Major James Power

• Name	James Power
  	Per Irish Mss Commission in "William Power, Kilbolane Castle and Killmore Estate, Co. Cork" by Noel Murphy in "Elizabethan Munster". Q: is he the James Power who was granted over a thousand acres in the barony of Dunkellin (near the coast, west of Ballinasloe) in Galway 1680? In 1689 a James Power was High Sheriff of Galway. "After the cessation of hostilities in Ireland, a narrative was published purporting to give a true account of many cruelties pretended to have been inflicted on a number of Protestant gentlemen and others, who, with the first lord (then Sir Thomas) Southwell, were taken prisoners in 1689, by James Power, high sheriff of the county of Galway, and conveyed to the town for security. This narrative, Lodge, the author of the Peerage of Ireland, without sufficient investigation, introduced into his account of the Southwell peerage — Vol. VI. p. 20 — though he might easily have perceived that it was a statement worked up merely to excite the attention of government towards some of those individuals, at a time when few would venture to contradict them. The truth however is, that this party was intercepted while passing through the country in a state of open hostility ; and that while they remained prisoners in Galway they experienced the mildest treatment: they were all comfortably lodged and carefully provided for in the town, and many of them were even at large on their parole of honour, until they were exchanged after the battle of the Boyne." [https://archive.org/stream/historyoftowncouhard/historyoftowncouhard_djvu.txt] There is a James Power of Loughreagh in the Co, of Galway who appears in a List of Transplanted Irish 1655-59, as the subject of a decree in 1656 re 680 acres. [MSS Marquis of Ormonde]
  Prefix	Major
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I439	Donald
  Last Modified	3 Feb 2022

  
  

  Father	Captain David Power, of Kilbolane, Cork, transplanted to Co. Galway by Cromwell,   d. 1696
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Bridget Thornton, grand-dau of Sir George Thornton, Provost Marshall of Munster,   d. Aft 1695
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F83	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart