Hurley Family Tree

"The Examinacion of Dermond Hurly aged about 24 yeares". He was in Kilbrittain Castle in the first year of the rebellion and saw William Goosam (Gussain), an Englishman, brought in by the ward, then "vnder the Comand of Bryan mc Swiny Bellogh (Deputed there gouernor there by mc Carty Reagh)", and hanged on a gallows near the castle; and saw "one that named himselfe William ffullers servant" hanged on the same gallows; two more Englishmen were reportedly hanged there. He said "his father being mcCarties steward, would gladly haue saued the aforesaid Goosam, for that he was an intimate friend to one Mr Holcombe, with whom the said Goosam formerly dwelt". He heard the ward had killed Mr Stepney in Courceys country. McCarthy Reagh was "vp & downe", sometimes at Kilbrittain and sometimes with his forces.
On fol. 132v: the gallows was erected by McCarthy Reagh's order; Captain McSwiny commanded; after McSwiny left, "this Examinants ffather being left in the Castle without Comand, deliuered vp the said Castle, when the English came before it, ffor the which McCarty threatened to hang this Examinants father". Endorsed "McDermond Hurlyes Exam about the murder of Kilbritten". Signed "Der: Hurly". Before John Clerke and Francis Wheeler.