On the 8th January 1886 it was reported in the Shields Daily Gazette and Shipping Telegraph that ‘moonlighters’ savagely beat Mr. David Burley, the Petty Session Clerk, in search of arms the previous day and no arrests were made.
At that time the Petty Sesssions were held in Carrigboy (Durrus), the courthouse is still extant next to Ó Suilleabhaín’s pub. Mr Burley (or Burleigh) lived in the large house between the West Lodge Hotel and the cemetry in Bantry.
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