The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-23 00:00:00

STATE OF THE COUNTY OF TIPPERARY

Accounts have reached town, which represent the north-
ern parts of the county of Tipperary to be in a state border-
ing on actual insurrection. The town of Nenagh has the
appearance of a place preparing for a siege, the streets being
crowded with troops, despatched thither from the garrison
of Limerick, comprising a troop of the lith Lancers, and
two companies of the 20th foot; and two or three pieces of
ordnance were expected to arrive there in the course of Friday
evening. The orders of the military are to scour the disturbed
districts day and night, in bodies of 25 and 30, and to be in con-
stant readiness for active duty at five minutes warning. In
the meantime the work of bloodshed and outrage progresses
with fearful rapidity. Two more murders were committed
lately, in the broad daylight. on the lands of Curraghmore,
in the parish of Kilbarron. The names of these unhappy vic-
tims to Ribandisin were Tierney and Gleeson. Major-General
Sir Pt

er Carroll, the commanding officer of the district, has
been served with a Rockite notice, warning him to be pre-
pared for the fate which impends over him, in consequence
of ejecting a woman from some land, the same being in direct
contravention of the Riband code. The list of outrages, in
the shape of similar notices, together with assaults on the
person, &c., would occupy too rnuoh of your space. I shall,
therefore, merely abridge some of the particulars elicited at
the inquest on the body of the wretched Hayes—a brief no-
tice of whose murder appeared in the Times of Friday. This
barbarous deed was committed within about six miles of
Nenagh, on the borders of the Shannon, and in one of the
wildest districts of Ireland. Contiguous to the house of the
unhappy man are half-a-dozen lonely dwellings, which are
chiefly occupied by fishermen, and are situate between two
mountains, which command a picturesque view of that mag-
nificent river. There is no direct passage to the place, and
the coroner and his party sere obliged, after leaving the high
road, to traverse for upwards of a mile an almost inaccessible
tract of country, ere they reached the fatal spot. The first
witness examined was Bridget Hayes (widow of the deceased).
Her husband was a carpenter. He was employed on Mon-
day, the sth instant, in repairing a boat for the Rev. Dean
Holmes. He left off work between the hours of seven
and eight o'clock on that evening. When he came home
he went to the door and saw a man pass by. Witness
asked him who the man was, and he replied that he did not
know. He then went to the fire and kindled his pipe, and re-
mained standing till the strange man (whose name witness does
not know) came in. The man was armed with a two-handed
wattle. He came over to the fire and lit his pipe. He did
not sit down. He stood at the fire. Deceased desired
the strange man to sit down ; he said he would not.
During this time the stick remained on the ground.
The deceased then said, " Perhaps you're a man that
want's to cross the Shannon ?" to which he replied that
he did not. Deceased then asked him to remain for the
night, and desired witness to put down his supper. The man
said he had already eaten it. Deceased got up and walked
towards the dresser. Witness observed a change come over
his countenance, as if he were afraid. N'Citness kept her eye
on deceased. Did not look round until she heard a blow, and
saw him fall. Witness then ran between the man and de.
ceased, lest he might strike him again. The man caught her
by the head, *ore her cap and handkerchief, and dragged her
out into the yard ; he then said, " Go in now, or I'll give
you the same treatment 1 gave him ; give up the land now."
He afterwards went off in an opposite direction to that in
which he came. This happened about nine o'clock in the
evening. When witness went into the house she found the
deceased lying on his back. He was kicking and struggling
dreadfully at the time. He spoke in a faltering tone. Wit-
ness, assisted by a man named Martin Darmody, put the
deceased on a bed. All lie said was, that she wished to be
taken to his brother. He died about one o'clock the follow-

ing day.
The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against
some person or persons unknown." --Timed.