First-hand account of hunting Clare priests 1700s

[smcarberry]

From a book available online:
The Irish priests in the penal times (1660-1760) [microform] : from the state papers in H. M. Record Offices, Dublin and London, the Bodleian Library, and the British Museum (1914)
by William P. Burke
http://www.archive.org/details/MN42003ucmf_6

I recommend using the pdf format version of this, as it can be easily searched.

Sharon Carberry USA

Ennis 13 May 1712
"...I believe it would be easier at this tyme to ketch soe many wolfes or foxes than these priests...there being twelve presented in my laste [letter] for saying mass contrary to the Statute...[providing references to individual priests, given below in List 1]...and the rest [i.e. remaining] eight are dead [see List 2 below]...I promised money out of my owne purse to my Gaoler...and other Protestants for each prieste that they would bring in but they would not undertake it..."
W. Butler [William, High Sheriff of Clare]
p. 401

List 1
Andrew Burke PP Dromcliff
Thomas Cloghissy PP Kilchrist
Connor McNamara PP Clareabbey
Connor O'Brien PP Kilshanny
Murtogh Flannery PP Kilmoone
Terrence McMahon PP Kildisert
Teige Kerin PP Ruan
Charles Hickey PP Feakle
Brian McMahon PP Kilrush
Daniel Gorman PP Killard
John Belson PP Kilmurray

List 2
John Queally PP Rathborney
John Donoghue PP Kildisert
William Halloran PP Killansulagh
Mark Griffey PP East part Dysert
Daniel McNamra PP Killroe
Edmund Grady PP Tomgreny
Maurice McInerney PP Killmurray
Teige Shenan PP Killberboy

See also
pp. 403-07 List 1 priests and their lay sureties (Clare gentry) described
p. 400 a petition presented by named Clare priests in 1712
p. 409 list of Clare priests in 1744