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18 March 2009

COOGAN story appearing in "Memoirs of the Different Rebellions
in Ireland from the Arrival of the English" (Musgrave, Sir Richard, 
1802) [PAGES 84-85]:


[EXCERPT from "Atrocities Committed in and about Castlecomer" (1798)]

It would be tedious to mention the several instances of atrocity which
occurred at that time in Castletomer and its vicinity: I shall, 
however, subjoin a few undoubted facts, which are well known.  

That evening the rebels of the town burned every loyalist's house; 
for, infuriate with the plunder of Lady Ormond's cellar, they committed 
every excess.  From Sunday to Thursday those savages rioted in the 
pillage of the town, when at length Sir Charles Asgill, on the twenty-
eighth of June sent a party of the Glengarry fencibles and the 
Failaghclineen cavalry, who surprised them in the midst of their 
excesses, killed about twenty-four, and took several prisoners, from 
whose confession it appeared that a party of Castlecomer rebels, all 
Roman Catholics, had gone to meet the Wexford army on Friday the twenty-
second, and induced them to come on to attack it.  Most of these have 
since been hanged or transported.

An instance occurred, which very strongly marks the designs and 
sentiments of the rebels: A poor man, of the name COOGAN, was pursued 
by a party of rebels through Lady Ormond's plantation; he was overtaken, 
and most miserably mangled with pikes; when almost expiring, he begged 
of them to send for the priest.  They cursed him for a stupid vagabond, 
that he did not tell them at first that he was a Christian, and that 
they would not have used him so.

[***continues with other stories***]

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