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 - 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

13/04/1839

Edward Gannon

34

Maryborough

Jemmy Wood

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

1845 - 3 executions

 

08/04/1845

John Nagle

 

Clonmel

Wife

15/04/1845

Michael Murphy

 

Waterford

Margaret McKean

16/08/1845

Denis Lucie

 

Clonmel

Daniel Sullivan

 

 

 

1846 - 7 executions

 

13/02/1846

Bryan Seery

 

Mullinger

Shot at Sir Fr Hopkins

21/03/1846

John Buchanan &

 

Longford

Henry Bergin

"

Bernard M'Goey

 

"

"

06/04/1846

William Fogarty, 

 

Nenagh

Patrick Clarke

"

Patrick Hayes &

 

"

"

"

Patrick Rice

 

"

"

10/08/1846

James Sexton

 

Ennis

Thady Kenny

22/08/1846

William Walsh

 

Nenagh

Daniel Berrechre

 

 

 

1847 - 8 executions

 

30/04/1847

Samuel Crummer

 

Lifford

Patricide

25/08/1847

James Larkin &

 

Kilkenny

Mr Prim

"

James Daniel

 

"

"

26/08/1847

John Helahan

 

Carlow

John Kelly

01/09/1847

Henry Walsh

 

Kilkenny

John Walsh

01/09/1847

Michael Howard

 

Limerick

Edward Murphy

24/09/1847

Michael Ryan &

 

Clonmel

William Crowdey

"

Thomas Ryan

 

"

"

 

 

 

1848 - 32 executions

 

07/02/1848

William Ryan

 

Limerick

John Kelly

"

Andrew Dea

 

"

Edward Murphy

11/02/1848

John Renihan

 

Limerick

J McEniny

15/02/1848

Patrick Ryan

 

Ennis

Aiding murder Mr Watson

19/02/1848

John Crowe

 

Ennis

Consp. to murder Mr Watson

22/02/1848

James Skeahon &

 

Limerick

Ralph Hill

"

James Quaine

 

"

"

01/03/1848

Henry Cody &

 

Clonmel

Edward Madden

"

Philip Cody

 

"

"

"

John Lonergan

 

"

William Roe

04/03/1848

Terence Corbay &

 

Clonmel

Shot at Richard Baily

"

John Daly

 

"

"

22/03/1848

Thomas Donohue

 

Rosscommon

Shot at Rev John Lloyd

23/03/1848

John D'Arcy

 

Maryborough

Michael Smith

29/03/1848

Patrick Flynn

 

Rosscommon

Michael Dignan

03/04/1848

Hugh Kelly

 

Carrick on Shannon

John McGreevy

20/04/1848

Thomas Fitzgerald

 

Limerick

John McEniry

"

Michael Ryan

 

Honora Ryan

22/04/1848

John Connolly &

 

Nenagh

Thomas Dillon

"

Michael Connolly 

 

"

"

22/04/1848

Thomas Brown &

 

Kilkenny

Aiding murder of Arthur Prim

"

Patrick Shea

 

"

"

17/06/1848

Richard Ryall

18

Cork

Johanna Murphy

05/08/1848

Michael Healy

 

Ennis

Michael McNamara

08/08/1848

Patrick Hasty

 

Rosscommon

Conspiracy to murder Major Mahon

"

Owen Beirne

 

"

Conspiracy to murder Rev John Lloyd

12/08/1848

Philip Fitzpatrick

 

Armagh

Michael & John Henderson

17/08/1848

Patrick Price

 

Maryborough

John Mahon

15/09/1848

Laurence Cull &

 

Clonmel

Conspiracy to murder Michael O'Brien

"

William Cull

 

"

"

16/09/1848

William Carthey

 

Nenagh

Conspiracy to murder R U Bailey

"

Martin Ryan

 

"

Shot at Mr Lloyd

 

 

 

1849 - 16 executions

 

21/03/1849

James Commins

 

Rosscommon

Major Mahon

"

Thomas Scully &

 

"

Isabella Brennan

"

Jane Scully

 

"

"

30/04/1849

Matthew Kilkelly

 

Ennis

Shot at Mr Wallplate

31/07/1849

Denis Curley &

 

Mullinger

James Curley

"

Martin Curley

 

"

"

09/08/1849

Thomas Wilson &

 

Enniskillen

John Wilson

"

Thomas Kerr

 

"

"

11/08/1849

John Frewen

 

Limerick

Peter Nash

"

John Fogarty &

 

"

Daniel Dillon

"

Catherine Dillon

 

"

"

14/08/1849

Martin Hackett

 

Tulamore

Charles Lowe

03/09/1849

John Ryan

 

Clonmel

Mary Brien

03/09/1849

Patrick Cormick

 

Galway

Miss Prendergast

06/09/1849

Owen Brogan

 

Castlebar

Francis M'Manamon

12/09/1849

John (Daniel) Tierney

 

Nenagh

Thomas Burke

 

 

 

1850 - 8 executions

 

09/04/1850

John Ryan

 

Tulamore

Sgt James Grant

10/04/1850

William Gavin &

 

Limerick

John Ryan

"

Matthew Gavin

 

"

"

11/04/1850

Catherine Moore

 

Maryborough

husband, Patrick

24/04/1850

William Murphy

 

Cork

Ellen Murphy

27/07/1850

Bridget Keogh &

 

Ennis

Arthur O'Donnell

"

Patrick Howe

 

"

"

10/08/1850

Edmund Christopher

 

Waterford

Michael Hogan

 

 

 

1851 - 3 executions

 

12/04/1851

John Quinlivan

70

Ennis

Bridget Fleury

10/05/1851

Catherine Connolly

 

Cork

Attempted murder of Mary Morris

23/09/1851

Michael Hanly

 

Limerick

wife, Ellen

 

 

 

1852 - 6 executions

 

22/04/1852

John Walsh

 

Kilkenny

Thomas Bell

31/07/1852

John Kirk &

 

Dundalk

Attempted murder of James Eastwood

"

Patrick M'Cooley

 

"

"

04/08/1852

William Brophy

 

Kilkenny

John Dooly

07/08/1852

Francis Barry

 

Armagh

Attempted murder of M Chambre

27/08/1852

Timothy Sheahan

 

Tralee

Denis Leane

 

 

 

1853 - 9 executions

 

15/04/1853

Richard Hackett &

 

Waterford

Mr O'Callaghan Ryan

"

Thomas Noonan

 

"

"

29/04/1853

Richard Stackpoole,

 

Ennis

James Stackpoole (nephew)

"

Bridget Stackpoole (wife) &

 

"

"

"

Honora Stackpoole

 

"

"

08/08/1853

Patrick Breen (Brien)

 

Monaghan

Conspiracy to shoot Pat McMahon

"

Thomas Hodgins

 

"

Conspiracy to murder Pat McArdle

20/08/1853

Alexander Mullen

 

Omagh

Jane Mullen, aunt

27/08/1853

John Hurley

 

Galway

Catherine Kendrigan (16)

 

 

 

1854 - 4 executions

 

10/04/1854

Bryan Grant,

 

Monaghan

Thomas Bateson

"

Neal Quinn &

 

"

"

"

Patrick Coomey

 

"

"

21/06/1854

Robert O'Neill

 

Belfast

Cpl. Robert Brown

 

 

 

1855 - No executions

 

 

 

 

1856 - 3 executions

 

16/05/1856

James Murphy

 

Cavan

Murder Charlotte Hinds

"

Thomas Dunne

 

"

Aiding & abetting above

22/09/1856

Charles McCready

 

Cork

Sgt Owen Guiney

 

 

 

1857 - No executions

 

 

 

 

1858 - 4 executions

 

11/05/1858

William Cormack &

 

Nenagh

John Ellis

"

Daniel Cormack

 

"

"

11/05/1858

Patrick Lydon (Lydane)

 

Galway

Wife

20/10/1858

John Cullinan

 

Limerick

Elizabeth Giles

 

 

 

1859 - No executions

 

 

 

 

1860 - 2 executions

 

27/08/1860

John Holden

 

Omagh

Robert M'Clelland

31/08/1860

Manus Hederman

 

Ennis

Patrick Mahony

 

 

 

1861 - 1 execution

 

19/08/1861

Matthew Phibbs

26

Sligo

William Callaghan

 

 

 

1862 - 4 executions

 

19/04/1862

Jeremiah Moore

 

Maryborough

Mrs Anne Spencer

16/07/1862

Thomas Beckham

61

Limerick

Francis Fitzgerald

25/08/1862

Richard Burke

 

Clonmel

Wife, Johanna

01/09/1862

James Walsh

21

Limerick

Francis Fitzgerald

 

 

 

1863 - 4 executions

 

08/04/1863

Daniel Ward

 

Belfast

Charles Wilger

13/04/1863

Denis Dillane

 

Limerick

Francis Fitzgerald

04/08/1863

Charles M'Cormick

 

Longford

Michael Beglan

11/08/1863

Joseph Kelly

 

Wexford

Michael Fitzhenry

 

 

 

1864 - 2 executions

 

04/04/1864

Bernard Cangley

 

Cavan

Peter Reilly

14/04/1864

Thomas Walsh

 

Waterford

Thomas Conolly

 

 

 

1865 - 4 executions

 

20/04/1865

Michael Lynch

 

Cork

Patricide

20/07/1865

Patrick Kilkenny

 

Dublin (Kilmainham)

Margaret Farquhar

23/08/1865

Thomas Hayes

 

Tulamore

Wife, Anne

06/09/1865

Lawrence King

 

Tulamore

Lt James Clutterbuck 

 

 

 

1866 - 2 executions

 

04/04/1866

Patrick Power

 

Wexford

Patricide

19/04/1866

John Logue

 

Downpatrick

Thomas Graham

 

 

 

1867 -1869 - No executions

 

 

 

 

1870 - 3 executions

 

27/05/1870

Lawrence Sheil &

 

Tulamore

Patrick Dunne

"

Margaret Sheil

 

"

"

28/07/1870

Andrew Carr

 

Dublin (Richmond)

Margaret Murphy

 

 

Carr was decapitated by the force of a 14 foot drop.

1871 - 2 executions

 

12/04/1871

John Gregory

 

Downpatrick

John Gallagher

17/08/1871

William Collins

 

Clonmel

John Ryan

 

 

 

1872 - No executions

 

 

 

 

1873 - 3 executions

 

16/08/1873

Laurence Smith

45

Cavan

Patrick Lynch

19/08/1873

Edward Walsh

 

Mayo

Wife

26/08/1873

Thomas Montgomery

32

Omagh

William Glass

 

 

 

1874 - No executions

 

 

 

 

1875 - 3 executions

 

24/03/1875

John M'Daid

 

Sligo

Edward Ferguson

09/04/1875

John Russell

 

Clonmel

William Sandford

19/04/1875

William Tobin

 

Cork

Johnanna Cotter

 

 

 

1876 - 4 executions

 

26/04/1876

John Daly

47

Belfast

Margaret Whitely

21/08/1876

Stephen M'Keown

 

Armagh

Mary M'Shane

25/08/1876

Thomas Crowe

 

Cork

John Hyland

"

Em Cristos Bombas

63

"

Murder & mutiny on Caswell

 

 

 

1877 - 1878 - No executions

 

 

 

 

1879 - 2 executions

 

10/01/1879

Thomas Cuncean

35

Limerick

Johanna Hay

25/08/1879

Giuseppe Pistoria

 

Cork

Murder & mutiny on Caswell

 

 

 

1880 - 2 executions

 

16/01/1880

Martin M'Hugo

 

Galway

Michael Breheney

14/04/1880

Peter Conway

 

Omagh

James Miller

 

 

 

1881 - No executions

 

 

 

 

1882 - 6 executions

 

22/08/1882

Thomas Haynes

40

Cork

Wife, Ellen

11/09/1882

Francis Hynes

 

Limerick

John Dougherty

22/09/1882

Patrick Walsh

 

Galway

Martin Lydon

15/12/1882

Myles Joyce,

40

Galway

John Joyce & family

"

Patrick Joyce &

40

"

"

"

Patrick Casey

30

"

"

 

 

 

1883 - 12 executions

 

15/01/1883

Patrick Higgins

65

Galway

Joseph & John Huddy

17/01/1883

Patrick Higgins &

 

Galway

 

"

Michael Flynn

 

"

"

23/01/1883

Sylvester Poff &

 

Tralee

Thomas Brown

"

James Barrett

 

"

"

30/04/1883

Timothy O'Keefe

 

Cork

Uncle, John

14/05/1883

Joseph Brady,

22

Dublin (Kilmainham)

Phoenix Park Murders of 

18/05/1883

Daniel Curley,

31

"

Lord Frederick Cavendish,

28/05/1883

Michael Fagan,

 

"

British secretary for Ireland,

02/06/1883

Thomas Caffrey &

 

"

and his undersecretary,

09/06/1883

Timothy Kelly

 

"

Thomas Henry Burke

18/12/1883

Joseph Poole

28

Dublin (Richmond)

John Kelly

 

 

 

1884 - 2 executions

 

15/01/1884

Peter Wade

 

Dublin (Kilmainham)

Patrick Quinn

26/08/1884

James Tobin

 

Wexford

Eliza Moore

 

 

 

1885 - 2 executions

 

16/01/1885

Michael Downey

 

Galway

James Moylan

20/01/1885

Thomas Parry

 

Galway

Miss Byrnes

 

 

 

1886 - 2 executions

 

12/01/1886

John Cronin

 

Mullingar

Father, Thomas

20/01/1886

William Sheehan

 

Cork

Mother, brother & sister

 

 

 

1888 - 4 executions

 

10/01/1888

Philip H E Cross

63

Cork

Wife, Mary Laura

28/04/1888

Daniel Moriarty &

 

Tralee

James Fitzmaurice

"

Daniel Hayes

 

"

"

07/05/1888

James Kirby

35

Tralee

Patrick Quirke

 

 

 

1889 - 3 executions

 

15/01/1889

Arthur M'Keown

32

Belfast

Mary Jane Phillips

08/04/1889

Peter Stafford

 

Dublin (Kilmainham)

Patrick Crawley

07/08/1889

Maurice Hickey

 

Tralee

Denis Daly

 

 

 

1890 - No executions

 

 

 

 

1891 - 2 executions

 

02/02/1891

Bartholomew Sullivan

35

Tralee

Patrick Flahive

13/03/1891

John Purcell

40

Dublin (Kilmainham)

Bridget Smith

 

 

 

1892 - 3 executions

 

12/01/1892

James Heaney

 

Mullingar

Wife

04/04/1892

James Campbell

 

Tullamore

Mary Kate Meehan

19/04/1892

Daniel Handley

 

Wexford

Mary Ann Lyons

 

 

 

1893 - 3 executions

 

06/01/1893

John Boyle

 

Londonderry

Wife

10/07/1893

Edward Leigh

 

Dublin (Kilmainham)

Bridget Knight

02/09/1893

James Reilly

 

Dublin (Kilmainham)

Bernard Cox

 

 

 

1894 - 1 execution

 

17/08/1894

John Gilmore

22

Belfast

Lyle Gardiner

 

 

 

1895 - 1 execution

 

09/02/1895

John Twiss

 

Cork

James Donovan

 

 

 

1896 & 1897 - No executions

 

 

 

 

1898 - 2 executions

 

14/01/1898

Patrick Hestor

 

Tullamore

Bernard Keegan

05/04/1898

Pte. Wilfred Kenny

 

Clonmel

Pte Albert Goodwin

 

 

 

1899 - 3 executions

 

07/01/1899

Patrick Holmes

 

Kilkenny

Ellen Lawlor

10/01/1899

Thomas Kelly

 

Armagh

Patricide

13/01/1899

Philip King

 

Armagh

Mary Reilly

 

 

 

 

 

 

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