Irish executions 1835 - 1899.

 

In the period 1835 - 1899, some 237 people were hanged in Ireland, including 13 women. 

The bulk of these executions were for murder (including conspiracy to murder and aiding and abetting murder),

although executions also took place for attempted murder, shooting at and rape.

 

 

 

1835 - 28 or 29 executions.

 

Date

Name

Age

Place

Victim's name/Crime

12/01/1835

Michael Robinson

 

Dublin (Kilmainham)

Mary Davis

14/03/1835

Daniel Savage

 

Waterford

Wife, Margaret

18/03/1835

James Murphy

 

Rosbercon

Lundy Foot

20/03/1835

John Moutray &

 

Omagh

John Wilson

"

Owen McKenna

 

"

"

21/03/1835

James Malone

 

Wexford

Rape Catherine Hore

??

Taylor Walsh

 

Tullamore

Peter Rafter

27/03/1835

Patrick Whelan

 

Maryborough

John Larkin

27/03/1835

John Bergin &

 

Maryborough

John McGrath

"

Patrick Fitzpatrick

 

"

"

28/03/1835

Hugh Coyle

 

Trim

Rape

30/03/1835

Thomas Keating

 

Clonmel

?? O'Donnell

30/03/1835

Lucinder Sly &

 

Carlow

Walter Sly

"

John Dempsey

 

"

"

03/04/1835

Richard Halloran

 

Galway

Richard Burke

03/04/1835

John McCarthy

34

Cork

Daniel McKenzie

11/04/1835

Francis Gildea

 

Castlebar

Rape E Kennegan

11/04/1835

Michael Quinlan

35

Limerick

Rape Mary Connars

25/04/1835

Daniel Malony,

22

Oula Limerick

Conspiracy to murder Thadeus Ryan

"

Matthew Malony &

34

"

"

"

Jeremiah O'Donnell

22

"

"

15/07/1835

Michael Donohue

21

Ennis

Bridget Cusack

27/07/1835

Owen Healy &

 

Sligo

Dudley Hanley

"

Thomas Tuffy

 

"

"

06/08/1835

Patrick Meany &

 

Galway

David Ormsby

"

John McDermott

 

"

"

07/08/1835

Michael Maher

 

Clonmel

John Egan

14/08/1835

Edmund Breen

 

Clonmel

Unknown

31/08/1835

Michael Ryan

 

Galway

Wife, Honor

 

 

 

1836 - 14 executions

 

04/03/1836

Michael Hassan

 

Mullingar

William Moran

04/03/1836

Patrick Flanighan

 

Waterford

wife

"

Thomas Flanighan

 

Waterford

Mary Mullowney

10/03/1836

Michael Butler &

 

Tullamore

Patrick Deering

"

John Seery

 

"

"

12/03/1836

Thomas Shelly

 

Clonmel

Patrick Cantwell

16/03/1836

Patrick Keating

 

Clonmel

Capt. M'Guire

19/03/1836

David Anthony

 

Downpatrick

William Ryan

19/03/1836

James Morrisey &

 

Waterford

Attempted murder of John Quinlan

"

Patrick Reilly

 

"

"

07/07/1836

Edward Bowen

18

Wicklow

Father

23/07/1836

Patrick Brien &

 

Clonmel

John Malone

"

Peter Brien

 

"

"

25/07/1836

Daniel Ryan

 

Clonmel

William Ryan

 

 

 

1837 - 10 executions

 

08/04/1837

William Flannery

 

Clonmel

Jeremiah Keogh

"

Daniel Sweeny

 

"

Cornelius Murphy

27/07/1837

William Magrath &

 

Carlow

Richard Magrath

"

Edward Aylward

 

"

"

07/08/1837

Mary Cooney

 

Limerick City

Anne Anderson

09/08/1837

Robert Sadlier

 

Clonmel

Timothy Crowe

"

James Cormack

 

"

Thomas Ryan

"

Thomas Ryan

22

"

Richard Cummins

10/08/1837

John Brewer

 

Tralee

Mary Diggin

12/08/1837

Patrick Carroll

 

Clonmel

John Lanigan

 

 

 

1838 - 2 executions

 

07/04/1838

John Cleary

 

Kilkenny

John Noonan

04/08/1838

William Murnane

 

Waterford

Michael Whelan

 

 

 

1839 - 15 or 16 executions

 

06/02/1839

Cornelius Hickey &

 

Clonmel

Austin Cooper & Francis Wayand

"

William Walsh

 

"

"

13/03/1839

Michael Kenny

42

Longford

Hugh Moorhead

30/03/1839

Denis Croneen

 

Waterford

Consp. to murder John O'Keefe

09/04/1839

John Slattery

 

Clonmel

Denis Murphy

11/04/1839

John Nolan

 

Carlow

Bridget Nolan

17/04/1839

James Blake

 

Clonmel

Wife, Judith

22/04/1839

Daniel Maguire

 

Cavan

?? Doolan

25/04/1839

Patrick Cummins

 

Naas

Mary Flynn

03/05/1839

John Manion

 

Galway

Thomas Mulkere

12/06/1839

Peter Creegan

 

Carrick on Shannon

Peter Shanly

01/08/1839

Patrick Guiry

 

Waterford

John O'Keefe

03/08/1839

James Mulvaney

25

Longford

Father

21/08/1839

Edward Delaney

 

Kilkenny

Thomas Potter

31/08/1839

Thomas McCowley

 

Tullamore

Peter Rafter

Also probably Edward Gannon at Maryborough for the murder of Isaac Worrell

 

 

 

1840 - 3 executions

 

19/03/1840

Thomas Glennon &

30

Mullinger

Mathew Branegan

"

John Toole

24

"

"

19/08/1840

John Moore

 

Waterford

Edmund Cashine

 

 

 

1841 - 6 executions

 

14/04/1841

Patrick McHugh

 

Galway

David Fenrick

01/05/1841

Mary Anne McConkey

 

Monaghan

Husband, Richard

28/08/1841

Patrick Donovan

 

Kilkenny

Michael Rigby

04/09/1841

James Power &

 

Clonmel

John Peters

"

John Power

 

"

"

20/11/1841

Patrick Woods

 

Armagh

Thomas Powell

 

 

 

1842 - 6 executions

 

05/02/1842

John Delahunt

 

Dublin

Thomas Maguire

20/04/1842

Francis Hughes

 

Armagh

Thomas Powell

16/07/1842

Patrick Byrnes

 

Clonmel

Robert Hall

"

Timothy Woods

 

Michael Laffan

05/08/1842

Walter Whelahan

 

Tullamore

Wife, Mary

20/08/1842

James Shea

 

Nenagh

Rody Kennedy

 

 

 

1843 - 5 executions

 

18/03/1843

James Haskins

 

Wicklow

John Pugh

31/03/1843

Hugh White

 

Tullamore

Michael Roberts

05/09/1843

James Downey &

 

Kilkenny

Laurence Hayne

"

Michael Mullins 

 

"

"

03/10/1843

Michael Moylan

 

Nenagh

John Nolan

 

 

 

1844 - 9 executions

 

10/04/1844

George Jubee

 

Tullamore

Adj. Robertson Mackay

30/04/1844

Thomas Dowling

 

Tullamore

John Gatchell

15/05/1844

Pte. John Cordery

 

Carrickfergus

Sgt. William Dodd

18/05/1844

John Cooke

 

Nenagh

Michael Nowlan

"

John Hickey

 

"

Consp. to murder Michael Hanley

25/05/1844

John Wade &

28

Nenagh

Patrick Ryan

"

Thomas Wade

25

"

"

07/08/1844

Catherine Bryan &

 

Rosscommon

Patrick Bryan husband/

"

Bridget Lanigan

 

brother-in-law