James Connors was an Irish
tenant farmer
A tenant farmer is a person (farmer or farmworker) who resides on land owned by a landlord. Tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management, ...
, murdered in May 1881.
Connors was a tenant at Forgehill, Toolooban, on the estate of Denis St George Daly, 2nd
Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal (1810–1893). The farm consisted of fourteen acres. Some months earlier, Lord Dunsandle dismissed a
bailiff
A bailiff (from Middle English baillif, Old French ''baillis'', ''bail'' "custody") is a manager, overseer or custodian – a legal officer to whom some degree of authority or jurisdiction is given. Bailiffs are of various kinds and their offi ...
named Keogh from the farm, and appointed Connors in his place. This led to his death by militant members of the local
Land League. The shooting of Connors was witnessed by his wife, who gave contradictory evidence that led to the three men accused being acquitted.
Connors was attended as he died by Father J.A. Pelly, C.C., Kiltullagh, later Parish Priest of
Ballymacward. Not more than 25 attended the funeral, the rest staying away out of fear of reprisal. His death was one of many in the
Athenry-
Loughrea-
Gort area during the Land League "war".
See also
*
Martin O'Halloran
Martin O'Halloran was a member of County Galway Land League, .
Biography
O'Halloran was Secretary of the Kiltullagh Branch of the Irish Land League. He was bound over to the police for having made a seditious speech at Craughwell in the course of ...
*
Peter Dempsey (Kiltullagh)
Peter Dempsey (Kiltullagh) was a tenant farmer who was murdered during the Irish Land War on 28 May 1881. He was shot dead while walking to Mass with his two daughters across a field mass path.
Dempsey had taken over an holding near Hollypark, ...
*
John Henry Blake
John Henry Blake (1808 – 29 June 1882), was a murdered Irish land agent.
Biography
John Henry Blake was the third and youngest son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Blake of Furbo, County Galway and Maria Galway of Cork. He was a member of one of T ...
*
Thomas Henry Burke (civil servant)
*
Hubert de Burgh-Canning, 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde
References
* ''The Land War in South East Galway (1879-1891)'', a
thesis
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by Anne Finnegan,
NUIG
* ''As The Centuries Passed: A History of Kiltullagh 1500–1900'', edited Kieran Jordan, 2000
** ''The Land Wars'', Kevin and Kieran Jordan, in op.cit.
* ''The District of Loughrea: Vol. I History 1791-1918.''
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Murder victims from County Galway
19th-century Irish people
1881 deaths
Year of introduction missing