramophone selections, the cfv· J.B. Leslie M.A. of Castlebellingham, author of "Armagh 1 ergy and Parishes" delivered an interesting and instructive th~ture on "The historyof Mullaglass Parish", which was roughly appreciated.
Amongst those on the p~atform were: ... The R . erald All worthy,, h "A. ' Rector of the Parish. Rev. E. Fitzgerald A Rector of l'v1oy, formerly Rector of Mullaglass 1 ev. C. F. Archer' Leslie M.A., Castlebellingham; Rev. Henry Todd as~; Rev. J.B. of Bessbrook; the Rev. E.A. Nelson, M A Vica;' of·t·' ~ector i.1r. Geo. R. Armstrong, J.P., Newry• a~d·i~1r. James L r: Drumbanagher AldersideMullaglass. ' oc ar , D.C.,
The Doxology haying been sung, and prayer having been offered by the Rev. Ivlr. All Allworthy,
On the motion of Mr. John Gilmore seconded by 1,1r. &iward Cinnamon, the chair was taken, amid ap;lause, by Mr. Geo. R. Armstrong, J.P.
The Rev. Mr: All worthy said that before Mr. Armstrong spoke he would like to announce the receipt of apologies for non-attendance from Dr. Palmer, J.P., the Rev. F.J. Halahan, ,.A., Rector of DrumcreePortadown, formerly of Mullaglass, and . others. Dr. Palmer had promised to take the chair that night, and they were, therefore, sorry that he was unable to be present, but they could not say that they regretted the reason. His absence was due to the marriage of his eldest daughter in the city of London, and they wished her and the man of her choice long life and happiness. (Applause). They had, however, an excellent substitute in Mr. Armstrong, of Newry, and they were tll delighted to see him amongst them. (Applause).
Mr. Armstrong, who was well received, said that he felt a poor substitute for Dr. Palmer. The Rev. Mr. Allworthy, howe':er, would take no refusal from him and when he consented to pre side he did it for a principal reasbn. He had a fairly goo~ kn?wledge of the people of Mullaglass s. He was well aware of their high ~haracter, of the excellent community they were, and.how industrious they were, and they were, therefore, entirely deserving of any compliment that could be paid them. He was delighted to see there that night one of the former Recto~ 8 of th e parish in the person of the Rev. Mr. Archer. The paris~ ?f Mullaglass occu ied a unique position. He remembered acer ain ;enant residingp in the heart of Mullaglass who ~ 0 ~!dw~~{dc~f~~:n tor any one; he was so happy and cont~nted, t~~fered both in 0 no overtures as to removal. Although_he_di f the townland ~hligion and politics from the ent~re maJority ~e would not think fey treated him in such an exceptional man~er the Mullaglass o changing for anyone. Trat spoke volum~s. or so far as he knew:~pte • (Applause). From that day } 0 th~!s they had maintained th t e had a pretty close knowledge O r ago he had changed hi a high character. Al though abou~ a Y~~e confines of Armagh t 8 residence in the town of Newry ro~ h to bid good-bye to M~lthe borders of Co. Down he had 1:10 ;1 ;h. nkinP' man good to come Mullaglass because it did every r 1igh ias; He was delighted 0 contact with the people of Mu Mullaglass •
ee such a large, bright, and cheerful d. to 5 sure they would list en to the Rev. Mr au .ie~c e ~h,ere. He ~a\ometimes observed letters in the Pres~ Leslie w1tn pleasure. neB.Leslie, and he always read them becaus! th e_ na':1e of . J.d historical. He was confident that the le t! were 1nterest1ng an th t t. c u.re l,il ~t ni:1ht ul d lceep up e repu a ion of the Rev ··1r Le 1 · a o_ wo l · k · h . • • s 1 e and h e n ad nowmuch p easure in as ing . im to proceed with his lecture. (Applause) •
The Rev. Mr. Leslie, v-!ho was well received, said:-
As you all doubtless know, Mullaglass as a narish is quite modern. It wa~ formerly in the parish of Killeavy as a District Curacy, and st~ll ~emain s in it fo~~ civil purposes; but was rnade a separate parish in 1870 by the Diocesan Synod. It may be thought, there fore, that it has no hi story worth speaking a bout. I shall not, however, this evening confine myself to its ecclesiastical hi story, but shall also deal with the history of the district as a part of Killeavy parish.
Killeavy - anciently Killslebhe or Killsleve, "the church of the mountain 11 - has had ecclesiastically a very chequered history. T~epatron saint was a woman, St. Monnina ( said to have been a sister of St. Patrick), who founded here a community of nuns - I have not heard yet of any suffragettes coming· from the dist_rict t The~arish was an appendage to the Precentor s of Arm~gh cathedral whoin modern times lived in the city of Armagh, their houses there having been made by special Act of Council a part of the parish of Killeavy so that they were 11non-resident 11 • The poor, unf~rtunate parishioners had to be content with the curates! Curiously enough your rector driving me through Bessbrook one ~ay, showed me where the pari;h of Camlough and Mullaglass meet in the Square of Be ssbrook, and he also pointed out to me th e hou~e of a parishioner of his, a 11non-:-re sid~nt '.' rect~r of ano th er Parish, who is yet nresident11 among his parishioners.
Killeavy d • t the parishes of c 1 eavy parish has now been carve in o , -; • amlough, Drumbanagher Mullaglass 7 aP-lass, and Meigh. Meigh somt~ Years a ' - ° K'll y but it is a ques ion 1f M go, adopted the name of 1_ eav. , ti e of the mother chure~gh h~s any more right to the ancien1 pr~~er~ The adoption oft~ of Killeavy than any of the other daugt ge ;f keeping the anc1eet name by Meigh, though it has tl:e a_varh: history of the Parishn name alive, has led to confusion ~~er has also led to and in Church matters. Another ma
confusion - namely' the fact that the ••parish church•• of KilleaVY has been chang~d at least three times. At first it Killeavy, then pos s1 bly Old hullaol ass then Old D b ,,.as ,, 11 1 8 f r f 0 - rum er, th6D New NU ag a s o a. e~1 years' then again Drumbanagher o d aoodness knows where it 1s no·w: so that if you are 1 C.J k.' an b t . 1 t . f t oo _1ng for your bap 1 sma cer l ica e, you may have to look thr-:mgh tne registers of three or four churches before you find it~
The ancient church. of Mullaglass s is now Lattruins, and under the care of the Rural District Council. It might be keut in better orde:, an~. i~ be~omii:ig overcrowded. No one seews to K.now howold it 1s. 1-c is, 1 think, pre-Reformation though it is not marked in the map of 1609, which I shall sh~w you. It is marked as uin ruins 11 in Taylor & Skinner's road maps of 1777.
The map of 1609 is of the Barony of Orior, and was made in connection with the Ulster Plantation. You will see that it shows the church of .Killeavy, with what seems a high tower beside it. There are also churches marked at Faghart. Sette (? Feete), evidently near Jonesborough (in ruins), Cornegralah (Loughgilly), Balyhaghloske (in ruins), and Maghercehelin (Maghernahely). As the latter church was the nearest to Mullaglass, it was probably attended then by the people of the district. It was anciently called Yllagh. Newry has the parish church looking 6.01;,1n on it, and what appears to be a market cross is in the centre of the tovm. There is also a castle at Ballinescanlan, another at Tonregue ( Tandragee and another at Carrickbaradah.
Part of Killeavy uarish had evidently not a good name in olden time: Carrickbaradah means 11the rock of the robbers 11 ' and on it Dr. John O' O'Donovan, in the Ordnance Survey letters remarks - 11Some of the natives told me --chat the castle or the Maighre was built to suppress the robbers of this tow~land; not, however, Tyrone and his hellhounds••. This remark brings me to say that as the pass through Killeavy was the nat;1ra~. roa~ from Ulster to the Pale many a battle was fought in tne district between the O'Neills and Ulstermen and the English. As mo~~of You know what is regarded as the ancient boundary of Ulioia or Ulster p~sses through the rectory lands of Mullaglassth0 ugh i~e railways have cut away a portion of it. This ?egan at LisnagadeFort, near Scarva, and can be traced at~1ntervals on 0 th e several counties. It has been called - an~ ~o one ~ows ~Xactly why - II The Dane' stt and al so II The Black Pig'ss Dyke • anon Lett, M.R.I.A., wrot~ a description of it some years ago.
This district was evidently well wooded in old times. 1
d scarcely ~~!n you have
relilind you of Goraghwood - "the wood of goatl a11. D • 1 J • u O an . , Derrywilligan_ig~n -O'Mulligans oak wood"; Derrymore and oar JDerrybeg -the great and little oak woods"&
Some of these woods were no doubt cut doi.·m as a matter of ubliC policy, to prevent the111 being a refuge f~r the enemies ~f the Crown: , ln the map of ~609 th_ere are. several trees in Mullaglass in Tandragee and in the Moyra districts; but a traveller. in the 17th century ~ay s he only 11 saw one solitary tree growing on the top of a hill between Tandragee and Dundalk
Mullaglass means uthe green summit 11 ; Glassdrummond beside it means uthe green hill 11 so that, as behoved a portio~ of Old Erin, the district in old t~mes w~s flourishing --I hope it is still so. But there were giants in those days. In the Down Survey Map of 1659, in the townland of Wirrymore, is marked 11Latt Burkett' s tomb, 14 feet long 11 Now, reading the pre 1 che r' s Bookin Rev. H.W. Young' s time, he tells us that on the l~th July, 1868, 1,200 people were in Mullaglass church and 6,000 outsidei How very small they must have been, and vlhat degenerate successors of Latt Burkett' s they were~ But I think 1•ir. Young' s imagination led him to see not 11double 11 only but II quintuple 11 • Wepossess lists of those who paid subsidies to the crown in 1634-. They included:-In Mullaglass - Bryan 0 1 Connelly, Arte 0'Connelly, and Manus 0 1 O'Cullenan and in Tullyhappy - Murtagh McGennis and Niece McMoyhagan The Down Survey Map, 1659, tells us that 'the Barony of Orior is good for cattle and steads, but not good for sheep 11 and that 11the parish of Killeavy is mountainous course (sic) land, having no manner of improvements on it 11 , and also that 11the Irish of the Barony dwell in creaght s which they can move from place to place 11 • The proprietors who had to forfeit their lands- and go 11to hell or Connaught 11 at this time were Hugh Boy O I O'Hanlon Mulroney McDonnell Donnell, Roger Moore, and HughBoy O'Neill Murtagh Magennis was dispossessed of some ~nds in 1688. The oI O'Hanlon I s were the chief clan in the ~1,strict, Loughgilly being anciently knovm as Ca Castrum O'Hanlon, tne camp or castle of the 0'Hanlon' s 11 • Sir Toby Pointz r;ceived a grant of land here, and it was from him tnat the rlalls 0 Narrow water inherited the manor of Mullaglass s s •
the We possess a census of Ireland made in 1659-1660, now in ana Royal Irish Academy. This gives the numbers of the English in Scots in one column and of the Irish in another, who dwelt each townland and who were above 15 years of age. Thus:-
Derrywilligan
Lattsty (? Latt)
Coraughas (? Goragh)
Cloghenagh (? Cloughenny)
Aghne Cloughreagh (? Cloughreagh)
I cannot find either Crankey, Maytown or Mullaglass in the list. But tnere is a Mullaglass near Tandragee in which 11 English and Scots dwelt. Of nei~hbouring tovmlands, tnere were 6 English in Kilnamodagh, no Irish; 1 in Drumbanagher 3 Irish· 6 in Lissummon no Irisn; 3 in Knockduff, no Irish; in iil- ' managhan, 4 Irish. Of the principal Irish names in the oarony of 0rior, the name O'Murphy heads the list, vlith 44; O'Hanlon comesnext, with 13; 0'Donnelly, 7; 0 1 Sheall, McCowell McDowell McGuill and McIltern \:rith 6 each; and so on.
There is another list of householders dated four ye~ns later - 1664 - which is in existence (in the Public Hecord Office). It is the list of those who uaid nearth-money to the Crown. It was a tax of 2 s. on every hearth or fireplace, or ki~n. As, of course, there may have been houses or creaghts ~uch had no fireplace, the list may not, therefore, be a full list of the heads of families; but I give it as follo'ris for so:r;e tovmlands. The others I could not identify.
Tullyhappy - Ever M 1 McDonnell, Rory Toner Manus 0 1 O'Toner Connor O1 Toner, Patrick O'Morrigan, Henry O'Neill
Maytown - Art Boy McParland Patrick Oge McParland
Mullaglass - Ogby O'Hanlon Hugh Oge McAghy'furlough Keone, Patrick OI O'Hanlon Wil 7 iam Moore Richard Bussman, John 1 • McHudd ' , John Swann, Thomas Chafferell.
o•n Aghnacloghreagh Cloghreagh _ Patrick o,O'Hanlon, Shane 0' O'Hanlon, Cormack ayly, Nicholas Piniston.
Latty and Goragh - Patrick O'Kally Bryan McDonnell Turlough McDonnell Bryan McGrany Patrick McCann Bryan O'Cromy, Turlough OI Manna chan.
'Gr Cloghenesse (? Cloghenny) - Patrick i•iMurphy Donnell O'HanrattyMcGroryArt Duffe O'Hanratty Shane McMurphy Patrick Modder ' Y, Hugh Oge O'Comany (? O'Comeay
Knockduff - James Pegan, John Agnew.
seares - James Hamilton, Hugh Calderwood, Andrew Greene.
Lissamon Lisummon- Robert Calderwood, William Buyers (or Bayers).
1 have ment~oned. the. manor of Mullaglass There was a manor court in connection with ~t, ar:id there is on record an interesting ust of the fees ch~rged_ in this court, signed by the Senescnal JamesHamilton, on 22nd March, 1717. It included:-
11Tothe Bayliff for serving a summons ...
11To the Seneschal for filing a declaration
11For a witness I s summons . . . . . . . . . . ..
Going to law evidently did not cost much then, more especially when you hear the attorney I s charges: -
11To the Attorney for drawing a declaration •••
11Attorney' s fee when employed
11To
"To him
Jurymen nowadays are badly treated. But in this table of fees we find:-
"To the Jury for their verdict Also:.
"To the Seneschal for entering judgment thereon
"To the Seneschal for every execution . . .
"To the Seneschal for every fire faces (sic)
"To the Seneschal for execution of
Pl What good old times they must have beenl Why, it was a goe~sure to go to law then in Mullaglass. I suppose they never 0 law now. .
re In the Road Map of 1 777 the Blacker family is shown as residingat Tullyhappy' the Moores at Moorevale' and Nedhams at Lisdrumgullion
The Census 01· 1821 is full of interest to us who are iring nearly_lOO !ears later. A glance at it will show that }arming ~nd l~nen .nanuf afture were the principal emnloyment s ged 1 n. rhus there was a bleach-areen flax-mi· 1-7 fl . en"'a . __ . Cl o , _, ourmi!l, and la:ppin¥--room. ~n Cloghreagh bel?ng~ng to the Atkinson familY; a corn mill? ki~o,_ an~ flax mill in Mullaglass owned by John Best; a flax mill in Let-i:; owned by Ro:tert Fearis; and in Glasdrummond there, was a bleach green and bleach mill belonging to James Cully, ana a cotton millbleach-mill, and bleach-green belonging to Jo s~ph Rankin • As to schools, Owen Mallonaged 42, taught a school in Goragn of 16 boys and 8 girls; William boyd of High Street 'r• Newry taught a school in Mullaglass of 17 boy; and 12 girls; William Wilson taught a school in Lett Lattof 31 boys and 13 girls, and we are told that Mrs. Hall, of Narrow-water paid for 10 of these children -this is, I believe, the pre se~t school, beside the Old Churchyard, in which we meet, and which has been recently enlarged and improved, a member of the same f~ily of Narrow-water granting the ground for enlargement. There was also a school in Maghernely, taught by 1-ir. and 1•1rs. Lewers, containing 25 boys and 20 girls. i-iullaglass parishioners, who·belong to the Ulster Volunteers, will be interested in hearing that there dwelt in Mullaglass, in 1821, representatives of two Yeomanry Regiments - viz., John Barra, aged 44, farmer, and permanent sergeant of the MullaglassYeomanry Infantry, and ~exander Henon, aged 38, farmer, and per:nanent sergeant of the K1lleavy Yeomanry, and his son, George, then permanent drummer of the latter; while in Glassdromamin lived Robert Best, aged ~8, farmer, and permanent drummer of the Mullaglass s Yeomanry. It was evidently quite a common thing for a man to hold a public office and live at his trade or ordinary calling; so we have HughRanton, subeconstable and farmer, aged 4~, in Mullaglass also Edward Malone, farmer and brander of but L.er; John Martin ~armer and tithe-viewer, employed by Rev. John Cleland, rector, 111Glassdrominin aged 45· and also John McLeland, farmer and watchman. There, is an old apostolic precept that llthey who preach. the Gospel should live by the Gospel", but_ I fin~ then in Derrywilligan lodging with John Leadly, farmer, Hugh Comb alias Hugh McIlherin Ilherin, aged 30, who is described. as methodist Preacher and linen-weaver11. He was but following the exa~ple 11 of an ancient Irish bishop who was ua most excell~nt plough man • GeorgeLockhart' surgeon and dispensary doctor' lived at lvm.l~atlass, aged 32. The disuensary was in Lett Lattto\mland. According 18th e Parliamentary Gazette, this dispensary in g839 ~er~ed Re'ooo acres, at a cost of £126 18s. Od. for 1,04 p~tienL.s. II v. Richard Hastings Graves, aged ,30, who ~s describe~ as curate of the Lower Division of Killeavy ana ~reac~es _in Drumbanagher church II lived then in Glassdrommin. tie '"as son tao Richard Graves, D~an of Ardagh, and b~came r:ctor of BallyBallymoyer and after prebendary of Brigoun (Mi tchels L.OWD),County
and died in 187'7. cork,
Mention of this curate leads me to turn to your distinctly parochial records, in which I found some entertaining i terns.
Most of you, no doubt, know that the uresent church of Mullaglass glass was built in 1832, at a c?st of £2,000 and was consecrated on October 23, 1823, as the parish church of Killeavy and dedicated to St• Luke• Rev. J ?hn Cleland was then rector of Killeavy. He was one of the Clelands of Stormont Newtownards and died a few years later, in 1831+. He did not 'as far as I ~an see, ever offici~te_ini'tlullagl~~s., He was succ~edeci by nev. Richard Allott, Juni~r, who he.Lo. tne rectory till his death 185o whenRev. Alexander Irwinwas appointed. The latter he~d lillearJ till disestablishment. He died in 1872. Under these rectors a district curate was placed in charge of Mullaglass i'he first wasRev. James Hewetson, who came of clerical forbears. rle continued in charge until 1865, when he became rector of Heynestown. He always took the closest interest in hullagla s s church, and left it a considerable bequest in his will. Rev. Joseph Chamney, a remarkable man in many respects, assisted hi:n as curate from 1848 to 1851, and later on became rector of a parish neighbouring Mr. Hewetson 1 s, namely, Dromiskin. rle v.rill be remembered in the district for taking an unpopular side in letters to the Newry newspapers. Rev. Thomas Taylor was assistant curate from 1851 to 1856, Rev. M. Baxter in 1857, Rev. Paul Yster Jameson from 1857 to 1863. He was one of the Dublin Jamesons, and became afterwards successfully curate of Clonfeacle, rector of Woods chapel, rector of Acton, rector of Loughgilly, and rector of Louth and Killencoole. Those who knew him loveci him, but, li~e ~any a good man, his ministrations ·were not always. appreciated. He was not well treated in his last parish, suffering from an unjust parochial boycott. He died in 1897. Rev. Alex. John Dobbin (son of Mr. Leonard Dobbin, clerk of the peace) was assistant curate from 1863 and in sole charge from 1865 to 1866. Rev• W.R. Williams succeed~d him in 1866, and Rev. Henry Wray Young- to whose extraordinary system of counting hea~s I have _ already referred_ was in charge from 1866 to 1870. rte afterwards became rector of Donagherry ( Stewartstownstovm), and died in 1896.
T In 1870 the district of Mullaglass became a separate narish. he rectors since then have been:-
B 1870 - Walter Riddall afterwards rector of Magdalen Church, Belfast and Dean of Connof; died, 1908.
1873 - Edward William Doyle, who subsequently labou:ed in Bengal Eng1 8 nct, and Queensland; died in 1893. Some curious or1es are told about him.
l878. - fhomas George Irwin who resigned in l88l for d died in 189Y . ' »aigh, an
l881 - Charles Fredrick Archer, now rector of Moy
1885 - James Madden Ford, brother of Canon Lockett Ford, nowliving in ~ngland.
1895 - Francis Johnston Halahan, now rector of Drumcree
1905 - Your present rector, Edward Fitzgerald Allwortily.
Evening service used to be held in Mullaglass school as early as 1837. The average morning congregation in 1841 was ~, and the ~ir~t recorded collection was in 1845 - it amounted to 7½d. recei vea from 64 per sons. A small beginning, but it has aoneon to greater things.
0
Among notes marked on the Preacher's Book are:- 11Good fiiday~ April 1, 1841; 15 members of the con~regation this day emigrated to America -J.H. 11 11Harch 24, 1847; 11 Fast 11 - :10 doubt a connection with the famine. 11November 15, 1849: 11Thanksgiving 11 • 111836, St. Mary's 1 s, Drumbanagh er, re-opened, 15th May11 • 111840, 12th July; 200 present; no service in meetingh?uses11• Rev Walter Riddall in a note on 31st 1-iarch, 187~, signs himself as rectorof Killeavy, otherwise Mullaglass ss 11 • Un~er March 5, 1876, we have; ''severe day; accident to bell, wr1ich slipped from supporters \11bile ringing for evening s ervice 11 , and under July 5, 188 5 in Rev. J. h. Ford I s handwriting are the words: 11Anniversart sermon to L.0.L. Newry District: text, 11Wisdomis better than stren~th • villainously mi srepre ser.ted in the "Newry Telegraph 11 _ A note that is somewhat wantin~ ir: wi sciom. In recent times a coloured bishop, Right Rev. James Jonnstcn, D:D., of Western Equatorial Africa, preached ,,before l~rge congregation, on Au~st 3, 1908. I need scarcely re1er to tne improvements made_in the church, the addition of a new organ, 1906; th e new ~Pl!, 1907, etc., as all these events are well knO\~n to_you all. ~t,_in cl?sing, may I refer to the very ~~lu~ble ann ~n~i~nt -al1ce which you possess? It is of solict s_~lv~r, anC: ~t- make :d shape mark it as of about the period of William ann Mary or iefen Anne - perhaps earlier. It has no hall-mark,. only th ~ c: t t7rs 8.18., referring to its weight, on ~t. On it 1nhe inscription, "Parish of Kill slevy11. The spelling of the. thme carries us back to the 16th and 17th centuri~s, and I think ere is no doubt you have in it the ancient chalice of the ancient church of Killeavy. The paten and flagon are J?lat~d articles, and it is a pity someone does not present solid silver cles to match your ancient cup.
I understand tl_1at the Primate is to preach in Mullaglass varYsoon: . It may inte:est. you and him to know that the o first time he v1 s1 t ed the par\sh in. an official capacity was in June
891 when he acted as cnaplain to Primate Knox at f · t · l , , B k 1 t . a con 1rma 10n. The Preacher s oo a so con ains a record. of the dry humour of the lat~ Bishop Reeve s , He was acting as chaplain to Primate (then B1shop~ Knoxon June 5, 1885, an~ when signing his na:re in the bool{, thinKir- r:, I. sup nose? he would mystify the rector' or perhaps mo~ed by a ~rhim, he signed his name in Irish, adding the words Sag art Tingnt ra acus deganach Ard a Macha 11 11Pari ~h priest of Tynan, and Dean of Armagh". Bishop Reeves'was a great Irish scholar, a~d perhaps?, t?o, h~s J~ought ·went back to the time befmre the Sas senach dw~l t in Killeavy, when Irish was the language ?f the country. __ in conclusion, Mr. Leslie wished every prosperity to the Rev. Mr. All worthy and the ·')arish of Mullagla ss. (Applause) . -
VOTES OF =rHAN.l\S_.
The Rev. C. F. Archer, i\1.A., Rector of Moy formerly of Mullaglass, then moved a hearty vote of thanks to the Rev. Mr. Leslie for his admirable lecture. He had learned to love Mullaglass glass and its people, and he was delighted to be there that night to hear ho1:r splendidly everything had progressed. It really did one's heart good - anyone who had an interest in the parish - to witness the improvements in the church and school. (applause).
The Rev. E.A. Nelson, M.A., Vicar of Drumbanagher, in appropriate terms, seconded the motion, which was pass~d by acclamation, and conveyed in suitable terms by the Chairman.
_The Rev. Mr. Leslie, in reply, said. that it wa~ a pleasure to him to prepare the lecture, and he hoped it woula make them take a greater interest in the parish.
On the motion of the Rev. Mr. Todd, seconded by Mr. James Lockhart, D.C., a hearty vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Armstrong for presiding to the tea-makers and stewards, and_to all Whohad in any way c~ntributed to the success of the meeting.
Notice from the Newry Telegraph, Friday, July 29, 1831 _
on the 6th ultimo on bo~rd the ship Coromandel on the assage from Madras to London, Mr. George Lockhart, A.M. tir~eon in the Hon. the East India Company Service and for;erly of Mullaglass s s, near Newry. Possessed. of the highest principles of honor and integrity and distinguished for every moral and social virtue, this youhg gentleman was by his acquaintances universally respected while living and his early decease is to them, but especially to his afflicted relatives, a subject of regret - not the less deep that they know it to be unavailing.
Par•ir:5h Meigh -·1· 11 '"' J. Killeavy oi
Cleland 1 •,·rl •··ho .J +_ .._____ , L ~,n,.. I'\" • O.,,C !·\,...,'tl ,,., ClQQ vlv ,,._, '-- •• • • "--·'· ..,.:..,, ,J. 'J'CC.2." i";-.0,·1 th1·e:, c-r.&-L,,..,p,•r,l•r -'"' - • J. w ,....,..,,_., v-J the CrPJI'Ch 111 :.'~ }:::am.r the re:Jt; but, 'bt c. ~-:;=1cci:1l bull fron his Grace the Lord Prin.ate, :y. Clelland residence has been declared to be, accordin~ to 137 anu t.ci:i c.11 inte~"J.ts -:.nd pU!.']:)Oses, ·::i thin the S'l.id P-:-:.rif_;h :-12..vin~~ otl1..er ir1por1t:;.nt :~voc2.tions to disch'.:l.rp:;, :..:r.Clealand never ~;i ves t1:.c Eilleavy follc the li~:ht of j1is i::;::c9·,~tinr: once or' t·'icc e. yea!', '".'hen he - --._, 1,er:u"'J_'l'"I iT -"t:-;l "-"- -v co,:!es i~•- ·)e:!...,f:.i0ll to collect thos2 dues ·-thich Etre his, by di vine
o:' ti-"' ,, 0 -:: ,,., 3.1,.·, l.! 'J - J."' \_, ' a r·oocl ci tizcn of t:-n.e St&te, he -~·ould. d-:!C!'": ,. it ~n 1.1n:::1~ ....-~don:1ble off~nce ~~ainst the la 1 ·: of Goel and the la....-: of n:::.n, not to ex!J.ct to the utter,~10st f3.rthi::ig - even -~·ere he
keut the life-blood :-ror.: free~i.n_ • i::1 t:1.C: veins of a ~Joo:1, 3.nd lo~1e, and c:i ildless In t:,e ;..list:rict o::'
Jonathan Seaver of the bog - '.,J • .w w ~ood :'or .o.il,.~s aro1..1nd long after he has 11rested fr.on his labours 11 2.nd his 1\;orks have follo,-•ed riin. 11 He ,·:as a b'..lrninc ~nd is st i 11 a shi::i;:_; light. These sentlrn~cn, not likin: the tro'..lble ·;.:::c.::-..,ati.~7.le o::' [:Oinc to Camlough C:-..urch, ·::hich is nearl:; t-:-:-o :·Jiles distant, a:r:d. the Chu:,-'ch, ::. ve"!:'y olti cne, not bcinc at '?.11 cor:1fortable, applied to ur. Clealand , '~10 obt'.lined. 'l Slli7 of ,;°~900 from the }:oar:i of first fruits .J... ,... - l, .:..i. it r-as thought ri~·ht to build chapels of ease in such ;.)laces as Killeavy and oblice such incm 1bents 2.s ::r. Clealand..6. to keeT) a c11ro.t e.
The remaining su11 of .£300 111as raised Ly privu.te sutse:rir tion, of which a very considerable part wc1s given by Sir Harry Godricke, on the understanding that no additional irT ost.s \,·ere to be laid on his tenantry. Meigh Church \.ms built, and a ver handsome one it is. It wus consee;ratec1 not lon~· sir,ce t,·; hisGrace the Lord primate - a perforuw1e;e of duty, on his part, which cannot be sufficiently appreciated; for, so Lre,;e1.t were his Grace's cil.Jties in other ou&.rters, th2Jt ,:1:::orE: cr-eC:i.ui.
informed he could not find time to pa~, a visit t-::>tte r,L,L ·r.J:i..e dwellings, not tllan a quarter of c. mile off, where ger,ius, taste, and talent watch over the couch of the venerable translator of: Dante
To provide for the necessary and co~tin[ent ex~enses of the new Church of Meigh it wa.s roposed to call a VE::stry, for the purpose. of laying on af' c1ssessment. The suLl required was not very large.; but it was more tha.11 the poor peo:r-,le could tear·; ana, besides, the payL1ent of it would have been a precedent for further extortion! 'l'o properly conceive how oppresbiVe.i.y a very small addi tioflal tax would bear on the poor crE:a ture s of Killeavyit is necessary to know their actual situation. tle solemnly declare, that had we not seen with our ovm e;ye s the land that they hold, and heard with our ovm ears, from indubi table authority, the rent they pay for it, we. would not have. credited what we now know for certainty. 1''or wild, rough, and S<:arcely arable lancJ, in the mountain valley - for land which it would seem almost iJJ1possible f'or hur'1an labour to clear of
the huge stones with which it is covered, Jonathan SeaverSeaver :Ss½.. charges 40s. the English Acre! But this is not all. Besides the rent in money, r.Ir. Seaver exacts from all his ten&.ntry ten or twelve "Duty Days" in the ~rear - that is, la1our on his own farm, or in his own bog, which these unfortun8te peo;:,le must perform for nothing .. To this is to te added two fat "Duty Ducks", which must be reared for the uoe of 1.r. Seaver's table., by creatures that live nearly the whole ·,c:~r 1·ouru on ., potatoes and salt.- _In addition to these exc1c.:ticns, which make their wild moor-land holding more than 50s .. the 6Dilish Acre, 'tL11eyhave a heav;;r County Ce.ss to pay; it uust te acknowledged, however, that the roads are most excellent; and llr. Seaver, ?tr. Chambreand 1:r. Foxall, deserve greet credit for the v1ay in which they lay out the County rnqne:,, a11d for the admirable. roads they severally have to their ovm villasthey are a great convenience to the poor Killeavy turf-cadgers, as they drive their little ponies, with creels on their backs, I to and from Newrv. "' After paying rent and Count~y Ce ss, the man of God comes in for his dues - we do not mean the Prie.st of the Parish, for we believe his income is scanty enough, and if he does not attend to a hint we shall give in the sequel, it is likely to be less. Not the Rev. John Clealand/lis the next c:laiment. The Rev. John Clealand, whofi lives at the top of the hill in Armagh, comes twice a ~rear to visit his •horn flock. "Shorn to the quick" will the reader exclaim,
h i;, thin.t(s of the rent, 11'"h D t D 11 11 1t1hen .... - .i.. e u y a:1 s , The duty ducks .~,e., but when the Rector cor:,es he and the Cpunty Ce ss. actually fla~• s them. '.le have not ase:ert.~ined \i::at tl:it:!1e ur. Clealans c.;harges per acre in ti1is part of his ;_c:rish - 1t:e knOW thc.1. t in ., places he exacts lOs. an ac.;re . nfter- t.:: is comes the rebular church cess • and. , I in the nw.;,e '"'.... J. t.1-.e God of mercy, we ask ' how can these poor and pllindered eo;J::.e tear any ne\1 lurt.."1.en 1 hoY1ever light. have heard of a torture resorted to in s0L1e sovaf;e nai:.ior,s. T}-.e unfortunate victirn is tierJ down, a:rod a co1.t:..r uol dro1. of water, which, it is known, will wear a stone, falls fror. a -reat :-.eight, on his :forehead; the first drop is nothi1.g; the labt, Vlhich brings re lief of deqth to the sufferer, is li.r:e tI.e f a::ir. 5 of a millstone. So it is with additional burthens or. the oppressed cottiers of Killeavya penny or three half-~ene:e is nothing but a drop compared with the sea of difficulties with which they have to struggle; but this penny or three half-pence may be more than a poor man can pa/. it possible that Lien can pay such a rent, and such ot.!ler imposts for such land as we have described? They do pay all,hov,ever,not, perhaps, without a rnlirrnur, but they pa~r it peqcably. ·rhey are a hard-working, thrifty race, and what uay opf1:::~:r extraurd inar J, unconL'"aonly shrewd and intelligent• T:-.e children of the fctrj1ily, male and fenale, drive their little rough ponies
into Newry with turf creels which they vend in the best manner theY are able. The young men take cattle over to Liverpool and many of ther:1 become dealers in linen and diaper, travEl all England and Scotland, from the Land's End to John o' Groat's, and hoard up, with a foiser's care, their little profits t.J SELd to Ireland, in order, c:1s they sa:, "that the poor ould fc:.1.her a~d m.other at ho1,1e ma: 1 get leave to die where they wEre Lor!'lr1. Ea<.:r. year, yoGng a:-:id old migrate to cut cJO\·mtLe Englishharvest rv _r.t; b: c after bearing the fierce fror.1 (sic) of t1!e Suu .ers 1·nrni!'[ sur:, and reaping after a day of sweat and toil benect-h the <.:hiil damps of the harvest moon, and meeting every Sl,Jecies of insult and injury from inhospital boors, that look upon theLi mingled feelings of fear, hatred, and cont,enpt - they return witJ their hal"'d-won earnings to hand over t,,11e.v11t0le to the or the ti the-croctor ! ..
One of the i ter:i.s for v1hich these poor people were to Le taxed, was for providing fir_e for the new Church of Meigh 'l'he sum required was not very lar 6 e; but the deL1and for it is most disgraceful. Besides a stove to heat the Church generall~, thE:J is a fire-place in the pew of Mr. Seaver Seaver and another in the pew of Mr. Chambre; and what sort of a state. of society is it, 1,vhen a poor oppressed people, such as we have described, who must kneel in the cold every Sunday, the one half of them at the outaide of their own Chape 1, should be taxed to keep a comfortable t1l9e 1 n L:r. Chambre pew or provide fuel to warc1 1:r. Seaver's
toes? Shc1ne ! shc1L'.e! the whole sun1 disputed _ for the. parishioners, bein[; Catholics were preventE:::u by t.he law from conte stin:::, all - a11,ounted to :ii ttle r,iore than £50. Wot.,ld it be a great·r1latter if the Protestant lariolorcs of Meigh should subscribe this sum, V1itl1 the assi.stl:11c:e of their Rector, which is· to be ex1-,enJed for- ti-1e ir oym c:or:1fort and accommodation? Would it even be a hard case if the Bev. ::r. Clealand w:i.th his £2 7 000 a year, drained Oi1-:_ c-"' tr.1;: lifeblood of an unfortunate • easantry anc1 his tv.-o or three hundred thousand pounds in the. funds, should pa.y the whole out of !ii.s own pocket? Cofuraon prudence sho~ld have pointed out either one or other of these courses, and, by pursuing a dif1·ere.nt one, a spirit has bee.n aroused that v1ill not and shall not be easily put down.
Conceiving themselves aggrieved by this atte0pt at saddling the Parish with a new impost, the people of Meigh deputed two or three inte.lligent rnen to vmi t on lir. John Henry Quin of Newryand get his advice and 1-rofessional se.rvice s. Ur. Quin accordingly attanded the first VEstry, which was held a few weeks ago. A large assembly of cesspayers was congregated; ond, under the direction of t:r Quin aver~ item that could be legally opposed was most strenuously obJected to. It was in vain that some of the gentry pre sent endeavoured to cajole, and that Jonathan Seaver Esq., browbeat and threatened, it would not ail do. The evening came.
on and no thing wu s done, and the Vestry was adjourned to r~onday last. On I.'.onday, the asseubla[e v1as not great, owing, we understand, to the interference of t1:e Rev. 1:.
O'Rafferty, the Parish priest who, on the ~revious cay, warned the people frou the altar not to attend, as he understood the military and police were to be brought out, ana he was apprehensive of a breach of the pe&ce. 'l'ho t Mr O'Rafferty' s motive Woo most excellent we have no doubt; and we know that strenuous exertions were made to e~eate an alarm, and bring a strong bod:' of rnili tar:, and police to ti1e Vestry. tie have heard also that L:r-. O'Rafferty acted a most praise.wort,hy and independent part at the precedin[ Vestry. But we now warn him through the medium of the public press, that, if he again interferes to : rcvent his people :from legally and peacefully resistinb the a1,1·ocioL s taxation to which, by the villanous vestry laws, they are subjected, he will be nothing the richer of it at t.he end of the year. We now say to t':r. O'Rafferty, and to all whom it may concern, what we said to some of ~is porishioners in .Meigh Church-yard -that, where a Catholic clergyman .succ:eeds in preventing his people frorn peacefull~; and legally opposing vestry cess, or any other unjust impost, they should stop the ar11ount of the c e ss out of h • 1 _1-2 regu ar dues, and merely gand him over the balance. 'l'his is our advice to th e Catholic laity; and, in this part of the country, should
it be necess:1r~, in any case, we have a shrewd guess thc:t it will be fo llowE d to the letter. '.['here v1ere, however, as many of the cess-payers asseuJrJled us would have constitutE:d a vast majori t:r against this new irnposi tion, v:hile its I \ supporters had lost a host in r"r. Seaver, who \foS fQnfined to bed by a fit of the gout .. ~)hen the proceerJints \/'2re opened by the Curate, it was moved by one Churchvarden, Lx. Chambre , and seconded by the other, Mr Foxall, th& t the proposed cess hould not be persisted -in, and that t11e fL.rtht:r consideration of the r,1atter should be left to t11e easter Vestr:,·. 1Jeither at the Easter Vestr~,, however, nor at a.D other Vestry, will the rnoney be asses::;ed. Lr. Chambre would have acted a far wiser part had he postponed th~ affair "ad Groecas Kalendas", which, for the ben1::fi t of an~, of ot..r
Killeavy friends who rnay not understand Lo 6 Latin, He translate 11To Tibb's Eve, which is neither before nor after Christmastt. There will be 3n Easter Vestry in Meigh &Uch as was never there before; _the spirit of the Killeavy men is not easily put down, once it is aroused; already, one portion of it has shown an example to the 1~orth, in opposing Vestry impositions; the Protestants of another portion met yesterday to petition for the total abolition of tithe extortion. 'fhe ex.a.raple will be contagious; the cess-payers will not absent tbemse lve s, as they have hitherto done, and allow one or two individuals to m17ke fools of themselves, by giving opposition
here they have no support. \le would not be surprised if few vestry i terns would be caville(l at, next Ea&ter TUe sd ay , 8ven in rev·1ry, where the people ure prove rtJial for suffering ther.1s e 1 ve s to ue robbed out of the foe e.
In taking leave of the r-illeavy uen, we shall L1ention one little occurrence, which is equall:,, c1·euitcble to all the parties concerned. Overjoyed at their vic~ory, a n~1~er of the country people began to thank and bless i :r. Quinin, in a manner which, though we acknowledge the rtieri1.~ of ~!1at / urJg savoured a good denl of Irish hyl_.)ei'Lole. Cne man, who acted for the rest, stepped forward, and p~t into Ur. Quin's hands £3, as a reniun2ration for his prot·e.,si0nal services. 11no, no," saiu Lr. Quin, handing back the r1otes, "keep your money, I would rather give c:1sL1uch to help your cause, than take this off you; but keep it safe 11 , a60ec r1e, with professional caution, 11yuu uay want it yet to obtai11
Counse 1' s opinion 11 • 'l'he poor fellows hc.1d suuscribed this sum out of theirr.:poverty, in order to get 1nha~ Irishmen are said to be peculiarly fond of - a little fair play and justice. Generous, kind-hearted peeple, it is a it.y the~· did not knovi their own worth, and were not better treated~
Newry Examiner~ 4 February, 1832
To the Editor of the Newry Examiner. Lr. 2ai tor.
A kind friend of mine sent your paper of the 4th inst to CTe laat night. Your article on "The vestry Doings at Meigh isadmirable From the spirit thc1tl>reathes through it,
I inclineu to think that~ if you had teen correctlv ., inf rmed, :'ou wol1ld o.pprove of r.1y entire conduct, frow the corn:tence ient 0 =' these 11cloin5s 11 , and be saved the tr·o·1":Jle of givinb <..1r1y udvice in print or words to my poor peoJJlE.. 1 will, therefore, briefl~r state it to you.
On S~nda~, the 8th ult, a report was circulated th~t a Vestry would be hE:ld in Meigh the following- day, to l&y on a cess of 5s. or 6s. an ac.:re for the p1..:rpose of ~c: ir: 5 the expenses of buildin§; that Church, &c. The exc i ternent produced by this ar.1on6 the people was really alarming. 1 resolved to at tend, for the first tine in my life, the Church Vestr~·, in order to advise the people to keep the peace, and to prevail, if possiLle, on the gentlemen to drop the idea of adding to the exactions t1~at had already groun6 dmm all the inhabitants of that district so fearfully ..
Dr. Johnstonof Carrickbreda attended, and spoke earnE: stly in fuvor of the people, and observed that there was a great douLt whether they had law for cessing the peo le for the support of that Cnurc.:h, and begLed of theu to adjourn the meeting until the opinion of Counsel in the case could ue Obtained. The chair was not taken until this reasonable re ue at was [ranted, and all the i terns of the intended ce ss ri& , out of courtesy, for our information. Of course, no r~i~ul~r item was discussed, or objected to. The motion t ·id~ournrnent alone vi<;Jl:3 proyosed fror.1 the chair, and by
rcvious a 6 reer..ent, carried.
The poor eople felt exceedingly grateful to Dr.Johnston, alld to r:1e, for the port 'Ne had taken, and instantaneously obe ed ever: dir2ction they got from us. 1 was afterv,ard s infore:ed t.1a-,., the yeoman would be at the adJourned ueetingthat others \r1ere getting arr...is to assist them, - that if the Catholics \1oulo a-r,t,end, they would be. in danter, &£.&c. To ascertain the truth of these reports, I wrote the following letter: -
Forkhill 27 Jan .183~
D-ear : ·r . Chambre ,
I au inforu1ed that CaptainSeaver. is determined to have his Yeomen and the Police at the adjourned Vestry, in r:eigh, on L:onday If so, I will consider it my duty to advise the people to not attenci 1 lest it might turn ou~ to be sor::ething to the Castlepollard or Newtownbarry barry affai:-. f.1r. Johnston, of Carrickbreda, Captain .....Brennan and I, will undertake to preserve the peace of the meeting that day, on condition that no filan bearing arr.is wi.11 appc:ar there. I have a plan in contemplation that will save the seats and everything in the Church from an:,r injur:; on tha.t day, nari1ely, I will place some decent ma.n in every pew, who will oe responsible for the proper care of it, until the rest of the peovle leave the Church. Have th~ goodnetH3 to let me know whether captain Seaver •ill c ro the intt:ntion of calling to Meigh on li.;onday
~n Meigh \/ere cess-poyers. It. w;,s t.o then I adch·essecJ 1.1self, w1~en ..,..told them to attend there on the 30 th. 1 have reason, perhaps van:i.ty enough, to ir.agine that i ;,ossess sorue influenc.:e with the reople; and , thint I will continue to possess that influence, as long as 1 continue to disch&r~e '-' my duty properly us a good Priest and a fai 1,hful su·o~ect to his Ua 0 eaty, King William tlie Fourth. Few, or none, of the people, if they take ruy advice, will &t.tend your vestry on Monday. I ar.'1 far frorJ saying that Captain Seaver or any other wan, would give orders to trample on the ::,ieo1,le, a.Luse them, or shed their blood. But, I must confesb, l do not like to see the yeomanry and the. people L1eeting about, C11urch business. You know that the result of such meetings latel , in some parts of Ireland, v1as disgrac.:eful 1 sad, and frightful. I have the honor to be, &c .
I wrote another letter to Captain Seaver by:t received no answer. To save the people from sorry injury, I sent, onSundc:1:,,morning, a letter to the different Catholic congregations in the district Meigh anJ announe;ed the substance of it fro~ my own altar, advising the people not to go, on the following da:,, to the Vestry at Meigh I allowed, however, a sufficient number of intelli!sent men to go on that morning to th l·ter~.s generally, and to some in the Vestry, ob~ect to e illPcU"ticul&.r, and to appeal to the Quarter Sessions against
lf the steps 1 had ta~en wt:re not evt=n the best calculotccJ to r;reserve the eace and --·uard t11e interest of the people, no person chould tlarne _ue; ±'or I di<.J vJbut appeared to me best. for th2t purpose; and so convinced are uy poor people of Ii'iY anxiety for t,,eir te1.:poral and eternctl welfare, Uwt 1;0 acJvice -from c.1n-, l:uarter, however hir-h and influential. will, I ar:i - v • I sure, ever alienate their affections fror:1 Die, or even L1ake them suspect my motives. J:ovi. rumours dre afloc;t. thci t, I • I when Captain Brennan c could not 1.Je vrevailed or. to °Grir,L his Police to Meightha.t other Chief constables be called on to bring their nen to assist the Yeoman at the E[;ster Vestry
You know that the few Frotest~nts of that district can cess the people fror:1 £3 to £300 for paying Church Officers and1)rocuriuE thin,:s rieCE:bbal'V for t:.e ., celebration of Divine Uorship, and that the Catholics hd.ve no power by law· to vote aga2-nst anything for the above purposes. now it strikes me that the best, and indeed the only rernedy the people have, is, to hold meetings and petition the Le[iolature for a repeal of the Vestry •\et. 1Ir. 3ditor I hope you will do me the gustice to insert this letter in your highly esteer.:ied paper, and prevent the public from forming an incorrect or uncharitable opinion or rnu conduct, and I trust you will be able to point out a lari to the people of Meighby which they will
t 1 1 ,. s•'<:lll 't:: t:1e ir live B and pro pert~, on this occasion• effec ua
.... "" ho: or to be, ! 1·. "Sdi tor, ~rou very foi thful ht,:mble I h.:1Vt: ,.,.k
servant
Daniel O'Rafferty P.F. of Forkhill.
~Je read il~y give insertion to, the fore [;'O in~; and, th~u["h
we never llut:.stio1H::U the purity of Lr. O'Rafferty r10tive.s, in
• • • hi.s l-'arishioners not to attend the last vestry in advis~r.b
Meighwe r1ave no hesitation in sc::1~rin5, t1wt it is evi,_er.~ hE: acted with the best intention.s. Still, ho\·1ever, we do not n.t.cr, regret t e h..int threw out. 1'le are not, indeed, alto~·ether like the fond f9ther, who, having flogged his son for sorr:e supposed fault of which the lad v1us not guilty, confar ted hfuself with the reflection, that though the unfortunate urchin did not deserve t...he whipping the::--:i he u11doubtedly V/O'v =..aor. sO1. e / future occasion; but v,e do think, thclt, o,l t,houeh the hint we gave Lr. O'Rafferty may be quite uncalled for at present, it cannot do hiL1 t,he least harr:1 now, and may be of great i_;se to him and muny others hereafter. As the. name of Captain Brennan has been introduced i!l the correspondence v,hich :·r. h£:is --iven, \le concei·ve th t 1 t· · a sorne exp ana ion on our part is oni:,r
JUstic e tu a gentler.ian who discharges the duties of a very responsible situation in a manner t:tat is best evinced bv t!le .. excellent cor 1duc.:t of the Police under his co1m and. 1'.:.r • Chambre labours un,Jer a tit- t suggested mioconcevtion \ifhen he sa:rs thnt Captain Brennan the er.1ploy1,1ent of the militarytarv.., The idea of
I callin; .in t1 e .J sG is 1.,111c e of the police or YeYeomanryor
C::.iptain
Brennan ,-:hen a. 1.Jlied to, merely stated v1hut is the fact - that hE is unut:r perernptory orders not to allovv 1:.he police unc,er his and t 0 be eDplo~ed on an occasion of the kind, unless in conjunction wit}, -8 militarytar~, force, ancJ acc:ompnnied b:· a . .,.either Police, Yeomanry nor Militarytc:r .,' arE reqt..i:~ea; a!!d, thou£;h \le know I.lr. Seaver would Le ver~' willir.g to call out the nost obnoxious of these foi'ces. the '""Jeole of , t • Killeavya~, need not be the least uneasy, so long oS t~1e~ continue to op ose Ve Vestry extortion, in the peacable and leial r,1;..1nner they have adopted. ~e live in the year 1832 and not in 1798
The only advice we 1:.ave to give the Parishioners of Killeavy is, to exercise their legal and c:onsti tutional right of peti tioningi !for the total abolition of ':'i the o1H] Vestry e.xtortion, to be peacable os they have Leen hitherto, and, above al~ to keep clear of illegal and secret associations. 'i/e cannot, at pre sent, enurne,ra te the several matters on wnich Roman Catholics 0 re entitled to vote at Vestries - we shall refer to the sut~ec:t at another opyortunity. :n the neantime, we are. disposed to think the holding a vestry in Meigh Chapel of ease is altoc..,ether illeJc:;11, in v,hich opinion we are strengthened by th~ folJ.v\liD[ letter, from an intelligent CorresrJondent, on "Ve L tr- J Tox~ tic,n" : -
Cannon Bookey
Ballinary
C...., c ..,rls in old erister; not =entioned in on nor r'r.:ed on :uap. Carr roch.-y or rough o-round 0 ) . 1or,iratlon 11is 11 added.
1 • __.,,_ - Clontylew - is (? "·
also__. cf s_all c.2bts.
Cran:.:irill Cranagill -Is • ~.,..._,_ -· - 0 d ( C c u.u.~ ar. I 5; s~cll :~o.c:t~o~ of Aghavillan vas granted tc Jonn Hearon
J. • r ./... J J ,, Cranoge no-1 ., ' I1"1_,_· S • S l ' 3lJD. 8. It :.s ..:ar~...;:edon l jelieva, sa_e as Cranoge a~a of the Talla bogbog, anc1 1;·1c orii:;-i1al i"'or_, of 11a..1e Crano;e-coi:;__:i, ....,
t e att .r beinc c' anred ~o bill as in Crowhill Crow Hill torkhill. 'l re~;i<.J"'nco of ur. Jolrn Nicholson is on the site of
.. --·~ so ..._........ --
,..J... ,,a.'"" _, ;-:..:..., -
Cronkill11
It •.·.ras
Derrinraw ~:ason ti1at .a J... _t., _s ~e~~io~ed in Inc~isition (Car. I, 3) as De~ri~ragh, belon~ing to -iddle ~rono~tioc of Kanna£ola~.Der :rin little 1·rood) - l'at:1 ( J. c:66).
-:i- ,.., .,..e .; s -· I.. - - ' I believe, --; ci b.1.e "--.
Derryadd
:.:.ad a long oa~ ~;ood ( J. 489) . Eentioned in I~qUis~tion (Car. I 3) as Derriadda, belonging to Bicdle b orange lodgeLodge always called the .1e '; wood Lodge
Derryane
Is ,E:nt.i.oncd j_n t'1.e Inquisition (Car. I. 3) as De:rryan, on ir.,.. to ,id( le proportion of Ka11:1ahgolah. . ·y . r , . . -4 -, f 1 t) - little \·JOOd (J. 487) .
.nor ...1Br~::eC i 1 ',•·1•dr -:io··, 0 ar,.. .....t...... \,; J pr.,' ,./ ................ of th::..s 1 o ,-.., , i -;-• - -CA-...._ v.., grass ~s re~2r~ably J. - or r· -J. •
Derrylard
Derrylee
Is .. lC.n+ioDed ..:n .L}-.e -1.·;1qu.! c::·'t-i,--,n (\..,'"",,,-r I J :::.::: _s:;,.,v_ .- .L~ l,cJ .L~J.u __, a-•-•, ...,1
Lerr:·-laeg~1 ( calves) (J. 454). covered cy :;::e la~:::e '.•ia s Le Leafony-oa.: ·,::n""'J..
Derrylileagh
Oa uood of t:1 e ~i1ilci1 co1'iS ( J. 316). uer ry lil ea[:i1 F.~. schoolool j. s al uay s caLJ.ed II r The e wood school•.
I Drissogh
drissogagh 2
'.'lave of' burial3:_.
Crowhill of t~e field near tje ratj.
Dru.11-Loin ( boy 1 - an. Su1;-a-e·-o· -'.na-1-· or,... - Drum mueey - _J ..._.___ l.,.1. ,.::, _....__.i.. L-- •. la (:nt • d • n Inr_1u1· c:i· t.L.! Drumanphy (Car. I J 1.or 1 Jo a a nafaC c. in
be of comparative~y recent origin, and t~e c~st~lc~ so designated ·.:.rust jave a more ancie!lt na:22. 11 t:.e Inquisition t:ie c.ist~ict now :{1.10·.::1
Grange of Tacjterragjan.
deno~ination of Eglish.
the site of ·.v~ich was near Tobyhole.
and +-· o.,ner instances.
Situated ca~e to be applied t0 the ~1ole district. In a leose dated
The grangeof Tachtaraghan and its
Protaoly Crow;·1i·hill1 1 .. _.__'
Gallc::..anrocic
Is Geraghty r·1 n.:...t Q "- lJ ' i .:... _l, ::..s'
Colla,
Magarty anc. La 6urrc1da (Car. I, 5) a~c5. as J9lo:-:::;::~: ~::> : ••e 831all 1Jroportio11 Brouchas l~oy-garret.
Tartlogue I, 3) a:-; Tac·iloz~1o~Jir, belonf;ing to t~:e :nid6.::i.e
Proportion of Kannaaolah. u
of these t O~\rr:l~i1d S p -1 ..~,,,._ .,_()J. 0.:..:.. 5 v:..z. -
T1e - -.""'\ ,..,_'I . - d t.,Ow...,_.:.,_, oi C·.,..,,,011a--·i 11 ....... _ r::-_ -
T~1e :;-:;-.-mland of 1 :::i ,.. ·1 r a r-".) a ----..,- - 6..,
The rnl '1a" v 0\\1_. a.!. ' of Dru210.nofaTe
T1.1eto,mlar.d of Druc:1i e s
T'..1 e to1.-mland of Der-r··:ri vv·1 - J _!.___ J .L
The to·,·mlar~c. of Cl2:1corr
:r:1 e to;mland of ClGn:Ja~cei t
The to,,mland of Toglochosi.1e
'rhe tovmland of egli sh
The toi.•mland of Breagh
r:1e toM1land of Clentoliff
T:1e to, ..mland of Gal ~ri11 :rue :~e
T:1c to-.mland of Cl en~1a~:is :1
Trie ~ovmland of Dery-Corr
The '1alf a tovm of Derryen
Toe towolnnd of Deryely
The to~-mland of Derry lard
'I'nc -';ovril 1:.nd of Ear·her-yo-r ceney ., '-'
The townland of Dery Imrah
The townland of Drumanan
All which said towns and lands and the tyths thereof are wholly Improppriate and belonging to the Lord Caulfield and the Inhabitants thereof did receive their sacrementals at Loughgall which now by this new division they are to receive at Charlemonte.
Item - We find that the worth and value of the tyths thereof was in the year of our Lord God 1640 thirty pounds but now twenty pounds per annum.
Abstract from "Cromwellian Inquisition as to Parishes in County Armagh in 1 657 ''. For complete account of the parishes of the county see "Ulster Journal of Archaeology (3rd Series) Vol.2, pp.212-249''.
T.G.F. Paterson.
John McQuaid Mary Heburn 10/7 /~u uO i1oby l10.L€ ...,
CharlescWiley l ' / 7 --)I. ...,1 74
~/.:.._/39 7'c.
Thomas Clarke all 3/v/4~ 78
Dorothea Greer .:::/ J/L:2 '70 /Lh -.,) _, ' ' '/
Thomas Lock r, l '--
Martha/4'--;Quinn ,. Oc::: Mary/Jc:...Morrison, /' 00 John Quinn 36 :,• R ThomasRansay John Neill - I ;,.,r:::: J c:::_,_ )') .) ,J 9/4/56
"o:ir. Robi:r son boatman2an J./L: /37
~-o resic.2!.!ce
ThomasDonnelly Clonmacash
l. /I' /'ir. j_ "'t u / :.,(
")( r.eo ..,, · :.i • .:ia r Farquhar a r Milltown • l l' 1~1- ·co1:m c:::/c./39 '74
Thomas Brown ::..C/li/39 c:::5
Mary Woods Clonmacate Jane/'c./4JFarquhar n,../V i::: c.l; /4 3 71
- ' John McAteer .c;'..'; ,er was buri(3c1 111 the Toby Hole Lc../c:::/l;l.3.
