Please let us know the source of your quoted material. Also, what is the date of the things you mention here? Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: <CARADOC28@aol.com> To: <IRL-CAVAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 7:44 PM Subject: [IRL-CAVAN] edward and thomas carrolls familes anyone have them > The court-martial of seventy five prisoners in Killala and forty in Ballina > opened the day after the massacre at Killala. Bishop Stock, in his narrative > tells us: > "The court-martials took place in the house of Owen Morrison, a Protestant > merchant. Their proceedings at first appeared extremely slow considering the > multitudes. They had to try seventy five at Killala and one hundred and ten at > Ballina besides those that might be brought in daily. > "The first two tried at this tribunal were General Belew and Colonel Richard > Bourke. The trial of these two criminals was short, they were found guilty on > Monday evening and hanged the next morning in the park behind the Castle, they > fell without exciting a sentiment of compassion". > > The bishop also states in his narrative, "the week that followed the battle > was employed in court-martials in the morning and in most, crowded dinners at > the Castle in the evening. A whole bullock went in two days, as the bishop had > not less that forty people to feed". > > There seem to be no records of the number of people executed, if there was, > they were concealed and probably destroyed later, but we can assume from the > bishop's statements above, that the number was quite large. > > A document in the English State Paper office tells how Denis Mutell and > Edward Carrol were sentenced to death. one "for making leaden bullets for the > French and rebels" the other "for fighting against His Majesty's forces at Colooney > and Killala". Another official record states that at the same time Thomas > Carroll, fisherman, found guilty of joining the French and carrying arms at > Killala and Daniel Scanlon, a deserter from the Longford militia, were both > executed on a tree at Green Park. > > Dr Patrick Barrett, father of Colonel Patrick Barrett was a native of Erris > in Mayo, he studied medicine in Edinburgh where he qualified as a doctor. He > returned home and settled in Ballina, in a two storey house opposite the present > Bartra House Hotel in Lower Pearse Street where he built up and extensive > practise. He was not involved in the military side of the insurrection, although > he persuaded his son Patrick, an officer in the local yeomanry to join the > Franco-Irish army. He continued to practise openly for a few months after the > insurrection and was finally arrested and brought to Castlebar to be > court-martialled. > > The charges against him were that he gave advice to French officers, signed a > passport in the name of his son and that he was making bullets for use > against the English forces. > > It is believed that Colonel King, the local military leader who also lived in > Pearse Street and Neligan, the parson, falsified the evidence against Dr > Barrett. Tradition alleges that they paid a tinsmith of ill-repute named Maxwell, > from Ardnaree, to swear at the trial that he was employed by the doctor to run > bullets for the rebels. Dr Barrett was found guilty on this unacceptable > evidence, that no fair-minded court or tribunal could possibly entertain. > > He was returned to Ballina to be executed the following day. The doctor got a > message to a close friend of his, Jack O'Dowd, a merchant in the town, and > expressed the wish that O'Dowd's own hands would take his body down from the > tree and that it would be buried in consecrated ground. Next day he was taken > across the river to the Fairgreen in Arnaree, where the Ridgepool complex is now > situated. The scaffold was ready. Two priests stood to one side reciting > prayers. The rope was placed around his neck, and in a few minutes his lifeless > body was dangling at the end of it. O'Dowd took down the body and had him buried > at the old Abbey in Ardnaree. > > Another Ballina doctor, Thomas O'Brien was executed at Castlebar at the same > time as Dr Barrett. The charge against him was one of 'accepting a military > commission from the French and acting as surgeon for the rebels and French > whilst at Castlebar'. > > The rebels' spirit was not completely broken after the carnage at Killala. A > namesake and relation of Ferdinand O'Donnell had gathered a body of men around > him, and adopting guerrilla type tactics made nightly raids on Trench's > encampment around Killala causing casualties, and seizing sentries and horses, they > then faded back into the night from whence they had come. > > Trench sent companies of soldiers into the Laggan area and Erris to apprehend > them, but when they were seen coming, O'Donnell's men retreated to selected > hiding places and the only achievement the soldiers could accomplish was the > burning of cabins. > > In the village of Knockaun beside Downpatrick Head there is a big circular > hole, one hundred feet deep, it is connected to the ocean by a tunnel. The water > below rises and falls with the tide. It is called Pollnashanthana, and at the > bottom there is a ledge of rock bare when the tide is out. > > The men of Knocaun and Killeen were working in the cornfields which were > neglected during their absence with Humbert's forces. In the middle of their work > a messenger arrived with the news that he had spotted a column of English > soldiers from a high hill in vicinity approaching at a distance. > > They had no time to get to the mountains and probably they would be seen > moving in that direction. They made a quick decision, they would descent to the > bottom of Pollnashanthana. They brought a coil of rope and enlisted the help of > an active young woman. One end of the rope was tied to a tree, the other end > was dropped down to the bottom of the chasm. Thirty men slid down the rope and > reached the ledge below. The woman was to haul up the rope, untie it, and take > it to a hiding place. > > The soldiers burned some cabins and started discharging their muskets. This > frightened the young woman who fled under cover to the nearby hills and went > into hiding. > > The soldiers stayed in the area for many hours and after they left it took > the woman a long time to leave her hiding place and come back to the village, > where she met a local man, who was away when the soldiers arrived, she told her > neighbour what had happened. > > In the meantime the tide has risen and engulfed the men on the ledge below. > When the man and woman collected the rope, tied it, went to the edge and looked > down, they saw the bodies floating far below. > > > Chelsea,Ma.-Woburn,Ma.-denning-dennen-danin-dinan-dinihey-denningston-dinnin g- > carlon-carroll-dever-cogan-malone-piscopo-mazzola-martini-farrell-mchugh-far le > y-grimes-lynch-doherty-SanDanto,Ita-Adargh,longford-Revere,Ma-Wintrop,Ma.-sp ra > gue- and ever growing list > Jim Denning > >