Hugh Falvey (abt. 1735)

Born about 1735 in Faha, County Kerry, Ireland

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Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Faha, County Kerry, Ireland

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Biography

Name

Name: Hugh /FALVEY/^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

Sources

• Conversion Record at National Archives

• HOUSE: FAHAGH COURT

• Source: S12301 Title: Families of County Kerry Ireland - Volume II of the Book of Irish Families, great and small by Michael C O'Laughlin
• Source: S12326 Title: The Mahonys of Kerry by S. T. McCarthy
• Source: S12686 Title: The Last Colonel of the Irish Brigade
• Source: S23647 Title: Personal Research

1. ↑ Source: Page: Elizabeth Hart (nee Austen) through Michael George, great grandson of John Roche Hayes
2. ↑ Source: Page: Page 54 Data: Text: Extract - In 1757 Counsellor Hugh Falvey brought lands for Catholic in the penal times
3. ↑ Source: Page: Kerry Archaeological Magazine, 1917-1918, p. 171 -190; 223-255. [Part II]
4. ↑ Source: #S12686 Page: Notes to Book I - Page 56 Data: Text: In 1768 great pressure was brought to bear on Hugh Falvey by some of the iniquitous penal enactments. He tried to save his lands and spare his soul by the intervention of a friendly Protestant, one Samuel Windus, a Dublin hosier, whose name appears as pretended " discoverer," but really helper, in the O'Connell papers. Eventually, Hugh Falvey apostatized, and saved his lands. He and his eldest son John, who followed his example, became eminent barristers. Hugh Falvey constantly acted as trustee for his friends, Maurice and Morgan O'Connell, not merely as friendly " discoverer " of what they had, but as nominal purchaser of other lands Maurice bought from time to time.
5. ↑ Source: Page: Notes to Book I Page 56 Data: Text: On one occasion, at a dinner-party at the house of one of the Blennerhassetts, some of the born Protestants reproached Councillor Hugh with aiding a Papist to buy land, and threatened to swear Maurice O'Connell was the purchaser, and " discover" on him, and thereby seize the lands. " Swear away, and be hanged to you ! " replied Hugh Falvey. " I am ready to swear the print out of the Bible I bought them myself! " This was technically, if not morally, true.
6. ↑ Source: Page: Notes to Book I - Pages 56 and 57 Data: Text: The old Councillor's house was broken into by robbers, who were repulsed by him and his son John, and in the scuffle the old man felt that one of his assailants had lost a certain finger. A man named Sullivan, maimed in a similar way, was arrested and hanged. His counsel raised the point of old Hugh Falvey' s age, and probably defective vision. His son replied, " If my father is too old to know, I am not." Sullivan, who was innocent, was hanged; another man who had lost a finger having committed the burglary. Sullivan's sister cursed the two Councillors, but exempted the two Noras. The old man was found dead, and the young man was killed by a fall from his horse, as the curse had predicted. It never occurred to the peasants that those who suffered innocent blood to be spilt rather than inform on the guilty man had a larger share of blood-guiltiness than the two gentlemen who honestly swore what they believed to be true.
7. ↑ Source: Page: Notes to Book I - Page 57 Data: Text: Very shortly before the relaxation of the penal laws, when Hugh Falvey and Hunting Cap were both old men, Maurice wrote to ask him to purchase Tomies in the usual way. Councillor Falvey responded, My dear Maurice, if I were a few years younger, I would be as ready to oblige a friend as ever. I regret that I am too near my end to perjure myself any more, even for so old and valued a friend as yourself."