Is there a list of those families evicted from Sliguff in the early to mid 1800's? I am looking for Denis Lennon's family. A Denis Lennon appears in each of the Civil Parishes of Sliguff and Myshall in Griffiths 1824-1840 with little else info. A Denis Lennon and a Mary Kelly and family show in the baptismal records on the Carlow IGP website for Civil Parish Dunleckny (now Fennagh?) in Townlands of Kilconner, Ballydarton, Fennagh. I am in the process of attempting to sort out these families. How wonderful would that be if there are lists of evictions? Thank you to everyone on this list...I really enjoy reading about the history of Carlow. Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "michael purcell" <carlowmike@gmail.com> To: <irl-carlow@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 6:37 AM Subject: [IRL-CARLOW] a little background to Beresford history > At this stage a short extract from "The Carlow Gentry" may give readers > a little background to the Beresford history. > From pages 24--27. "The Carlow Gentry" by Jimmy O' Toole 1993. (I.S.B.N. 0 > 9522544 0 9) > "The image of Beresford as an absentee landlord was tough and > uncompromising, a policy carried out with ruthless effect during the time > of > agent Charles Doyne. Doyne, whose family had a large estate in Tullow, was > also land agent for the Kavanagh's of Borris, and with such a large block > of > tenant farmer votes under his control, he wielded enormous power during > the > political turmoil of the 1830's............................. > There were few estates in the county during that period to equal the level > of evictions experienced by tenants of Beresford. In 1836 , the Liberal > politician Nicholas Alward Vigors , in a petition to Parliament, said 86 > families had been evicted in the parish of Bagenalstown during the > previous > few years. Fifteen families were issued with notices to quit in Slyguff, > and > at one point , Beresford was accused of having evicted 103 families. > In March 1835 , Doyne was quoted as having told a meeting of > tenants --"that > Lord Beresford was determined to provide a class of tenants for his estate > over whom the priests would have no influence". In that policy , Doyne > seems to have succeeded because Fr. Andrew Phelan , a curate in > Dunleckney, > accused Beresford of "persecuting Catholics because of their religion". > Seventeen families were evicted from Kilcloney, and of the 120 acres > involved, 100 acres were given to two Protestant families, and the > remainder > to two Catholic tenants. Evictions were a much used political propaganda > weapon capitalised on by the opponents of landlords at election time ; and > frequently , notices to quit -- sometimes not acted upon -- were added to > the statistics of actual evictions. Landlords were sensitive in such > propaganda wars, and in 1841, Beresford successfully sued The Morning > Chronicle for its inaccurate and libellous description of evictions on his > estate near Tinryland. > ======================================= > Before you post a message to the IRL-CARLOW mailing list you must > subscribe to the List. Its FREE! > --------------------------------------- > To subscribe to the IRL-Carlow mailing list, send an email to > IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word "subscribe" (without the > quotes) in the Subject box. No additional text is required. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message