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From: "Padraig O Gealagain" <>
Subject: [LIMERICK] Fenian Rising - Kilteely, Co. Limerick
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 19:00:49 -0400


The Kilteely Fenians did not have to fight a battle. They merely
gathered on Shrove Tuesday, March 5, 1867, and paraded around the
district. They also occupied a building previously vacated by the
police.

A few days later the following men were arrested and charged:

Edmund Cahill,(26) - allowed bail
Richard Cahill (21) - arrested in Queenstown (now Cobh) 9 Months.
John Carroll (20) arrested in Queenstown; 2 years hard labour.
Michael Grogan ( 26) 2 years hard labour.
Patrick McNamara ( 21 & 9mths)- sentence not recorded.
John Ryan ( 18 & 9mths) - sentence not recorded.
William Ryan (32) - Sentence not recorded.

James Connell, considered to be one of the insurgents, was arrested
about the 6th or 7th. of June 1867, but was released on bail on the
8th. of August, for lack of evidence against him.
John Hogan, a school teacher at Kilteely, was arrested and detained
under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. The Pikes used at Kilteely
had been made at Matt Ryan's, Kilduff, near Kilteely.

Kilteely is located in the Nth. East part of Limerick County.

Padraig+

(Source: Nth. Munster Antiquarian Journal, 1967, pp.169-172).



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