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cruelly put them to the sword, murdering them all without mercy. At Lissenskeagh they hanged or otherwise killed above 100 persons, most of them of the Scotch nation ; for after once they had the English in their power, they spared none of them, but used all the Scots with as much cruelty as they did the English. This county was very well planted by the British undertakers, and all of them and their Tennants, in a very short space, after a most horrible manner, quite destroyed or utterly banished from their habitations.” Castle Archdale was, however, rebuilt and inhabited for nearly fifty years.

Despite a tradition to the contrary, it is probable that Edward Archdale did not survive the Rebellion ; as there is no trace of him in the family papers or other records after 1641, and it is certain that he did not reach an old age.

He married Angel, second daughter of Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet, of Manor Gore, by whom he had his son and successor.

WILLIAM ARCHDALE, the son of Edward, succeeded his father in the property. Local tradition asserts that, when the old Castle was destroyed in 1641, the young child William was saved through the fidelity of a Roman Catholic nurse, named M‘Hugh, who conveyed him secretly out of the Castle.

Whatever may have been the precise date or manner of his father’s death, William Archdale was clearly in possession of the family estates in 1659-60, as in the Census of that date he appears as a “ Titulado,” or person of rank and property, in the parish of Derryvullen, and residing in Manor Archdale. Again, on April 23rd 1662, he entered into articles of agreement with Richard Palfry and Gilbert Rawson, junior, both of Dublin ; and a clause in the deed states definitely that Edward Archdale’s property had descended to his son.¹

On September 21st 1665, Archdeacon John Archdale and his wife Elizabeth resigned to their nephew Wiliiam, of Castle Archdale, all title, claim or interst in the lands of Drum- garragh, etc., at Ballycassidy, which had been rented from William Archdale’s father. The lands had been redeemed by William by virtue of a Clause of Redemption in the deed.

William Archdale was High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1667, and again in 1692. He was also a Justice of the Peace ; and in that capacity he specially encouraged a certain Mulmurry O’Hossa to pursue and slay two notorious ruffians named Daniel O’Roarty and James O’Loughnane, who had become the terror of the neighbourhood. Accordingly, on July 5th 1670 O’Hossa brought the outlaws’ heads, all dripping with gore, into the Court House at Enniskillen, where several Justices, including William Archdale, were assembled in open court. The two heads were set up, as a gruesome warning, in the town of Enniskillen.²

In 1678, William Archdale’s name appears in a list of the Crown Tenants of Co. Fermanagh, which was preserved in the Record Office in Dublin.

During his remarkably long tenure of his estates, he made extensive additions to them. On July 10th 1671, he purchased the lands of Rahall and Cullenenesse in the parish of Derryvullen, for £125, from Henry Broomer, a cutler in Dublin, and his son John Broomer.³

By deed, dated July 5th 1677, William Archdale purchased from Thomas, Lord Folliott of Ballyshannon, the grange of Kilterny, in Co. Fermanagh, for the sum of £300. The chapel of Kilterny had been in early times a grange of the Abbey of Asheroe, Co. Donegal. The lands were afterwards held by Francis Gofton and Lord Folliott, before they were acquired by William Archdale. According to the deed of 1677, Kilterny consisted of three-and-a-half small tates. A portion of it became, and still remains, the Castle Archdale Deerpark.

At the same time, William Archdale conveyed to Lord Folliott, for £200, his interest in the Quarter of land of Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal, held by lease under the See of Clogher.

On May 6th 1697, he took a lease from the Bishop of Clogher of the tight Quarters of land of Devenish (except Devenish Island), the two Quarters of Inismoyshane in the barony of Magheraboy, and the Quarter of Ballinagackquin in Co. Donegal, at the annual rent of £120.

In connection with the Wallis purchases, a great many documents have been               

1. A Richard Palfry was elected M. P. for Augher, Tyrone, in 1661. In the returns he is described as of Dublin.
2. See Mr. Prendergast’s paper on The Tory War of Ulster, in the Quarterly Journal of the Kilkenny Achæological Society, 1867.
3. A witness to this deed was William’s cousin, young John Archdale, afterwards Vicar of Lusk.