Hi leprechaun, the link in the first post is working again.
I hope the ancestors of RootsChatters didn't have the pleasure of meeting
The Right Hon Denis Browne who was High Sheriff of County Mayo in 1798. He believed in dealing severely with anyone who had participated in the Rising or helped in any way. It was said that for months afterwards, he had a man hanged in Castlebar every day. That's a fair number of hangings. At least the hangman's job was secure for a while. Members who are interested in statistics may like to know that the Right Honourable gentleman had about two hundred men hanged, another two hundred transported and yet another hundred more pressed into service with the British Army overseas or salt mines on the Continent. At least the guy appears to have kept the numbers in even quanities. Odd numbers look so untidy
Walter Corey may have been a Protestant but a local priest,
Father Edward Prendergast, was able to say Mass twice a month in Walter's house. I suppose in this day and age such a generous action made by a Protestant to a priest would be known as good cross community relations. You can learn a little more about Johnny Gibbons (Johnny the Outlaw) (died 1808), his son, John and another son, Edmund by clicking
here. There was an article, written by Maresa Fagan, which was published in the The Sunday Business Post in the July 4th, 2004, edition ...
"Restoring Ardfry to former glories." Ardfry is the place where Barney Doogan and others went into hiding.
Ardrey House, at Oranmore, was built in 1770 by the Blake family. Members of the family later the Earls of Wallscourt. The house is one of many on the ruinhunter.co.uk website which partly owes its existence to the book
“In Ruins The Once Great Houses of Ireland” by Simon Marsden and Duncan McLaren.
