Reference: Connaught Journal 01 May 1823 - William Sandes

"Early on the morning of Friday last, several armed ruffians attached and broke into the lodge belonging to Mr. SANDES, on the lands of Morgans, about three miles from Askeaton, in this county, where his son, William SANDES, Esq. of Kilcavane, Queen's County, slept, and who had the day previous received some rents out of his father's property in this county. Three of the party rushed into the room, and being armed with a blunderbuss, pistol, and bayonets, assaulted and compelled Mr. SANDES to deliver up, in bank notes & money, (110l) and a case of valuable pocket pistols, with which, after violent threats, they absconded."