THE CONNAUGHT JOURNAL Galway, Thursday, May 27, 1824 STATE OF THE COUNTRY KILKENNY, May 19- An adjourned Session under the Insurrection Act was held in the County Court on Tuesday. Serjeant Gould, G.P. Bushe, Esq., Assistant Barrister, and 31 Magistrates attended. Four prisoners were arraigned for being absent from their dwellings more than an hour after sun-set. Two of them, John Day and John M'Kew, postponed their trials until the next sitting of the Court; John Ryan was acquitted, but William Doheny was found guilty, and sentenced to be transported for seven years. On the night of the 11th instant, the house of a man named Thos. Cody, situate near Ballyspellan Spa, in the Barony of Galmoy, was set fire to by the incendiaries, and a great part thereof consumed before the family was apprised of their danger.- Three heifers, the property of Cody, were the same night, inhumanly slaughtered on his land, doubtless by the same atrocious villains, who nearly succeeded in consuming him in his dwelling. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/