Election of Daniel O’Connell, 8th July, 1828 from diary of Amhlaoimh Ó Súilleabháin (Humphrey O’Sullivan)
1804 Justice of the Peace (Magistrate) Guide, Papist Warrants including Committal of a Popish Priest for Marrying Contrary to Law.
Even in 1804 these measures were a throwback to the Penal Laws of the early 18th century and had fallen into abeyance. The marriage stipulation features in a major case c 1770s involving one of the Bantry Whites (later Lord Bantry family). He had married a Miss Dillon, a Catholic. He later had the marriage annulled as it was illegal having been performed by a ‘Popish Priest’
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Effect of Penal Laws. Sons Of Irish Catholic Aristocratic Families Requirement to Produce Genealogical Proof for Crown Service on the Continent 17th 18th and 19th centuries.
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1840 Legal Action on 1740 Deed Whereby Thornhill acted as Trustee for Galweys on Hedges Eyre Macroom, Co. Cork, Estate to Circumvent Penal Laws and Ejectment Action by Hedges Eyre estate in 1840.
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Miss Mary Twomey from Schull near Skibbereen reads her Recantation from The Errors of The Church of Rome and Embraced the Protestant Religion at St. Nicholas Church, Cork.
Sometimes this would be done on inter-faith marriage, other time an empty formula for conveyancing or professional purposes to technically comply with the Penal Laws.
Another Twomey appears on the Cork Convert Rolls:
Thomas Twomy, Gent. 1730 Cork
Convert Rolls, Co. Cork.
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1763, Death at age of 102 of Henry Galwey Esq., Bantry From a Former Very Opulent Family Honest people Reduced in Recent Years Of Frequent Seizures Falling On Hard Time
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Penal Laws in Co. Cork early 18th century, Father Donogh Sweeney, Doctor of Sorbonne, Paris, , arrested like common criminal for saying Mass by Richard Hedges, Macroom, Warrant 16th October 1712. Petition of 1717 of Samuel Potter Innishannon to Lord Liutenant re ‘Bringing to Justice’ two Popish priests Charles Carthy and Teige Mahony for saying Mass and a Popish Schoolmaster Owen Cartie and who has shown great diligence in apprehending and prosecuting many secular and regular Popish clergy
Hedges was associated with the Whites then of Whiddy later Bantry House dn the Blairs Dunmanway/Bantry/Durrus, Davies Macroom and the Fenwicks of Dunmanwya in acquiring large blocks of land from the London Hollow Blade Company. They were later involved in smelting, forest clearing, and Bantry fisheries.
