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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [GALWAY] !! Connaught Journal; June 9, 1823
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:00:40 -0600


Connaught Journal
published Galway, Ireland
Monday, June 9, 1823

On Friday morning, about the hour of 1 o'clock, the cabin of a man named
DOOLAN, situate at Tallagh-hill, was burned to the ground. DOOLAN was awoke
by the screams of the children, when he discovered that the end of the cabin
was in flames. Thee were in the cabin at the time, DOOLAN, his wife, four
children, his mother-in-law, Mary DOWD and her son, John DOWD.

On Friday night between the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock, a man named Patrick
HEALY, who resides at Ballymeane, near Tallagh, was alarmed by disovering
that his house was on fire. On going out he found that the back part of the
thatch was in flames; he immediately gave the alarm, and several of his
neighbours came to his assistance, but a party of men who kept themselves
concealed, fired several shots at them, and deterred them from extinguishing
the fire, until the house was entirely consumed. HEALY states that he would
not know any of them. His family, consisting of his wife, his three sons,
and himself, were in the house at the time it commenced.
HEALY's house had been attacked by a party of men on the preceding Friday
night, between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock. This gang consisted of
a great number; they were armed with guns and other weapons; they broke into
the house on this occasion, and assaulted HEALY violently,beating him about
the head with guns and sticks, telling him to give up DIVINE's land, or they
would give him STAUNTON's death.


Cathy Joynt Labath
Celtic Cousins
http://www.celticcousins.net/


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