Daniel Mulvihill

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Maureen Withey on 4th February 2021

Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Daniel Mulvihill, Age on arrival, 68, per Larkins (2), 1829, tried at Kerry, 7 years, for robbery house. DOB 1761, native of Kerry Co. Married 5 children father of John and Michael arrived per same ship, Catholic. Ploughman reaper. -------------------------------------------------- Same day, three men named Mulvahill, (the father and two sons,) were tried and convicted of extensive robbery calves-skins, (to the amount of upwards of £50,) the property a person named Kean, chandler of Listowel, an honest and industrious man. Some of the skins were found concealed in a hay-cock, the property of old Mulvahill, who who it was said is a man tolerably good pecuniary circumstances as a farmer. The prisoners were found guilty, principally on the evidence of a lad named Bradshaw, servant to Kean, the owner of the property, who swore that one of the younger Mulvahills effected the robbery by entering the window of the store-house, and then admitting his father and brother opening, the door. — Bradshaw was in bed in the store-room, stairs, when the plunder was carried off, swore positively that could not have been mistaken to the robbers, they were quite undisguised and he knew them perfectly well —saw their persons and knew their voices. It appeared that another servant Kean’s named Slack, (not yet apprehended) was implicated in, and probably planned, the felony. Mulvahill and his two sons were sentenced to seven years transportation. The Learned Judge, at the same time, and in the feeling and impressive manner expressing his disgust at the melancholy instance of human depravity, as that a father encouraging his children to commit a crime, so nefarious and disgusting. Sentence being pronounced, the prisoners were removed from the dock amidst the deafening yells and screams of their friends and connexions. Kerry Evening Post, 25 Mar 1829 -------------------------------------------------- Convict Index 1791-1873. Daniel Mulvihill, Larkins 1829, Certificate of Freedom, 26 Mar 1836, 36/1071.