Name: Memoirs of the different rebellions in Ireland, from the arrival of the English : also, a particular detail of that which broke out the XXIIId of May, MDCCXCVIII : with the history of the conspiracy which preceded it (vol. 1)
Author: Richard Musgrave (1745 or 1746–1818)

William Orr's body taken to Presbyterian meeting-house for revival attempt

Carrickfergus · townland · Antrim · 1797

After Orr was hanged, his body was carried to a presbyterian meeting-house where two medical men attempted to restore him to life by transfusing calf's blood into his veins, followed by an elaborate funeral and cult of relics from his cap.

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As there was a confiderable fpace of time between his fentence and execution, father Quigley, and two preil^yterian minillers, attended him conflantly, dreading that he would make difcoveries, as he had intimated an intention of doing fo ; and they perfuaded him that he was not guilty of any crime, and that they could re-animate him. After being hanged, they carried his body to a prefbyterian meetinghoufe, where two medical men endeavoured to reftore him to life, by transfufmg the blood of a calf into his veins. Not fucceeding, his body was laid out in great ftate, and he was honoured with a moii fplendid funeral, which was attended by a numerous body of united Irilhmen, who lam^ented in doleful accents the fate of this martyr to republican liberty, and bedewed his hearfe with tears of fympathetick civifm. The cap which he wore was cut into fmall flireds, and diflributed among his difciples, who cherifhed it as a moft precious relick ; and they, in every part of the kingdom, wore, in memory of him, fome kind of emblem in rings, lockets, or bracelets.
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Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 120

Cromwell's storming of Wexford and massacre of garrison, 1649

Wexford · town · Wexford · 1649

Wexford was taken by storm after being betrayed by its castle commandant, and Sir Edward Butler the governor along with two thousand soldiers were put to the sword.

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ilorm, and fir Edward Butler, the governor, and two thoufand foldiers, were put to the fword.
Large veftige^ of the town-walls are ftill vifible, and the four gates which led to it remained, until lately, alnioH perfedl. The town is irregularly built, and the ftreets are narrow. There is a large and elegant new church in it. Four religious houfes were erected there at a very early period. Firft, a priory of regular canons, fuppofed to have been founded by the Danes, and is called the priory of St. Peter, and St. Paul of Seliker. ^ Its prior fat in parliament, as a baron. The church ftill remains, with a large fteeple-in the centre.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 243

As the companion tells it

As you approach Wexford, this is a town Cromwell took by storm in 1649. After the castle commandant betrayed it, Sir Edward Butler, the governor, and 2,000 soldiers were put to the sword. Large vestiges of the old town walls are still visible, and four gates remained until lately almost perfect. Four religious houses were erected here at a very early period, among them the priory of St. Peter and St. Paul of Seliker, said to have been founded by the Danes. Its prior sat in parliament as a baron, and the church still stands with a large steeple in the centre.

Father Murphy's death by cannon shot at Arklow barricade

Arklow · town · Wicklow · 1798

Father Murphy, having claimed heretics' balls could not injure the faithful, urged rebels forward at the charter-school, and fell himself by cannon shot within a few yards of the barricade while waving a standard inscribed 'Liberty or Death'. His fall dampened the rebel's ardour.

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ht faid, were fired by the enemy, and fome of which had hit him without wounding him ; and others he had caught in his hands* He aflured them at the fame time, that the balls of hereticks could not in« jure them, as they were under the protection of the Almighty, in whofe caufe they were fighting, provided they were ftedfafl: in their faith. By that ftratagem, he prevailed on many of the deluded wretches to follow him ; and they fucceffively became vidims of their fuperftition and temerity* Father Murphy, after many efcapes, fell himfelf by a cannon (hot, within a few yards of the barricade D, while Ihouting to his followers, and waving in his hand a fine ftandard with a crofs, and Liberty or Death infcribed on it. The fall of this church militant hero had an immediate effedt in damping the ardour of the enemy, which from that moment began to abate*
About eight o^clock, when it was almofl: dark, they began to retreat towards Coolgreny, in an irregular and diforderly manner. They carried olF nine cart-loads of dead and wounded. If the cavalry had but one hour's day-light, they would have purfued them, and have cut off great numbers in their retreat* The lofs of the rebels was faid to be one thoufand killed, and great numbers wounded.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 280

As the companion tells it

You are coming into Arklow, in Wicklow. In 1798, this town saw one of the fierce encounters of the rebellion. A priest called Father Murphy had told his followers that the balls of heretics could not injure them, because they were under the protection of the Almighty, in whose cause they were fighting, provided they were steadfast in their faith. He said that shots had been fired at him and hit him without wounding him, and that he had caught some balls in his hands. By that stratagem, as the account calls it, he prevailed on many to follow him. Father Murphy, after many escapes, fell himself by a cannon shot, within a few yards of the barricade, while shouting to his followers and waving a fine standard with a cross and the words Liberty or Death inscribed on it. The fall of this man had an immediate effect in damping the ardour of the rebels, which from that moment began to abate. Around eight o'clock, when it was almost dark, they began to retreat towards Coolgreny in an irregular and disorderly manner. They carried off nine cart-loads of dead and wounded. The loss of the rebels was said to be one thousand killed, and great numbers wounded.

Arrest and Wounding of Lord Edward Fitzgerald in Thomas-street

Thomas Street · street · Dublin · 1798

On 19 May 1798, major Sirr, captain Swan and captain Ryan arrested Lord Edward Fitzgerald at Murphy's house in Thomas-street; a violent struggle ensued in which Fitzgerald stabbed both captains before being shot and wounded by Sirr and surrendering.

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Government, having received pofitive information that he had arrived in Dublin, and was lodged at the houfe of one Murphy, a feather man in Thomas^ ftreet, fent major Sirr to arrefl him. He, attended by captain Swan of the Revenue corps, and captain Ryan of the Sepulchre's, and eight foldiers difguifed^ about five o'clock in the afternoon repaired in coaches to Murphy's, houfe. While they were pofling the foldiers in fuch a manner as to prevent the poffibility of an efcape, captain Swan, perceiving a woman run haftily up flairs, for the purpofe, as he fuppofed, of alarming lord Edward, followed her with, the utmoft fpeed ; and, on entering an apartment, found lord Edward lying on- a bed, in his dreffing jacket. He approached the bed, and informed his lordfhip that he had a warrant againfl him, and that refiflance would be vain ;. and he affured him, at the fame time^ that he would treat him with the utmoft refpect.
On

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 139

As the companion tells it

Along here on 19 May 1798, Lord Edward Fitzgerald was arrested at Murphy's house. He was a fugitive, and the government had learned he was hiding in Thomas Street at the home of a feather man named Murphy. Major Sirr came in coaches with Captain Swan of the Revenue corps, Captain Ryan of the Sepulchre's, and eight soldiers disguised, around 5 o'clock in the afternoon. While they were posting soldiers to cut off escape, Swan saw a woman run upstairs to warn Fitzgerald and followed her. He found Fitzgerald lying on a bed in his dressing jacket and told him he had a warrant, that resistance was vain, and that he would treat him with respect. A violent struggle broke out. Fitzgerald stabbed both Captain Swan and Captain Ryan before Major Sirr shot and wounded him. Fitzgerald then surrendered.

Battle of Oulart Hill - defeat of North Cork militia

Oulart · town · Wexford · 1798

On Whitsunday, 27 May 1798, a detachment of the North Cork militia under Lieutenant-Colonel Foote was surrounded and cut to pieces by a rebel force of four to five thousand under father John Murphy at Oulart, with only the colonel, a sergeant and three privates surviving.

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1 his adioii Was thlis defcribed to me by perfons of veracity, who were fpeclators of it. Lieiitenantcolonel Foote has given the foliovving relation of it in a letter to a friend : " I marched to a hill called Oulart, where between four and five thoufand rebels Were polled. From their great fuperiority of numbers, it was not my intention to have attacked them^ unlefs fome unForefeen favourable circumftances would warrant that m>;afure ; hov/ever, my officers were of a contrary opinion. I met here pjirt of a yeoman cavalry corps, about fixtecn ; the remainder, with their ferjeant^ having that morning joined the tebels* I halted with this corps, while I feht a note by their trumpetet to Wexford, with orders for two officers and forty men to march thence to its to fupport our detachment ; apprehending that the rebels^ from their numbers, might intercept our. retreat. Afterwards, when I joined the party, 1 found that they Were moved forward by the officer next iii command ; and the foldiers cried out, that they would beat the rebels out of the field. By this movement we were immediately engaged with the rebels, who fired from behind the hedges, without fliewing anyregular front. We beat their advanced party front one hedge to another, which they had fucceffively occupied, and fired from on us, killing great numbers of them, till they retreated in much diforder to the main body, which confifted moflly of pikemen. I confidered this a favourable opportunity of foiTn* ing the detachment, for the purpofe of retreating^ or of deceiving the enemy in a good pofition ; and I ufed every exenion to elf(dcl it; but unfortunately the too great ardour of the men and officers could not be reflrained. They ruOied forward, were hit* rounded^ and Q\erpQwered by numbers. They diiy
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Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 222

Drummer boy Hunter killed at Gorey for refusing to beat drum for rebels

Gorey · town · Wexford · 1798

A twelve-year-old drummer of the Antrim regiment, taken prisoner and brought to Gorey, refused to beat his drum for the rebels, declaring the king's drum should never be beaten for rebels, broke the drum heads, and was killed with pikes.

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them as a drummer ; when he, actuated by a fpirit of enthufiaftick loyalty, exclaimed, " That the king's drum fliould never be beaten for rebels and at the fame inftant, he leaped on the drum, and broke through both its heads. The inhuman villains, whofe relentlefs hearts were not fufceptible of thofe refined fentiments, which would have excited a generous admiration of fo heroick an a6t even in an enemy, inftantly perforated his body with pikes.
In this adion, a prieft attacked captain Duncan of •the Royal Iriih artillery, and wounded him with a piftol ball, as he was mounting his horfe ; but his temerity was foon punifhed^ for the captain drew a piftol from his holfter and laid him proftrate.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 256

As the companion tells it

You're coming through Gorey now, a Wexford town with a grim story from 1798. A twelve-year-old drummer boy of the Antrim regiment was taken prisoner here by rebels and ordered to beat his drum for them. He refused, declaring that the king's drum should never be beaten for rebels, and leaped on the drum, breaking through both its heads. The rebels killed him instantly with pikes. In the same action, a priest attacked Captain Duncan of the Royal Irish artillery and wounded him with a pistol ball as he mounted his horse. Duncan drew a pistol from his holster and laid the priest prostrate.

Mutilation of the Barclay family at Forkhill

near Forkill · parish · Armagh · 1791

A gang led by Terence Byrne broke into schoolmaster Alexander Barclay's house near Dundalk in the parish of Forkhill, stabbing him, cutting out his tongue and fingers, and inflicting the same horrific mutilations on his wife and her young brother, purely because they were Protestants.

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On Friday evening at feven o'clock, a number of villains alTembled at the houre of Alexander Barclay, one of the fchool-mafters in the parilh of Forkhill, near Dundalk, appointed by the truflees of the late Richard jackfon's charities^ to i.nRru6i; iudifcriminately the children of the poor of faid parift. They rapped at the door, he enquired who was there, and one man of the name of Terence Byrne, liis near neighbour, (whofe voice he well knew, and had before at different times admitted upon knov/- ing it,) told him it was he was there ; he opened the door, and a number of men rufned in, tlirew him on his £ice, a«d three of tiiem flood on him, and ftabbed him repeatedly. They then put a cord round his neck, which they tightened fo, as to force out his tongue ; part of which, as far as they could reach, they cut off. They then cut off the four fmgers and thumb of his right hand, and left him on the floor, and proceeded to ufe his wife in the fame manner. To add to their barbarity, they cut out her tongue, and cut off her four fingers and thumb, with a blunt weapon, which operation took them up above ten minutes, one or tvx^o of them holding up her arm, while they committed this inhuman action. They then battered and beat her in a dreadful manner. Her brother, a boy of i 3 years of age, had come from Armagh that morning to fee her. They cut out his tongue, and cut off the calf of his leg, and left them all three in that fituation.
" No reafon can be affigned for this moil inhuman tranfad:ion. The man was a proteftant, a peaceable decent man ; he taught above 30 of their children gratis^ being allowed a falary by the truftees for 40 more. He afked them, whether he had ever oifended them ? They faid not ; but that was the beginning of what he and thofe like him * fhould fuffer.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 45

Twenty-eight yeomen shot in gaol at Dunlavin

Dunlavin · town · Wicklow · 1798

Faced with a large rebel force threatening the town and fearing disarmed yeomen prisoners would join them, officers at Dunlavin decided nineteen prisoners of the Saunders-grove corps and nine of the Narraghmore corps be led out and shot.

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The officers, having conferred for fome time, were of opinion, that fome of the yeomen who had been difarmed, and were at that time in prifon for being notorious traitors, fhould be fliot. Nineteen therefore of the Saunders-grove corps, and nine of the Narramore, w^ere immediately led out and fufFered death.
It may be faid, in excufe for this acl of fevere and fummary juflice, that they would have joined the numerous bodies of rebels who were moving round, and at that time threatened the town. At the fame time they difcharged the greater part of the prifoners, in confideration ox their former good chara&ers.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 164

Windmill on Vinegar Hill used as slaughter site

near Vinegar Hill · hill or hills · Wexford · 1798

The walls of the old windmill on top of Vinegar Hill served as a fold to hold victims who supplied the daily executions, who were led out and butchered before the rebel ranks on parade as a regale to them.

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The walls of an old wind-mill on the top of the hill ferved as a fold to contain the vidinis who fupplied the facrifice of the day ; and v/hen the rebel ranks were on parade, they Vere led forth and butchered in their prefence, and as a regale to them ; and what was very fmgular, the executioners often knelt down, cfolfed themfelves, and faid a prayer, before they immolated the vidims, who were frequently almofl: famiflied before they were led to execution, from the bad and fcanty food with which rhey were fupplied.
The camp, was conftantly attended by from ten to twenty priefts, who daily faid mafs at the head of each rebel column, and afterwards pronounced an exhortation to animate them in the extirpation of herefy, and in the exclufive eftablifliment of their own, the only true orthodox faith.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 229

As the companion tells it

As you pass Vinegar Hill, that old windmill up top holds a dark piece of 1798. Its walls were used as a fold to hold the victims who supplied the daily executions. When the rebel ranks were on parade, those victims were led out and butchered before them, as a regale. The executioners often knelt down, crossed themselves, and said a prayer before they killed them. The victims were frequently almost famished before being led to execution, from the bad and scanty food they were given. The camp was constantly attended by from 10 to 20 priests, who daily said mass at the head of each rebel column and afterwards pronounced an exhortation to animate them in the extirpation of heresy.

Charles Davis shot and buried alive at Vinegar Hill camp

near Vinegar Hill · hill or hills · Wexford · 1798

Charles Davis, a protestant glazier of Enniscorthy who had defended the town, was captured and taken to Vinegar Hill where he saw about forty mangled bodies including the portreeve of Enniscorthy. He was shot and pike-wounded, buried lightly in a shallow grave, and found alive the next morning by a dog licking his wounds.

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Charles Davis, a glazier of Ennifcorthy, and of the proteftant religion, fought againft the rebels in defence of that town ; but was afterwards made a prifoner, and conveyed to Vinegar-hill by a party of rebels, who informed him, that, as he was an orangeman, he would be put to death. On his arrival in xhe camp, he faw about forty bodies lying dead'^ quite naked, and very much mangled with pikes ^ among which he percei^^d the body of Mr. Henry Hatton, portrieve of the town of Ennifcorthy.
The rebels defired him, iniuitingly, to lay hi* hand on his deceai'ed friends, whom thev called hereticks ; and told him, that all the hereticks in the kingdom fliould fhare the fame fate« They then put him on his knee?,^ in the midilof the dead bodies, and fhot him through the body and the arm, and gave him feveral pi&e wounds ; after which they buried him-, covering his body lightly with fods, tie lay m that fit^iation from feveu o'clock in the evening till five next morning, when he found a dog, who had fcraped away the feds, licking his wounds. A party of rebels, who were near the ^ave, perceiving the motion of his body, exclaimed, ^ The dead is coming to life ; and that Davis fliould

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 235

As the companion tells it

As you come near Vinegar Hill, just outside Enniscorthy, this was the rebel camp in 1798. Charles Davis, a Protestant glazier of Enniscorthy, had fought against the rebels in defence of the town, but was taken prisoner and brought here. The rebels told him that as an Orangeman he would be put to death. On arrival at the camp he saw about forty bodies lying dead, naked, and mangled with pikes, among them Henry Hatton, portreeve of Enniscorthy. The rebels told him to lay his hand on the dead, calling them heretics, and said all heretics in the kingdom should share the same fate. They put him on his knees among the bodies, shot him through the body and arm, and gave him several pike wounds. Then they buried him, covering him lightly with sods. He lay there from seven in the evening till five next morning, when a dog scraped away the sods and began licking his wounds. A party of rebels nearby, seeing his body move, exclaimed, "The dead is coming to life."

Defense of Rockspring House

Rockspring · townland · Wexford · 1798

Two Protestant servants, Jacob Ward and Samuel Hawkins, defended Lieutenant Bookey's house at Rockspring alone against some 500 rebels led by Father Murphy, repelling attackers even after the house was set alight, and survived when rebels retreated at dawn.

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When lieutenant Bookey fet out with his troop, he left a gaiard in his houfe, confifling of five Roman catholick fervants, and two proteflants, Jacob Ward and Samuel Hawkins, Between twelve and one o'clock in the moining, about five hundred rebels, headed by father Murphy«, furrounded the houfe of Rockfpring, on which the five papifts defer ted, and the two pr\$teftants were l^ft alone,, with four guns, to defend the houfe. The rebels called to them to. deliver up their arms^, which the two proteflants faid they would do, and immediately difcharged four guns at them ; and they continued to load and fire at them with all pofTible celerity* The rebels, incenfed at their fpirited conduct, threw flories at the windows, fired into them with their mufkets, and at lafl: broke open the front door with a fledge. As fdme of the affailants had fallen by the fire of the befieged, others, dreading the fame fate, were heard to cry out, " Let us retrea^, before more of us are killed."
The rebels having entered the houfe, got lights, and affembled in the hall ; on which the two proteflants ceafed firing, and placed themfelves on the head of the flairs, with their mufkets, to prevent their foes from afcending. Father Murphy ordered fome of his men to go^ up fliairs, and learn who the perfons were that had the audacity to oppofe him ;

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 218

As the companion tells it

Somewhere around here in 1798, a fierce defense took place at Lieutenant Bookey's house at Rockspring. When Bookey rode out with his troop, he left his house guarded by five Catholic servants and two Protestants, Jacob Ward and Samuel Hawkins. Between twelve and one in the morning, about 500 rebels led by Father Murphy surrounded the house. The five Catholic servants deserted, leaving Ward and Hawkins alone with four guns. The rebels called on them to surrender their arms. The two said they would, then immediately fired all four guns at the attackers and kept loading and firing as fast as they could. The rebels threw stones at the windows, fired their muskets in, and finally broke open the front door with a sledge. Some attackers had fallen, and others were heard crying out to retreat before more were killed. Once inside, the rebels lit lights and gathered in the hall. Ward and Hawkins stopped firing and took position at the top of the stairs with their muskets to stop anyone coming up. Father Murphy ordered men to go upstairs and see who dared oppose him. The house was set alight, but the two held on, and at dawn the rebels pulled back. Both men survived.

Dowseley Stabbed for Being a Protestant in New Ross

New Ross · townland · Wexford · 1798

A Protestant man named Dowseley was dragged from his house by rebels and denounced as such by his Roman Catholic neighbour, resulting in him receiving sixteen pike wounds before being pardoned after reciting popish prayers whispered to him by another woman.

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The following curious incident occurred in the^ town of Rofs : When the rebels entered the town, they dragged a man of the name of Dowfeley, a proteftant, from his houfe, and his next door neighbour^ a Roman catholick, denounced him as fuch, for the purpofe of having him alTafllnated ; on which the rebels gave him three ftabs of a pike. A w^oman of the name of Catherine Whelan, a Romanift, his neighbour, and, as he thought, his friend, clapped her hands with joy on feeing the rebels enter the town, and welcomed the boys (as fhe called them) to Rofs, and faid, " They fhould kill Dowfeley, as he was a proteftant." They had at that time left him, as he had faid that he was a Romanift ; but on her faying the contrary, they returned to him while lying on the ground on his fide, and having turned him on his back, defired him to blefs himfelf, and on not doing it right, they ftabbed him again, which was occafioned by her malevolent obfervation; on the whole, he received fixteen pike wounds. A w^oman, of the name of Mary Foley, faw the rebels approach him again, take him up by the hair of the head, and afk him to fay fome popifh prayers ; flie then humanely whifpered fome of them into his ear, which' he repeated, on which the rebels pardoned and left him. A young man of the name of Richards, who
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Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 262

Massacre of loyalists at Jefferies's burning house, Narraghmore

Narraghmore · townland · Kildare · 1798

John Jefferies led a small yeoman party into his house to defend it; the rebels set it on fire, promised safety if arms were surrendered, then butchered the loyalists as they emerged, including a gruesome killing of Thomas Young.

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John JefFeries, the permanent yeoman ferjeant of the Narraghmore corps, having a houfe with much property which he wifhed to defend, imprudently led his little party into it. The routed rebels were met by Daniel Walfh, a traitorous yeoman of that corps, who has been fmce defervedly hanged ; and he rallied, and brought them back to the attack* JefFeries's houfe being foon fet on fire, the loyalifts parleyed, and the rebels promifed that their lives fliould be fpared, provided they furrendered their arms ; but the inftant they came forth, the pikemeii fell to butcher them. No lefs than fix traitors were (tabbing together at Thomas Young ; but the clafhing of their pikes, and the confufion which arofe from their eagernefs to flied his blood, having fufpended his fate for a moment, Fitzpatrick, one of the traitors of the Narraghmore corps, cried out ta the pikemen to clear his way ; and he inftantly blew out the brains of his fellow foldier, with the muiket which he had received to ferve his king and country; he thfen feized a pike, and transfixed the body to the ground, crying out, " That's the way to kill a heretick
Thomas Alcock, and Mofes Borroughs, an old man of eighty years, (whofe venerable locks fhould have protected him,) were next inhumanly butchered. The other fix were referved to be hanged in the adjoining wood of Narraghmore. The rebels then fet fire to every proteftant houfe in the town, in which the women were particularly adive. On their retiring, the mangled body of poor old Borroughs

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 181

As the companion tells it

Somewhere close to Narraghmore, in 1798, John Jefferies led his small yeoman party into his own house to defend it. The rebels set it on fire and promised to spare their lives if they surrendered their arms. The moment the loyalists came out, the pikemen butchered them. Six men were stabbing at Thomas Young at once. Fitzpatrick, a traitor from the same corps, called out to the pikemen to clear his way, then blew out Young's brains with the musket he had been given to serve his king and country. He seized a pike, pinned the body to the ground, and cried, 'That's the way to kill a heretick.' Thomas Alcock and Moses Borroughs, an old man of 80, were next inhumanly butchered. The other six were kept to be hanged in the adjoining wood of Narraghmore. The rebels then set fire to every Protestant house in the town, and the women were particularly active in the work. Daniel Walsh, who had rallied the rebels and brought them to the attack, was later hanged for it.

Nineteen Protestants murdered in Rathangan village

Rathangan · townland · Kildare · 1798

In total, the rebels murdered nineteen Protestants in the small village of Rathangan, some with extreme cruelty, including the mutilation of Robinson the carpenter and forced blasphemous acts against Coyle the shoemaker before his death.

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On the whole, they murdered nineteen proteftants in that little village, and fome of them with luch icircumftances of cruelty, as nothing but fanaticifm^ operating on ths mcft barbarous ignorance, could didate.
They ,cut off the arm of Robinfon, a carpenter of the proteftant perfuafion^ before they put a period to his exiftence.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 169

Daily executions of protestants on Vinegar Hill parade ground

near Vinegar Hill · hill or hills · Wexford · 1798

Every morning when rebels paraded on Vinegar Hill, they put to death from fifteen to thirty protestants in their presence as an amusement, conducted with the solemnity of a judicial execution.

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Every morning when the rebels paraded on Vinegar-hill, they put to death from fifteen to thirty proteftants in theilPprefence, as an amufem.ent to them j and this was done with the lolemnity of an execution under a judicial fentence.
Samuel Goodifon, a farmer, v/orth 400 1. a year, of the proteftant reiigion^, was univerfally efteemed for his good moral character. He and his famil)^, confuting of a wife and nine children, remained in Ring wood on the night of the twenty- eighth of May, to efcape the fanatical rage of the rebels. On Tuefday morning, they repaired to St. John's, f the feat of doctor Hill, on the Slaney, who offered to let them remain there ; hut Goodifon faid, he had fuch warm friends among- the Roman cathohcks,. that he

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 233

As the companion tells it

You're coming up on Vinegar Hill, outside Enniscorthy in Wexford. In 1798, this was a rebel stronghold, and every morning when they paraded here, they put to death from 15 to 30 Protestants in their presence, as an amusement. It was done, the record says, with the solemnity of an execution under a judicial sentence.

Escaped woman warns of rebel attack after witnessing brothers' torture

near Vinegar Hill · hill or hills · Wexford · 1798

A young woman who had been a prisoner of the rebels on Vinegar Hill, and had witnessed her two brothers tortured to death there, escaped on horseback and rode into Newtownbarry to warn of the approaching rebel force.

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Government having received intelligence of the intended attack on Newtown-barry, colonel L'Eflrange was fent to defend it on the thirtieth of May, with a detachment of the King's county militia, a few dragoons, and two battalion guns ; the whole, including two corps of yeom.en, one infantry, the other cavalry, amounting to about three hundred and fixty. As the inhabitants had been in conilant expedation. for fome days of an attack from the rebels encamped on Vinegar-hill, all the avenues to the town had been occupied by patroles, both day and night, to prevent ^ furprife. On the evening of the thirty-firfl of May, they were fuddenly alarmed by tne arrival of a young woman in the town, with the utmofl precipitation, and crying out, " Here they are ! here they are!'' She had been a prifoner to the rebels on Vinegar-hill, where fhe was fo unfortunate as to fee her two brothers put to death, with extreme torture. In the frenzy of grief, fne, at the rifk of her life^ feized and mounted a horfe, and was fo lucky as to make her efcape, though clofely purfued.
Next day, the firfl of June, colonel L'Eflrange went out with a party of dragoons to reconnoitre, in the

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 250

As the companion tells it

Coming up near Vinegar Hill, where the rebels had their camp in 1798. The government had word that they meant to attack Newtownbarry, and sent Colonel L'Estrange to defend it on the 30th of May with a detachment of the King's County militia, a few dragoons, and two battalion guns. Counting two corps of yeomen, one infantry and one cavalry, the whole force came to about 360. The people of the town had been expecting an attack from the rebels encamped there for days, and every road in was watched by patrols, day and night. On the evening of the 31st of May, a young woman burst into the town, crying out, "Here they are! Here they are!" She had been held prisoner by the rebels on the hill. There she saw her two brothers put to death with extreme torture. In the frenzy of her grief, she seized a horse and mounted it, at the risk of her life, and was lucky enough to escape, though closely pursued. The next day, the 1st of June, Colonel L'Estrange went out with a party of dragoons to reconnoitre.

Father Nicholas Sheehy hanged at Clonmel

Clonmel · town · Tipperary · 1766

The famous Father Nicholas Sheehy, a noted leader of the White Boys who incited murder and outrages, was captured and afterwards hanged at Clonmel. His memory was held in veneration by the Catholic populace, and the clay of his tomb was believed to have miraculous healing powers.

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His lordfliip, during his refidence there, took the famous father Nicholas Shediy, who \vas afterv.'ards hanged at Clonmel. He had been a noted leader of the white boys, and incited them to commit murder, and various outrages ; and yet his memxory IS held in fuch veneration by the pcpilh multitude, and the clay of his tomb is fuppofed to be endued Avith fuch fupernatural powers,that various miraculous cures are imputed to it ; in confequence of which, it is in fuch requeft among the popifh rabble, that the fex* ton of the church, where his body is interred, is obliged very often to renew it.
To infpire the fuperflitious rabble with an opinion that all thofe, who were concerntid in bringing this traitor to juftice, incurred the divine anger, it has been faid, that all the jurors, who convicted him, died premature and fudden deaths, which is a notorious falfliood. I have extraded their names from the crown-Oifice ; and it is well known that they died in their beds. *

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 27

As the companion tells it

As you pass through Clonmel in Tipperary, you are near where Father Nicholas Sheehy was hanged in 1766. He had been a noted leader of the White Boys, inciting them to commit murder and various outrages. Yet his memory was held in such veneration by the Catholic populace that the clay of his tomb was believed to have miraculous healing powers, and the sexton of the church where he was buried often had to renew it. A story spread that all the jurors who convicted him died premature sudden deaths, as if cursed for bringing him to justice. But their names were traced from the Crown Office, and it is well known that they died in their beds.

First Orange Lodge Formed in Armagh

near Armagh · town · Armagh · 1795

In commemoration of the victory at the Battle of the Diamond, the first Orange lodge was formed in County Armagh on 21 September 1795, marking the origin of organized Orangeism.

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In commemoration of that victory, the firfl: Orange lodge was formed in the county of Armagh, on the tw^enty-firft of September, 1795, though the name of Orangeman exilled fome time before.
They were merely a fociety of loyal proteflants, affociated and bound together, folely for the purpofe of maintaining and defending the conflitution in church and ftate, as eftabhfhed by the prince of Orange, at the glorious Revolution, which they regarded as a folemn and facred duty. It confers dillinguilhed credit on its members, that they united

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 50

Mass burial of rebels at Graigue-bridge

near Graigue · population centre · Carlow · 1798

After the rout at Carlow, 417 rebel bodies were buried in three gravel-pits beyond Graigue-bridge and covered with quicklime, with total deaths estimated at six hundred.

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r.iiicreants who had taken different routes, were (hot fey the loyal inhabitsmts from their windows; and flich of them as efcaped, were purfued and killed by the foldiers and yeomanry ; fo that the llreets, the roads, and fields ccntignous -to the town, were ilrewed with carcafes. That evenings ^d all next day, nineteen carts were conftantly employed in conveying the dead bodies to the other fide of the Graigue-bri'ige, where four hundred and feventeen bodies v/ere buried in three gravel-pits, and covered with quick lime. On the whole, it was believed, that no lefs than fix hundred of the unfortunate wretches periihed, including thofe who were confumed in the houfes, and thofe who fell in the roads and fields, and were fecretly interred by their friends.
The (Tae^n^s county rebels were to have met, and ioined thofe of the countv of Carlow, at Grais^uebridge ; but having heard that there were two pieces of cannon polled there, they changed their route and, headed by one Redmond, and one Brennan, who had been a veoman. they burned fome protcftant Koufes in the villaQ;e of Ballvckmoiler, and attacked the houfe of the reverend John Whitty, a proteflant clergyman, near Arie?, about five miles from Carlow ; but it was bravely defended, by himfelf and eleven proteftants, who kept up a conftant fire, killed twentv-one rebels, and baffled all their attempts t<> llorm or burn it. The conflid continued from three till fix o'clock in the n^orning ; when Rlr, WhJtty's ammunition being Rearly expended, he fent two of his party to a neighbour to borrow more ; but they were furrounded and overpowered after a gallant defence. The corpfe of one of them, whom they killed, was mangled in a barbarous manner. They left the other, whofe name was Impey, fuppofing him to be dead ; but he aftervrards recovered : He fought for a draught of v.ater from fome perfons who were prefent, but they would not relieve him, till he aiked for a prieft, and then they fupplied him with it. This party vras nrft informed, by emiiTaries from

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 174

Murder of George Crawford and his granddaughter near Kildare

Kildare · town · Kildare · 1798

George Crawford, a former dragoon and yeoman sergeant, his wife, and granddaughter were stopped by rebels who reproached them as heretics; Crawford was massacred with pikes and his fourteen-year-old granddaughter died of wounds received while trying to protect his body, verified by his widow's affidavit.

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The foiiowing horrid drcumftances attended the murder of George Crawford, and his grandchild of the age of founeen years. He had formerly ferved fo long in the fifth dragoons, as to be entitled to a penfion, and was at that time a permanent ferjeant in captain Taylor's corps of yeomen cavalry. He^ his wife, and granddaughter, were flopped by a party of the rebels as they were endeavouring to make their efcape, and were reproached v/ith the appelkti(3n of hereticks, becaufe they \vere of the protef- "tant religion. One of them flruck his wife with a mufket, and another gave her a ftab of a pike in the back, with an intent of murdering her. Her hufband, having endeavoured to fave her, was knocked down, and received feveral blows of a firelock, which difabled him from making his efcape. While tb.ey were difputing whether they fhould kill them, Ihe dole behind a hedge, and concealed herfelf. They then maflacred her huiband with pikes ; and her granddaughter having thrown herfelf on his body to protect him, received fo many wounds in the bread, the head, and thighs, that (lie foon after expired. Thefe circumftances of atrocity have been verified by afH- , davit fworn by Crawford's \^dow the twentieth day of Auguft, 1798, before alderman Jenkin. The Adelity of a large dog, belonging to this poor man, deferves to be recorded, as he attacked thefe fanguinary raonfters, and fought bravely in defence of " his mafter, till he fell by his fide, perforated with pikes.
Mr. James Williams, a revenue officer, of the pre teftant religion, having mr.de his efcape, they plundered his houfe, and defhroyed his property ; and having hung up his favourite dog, they fired many fhots ft it, lamenting at the fame time, that they hdd not

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 167

As the companion tells it

As you come through Kildare, this is where George Crawford and his granddaughter were killed in 1798. Crawford had served long enough in the fifth dragoons to earn a pension, and he was a permanent sergeant in Captain Taylor's yeomen cavalry. When the rebellion broke out, Crawford, his wife, and their granddaughter, fourteen years old, tried to escape. A party of rebels stopped them and called them heretics because they were of the Protestant religion. One of the rebels struck Crawford's wife with a musket, and another stabbed her in the back with a pike, meaning to murder her. Crawford tried to save her, but they knocked him down with blows from a firelock, and he could not get away. While the rebels argued over whether to kill them, his wife slipped behind a hedge and concealed herself. They massacred Crawford with pikes. His granddaughter threw herself on his body to protect him, and she received so many wounds to the breast, the head, and the thighs that she died soon after. These circumstances were verified by an affidavit sworn by Crawford's widow on the 20th of August, 1798, before Alderman Jenkin. Crawford had a large dog that deserves to be recorded. The dog attacked the rebels and fought bravely in defence of his master, until he fell by his side, perforated with pikes.

Murder of Mr Brewer, cotton manufacturer of Prosperous

Prosperous · town · Kildare · 1798

Mr Brewer, an Englishman who ran a cotton manufacture at Prosperous and employed many locals, was murdered by James Tobin with a pike and beheaded partly with a scymitar despite his benevolence toward the townspeople.

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houfe, James Tobin, an inhabitant of the town, and a tailor by trade, rufhed into his apartment, and made a lunge' at him with a pike, fo vehemently, that he perforated his body, and turned the edge of the weapon againft the wall, fo much, that he had fome difficulty in extracting it. Having then drawn a fcymitar, he cleft his Ikull from his ear to his forehead j and aided by one Patrick Farrell, a native of the town, he carried the body to the front door, when Andrev/ Farrell, f who v/as leader of the party, cried out aloud, " Behold the body of a heretick tyrant which was repeated by the whole party, who gave three cheers.
Barnaby Dougall, a cotton weaver, employed by Mr. Brewer, attended there on the horfe of captain Swayne, fully accoutred, and faid, he was a much better man than the captain.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 161

Murder of Mr. Moore opposite his wife's refuge

Rathangan · townland · Kildare · 1798

Mr. Moore was led through the streets of Rathangan and mockingly brought opposite the house of Captain Grattan, where his wife (who had given birth three days prior) had been moved, before being taken elsewhere and shot.

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folved to aflafliiiate him there, to encreafe the bluernefs of death, and to wound the feelings of his innocent wife, whofe fenhbility was heightened by the dehcacy of her fituation ; but fome of the favages, more humane than the reft, objecled to that refinement in cruelty. They then led him to another part of the town, and ihot him ; and foon after they maffacred fix proteftants who had been in Mr« Neal's . houfe with him ; of whom the youngeft, of th^ name of Fofter, was but fourteen years old.
One of the F3fters efcaned in the foUowino' manner : While they were torturing his brother, he refcued himfelf by main force, darted from them into an adjoining houfe, clofed the door, and got into a little clofet under the ftairs, where he remained above forty hours, almolt double ; and when the favage pikemen purfued him, the maid fervant humanely faid, that he palled through the houfe, and made his efcape ; for w^hich inftance of humanity ftie merited the g'reateft applaufe, as it might have brought on her the vengeance of the rebels, particularly as fhe -was a Roman catholick.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 169

Murder of young Newenham near Donadea

Donadea · townland · Kildare · 1798

Nicholas Newenham's father's house near Donadea was burned by rebels for being Protestant, and young Newenham was taken prisoner, forced to dig his own grave over several days, then shot and buried by his captors.

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Having led young Newenham to their camp, they compelied him to dig his own grave ; and during five or fix days they carried him often to the brink . of it, and threatened to throw him in and bury him alive ; and whenever they did fo, they compelled him to fay his prayers at the edge of it ; and while performing his devotion, they mocked his religion, and curfed him, as a heretick ; at laft one of them, more humane than the reft, fhot him, threw his body into the grave, and covered it lightly with earth.
Thefe fafts have been fubftantiated by the affidavits of different rebels, who afterwards obtained their pardon.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 179

Rebel blows up gun with hat and wig at New Ross

New Ross · townland · Wexford · 1798

A rebel emboldened by fanaticism and drunkenness advanced, seized a gun, and crammed his hat and wig into it, crying for his comrades to come on. The gunner fired the gun and killed him instantly.

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Come on, boys ! her mouth is flopped.*' At that inflant the gunner laid the match to the gun, and blew the unfortunate favage to atoms. This fad has been verified by the affidavit of a perfon who faw it from a window.
The main body of our troops, overpowered and terrified by the immenfe body of rebels who entered the town at the Three-bullet gate, fied over the bridge to the Kilkenny or RoilDergen fide of the river, and the enemy being in poffeflion of the greater part of it, (except where they were checked by one gun at the old market-place, | and two more fupported by ferjeant Hamilton, at the main guard^ which flood at the crofs formed by the junction of Mary-flreet, Quay-flreet, North and South-flreet^} proceeded to plunder and burn. The gallant general Johnfon (whofe ardour and aclivity could be equalled by nothing but his cool prefence of mind,) feeing

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 259

Rebels compel priest's blessing and murder lieutenant Yeates at Ballytore

Ballitore · town · Kildare · 1798

After defeat, rebels retreated to Ballytore, gained reinforcements, knelt and compelled the parish priest Mr Cullen to bless them, then butchered lieutenant Yeates and threw his body into the streets to be devoured by pigs.

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The rebels, after their defeat by heutenant Eadie^ retreated to Ballytore, where they gained a reinforcement of many thoufands ; and, attributing their want of fuccefs to irreligion, they formed in the ftreet, knelt down, and compelled Mr. Cullen, the parifli prieft, to give them his blelling. Then, headed by Redmond Murphy, and Malachy Delany, two rebel leaders, they broke into a houie where lieutenant Yeates, the fon of a refpeclable magiftrate of the neighbourhood, was prifoner, butchered his body in a moft cruel manner, and threw it into the ftreets to be devoured by pigs. They then murdered a poor travelling foldier, who had fought proteclion in the houfe of Mr. Robert Hiidfon.
They

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 182

As the companion tells it

As you come through Ballitore in Kildare, this is where rebels retreated after their defeat in 1798. They gained reinforcements of many thousands, and blaming their failure on irreligion, they knelt in the street and compelled the parish priest Cullen to bless them. Then, led by Redmond Murphy and Malachy Delany, they broke into a house where Lieutenant Yeates, son of a respectable local magistrate, was held prisoner. They butchered him in a most cruel manner and threw his body into the streets to be devoured by pigs. They then murdered a poor travelling soldier who had found protection in the house of Robert Hudson.

William Orr hanged at Carrickfergus

Carrickfergus · townland · Antrim · 1797

On 14 October, William Orr, a noted propagator of the doctrines of the United Irishmen, was hanged at Carrickfergus, prompting great efforts to save him and subsequent vilification of the judge and jury.

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On the fourteenth of October, William Orr, a noted propagator of the doclrines of the united Irifhmen, was hanged at Carrickfergus ; and as he was one of thfi mofl active agents of the Irifh union,
great

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 119

Doctor Esmond's defection and role in the Prosperous massacre

Prosperous · town · Kildare · 1798

Doctor Esmond, a lieutenant of the Clane cavalry and member of an old Wexford catholic family, dined amicably with Captain Swayne at an inn in Prosperous on 23 May before secretly persuading soldiers to desert and join the attack he had long meditated.

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urbanity of manner, and fuch attraiSlive convivial qualities, that he was regarded as a very pleafnig companion. In confeqtience of thefe mental and perfonal qualifications, Mrs. Efmond became enamoured of him. In private life, he was confidered as honourable and humane ; but on this occafion, he yielded to the delufions of bigotry, which rendered him a traitor to his king, and infpired him with a malignant defire of fubverting the beft conftitution in the univerfe, and of ereding, on its ruins, the pandemonium of France, with all its concominant horrors. AlTuming the femblance of loyalty, he applauded the exertions of captain Swayne, and even cooperated with him in extinguifliing that fpirit of difafteclion, which prevailed am.ong the inhabitants iDf Profperous and its vicinity. He dined with him at an inn there on the twenty-third of May, and continued to enjoy the glow of focial mirth with him, till a few hours before the perpetration of that bloody fcene, which he ha4 for fometime meditated.
" Talibus inflJlis, perjurique arte Sinonis, « Credita res."

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 162

Mooney's fortitude spares him from execution

near Vinegar Hill · hill or hills · Wexford · 1798

John Mooney faced his would-be executioner Byrne with calm defiance, offering his clothes and daring him to shoot at close range; Byrne, struck by his composure, refused to kill him despite another rebel's insistence.

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him, (which the viftims were often compelled to do ;) but Mooney refufed to do fo, having faid, that he was not afraid to face a bullet. The executioner, who was very ragged, advanced, with his mu(ket prefented, within twelve paces of him, when Mooney defired him to Hop ; and taking off his coat, waiftcoat and hat, which were new, threw them to him, defiring him to take them for his trouble ; and requefted he would approach nearer to him, and do his bufmefs properly. The executioner, ftruck with his fortitude, faid it was an undoubted proof of his innocence ; and declared he would have nothing to do with him. On this, one Murtagh Brien, ^lias Kane, a fanguinary monfter, and the common executioner, rofe from his knees, (for the rebels commonly knelt and prayed before or during the execution,) and infifled on putting Mooney to death, and prefented a blunderbufs for that purpofe ; but Byrne interfered, and fwore he would blow out the brains of any perfon who would attempt to injure him ; and he immediately difmilTed him.
Papifts of the meaneil fituation, even beggars^ have been known to fave proteftants when they chofe.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 236

As the companion tells it

Up ahead is Vinegar Hill, in County Wexford. In 1798 a man named John Mooney was brought here to be shot by the rebels. He refused to kneel. The executioner, a ragged man called Byrne, came forward with his musket to within twelve paces. Mooney told him to stop there. He took off his new coat, waistcoat and hat and threw them over, telling Byrne to take them for his trouble, and asking him to come closer and do the job properly. Byrne was struck by Mooney's calm. He said it was proof of his innocence and declared he would have nothing to do with him. Another rebel, Murtagh Brien, called Kane, a man described as a sanguinary monster and the common executioner, rose from his knees and insisted Mooney must die, raising a blunderbuss. Byrne stepped between them and swore he would blow out the brains of anyone who tried to hurt Mooney, and let him go.

Sack and burning of Enniscorthy by rebels

Enniscorthy · townland · Wexford · 1798

Rebel forces took possession of Enniscorthy, broke open the gaol to free prisoners, and burned the greater part of the town, destroying 478 dwelling-houses and cabins along with stores and malt-houses. Protestant inhabitants fled into the woods or were massacred as the town burned.

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They murdered Richard Whaley, a lockfmith, near one hundred years old, as foon as they entered the town ; and Edward Sly, a proteflant, was ihot by his neighbour William Lee, when he was kindly reaching him a quart of beer. • Numbers were drag,- ged from their houies, and barbaroully malTacred in the prefence of their wives and children. ■ The town, the morning after the rebels got pof; fefTion of it, prefented a dreadful fcene of carnage and conflagration ; many bodies were lying dead in the ftreets, and others groaning in the agonies of death ^ fome parts of the town were entirely confumed, and in others the flames continued tp rage •with inexiinguifhable fury ; no lefs than four hundred and feventy-eight dwelling-houfes and cabins were burned in the town and its fuburbs, befides a great number of (lores, malt-houfes, and out-ofiices<.
Early next morning, the rebels formed a camp on Vinegar-hill, made entrenchments round it, and placed fome batteries in them. They then Rationed a large garrifon in the tovni, which was relieved every day by an officer's guard from the camp. Such great numbers of the lower clafs of people from the adjacent country flocked to their camp, . that it foon confifted of at leaft ten thoufand men. They pofted ftrong picquet guards, centinels, and videts, in all the avenues leading to the town, and for fome miles round it.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 228

Trial of Black Top for the Manders murders at Carlow

Carlow · townland · Carlow · 1798

Whelan, nicknamed Black Top, was apprehended for the murder of the Manders family and tried before a court-martial at Carlow; evidence showed he prevented the family's escape from the flames and refused to save an infant.

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No, you damned heretick bitch ! you may burii together ; nits will become lice."
Immediately Howard, a traitorous yeeman, who had been often hofpitably entertained in the houie, x^ntered it with a muiket and bayonet ; on which Mrs. Manders was overjoyed at feeing him, fuppofmg that he came as her deliverer ; and Ihe exprelTed a hope that he would not murder her ; but the obdumte ruffian rephed, by knocking her down with the but-end of his mufket, and transfixing her aged body to the floor.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 185

Attack on Mr. Clifford at Father Lacy's house near Kyle

Kyle · townland · Wexford · 1798

Mr. Clifford sought protection from the parish priest Father Michael Lacy but was fired upon by another man named Lacy, then shot in the head by Bulger with slugs and horse-nails. He was beaten and left for dead, and his loyal Protestant servant was shot dead.

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On Wednefday the thirtieth of May, he refolved to go to Kyle, to fecure fuch part of his fifter^s property as had not been plundered; but thinking that the protection of the parifh pried would be neceffary for his fafety, he repaired to the houfe of father Michael Lacy* for that purpofe. As foon as he arrived there,, another man of the name of Lacy fired four fliots at him with a mulket, but fortunately miffed him ; yet Mr. Clifford condnued all the time on his knees, imploring mercy from the favage. Lacy then gave the mufket to a man of the name of Bulger, whom he knew to be a better markfman than himfelf, and he fired, and gave him a defperate wound in the head, as the charge confifted of flugs and horfe-nails* On falling to the ground, the rebels beat him in a moft cruel manner, and diflocated his fhoulder, fo that they left him for dead. They then fhot his.faithful attendant, a proteftant fervent, who had hvpd twenty-five years in his family.
As this amiable gentleman was diflinguiflied for general benevolence, and every good quahty that could endear, it was believed that he had not an enemy on earth ; but his religion was his only crime. Mr. Clifford, who might have foothed the anguilh of his aged mother-in-law, Mrs. D'Arcy, and Mrs. Bur- Towes and her five orphans, was, conveyed, Vv'ith his poor fervant, on a car to his houfe, where he continued delirious, and in convulfions for a month ; during which time his affli£ted wife and fix children daily expeded his diffolution ; and to heighten their diftrefs, the houfe was occupied by a, party, of rebel guards, who were daily reHeved from a neighbouring camp at Upton, f the feat of Mr. James White. While they continued prifoners at Caffle-annefleyj

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 224

Attempted assassination of Captain Beevor in his bed

Prosperous · town · Kildare · 1798

Rebels rushed into Captain Beevor's bedchamber, one armed with a pistol who fired and missed, and another with a pike who wounded him in the shoulder. Beevor shot his pistol-wielding attacker through the body and was rescued by Lieutenant Patrickson.

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About the hour of one o'clock, he was awakened by the cry of a perfon, that the rebels would have his blood ; and on rifing, two men rufhed into his bed-chamber, one armed with a piftol, the other with a pike. The former, who fired at him, very fortunately miffed him ; on which he feized a piftol, which lay at his bed-fide, and fnot him through the body. The other ma4e a lunge at him with his pike, which he ftrove to avoid, and received but a flight vi^ound in the fhoulder. The ruffian, feeing that he was reaching for the fecond piffol, feized him in his arms, and carried him fome way towards the head of the flairs, where he faw a number of pikemen ready to receive him ; but, being fuperior to him in ftrength, he got his arms loofe, refcued himfelf, and dragged the rebel into a room, where a yeoman was (landing with his fword drawn, and whom he folicited to run him through the body, but he never offered to ftir. It appears that he was a papift, and was afterwards difmiffed from his corps for noted difaffeclion.
At that moment, lieutenant Patrickfon arrived, and ran him through the body. The pikemen, at the foot of the ftairs, finding that their two comrades had been killed, were making off, but were met by fome cf the dragoons, who were rallying from all poiats round the captain's quarters, aud who killed

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 165

Captain Giffard threatens father Martin with cannon at Rathdrum

Rathdrum · town · Wicklow · 1798

At Rathdrum, Captain Giffard identified the prisoner as father Martin, a priest of Drogheda acting as a spy, and threatened to have him blown from the mouth of a cannon unless he made a full confession, causing Martin to drop to his knees and confess.

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Captain Giflard fhewed him thefe preparations ; Told him, he knew that he was father Martin, a prieft, of Drogheda : That he was acling as a fpy : That unlefs he made a full confeilion, he fliould be put to death, as his life was forfeited by the laws ot war : That if he complied, he fliould be left at the difpofal of the viceroy, who was merciful; but it he hefitated, he fhould b^ blown away at the mouth of a cannon,
He inllantly dropped on his knees, begged to taken into a private room, where, he faid, he would make a full and candid confeffion.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 208

As the companion tells it

As you pass through Rathdrum in Wicklow, you're on ground where a grim scene played out in 1798. Captain Giffard had a prisoner brought before him here and told the man he knew him to be Father Martin, a priest of Drogheda acting as a spy. Giffard showed him preparations for execution and threatened that unless he made a full confession, he should be "blown away at the mouth of a cannon." If he complied, his life would be left to the discretion of the viceroy, who was merciful. Martin instantly dropped to his knees and begged to be taken into a private room, where he said he would make a full and candid confession.

Catholic Funeral Attacked at Ballyroney Graveyard

Ballyroney · townland · Down · 1792

On 6 May 1792 a Catholic funeral procession, decorated with ribands and carrying a flag, proceeded from Hilltown through Rathfriland to the graveyard of the parish of Ballyroney. They were hooted and pelted with dirt passing through Rathfriland, then attacked with stones and clubs by presbyterians at the graveyard, forced to flee and leave the corpse unburied.

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requiem of the deceafed, they were attacked by the prefbyterians with flones and clubs, and compelled to fly, leaving the corpfe unburied. They were then hunted acrofs the country, and purfued to a confiderable dillance by their afTailants.
There appeared in the year 1792, in the Northern Star, a newfpaper publifhed at Belfaft, which was a vehicle of treafon and fedition, many exhortations to the Roman catholicks and prefbyterians to tinite in the common" caufe ; an addrefs to them for that purpofe, penned with peculiar energy, was publifhed in that print on the feventeenth of January, 1792. It is certain that the prefbyterians of Belfaft were as warm in this courtfhip as the Roman catholicks. In the year 1792, when the former paid the moft fervile adulation to the latter, they built a chapel for them at Belfaft'; and Waddell Cunningham, a merchant of great wealth in that towm, and a noted republican, attended the celebration of m^fs in a popifh chapel there, at the head of a company of volunteers, who, as well as their leader, were preft)y* terians ; and a fimiiar fcene was exhibited at Lifburn by do£tor Crawford, a phyfician and captain of a company of prefbyterian volunteers. As religionifts they hated each other ; but both having one grand objecb, the fubverfion of the coni1:itution, politicks became the inftrument of their union, like two fluids that are heterogeneous and immifcible, but which can be made to unite and amalgamate by what the chymifts call an intermede or a tertium quid*

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Execution of Murphy at the Bull-ring, Wexford

Wexford · town · Wexford · 1798

On Trinity Sunday, a man named Murphy was shot in the former Bull-ring (now Fountain-square) in Wexford by three protestant prisoners forced to act as executioners, for having prosecuted a priest named Dixon; Thomas Dixon then stabbed the body and had it pierced with pikes.

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On Trinity Sunday, the third of June, a man of the name of Murphy, of the popifli periuafion, was ihot in a fmall phice, formerly called the Bull-ring, now Fountain-fquare, * for having pfofecuted a priell of the name of Dixon, for being an united Irilhmaii. Mr. Middieton Robfon, a ganger, and meiTieurs Pigott and Julian, furveyors of excife, all proteftants, and priioners in the gaol, were brought forth and compelled to flioot him. By way of encreafmg the ignominy of his death, they had him executed by hereticks. Previous to the execution, the rebel pikemen, who atled as guards, croffed themfclves, knelt down and prayed fome time for his foul. As loon as the' victim fell, the bloody Thomas Dixon, firft coufin of the priell, drew his fword, ran it through his body, and having held it up to publick view, reeking with blood, exclaimed, Behold 1 tlie blood of a traitor and then he ordered the furrounding pikemen to plunge their pikes hito the body. Dixon, the prieil, convicted on his evidence, was condenmed to be tranfported. This execution took place foon after the celebration of mafs, at the publick chapel ; and previous to it father Corrin, the pariih prieil, adminhlered the rites of his church to him ; yet he, or any of the prieils in Wexford, could have faved the life of Murphy without any difficulty. Thefe fads were proved on the ,trial of Michael Mc. Daniel, one of the aflaffins, held at Wexford the eighteenth of June, 1799.
On Monday morning the fourth of June, another man of the name of Murphy, a papiil, was fliot for having given information againil rebels. His executioners were three proteilant priioners, Charles Jackfon, Jonas Gurley, and Kennet Matthewion.f Edward Fraine, a man ot fome opulence, and who was fuppoled to gain 3 cel. a year as a tanner, was ofiicer of the guard. When the executioners were brougiit

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 291

As the companion tells it

Wexford town holds the ground where Trinity Sunday, the third of June, 1798, saw a Catholic man named Murphy shot dead in what was then called the Bull-ring, now Fountain-square. Murphy had prosecuted a priest of the name of Dixon for being a United Irishman. To increase the disgrace of his death, the rebels had him executed by Protestants. Middleton Robson, a ganger, and Messieurs Pigott and Julian, surveyors of excise, all Protestant prisoners from the gaol, were brought forth and compelled to shoot him. Before the execution, the rebel pikemen acting as guards crossed themselves, knelt down, and prayed some time for his soul. As soon as Murphy fell, the bloody Thomas Dixon, first cousin of the priest, drew his sword and ran it through his body. He held it up to public view, reeking with blood, and exclaimed, behold the blood of a traitor. He then ordered the surrounding pikemen to plunge their pikes into the body. The priest Dixon, convicted on Murphy's evidence, was condemned to be transported. The execution took place soon after the celebration of mass at the public chapel. Before it, Father Corrin, the parish priest, administered the rites of his church to Murphy. Yet he, or any of the priests in Wexford, could have saved Murphy's life without difficulty. These facts were proved at the trial of Michael McDaniel, one of the assassins, held at Wexford on the 18th of June, 1799.

Fitzpatrick's atrocity on Borroughs's body and execution at Athy

Athy · town · Kildare · 1798

Fitzpatrick pitched the mangled body of old Borroughs into a dyke exclaiming he smelled a protestant carrion; he was later apprehended by Athy loyalists, tried by court-martial and executed on the spot, his head displayed on the gaol of Athy.

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This barbarian was apprehended by the Athy loyalifts, tried by a court-martial, executed on the fpot where he had committed fome of his enormities, and his head is now on the gaol of Athy. In his laft moments he declared that he died innocent.
Lieutenant Eadie of the Tyrone militia, who had been ftationed for fome months at Bally tore, was ordered, on the morning of the twenty-fourth of May, to join his company at Calverftown. Having pro* ceeded with twenty-three privates, by Narraghmore^ he received a prelTing invitation there to breakfaft, which was very unfortunate, as by that delay he was prevented from arriving in time to fave the lives of the loyalifts.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 182

As the companion tells it

Coming up now is Athy in Kildare. In 1798 a man called Fitzpatrick pitched the mangled body of old Borroughs into a dyke, exclaiming he smelled a protestant carrion. The Athy loyalists apprehended him, tried him by court-martial, and executed him on the spot where he had committed some of his enormities. His head was then displayed on the gaol of Athy. In his last moments he declared that he died innocent.

Friar Philips drowned near the Belfast paper-mill as suspected informer

near Belfast · city · Antrim · 1796

A friar named Philips came from Dublin to Belfast and was introduced to disaffected societies there. Suspected of being an informer, he was handed to the committee of assassination, who drowned him near the paper-mill and placed a clock weight in his pocket to fake suicide.

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A friar of the name of Philips, v/ent from Dublin to Belfaft, and v/as introduced to the difariecled focieties there. Soon after, having fallen under a fufpicion of being an informer, he was configned to the committee of aifafTmation, who drowned him near the paper-mill ; and to give a colour of fuicide to that atrocious deed, they put a clock v/eight in hispocket.
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Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 106

Killing of surgeon Francis Johnson at Ballytore

Ballitore · town · Kildare · 1798

When general Campbell entered Ballytore he found it deserted except for Mr Francis Johnson, a surgeon accused of commanding rebels; soldiers bayoneted and then shot him despite his protestations of innocence.

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When the general entered Ballytore, he found it deferted by every male, except Mr. Francis Johnfon, a furgeon ; and as fome of the Tyrone regiment had repeatedly feen hirn commanding the rebels, the fight of him kindled fuch indignation in them, that one of them bayoneted him through the breaft, on which he fell. He rofe again, laid his hand on his wound, and ftrongly, and with many oaths afferted his innocence. Several of the foldiers cried out, that they had frequently feen him at the head of the rebels — an open was made — five of the Suffolk fen^ cibles prefenied their mulkets at him ; when he found that all fubterfuge was vain, he exclaimed, " Since I mull die, guilty as I am, the Lord have mercy ou me !" and he was inftantly fent into eternity.
The" general, on entering the town, liberated co* lonel Wolfeley and his lady, two wives of the Suffolk officers, and forae others, who had been prifoner^ with the rebels.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 183

As the companion tells it

As you come through Ballitore in County Kildare, you are passing the scene of a killing in 1798. When General Campbell entered the town, he found every male gone except Mr. Francis Johnson, a surgeon. Soldiers of the Tyrone regiment said they had repeatedly seen him commanding the rebels, and one bayoneted him through the breast. He fell, then rose, laid his hand on his wound, and protested his innocence with many oaths. Several soldiers insisted they had seen him at the head of the rebels. Five Suffolk fencibles presented their muskets. He exclaimed, "Since I must die, guilty as I am, the Lord have mercy on me," and was shot dead. On entering the town, the general also liberated Colonel Wolfeley and his lady, two wives of Suffolk officers, and others held prisoner by the rebels.

Massacre of Policemen at Drumsna

Drumsna · town · Leitrim · 1794

About the same time, at Drumsna in the county of Leitrim, nine policemen fled into a house from a mob of insurgents, who set fire to the house and murdered all the policemen as they tried to escape the flames.

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About the fame time, at Drumfna in the county of Leitrim, nine police men fled into a houfe from a mob of infurgent&, who fet fire to the houfe, and murdered all the police men as they endeavoured to^ dcape from the flames.
In the province of Connaught, particularly in the county of Rofcommon, the defenders were terrifick in the years 1794 and 1795^ The mafs of the people were furnilhed with pikes, and the houfes of proteflants w^ere cohflianily plundered of arms* At iikfl, many of the- nobility and gentry afl'embled at Rofcommon in the month of Mav, and refolved to lower rents, and to raife the wages of labourers^ in hopes of allaying the dreadful fpirit of outrage which actuated the people..

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 91

Mrs Eldon and children spared amid burning barrack at Prosperous

Prosperous · town · Kildare · 1798

Nicholas Eldon, deputy barrack-master, his wife and children sheltered in an underground office during the massacre at Prosperous. A rebel wanted to let the 'heretick' burn, but James Mc Evoy, a rebel moved by humanity, led the family to safety at his father's house.

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Nicholas Eldon, the deputy barrack-mafter, his wife and children, and the families of fome of the Cork foldiers, remained in one of the under-ground offices, during this fcene of carnage, having retired there for fafety. At lafl, preceded by Mrs. Eldon, they endeavoured to efcape from the flames ; when a ferocious ruffian, ready to difpatch them with his pike, exclaimed, " Let the heretick remain to be burnt." They returned and continued to pray, till the flames forced them out again.
She rufhed out, and dropped on her knees, furrounded by three young children, having one of them in her arms. Her tears and entreaties, and her piteous fituation, altogether fufpended their fury for a moment. James Mc. Evoy, a young man of humanity, though a rebel, arrived, and conduced them to the houfe of Hugh Mc. Evoy, his father.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 160

Murder of James Neale, his wife, and another woman with pikes

Tintern · townland · Wexford · 1798

James Neale of the band of music, his wife, and another woman who became prisoners were pierced with pikes in a barbarous manner near Taylor's-town bridge, stripped of their clothes, and buried lightly under sods in a newly-ploughed field; Neale's wife survived and crept to Tintern for help.

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and another woman, who became their prifonere^' were perforated with pikes in a mofl barbarous manner. After having ftripped them of the principal part of their clothes, their bodies were conveyed to a newly-ploughed field, and covered lightly with fods. Neale's wife, in whom life was not quite extinguilhed, recovered in the night, and removed the fods ; and finding her hufband's bloody fliirt and waiflcoat, (he covered herfelf with them, and crept to Tintern, from whence fhe was fent on a car to Duncannon-fort, and from thence to Waterford, where fhe was completely cured in the hofpiial. Her legs, thighs and arms, had many pike wounds ; and her head was fwollen and ulcerated with them. J
As captain Snowe's party, attacked in a ftrange counti-y and during a dark night, were panick-ftruck and difperfed, he was left quite alone, and arrived at Duncannon-fort about feven in the morning, after having experienced various dangers and diftrelfes, and overcome with fatigue and hunger. Lieutenant-colonel Maxwell's party retreated by Maglafs, Bridgetown, Baldwinflown, and Duncormuck, and the pafs of the Scar, at Barriet's-town ; where, having been obfLTUcied by the tide, they halted fome time to refrefh the troops, and went thence to Duncannon-fort by Foulkes's mill. Thus the retreat of the garrifon of Wexford was in a great meafure performed during a dark night, in a country whofe inhabitants were hoftile, and in a flate of infurredion ; yet in the courfe of their march of eighteen hours, they had not received any nourifliment.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 249

Murder of Lieutenant William Giffard on the Limerick mail-coach

Kildare · town · Kildare · 1798

Rebels stopped and plundered the Limerick mail-coach near Kildare, and after Lieutenant William Giffard refused to swear allegiance to them and join an attack on Monasterevin, he fled over a wall but was caught and killed, his body thrown in a ditch with Crawford's.

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ieard people talking. Alas ! It afforded no refuge ! it was the houfe of poor Crawford, whom, with his granddaughter, as before mentioned, they had juft piked for being proteftants. A band of the barbarians, returning from this exploit, met lieutenant GifFard ; there he felly covered with wounds and with glory ; and his mangled body was thrown into the fame ditch with honell: Crawford and his innocent grandchild. Thus he expired, at the age of feventeen^ a martyr to religion and honour, whofe memory will ever be refpecled by the virtuous and the brave !
While thefe blood-hounds continued their fangmnary orgies in the night, they conftantly exclaimed againft hereticks and orangemen.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 167

As the companion tells it

As you pass through Kildare, you are near where the Limerick mail-coach was stopped and plundered by rebels in 1798. Lieutenant William Giffard, seventeen years old, refused to swear allegiance to them and join an attack on Monasterevin. He fled over a wall but was caught. A band returning from killing Crawford and his granddaughter for being Protestants met Giffard, and he fell, as the source says, "covered with wounds and with glory." His body was thrown into a ditch with Crawford and his innocent grandchild. Through the night the rebels cried out against heretics and orangemen.

Murder of Mr Wilkinson, master carpenter, at Maynooth

Maynooth · town · Kildare · 1798

Rebels entered Maynooth, plundered houses, and seized Mr Wilkinson, a protestant carpenter esteemed for his probity. He was taken to the rebel camp and piked to death the next day, despite begging for a quick end so his body could be recovered.

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Lieutenant Cane made his efcape ; but a ''young gentleman of the name of Nugent, who had been on a vifit with the lieutenant, and whofe youth and innocence fhould have preferved him from their fanguinary difpofition, fell into their hands, and was led to their camp and fhot there next day. They took eleven yeomen prifoners, fome of whom returned the day following, and the remainder continued with, the rebels. Three days after, a party of the fame rebels entered the town of Maynooth, and plundered fome houfes ; and at the fame time, they feized Mr. Wilkinfon, a proteftant, and a mailer carpenter, m.uch efleemed for his probity ; and conveyed him to their camp, where they next day piked him to death. As they conveyed him out of the town, he imxplored them to put an end to him immediately, that his body might fall into the hands of his friends, for the purpofe of being interred j but they refufed his -requeft. •
Afterwards lieutenant Cane, and about thirteen of the corps, joined the yeomanry at Leixlip, and continued to do duty with them, moft of the remainder having joined the rebels.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 187

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Coming through Maynooth now. In 1798, rebels brought violence here. Lieutenant Cane had made his escape, but a young gentleman named Nugent, visiting the lieutenant, fell into rebel hands and was led to their camp and shot there the next day. They took eleven yeomen prisoners. Some returned the day following, the rest stayed with the rebels. Three days later, a party of the same rebels entered the town of Maynooth and plundered some houses. They seized Mr Wilkinson, a Protestant and a master carpenter, much esteemed for his probity, and conveyed him to their camp. The next day they piked him to death. As they led him out of the town, he implored them to put an end to him immediately, that his body might fall into the hands of his friends for burial. They refused his request. Afterwards Lieutenant Cane and about thirteen of the corps joined the yeomanry at Leixlip.

Over five hundred protestants massacred at Vinegar Hill camp and vicinity

near Vinegar Hill · hill or hills · Wexford · 1798

The author states he could not ascertain the exact number but was assured that over five hundred protestants, including landed gentry, magistrates, clergymen, merchants, farmers and labourers, were massacred at the rebel camp on Vinegar Hill and its vicinity.

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and its vicinity ; but I have been afiured that they exceeded hvQ hundred.* Among thefe were men of landed property, magiftrates, clergymen, merchants, farmers, labourers and mechanicks. I have obtained the names of as many as I could of the proteftant& who were murdered in the county of Wexford at large, but I could not procure the whole. It will be found, with the pariihes or townlands to which they belonged, in Appendix, No. XIX. 9.
The following practice daily took place on the hill : A large tub of water received the benedidion of a pried, and then a number of the rebels, furrounding it on their knees, were fprinkled with it ; which they imagined was an expiation for the horrid crimes thati they had been committing.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 240

As the companion tells it

As you pass Vinegar Hill in Wexford, you are near the site of a rebel camp from 1798. The author could not ascertain the exact number but was assured that over 500 Protestants were massacred there and in the vicinity. Among the dead were men of landed property, magistrates, clergymen, merchants, farmers, labourers and mechanics. The author obtained the names of as many of the murdered Protestants in the county of Wexford as he could, though not all. A practice took place daily on the hill. A large tub of water received the blessing of a priest, and a number of rebels, surrounding it on their knees, were sprinkled with it. They imagined, as the author writes, that it was "an expiation for the horrid crimes that they had been committing."

Plot to assassinate Earl of Carhampton near Luttrellstown

Luttrellstown · population centre · Dublin · 1797

James Dunn and Patrick Carty conspired with other United Irishmen to assassinate the Earl of Carhampton as his carriage passed through a narrow road near Luttrellstown; the plot was betrayed and Dunn and Carty were hanged.

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Three of them on horfeback, having loofe coats with blunderbuffes under them, and fix mounted as yeomen cavalry with pidols, were to fire into his lordfhip's carriage, as it pafled through a narrow road near Lutti eirs-town ; and at the fame time to murder his fervants, and any perfons who might be with him. Ferris, who was at the head of the committee of fixteen, and the only proteitant member of it, ftruck with horror at the atrocity of the plot, difcovered it, and Dunn and Carthy were hanged.
While Dunn was in prifon, lord Carhampton went to fee him, and faid, Confidering the kindnefs I lliewed you, I did not imagine you would have been concerned in an attempt on my life. To his lordfhip's utter aflonifhment, he rephed, without hefitation, that he thought it a good acl. On alking him, whether he himfelf had propofed to nmrder him ? he anfwered, that he never had ; but that he was fworn to execute it ; and if he were out again, he would perpetrate it if he could. His lordfnip faid, though you might think it a good acl to murder me, why fhould you fhoot a poor innocent poftillion ? "Why I hid he ; to do the thing completely. He afterwards gave much the fame anfwers to the fame queflions, to lord Carhampton in the prefence of the earl of Ennifkillen.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 118

As the companion tells it

Coming up near Luttrellstown now. Back in 1797, a band of United Irishmen planned to kill the Earl of Carhampton on a narrow road right around here. Three men on horseback, loose coats hiding blunderbusses, and six more posing as yeomen cavalry with pistols, were to fire into his carriage as it passed, and murder his servants and anyone travelling with him. The plot was betrayed by a man named Ferris, the head of a committee of sixteen and its only Protestant member. Dunn and Carty were hanged for it. What stayed with people was what Dunn said afterward. Lord Carhampton went to see him in prison and said he was astonished, given the kindness he had shown Dunn. Dunn answered without hesitation that he thought it, in his words, "a good act." He said he never proposed the murder himself but was sworn to execute it, and if he were free he would do it if he could. The earl asked him why he would shoot a poor innocent postilion. Dunn said, "Why, to do the thing completely." He gave much the same answers later, in front of the Earl of Enniskillen.

Plunkets Seized Between Robinstown and Palace by Rebel Gang

Robinstown · townland · Wexford · 1798

A gang of assassins headed by Richard Long, sent from Carrickbyrne camp on 1 June 1798, seized Francis Plunket and his Protestant sister between Robinstown and Palace and conveyed them to the rebel camp, where the sister died of fear.

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A gang of alTaffins, armed with pikes, and headed by Richard Long, was fent in queft of proteftants the fir (I of June, 1798, from Carrickbyrne camp ; and they feized Francis Plunket and his fifler, both proteftants, between Robinftown and Palace, and conveyed them to the camp. Long flationed a great number of male and female rebels on the road leading to Rofs, with orders to intercept any proteflants that they might find going there, as numbers of that perfuafion fought an afylum in it from rebel vengeance. Piunket's lifter befought the rebels in the camp to permit her to go home to her children ; but they refufed, having faid, ihe was taken there to fufter death. Long affigned as a reafon, why he was fo adive .againfl him and his fifter, that he was aa Orangeman's fervant, and his fifter was an orangewoman. Long's brother defired Francis Plunket to deny that he was related to his fifter, who was to fuffer death for being a proteftant, and that probably he might efcape ; this poar unfortunate woman died of fear.
Thefe circumftances w^ere proved before a courtmartial held at Rofs the feventeenth of Auguft, 1798, by order of lieutenant-general Hulfe^ when Richard Long was caft for tranfportation.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 263

Poisoning of the garrison bread at Rathcoole

Rathcoole · town · Dublin · 1798

On 22 June 1798, rebels attempted to poison the garrison at Rathcoole by tainting bread with arsenic; soldiers who ate it suffered violent sickness, and the baker and his man were shot on suspicion, later confirmed by discovery of arsenic in the bakehouse.

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Some of the bread which had produced fuch dreadful effeds in thofe who had eaten of it, was given to a cat and a dog, and they died of it. Some hours after the baker and his boy were fhot, his houfe was fearched, and a paper, containing two ounces of yellow arfenick, was found in his bake- «
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Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 186

As the companion tells it

Up ahead is Rathcoole. On 22 June 1798, rebels laced garrison bread with arsenic. Soldiers who ate it fell violently ill. The bread was tested on a cat and a dog, and both died. The baker and his boy were shot, and when the bakehouse was searched, a paper holding two ounces of yellow arsenic was found.

Rebel attack on Carlow town

Carlow · townland · Carlow · 1798

About two thousand rebels from Grange, Hacketstown, Tullow, Leighlin and elsewhere marched into Carlow town, headed by a farmer named Roach, and were met by fire at the potato market, gaol, and court-house before being routed with great slaughter.

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About two o'clock on that morning they aHembled in great force, moftly from Grange, Hacketilown, Tullow, * Leighlin, t and that part of the country between Rathvilly and Borris, I headed by one Roach a farmer. They gave a moft dreadful yell as foon as they entered the town, where they w^ere joined by moft of the lower clafs of the popilli inhabitants, and numbers of people who had been fecretly coming into it the whole of the preceding day and night. They marched, in number about two thoufand, through Tullow-ftreet, till they arrived at the potatoe market, where their prog r els was interrupted by two fentinels ported at the coUeftor's door, and a loyal proteftant who joined them ; and they, by a conftant and w^ell-direded fire, defeated their defign of uniting with the Queen's county rebels, (who "were to have met them at Graigue-bridge) and drove them acrofs the potatoe market towards the gaol, where two fentinels, with equal fpirit, checked them in their career, and forced them to retreat through Sridewell-lane, towards the court-houfe ; where having received a few fhots from the houfe of a loyal proteftant, they cried out that they were furrounded by the foldiers, threw down their arms, and, in the greateft conflernation, endeavoured to retreat by the road through which they had at firft advanced ; but, fearing to meet the army in that direction, numbers of them retired into the houfes in Tullow-ftreet, which it is believed were inhabited by their afTociates ; for when the foldiers fet fire to them, to make the rebels bolt, there was not a woman or child in any of them. Some rufhed out through the flames, and were fhot or bayoneted ; others remained in the houfes till they were confunied. The other
mifcreants

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 173

Sectarian Massacre at Dunboyne

Dunboyne · town · Meath · 1798

A large armed rebel body entered Dunboyne on the morning of 24 May 1798, murdering Protestant inhabitants including revenue officer Mr. Creighton and plundering their houses, while sparing Roman Catholics; three constables of the established religion in the police-house were also assassinated.

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A numerous body of them, varioully armed, entered the town of Dunboyne, feven miles from Dublin, on the morning of the twenty-fourth of May, murdered its proteflant inhabitants, among whom was Mr. Creighton, a revenue officer, and rifled and plundered their houfes ; but did not injure the perfon or property of any Roman catholick.
In the police-houfe there were fix conflables on guard, of whom they affaffinated three, who were of the eftabliflied religion : but did not molefl the remainder who were papifts. /

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 153

As the companion tells it

You are coming through Dunboyne now. On the morning of 24 May 1798, a numerous body of rebels, variously armed, entered this town and murdered its Protestant inhabitants, among them a revenue officer named Mr. Creighton, and plundered their houses. They did not injure any Roman Catholic. In the police-house there were six constables on guard. The rebels assassinated three who were of the established religion, but did not molest the remainder, who were Catholic.

Sixteen protestant prisoners executed at the wind-mill prison on Vinegar Hill

near Vinegar Hill · hill or hills · Wexford · 1798

John Mooney, a protestant servant, was imprisoned with sixteen other protestants at the wind-mill prison atop Vinegar Hill on 31 May and witnessed their execution one by one, including a father forced to step over his murdered son's body.

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John Mooney, fervant to dodor Hill, and a prp« teftant, was taken prifoner, and conduced to the wind-mill prifon, on the top of Vinegar-hill, the thirty-firft day of May ; and found there fixteen proteftant prifoners, with fome of whom he had been long acquainted. They were defired to prepare for death ; and foon after a ruffian entered the prifon with a drawn haiiger, and began to torture the prifoners by way of amufement ; but the rebel centinel ftopped him, and faid, that as they were to die foon, it was cruel to torment them. In a few minutes one of the prifoners was dragged out of the mill door^ and fliot ; and foon after the remainder were executed in the fame manner. Among theni jthere was a well-drelfed refped:able looking man^ and his fon, a boy about thirteen years old. The father feemed to bear his approaching diffiolution with great fortitude, fuppofmg that they would not injure his fon, on account of his tender age ; but what agoni^zing pangs muft he have felt, when his child v/as butchejed in his prefence ! and he, when led out to execution, was obliged to ftep over his bleeding corpfe, which fell acrofs the door,
Mooney, the laft perfon taken out, was placed by the fixteen dead bodies ; and the executioner, whofe name wa? Byrne, defired him to turn his back to

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 236

As the companion tells it

Vinegar Hill stands above you as you pass, and it was here in 1798 that the wind-mill prison on the summit held seventeen Protestant prisoners. John Mooney, a Protestant servant, was brought there on the 31st of May and found sixteen Protestant prisoners inside, some of them long acquaintances. They were told to prepare for death. A man with a drawn hanger entered and began torturing the prisoners for amusement, until a rebel sentinel stopped him, saying it was cruel to torment men who were to die soon. Then one prisoner was dragged from the mill door and shot, and the rest followed, executed one by one in the same manner. Among them was a respectable man and his son, a boy of about thirteen. The father bore his own death with fortitude, believing they would spare the child for his tender age. But the boy was butchered before him, and when the father was led out to die he had to step over his son's bleeding corpse, which had fallen across the doorway. Mooney, the last taken out, was placed among the sixteen dead bodies, and the executioner, whose name was Byrne, told him to turn his back.

Thomas Dixon's betrayal of Protestant passengers at Wexford

Wexford · town · Wexford · 1798

The rebel sea captain Thomas Dixon extorted money from Protestant passengers on a sloop at Wexford, then betrayed them to rebels after pretending friendship, delivering them as prisoners to be lodged at the post office.

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the bloody Thomas Dixon, the thirtieth of May, v/'iW fliew the reader the ferocious cruelty of the rebel failors to their paffengers. After having exacted a very large fum from them, he refufed to put to fea till the veffel was lightened, as, he faid, fne was heavily laden with coals ; on which the gentlemen and their fervants aliifced in throwing overboard a large quantity of that article. As an excufe for further procraftination, Dixon faid, he muft go on fliore to know wliat fignal to hoift ; as he had friends among the rebels, and no veirel but his would be fuffered to fail. Having repaired in his fmall boat to the country fide of the bridge, where the rebels were in great force, he returned in about an hour and a half, and informed them, that the united Irifhmen were in pofl'effion of the town j and with the femblance of friend fnip, he advifed them to conceal their arms and their uniforms, as many of them were yeomen. He went on iliore a fecond time, and returned with two boats full of men, well armed, and who immediately deprived the paffengers of their arms. Thofe with captain Dixon then proceeded tq the barrack, from w^hence liaving made a fignal, the rebel failors in the floop informed the paffengers that they were prifoner.:, and that their captain had obtained the command of the barrack.
Thus this party of gentlemen and ladies, obnoxious for their loyalty, were betrayed into the hands of the ferocious rebels, after having been defrauded of their money. They were landed and lodged at the poll-ofEce, where they remahied till the firfl ^f June.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 283

As the companion tells it

Wexford town was the scene of a notorious betrayal in the summer of 1798. On the 30th of May, the rebel sea captain Thomas Dixon had a sloop in the harbour with Protestant passengers aboard, gentlemen and ladies whom he called obnoxious for their loyalty. He first exacted a large sum of money from them, then refused to put to sea, claiming the vessel was too heavily laden with coals, so the passengers and their servants threw a large quantity overboard. He delayed again, saying he must go ashore to learn what signal to hoist, claiming he had friends among the rebels and that no vessel but his would be allowed to sail. He rowed to the country side of the bridge, where the rebels were in great force, and returned after about an hour and a half to tell the passengers that the United Irishmen were in possession of the town. With the semblance of friendship, he advised them to conceal their arms and uniforms, as many were yeomen. He went ashore a second time and came back with two boats full of armed men, who immediately disarmed the passengers. They were taken to the barrack, and the rebel sailors aboard told them they were prisoners and that Dixon had obtained command of the barrack. The party were landed and lodged at the post office, where they remained until the 1st of June.

Torture and survival of Michael Shenstone

Rathangan · townland · Kildare · 1798

Michael Shenstone, a Protestant, was led into the street at Rathangan and received eighteen pike stabs and a pistol shot to the head; he was left among the dead in the churchyard overnight but was later recovered by his wife and survived.

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The barbarous treatment of Michael Shenffone, a 'proteftant, deferves to be circumftantially related'. He was led into the ftreet, with the other unfortunate proteftants, and received eighteen ftabs of pikes-
A woman of the name of Farrei, who was infamocifly adive in this fanguinary bufniefs, informed them, that they did not know how to kill orangemen ; on which a ruffian ftepped forward, and trampled on the dead and dying. He then put a, piftol clofe to Shenftone's hand, and the ball entering near the ear, came out under the eye, having fradurcd the cheek-bone in a rnoft fliocking manner. la fome hours after he was put into a cart with the bodies of feventeen proteftants v%^ho had beefi murdered, and was conveyed to the church-yard to b.e interred ; but fome alarm preventiiig it, he remained

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 170

Corporal Andrew Sheppard's failed execution in Wexford gaol

Wexford · town · Wexford · 1798

Andrew Sheppard, a Protestant corporal, was taken to a small court within Wexford gaol to be shot; after the executioner's gun failed to fire four times, Father Murphy intervened and had him returned to prison, attributing his escape to Divine interference.

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Andrew Sheppard, a proteftant, and a corporal of that corps, was taken into a fmall court, within the gaol, to be (hot. The executioner having burned priming four times at him, father Murphy, who had entered the gaol, cried out, " He has longer days to live ; let the heathen go back to prifon having imputed his efcape to the Divine interference.
While thefe men were in prifon, many attempts were made by the rebel guards to force it, and put the prifoners to death, having faid, " that' they would not fland guard over hereticks.'' f

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 301

As the companion tells it

As you pass through Wexford, this is the town where, in 1798, a Protestant corporal named Andrew Sheppard was taken into a small court within the gaol to be shot. The executioner burned priming at him four times and the gun would not fire. Father Murphy, who had entered the gaol, cried out, "He has longer days to live; let the heathen go back to prison." He put the escape down to Divine interference. While prisoners remained there, rebel guards tried to force their way in to kill them, saying they would not stand guard over heretics.

Father Martin's confession of massacre incitement at Dunboyne

Dunboyne · town · Meath · 1798

Father Martin confessed he had been a friar of Drogheda who officiated at Dunboyne, was an early and active United Irishman, and preached up the massacre of protestants at Dunboyne which afterwards took place there.

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" That his name was Martin : That he had been a friar of Drogheda, and that he recently officiated at Dunboyne : That he was early an united Irilhman, and very adive in the caufe : That he preached up the maflacre of the protellants at Dunboyne, which afterwards took place there ; That he was in habits of intimacy with father Ledwich, parilh prieft of Rathfarnham, whofe nephew (Ledwich) and Wade, he excited to rebellion^ in confequence of which they were both hanged on the Queen's-bridge : That he was now come down to promote the caufe, and was in fearch of Byrne and Holt, who were at the head of a large body of rebels in the mountains, between RathdiOim and Hacketllown : That he had flept the preceding night at the houfe of a prieft at Roundwood.*'
He alfo ftated, That there was a club of traitors at that time fitting in Dubhn, and another in Drogheda," moft of whom have been fmce taken up, and punifhed. He faid, " That a large fam of money had been levied on the Roman catholicks in general, both clergy and laity, every perfon paying according to his v/ealth, fome an hundred pbunds, others' one fhilling : That he, though a poor prieft, was rated at a guinea : That the money fo levied, ws to be applied to purchafe arms and ammunition, and tp reward their friends both in and out of par«^ liament."-

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 209

As the companion tells it

As you pass through Dunboyne, this is where Father Martin's confession places a dark chapter of 1798. He had been a friar of Drogheda and officiated here at Dunboyne. He was an early and active United Irishman, and he confessed that he 'preached up the massacre of the protestants at Dunboyne, which afterwards took place there.' He also said he was in habits of intimacy with Father Ledwich, parish priest of Rathfarnham, and that he excited Ledwich's nephew and a man named Wade to rebellion, after which both were hanged on Queen's Bridge. He had come down to promote the cause and was searching for Byrne and Holt, who led a large body of rebels in the mountains between Rathdrum and Hacketstown. He mentioned clubs of traitors sitting in Dublin and Drogheda, most of whom were since taken up and punished. He said money had been levied on Roman Catholics, clergy and laity alike, to purchase arms and reward their friends both in and out of parliament. He himself, though a poor priest, was rated at a guinea.

Forced execution and procession to Wexford bridge

Wexford · town · Wexford · 1798

Three protestant prisoners, Jackson, Gurley and Matthewson, were coerced under threat of death by rebel officer Edward Fraine to execute another man named Murphy, marched in a procession with a black flag and dead-march to a spot by the river near Wexford bridge.

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into the yard, Fraine addreffed Charles Jackfon, and had the following converfation with him : " Mr. Jackfon, I believe you know what we want of you.'' He anfwered, " Yes ; I fuppofe I am going to die." He then fell upon his knees, and begged that he might be allowed to go to fee his wife and child. Fraine fwore he fliould not, and infofmed him, that a man was to die that evening at fix o'clock, and that he did net know any more proper perfons to execute him, than he and the two others. He added, that - he fuppofed he could have no, obje6lion to the bufinefs, as the culprit was a Roman catholick. Jackfon replied, Sir, fhould I have no objection to commit murder ?" Fraine faid, " You need not talk about murder ; if you make any objeQions, you fhall be put to death in ten minutes ; but if you do your bufmefs properly, you may live two or three days longer ; fo I expeQ you will be ready this evening at fix D'clock." Another rebel captain infultingly addrelTed him in the following manner : " If you could get a few orange ribands to tie' round your neck during the execution, it would, I think, have a pretty appearance." The executioners were remanded to their cells, where they remained praying till fix o'clock in the evening, v/hen they were brought again into the gaol-yard, where they found the prifoner Murphy furrounded by about a thoufand armed rebels.
The proceflion to the place of execution, which was about a mile and a half off, at the other fide of the bridge, was in th^ following order : A large body of pikemen, who formed a hollow fquare ; a blark flag ; the drum and fifes ; Murphy, the condemned man, next, followed by Jackfon, with Gurley and Matthewfdn behind him. When this arrangement took place, the dead-march was (truck up, and beat till they arrived at the fpot where the victim w^as to fall a facrifice to their fanatical vengeance. He was placed on his knees, clofe to the river, and with his back to it. Previous to the execution, the rebels

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 291

As the companion tells it

As you come through Wexford, this town carries a story from 1798. In the gaol yard here, a rebel officer named Edward Fraine spoke to a Protestant prisoner called Charles Jackson. Fraine told him a man was to die that evening at six o'clock, and that Jackson and two other prisoners, Gurley and Matthewson, were to carry out the execution. Jackson begged to see his wife and child first. Fraine refused. He told Jackson that if he made any objections, he would be put to death in ten minutes, but if he did the business properly, he might live two or three days longer. Jackson asked whether he should have no objection to committing murder. Fraine said he need not talk about murder. Another rebel captain told Jackson that if he could get a few orange ribands to tie round his neck during the execution, it would have a pretty appearance. The three men were taken back to their cells, where they remained praying until six o'clock in the evening. Then they were brought again into the gaol yard, where they found the prisoner Murphy surrounded by about a thousand armed rebels. The procession to the place of execution, about a mile and a half away on the other side of the bridge, went in this order. A large body of pikemen formed a hollow square. Then came a black flag, then the drums and fifes. Murphy, the condemned man, was next, followed by Jackson, with Gurley and Matthewson behind him. The dead-march was struck up and beaten until they arrived at the spot by the river. Murphy was placed on his knees, close to the water, with his back to it.

Arrest of the Sheares Brothers and Patrick Byrne

Grafton Street · street · Dublin · 1798

Henry and John Sheares, barristers and natives of Cork, along with Patrick Byrne, a bookseller of Grafton-street, were arrested and committed on charges of high treason on 21 May 1798; a proclamation for the intended insurrection was found in Henry Sheares's house.

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Meffieurs Henry and John Sheares, brothers, both barrifters, and natives of Cork, and Patrick Byrne, a bookfeller of Grafton-ilreet, were arrefted and committed on charges of high treafon, on Monday the twenty-firfl of May. In the houfe of the former a magiftrate found a proclamation,* which fhewed the fanguinary defigns of the rebels.. It was to have been publifhed and circulated the morning after the intended infurreclion and maffacre had taken place.
On the morning of the twenty-firll of May, lord Cafllereagh, by the defire of the lord lieutenant, wrote to the lord mayor, to acquaint him, " That

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 139

As the companion tells it

Patrick Byrne had his bookshop on this street. On Monday the 21st of May, 1798, he was arrested here along with Henry and John Sheares, brothers, barristers, and natives of Cork. All three were committed on charges of high treason. In Henry Sheares's house a magistrate found a proclamation, which showed the sanguinary designs of the rebels. It was to have been published and circulated the morning after the intended insurrection and massacre had taken place. That same morning, Lord Castlereagh, by the desire of the lord lieutenant, wrote to the lord mayor to acquaint him of the matter.

Attack on Widow Candy's Family at Tincurry

Tincurry · townland · Wexford · 1798

Rebels attacked a family at Tincurry, wounding a woman and her pregnant daughter; another daughter escaped and alerted the Enniscorthy garrison. The attackers were later identified as Fitzpatrick and the Bulgers, neighbours motivated by religious hatred.

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•young man of the name of Candy, and wounded her daughter, a married woman far gone v/ith child, liaving broke her arm. * Her other daughter^ hav« ing narrdwly efcaped by leaping out of a window, mounted a horfe, galloped off to Ennifcorthy, and informed the garrifon quartered there of thefe atrocities, at feven o'clock in the evening.
About the hour of eleven o'clock that night, the Ennifcorthy ,^nd Healthfield yeomen cavalry, commanded by captain Richards and captain Grogan, proceeded to Tincurry, to difperfe the rebels ; and on their arrival there5 found ail the circumftances of atrocity related by the poor female fugitive to be ftridly true>; and they were alfo informed by her mother, -that the alTafiins principally concerned in them, were one Fitzpatrick, and the Bulgers, a po» 'pilh family, her near neighbours, with whom fiie had always lived in the clofeft friendfliip ; and that their enmity could have arifen from no other motive, but becaufe ftie was of the proteftant religion, and ithat her two fons were in the fervice as yeomen.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 217

Bagenal Harvey's Horror and Deposition Over Scullabogue

Carrickbyrne · electoral division · Wexford · 1798

Bagenal Harvey, filled with horror at the Scullabogue massacre, issued general orders the day after threatening death to those who murdered prisoners; for this he was deposed and replaced by the savage father Philip Roche at the camp at Carrickbyrne.

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Bagenal Harvey, vi^ho was a man of honour and humanity, though deluded by abfurd political fpeculations, was filled with the greatell horror on hearing of the malfacre at Scullabogue ; and, therefore, the day after, he ifliied general orders,'* denouncing the penalty of death againll fuch perfons as fliould inurder their prifoners ; for which humane effort to check that fanguinary fpirit, which now for the firlL time began to appear, he was depofed ; and that inhuman favage, father Philip Roche, was elected in his (lead, at the camp at Carrickbyrne ; and it appears that Edward Roche^ who had been elected fccond in coinmand of the republican army at Wexford, then became conimander in chief, as appears by a paper ^ figned by him, dated the feventh of June; 1798. The reyerfe of fortune which general Harvey experienced in the courfe of feven days, was no lefs rapid than unexpected, aud j:onvinced him of his folly and remerity.
A refpeclable proteftant, who was taken prifoner by the rebels, and compelled to ferve in the camp at Carrickbyrne, informed me, that father Roche, in a publick harangue, denounced all proteftants as hereticks, and that they could not have luck or grace while any of them were permitted to ferve in their ranks : That on the fame day, he met Roche in It tent, and that he, with fingular diffiinulation, affured him, that they made no religious diftindions, and never regarded a man's rehgion, provided he was loyal and true to their caufe : That Bagenal Harvey, on hearing Roche's harangue, lamented to him, that the war unexpectedly turned out to be purely religious: That the priefts'had got abfolute fway : That he feemed quite diflrafted, and wifhed he i:o.uld make his efcape.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 272

Battle at Three-bullet gate, Ross

Ross · townland · Clare · 1798

Thirty thousand rebels attacked Ross, with the struggle becoming most serious at the Three-bullet gate, which was eventually forced by an immense column of rebels who carried one of the defenders' guns and turned it against them.

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it is fuppofed that one-fourth of them had mufketSji the remainder were armed with pikes. Their fuperior force foon made our advanced guard retire to the main body, and they took poflefTion of our alarmpoft^. The ilruggle there became ferious, and matters wore a very unfavourable afpe6t, particularly at the Three-bullet gate^ which poft was at laft forced by an immenfe column of rebels, who, regardlefs of danger from fanaticifm and ebriety, made a moft formidable attack, and carried one of our guns, which they immediately turned againft us.
In the firft onfet which they made at the Threebullet * ^ate, they were repulfed ; on which general Johnfon ordered captain irwme to advance and charge them with a detachment of the 5th dragoons. In a field where they feemed doubtful whether to advance or make good their retreat. Seeing the cavalry advance briflily oji them, they fled precipitately, leaped over fome very high ditches, and fired from behind them on the dragoons , who had approached very clofe to them, and attempted to leap over them, but in vain. The very fame circumftances happened in two other fields where they charged. They lofl: in the courfe of thefe charges cornet Dodwell, one ferjeant, one corporal, twenty-four privates, and twenty-fix borfes. I'he gallant general Johnfpfi was in each field where thefe charges were made.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 258

Battle of the Diamond

near The Diamond · crossroads · Armagh · 1795

Defenders, reinforced from the mountains of Pomeroy and Ballygawley in Tyrone, attacked Protestants near a village called the Diamond on 21 September 1795; forty-eight Defenders were killed in the engagement despite outnumbering Protestants roughly ten to one.

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The fhouts and the firing of the defenders alarm^ed the proteflants, who alfembled from all quarters ^ and an engagement having enfued, forty-eight of the defenders were killed, and a great number were wounded, on the twenty-firft of September, 1795.
It was univerfally allowed, that the defenders were, at leaft, ten to one in this conflid, ever fmce know^n by the name of the battle of the Diamond.

Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere01musg, Chapter 49

Memoirs of the different rebellions in Ireland, from the arrival of the English : also, a particular detail of that which broke out the XXIIId of May, MDCCXCVIII : with the history of the conspiracy which preceded it (vol. 1)

The stories, best first

William Orr's body taken to Presbyterian meeting-house for revival attempt

Cromwell's storming of Wexford and massacre of garrison, 1649

Father Murphy's death by cannon shot at Arklow barricade

Arrest and Wounding of Lord Edward Fitzgerald in Thomas-street

Battle of Oulart Hill - defeat of North Cork militia

Drummer boy Hunter killed at Gorey for refusing to beat drum for rebels

Mutilation of the Barclay family at Forkhill

Twenty-eight yeomen shot in gaol at Dunlavin

Windmill on Vinegar Hill used as slaughter site

Charles Davis shot and buried alive at Vinegar Hill camp

Defense of Rockspring House

Dowseley Stabbed for Being a Protestant in New Ross

Massacre of loyalists at Jefferies's burning house, Narraghmore

Nineteen Protestants murdered in Rathangan village

Daily executions of protestants on Vinegar Hill parade ground

Escaped woman warns of rebel attack after witnessing brothers' torture

Father Nicholas Sheehy hanged at Clonmel

First Orange Lodge Formed in Armagh

Mass burial of rebels at Graigue-bridge

Murder of George Crawford and his granddaughter near Kildare

Murder of Mr Brewer, cotton manufacturer of Prosperous

Murder of Mr. Moore opposite his wife's refuge

Murder of young Newenham near Donadea

Rebel blows up gun with hat and wig at New Ross

Rebels compel priest's blessing and murder lieutenant Yeates at Ballytore

William Orr hanged at Carrickfergus

Doctor Esmond's defection and role in the Prosperous massacre

Mooney's fortitude spares him from execution

Sack and burning of Enniscorthy by rebels

Trial of Black Top for the Manders murders at Carlow

Attack on Mr. Clifford at Father Lacy's house near Kyle

Attempted assassination of Captain Beevor in his bed

Captain Giffard threatens father Martin with cannon at Rathdrum

Catholic Funeral Attacked at Ballyroney Graveyard

Execution of Murphy at the Bull-ring, Wexford

Fitzpatrick's atrocity on Borroughs's body and execution at Athy

Friar Philips drowned near the Belfast paper-mill as suspected informer

Killing of surgeon Francis Johnson at Ballytore

Massacre of Policemen at Drumsna

Mrs Eldon and children spared amid burning barrack at Prosperous

Murder of James Neale, his wife, and another woman with pikes

Murder of Lieutenant William Giffard on the Limerick mail-coach

Murder of Mr Wilkinson, master carpenter, at Maynooth

Over five hundred protestants massacred at Vinegar Hill camp and vicinity

Plot to assassinate Earl of Carhampton near Luttrellstown

Plunkets Seized Between Robinstown and Palace by Rebel Gang

Poisoning of the garrison bread at Rathcoole

Rebel attack on Carlow town

Sectarian Massacre at Dunboyne

Sixteen protestant prisoners executed at the wind-mill prison on Vinegar Hill

Thomas Dixon's betrayal of Protestant passengers at Wexford

Torture and survival of Michael Shenstone

Corporal Andrew Sheppard's failed execution in Wexford gaol

Father Martin's confession of massacre incitement at Dunboyne

Forced execution and procession to Wexford bridge

Arrest of the Sheares Brothers and Patrick Byrne

Attack on Widow Candy's Family at Tincurry

Bagenal Harvey's Horror and Deposition Over Scullabogue

Battle at Three-bullet gate, Ross

Battle of the Diamond