Gun law in Crusheen 18-Aug-1887

[Paddy Casey]

The following is from "Three months of the National League: a record of the working of the National League branches in Ireland for the months of June, July, and August, 1887" at http://www.archive.org/stream/threemont ... s_djvu.txt

Yesterday morning printed notices were found by the police posted up in the village of Crusheen, near Ennis, the scene of the firing into the house of Patrick Loughry on Monday night. The notices to threaten to shoot Ned Kennedy a farmer, who is also rent warner on the property of Mr. James Vesey Fitzgerald, D.L., if he does not give up the Farm of Viewmount, from which the widow Stackpoole had been evicted eight years ago. The farm had been derelict for a long time till Kennedy took it at half the former rent. Two men, with their faces disguised and armed with revolvers, came into his house on Sunday morning about 7 o'clock. They took him out of bed, and marched him down to the shed of an old house a few yards away, put him upon his knees, and then fired, slightly wounding him in one of his legs. Kennedy then gave up the farm, but took it back again a few months after, and has remained in occupation of it for the past three years. —
Irish Times, 19th August, 1887.