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Bishop Bedell imprisoned at Lough Oughter Castle, 1641
Lough Oughter · lake or lakes · Cavan · 1641–1642
During the 1641 rebellion, Bishop Bedell of Kilmore had all his livestock driven away and was turned out of his home in County Cavan. The elderly bishop was robbed of his household goods, including his books, and imprisoned in a ruined castle in the middle of a lake in midwinter.
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On this it is to be observed that though the, treatment of Bishop Bedell AA^as not so bad as that AAdiich most other Englisl^ Protestants experienced, his live stock AA'as all driven aAvay— i lirst his oxeir and kine in the field ; then his horses, both abroad and in the stable; and lastly the sheep in the eourt-yaiAk Next, the septuagenarian Bishop himself, Avith his family’ AA'as turned out of house and home, robbed of his houselu UL goods, including his books, and imprisioned in a ruinoii,’; castle in the middle of a lake — the season of the year being,^ mid-Avinter — AAdiilst the poor Protestant refugees Avhom he ’ had been protecting AA'ere turned adrift and left to their fate:.
Mr. O’Connell, it may be added, repeats as true the ui^- ; founded story of the CaA'an Remonstrance, to make it appear ,| that Bishop Bedell sympathised Avith the rebels; Avhilst ^Ir; j Thomas Moore,* improA’ing on it, says that “such a AA’ritin^ i coming from a I’rotestant Prelate, far too Avise and amiable te sanction statements Avhich he did not himself belieA'e, may be , i-egarded as a fair representation of the state of feeling in the ' province ! ”
Internet Archive b22462430, Chapter 1
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Lough Oughter in County Cavan is a wide stretch of water the road passes near. In the rebellion of 1641, this lake became a prison for an old bishop. Bedell, Bishop of Kilmore, was a man in his seventies when the rising reached Cavan. His livestock was all driven away, first his oxen and kine in the field, then his horses both abroad and in the stable, and lastly the sheep in the courtyard. Then the bishop himself, with his family, was turned out of house and home, robbed of his household goods, including his books, and imprisoned in a ruined castle in the middle of a lake. The season was midwinter. The poor Protestant refugees he had been protecting were turned adrift and left to their fate. Afterwards, a story spread that Bedell had drawn up a remonstrance for the rebels of Cavan, that he sympathised with them. Mr O'Connell repeated this story as true. Thomas Moore went further, saying such a writing from a Protestant prelate might be regarded as "a fair representation of the state of feeling in the province." The story had no foundation.
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Bishop Bedell and the 1641 Rebellion in County Cavan
Cavan · town · Cavan · 1641
The text addresses the claim that Bishop Bedell countenanced the Irish rebels during the 1641 rebellion in County Cavan. It mentions that the truthfulness of contemporary official statements about these events was called into question by a counter series of unauthenticated depositions.
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to make it ap])ear that the rebellion, as it took place in the J,. County of Cavan, was countenanced bj' Bishop Bedell, the Itruthfulness of the statements in the contemporary official depositions preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, was called in question, and a counter series of ' unauthenticated depositions adduced, long after the alleged b events, to show that cimelties Avere in the first instance per- ' petrated by the English Protestants on the Irish Catholics. i. In regard to the depositions preserved in the LibrarA' of ;
T]-i}iity College, Dublin, it may be here mentioned that in the
Internet Archive b22462430, Chapter 1
As the companion tells it
Cavan town, in 1641, sits at the centre of a disputed story. Bishop Bedell of Kilmore was said to have countenanced the Irish rebels here, even drawing up a remonstrance for them. The contemporary official depositions, preserved in Trinity College Dublin, were questioned by those who wanted to make the claim stick. A counter series of depositions, unauthenticated and produced long after the events, was adduced to argue that cruelties were in fact first perpetrated by English Protestants on Irish Catholics. What actually happened in Cavan that year remains contested ground.
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