Notes

1 Sean McMahon, The Poolbeg Book of Irish Placenames, (Dublin, 1990), p. 61

2 Pádraig Ó Riain, Diarmuid Ó Murchadha and Kevin Murray, Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames, (Names in B-), (London, 2005), p. 72

3 Hugh W.L. Weir, Houses of Clare, (Whitegate, 1986), p. 235

4 Sean McMahon, The Poolbeg Book of Irish Placenames, (Dublin, 1990), p. 59

5 Brian Ó Dálaigh, The Strangers Gaze, Travels in County Clare 1534-1950, (Dublin, 1998), p. 63

6 Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent, Clare, History and Society, (Dublin, 2008), p. 87

7 Clare, History and Society p. 113

8 Clare, History and Society p. 115

9 ‘Estate Records for the D’Esterre Family’ (11 January 2013)

10 Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent, Clare, History and Society, (Dublin, 2008), p. 114

11 Brian Ó Dálaigh, The Strangers Gaze, Travels in County Clare 1534-1950 (Dublin 1998), p. 47

12 Brian Ó Dálaigh, ‘A comparative study of the wills of the first and fourth earls of Thomond, 1551 – 1617’ in North Munster Antiquarian Journal, xxxiv (1992), p. 61

13 Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent, Clare, History and Society, (Dublin, 2008), p. 114

14 Clare, History and Society, pp. 113-116

15 Clare, History and Society, p. 114

16 Brian Ó Dálaigh, The Strangers Gaze, Travels in County Clare 1534-1950, (Dublin, 1998), p. 87

17 Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent, Clare, History and Society, (Dublin, 2008), p. 84

18 Brian Ó Dálaigh, The Strangers Gaze, Travels in County Clare 1534-1950, (Dublin, 1998), p. 87

19 Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent, Clare, History and Society, (Dublin, 2008), p. 116

20 Clare, History and Society, p. 115

21 William Gerrard Ryan, ‘Mount Ievers House’ in ‘A Survey of Monuments of Archaeological and Historical Interest in the Barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare’ (26 February 2013)

22 Ibid

23 Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent, Clare, History and Society, (Dublin, 2008), p. 116

24 William Gerrard Ryan, ‘Mount Ievers House’ in ‘A Survey of Monuments of Archaeological and Historical Interest in the Barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare’ (26 February 2013)

25 ‘The Mills in Sixmilebridge’ (3 March 2013)

26 ‘The Mills in Sixmilebridge’ (3 March 2013)

27 Thomas Johnson Westropp, ‘The Forests of the Counties of the Lower Shannon Valley’, in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol. 27, (1908/1909), p. 285

28 ‘Lloyd’s Tour of Clare, 1780’ (11 January 2013)

29 John McVeagh (ed.), Richard Pococke’s Irish Tours (Dublin, 1995), abstracted in Ó Dálaigh, The Strangers Gaze, p.108

30 Maureen Comber (ed), Poverty Before the Famine: County Clare 1835, (Ennis, 1996), p. 8

31 William Gerrard Ryan, ‘Rossmanagher Bridge and Toll Gates’ in ‘A Survey of Monuments of Archaeological and Historical Interest in the Barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare’ (11 January 2013)

32 William Gerrard Ryan, ‘Rossmanagher Bridge and Toll Gates’ in ‘A Survey of Monuments of Archaeological and Historical Interest in the Barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare’ (11 January 2013)

33 Seán Spellissy, A History of County Clare, (Dublin, 2003) pp. 133-4

34 Report of commissioners into fairs and markets, H.C. 1852-3, xli, p. 68

35 Limerick Chronicle, 17 January 1785

36 William Gerrard Ryan, ‘Rossmanagher Bridge and Toll Gates’ in ‘A Survey of Monuments of Archaeological and Historical Interest in the Barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare’ (11 January 2013)

37 Paul Duffy and Etienne Rynne, ‘Studdert’s Bridge, Bunratty’ in North Munster Antiquarian Journal, xxxvii, (1996), pp. 107-11

38 Karina Holton, Liam Clare and Brian Ó Dálaigh, ‘A history of Sixmilebridge, county Clare’ in Irish Villages: Studies in Local History, (Dublin, 2004), p. 265

39 Hely Dutton, Statistical Survey of county Clare, (Dublin, 1808), p. 173

40 ‘Lloyd’s Tour of Clare, 1780’ (8 February 2013)

41 ‘Parliamentary Gazeteer of Ireland 1845’ (2 February 2013)

42 Ibid

43 Maureen Comber (ed), Poverty before the Famine: County Clare 1835, (Ennis, 1996), p. 27

44 Census of Ireland c. 1659, p. 188

45 Brian Gurrin, Pre-census sources for Irish demography (Dublin, 2002), p. 74

46 Census of Ireland, 1831

47 Census of Ireland, 1911

48 Karina Holton, Liam Clare and Brian Ó Dálaigh, ‘A history of Sixmilebridge, county Clare’ in Irish Villages: Studies in Local History, (Dublin, 2004), p. 274

49 Censuses of Ireland, 1821 – 1911

50 Karina Holton, Liam Clare and Brian Ó Dálaigh, ‘A history of Sixmilebridge, county Clare’ in Irish Villages: Studies in Local History, (Dublin, 2004), p. 267

51 Ignatius Murphy, Diocese of Killaloe, 1800-50, (Cork, 1992), p.385

52 Samuel Lewis, County Clare, A History and Topography, (Ennis, 1995), p. 102

53 Hugh W.L. Weir, Houses of Clare, (Whitegate, 1986), p. 235

54 William Gerrard Ryan, ‘Rossmanagher Bridge and Toll Gates’ in ‘A Survey of Monuments of Archaeological and Historical Interest in the Barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare’ (11 January 2013)

55 Samuel Lewis, County Clare, A History and Topography, (Ennis, 1995), p. 119

56 Frank O’Connor, Leister, Munster and Connaught, (London, 1950), p. 219

57 Karina Holton, Liam Clare and Brian Ó Dálaigh, ‘A history of Sixmilebridge, county Clare’ in Irish Villages: Studies in Local History, (Dublin, 2004), p. 260

58 Patrick F. Wallace, ‘The organisation of pre-railway transport in counties of Limerick and Clare’ in North Munster Antiquarian Journal, xv (1972), pp. 44-5

59 Hely Dutton, Statistical Survey of the County of Clare, 1908, Chapter V, Section 2

60 Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent, Clare, History and Society (Dublin, 2008), pp. 123-4

61 Samuel Lewis, County Clare, A History and Topography, (Ennis, 1995), p. 119

62 Clare Journal, 6 March 1817.

63 Lord John Manners MP, Notes of an Irish tour in 1846 (Edinburgh, 1881), abstracted in Ó Dálaigh, The Strangers Gaze, p.107

64 Karina Holton, Liam Clare and Brian Ó Dálaigh, ‘A history of Sixmilebridge, county Clare’ in Irish Villages: Studies in Local History, (Dublin, 2004), p. 269

65 Ignatius Murphy, The Diocese of Killaloe, 1800-1850, (Cork, 1992), p.40

66 The Diocese of Killaloe, 1800-1850, p. 314

67 Brian Merriman, Cúirt an Mheon-Óiche, ed. Liam P. Ó Murchú, (Dublin, 1982), p.84

68 Bill McInerney, ‘A Sixmilebridge emigrant’ in The Other Clare, viii (1984), pp. 7

69 Ignatius Murphy, The Diocese of Killaloe, 1800-1850, (Cork, 1992), p.72

70 The Diocese of Killaloe, 1800-1850, p. 175

71 The Diocese of Killaloe, 1800-1850, pp. 429-30

72 Ignatius Murphy, The Diocese of Killaloe, 1850-1904, (Cork, 1995), p.194

73 K. Theodore Hoppen, Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland 1832-1885, (Oxford, 1984) p.90

74 Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland 1832-1885, p.459

75 Keith Scally, ‘A Tragedy of Public Voting- Sixmilebridge’ in The Other Clare, (Shannon, 1977) Vol. 1, p.33

76 Ignatius Murphy, The Diocese of Killaloe: 1800-1850, (Dublin, 1992), p.236

77 Freeman’s Journal, 16 August 1852

78 K. Theodore Hoppen, Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland 1832-1885, (Oxford, 1984) p.404

79 Keith Scally, ‘A Tragedy of Public Voting- Sixmilebridge’ in The Other Clare, (Shannon, 1977) Vol. 1, pp. 33-35

80 Limerick Chronicle, 18 August, 1852

81 Limerick Chronicle, 10 November, 1852

82 Limerick Chronicle, 11 June, 1853

83 K. Theodore Hoppen, Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland 1832-1885, (Oxford, 1984) p.75

84 Dominic Haugh, ‘Massacre at Sixmilebridge 1852’ in The Other Clare, (Shannon, 2011) Vol. 35

85 Limerick Chronicle, 24 July, 1852

86 K. Theodore, Hoppen, Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland 1832-1885, (Oxford, 1984) p.116

87 Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland 1832-1885, p.117

88 Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland 1832-1885, p.159

89 Limerick Chronicle, 16 July, 1853

90 K. Theodore, Hoppen, Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland 1832-1885, (Oxford, 1984) p.74

91 Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland 1832-1885, p.233

92 Freeman’s Journal, 16 August 1852

93 Limerick Chronicle, 24 July, 1852

94 Freeman’s Journal, 26 July 1852

95 K. Theodore, Hoppen, Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland 1832-1885, (Oxford, 1984) pp.232-233

96 The Belfast News-Letter, 6 August, 1852, Issue 11762

97 Freeman’s Journal, 26 July 1852

98 Times [London, England] 24 February 1853

99 New York Daily Tribune, 4 September, 1852

100 K. Theodore, Hoppen, Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland 1832-1885, (Oxford, 1984) p.467

101 Michael Hurst, Ireland and the Ballot Act of 1872, The Historical Journal, Vol. 8 (1965) pp.326-352

102 K. Theodore, Hoppen, Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland 1832-1885, (Oxford, 1984) p.159

103 Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland 1832-1885, p. 159

104 Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent, Clare, History and Society (Dublin, 2008), p. 305

105 Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent, Clare, History and Society (Dublin, 2008), p. 334

106 Clare, History and Society, p.307

107 Clare, History and Society, pp.305-306

108 Clare, History and Society, pp.306-307

109 Clare, History and Society, p.324

110 Ignatius Murphy, The Diocese of Killaloe, 1850-1904, (Cork, 1995), p. 194

111 The Diocese of Killaloe, 1850-1904, p. 421

112 The Diocese of Killaloe, 1850-1904, pp. 456-467

113 The Diocese of Killaloe, 1850-1904, p. 238

114 The Diocese of Killaloe, 1850-1904.

115 The Diocese of Killaloe, 1850-1904.

116 The Diocese of Killaloe, 1850-1904.

117 Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent, Clare, History and Society (Dublin, 2008), p. 368

118 Karina Holton, Liam Clare and Brian Ó Dálaigh, ‘A history of Sixmilebridge, county Clare’ in Irish Villages: Studies in Local History, (Dublin, 2004), pp. 272-273

119 Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent, Clare, History and Society, (Dublin, 2008),, p. 369

120 Ignatius Murphy, The Diocese of Killaloe, 1850-1904, (Cork, 1995), pp. 240-241

121 Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent, Clare, History and Society (Dublin, 2008), p. 368

122 Ignatius Murphy, The Diocese of Killaloe, 1850-1904, (Cork, 1995), p. 250

123 The Diocese of Killaloe, 1850-1904., p.250

124 The Diocese of Killaloe, 1850-1904., p.250

125 The Diocese of Killaloe, 1850-1904., pp. 250-251

126 Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent, Clare, History and Society (Dublin, 2008), p. 484

127 Clare, History and Society, p.484

128 Séan Ó Tuama, The Gaelic League Idea, (Cork, 1972), p.20

129 The Gaelic League Idea, p. 11

130 Ignatius Murphy, The Diocese of Killaloe, 1850-1904, (Cork, 1995), p. 341

131 The Diocese of Killaloe, 1850-1904, p. 342

132 The Diocese of Killaloe, 1850-1904, p.342

133 Hugh W.L. Weir, Houses of Clare, (Whitegate, 1986), p. 235

134 Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent, Clare, History and Society (Dublin, 2008), p. 330

135 K. Theodore, Hoppen, Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland 1832-1885, (Oxford, 1984) pp.232-233

136 Karina Holton, Liam Clare and Brian Ó Dálaigh, ‘A history of Sixmilebridge, county Clare’ in Irish Villages: Studies in Local History, (Dublin, 2004), p. 278