References:
Bur. Reed. Vol. 2 (1849), "Patrick Mc Kie, Major unattached in the Gorguan, abode Frenchville, Eyre Str., buried June 18th 1849, aged 52 years". Major Patrick Mc Kie of the Third Buffs was the Poor Law inspector of the Galway Union. He had been in poor health as a result of thirty years of service in India and died as a result of typhus fever at the Workhouse. The 3rd Buffs did not always behave as gentlemen and officers GALLANT CONDUCT OP A PARTY OF THE Sao , BUFFS. Sine* tint firat appearance of a military party at Conns* Kara, atnr did area wearing the Hpj of the btkrt aet ao base, ao disgracefe', ao untoldier-like a part, aa did the party <if the 3d Baffa; bow qnaxtered at Connemara, aet on the 36th Jane laai. The circnaetaoce of tbia disreputable eaaa w*re aa follow i—A poor oiao named Jamea Mertia, father of aa ai- ■oat starving fomUy, want from Kiavarra to Opterard, to aail a keg of potteen. The poor wretch waa decoyed by aome rufflaa to the military barrack; the non*aommiuioned eflUeroojMhteavebim admiaaioa j bimeeif aad the party aa goardattBdrained the eoataata of;^ho poor maaV keg, became Wlatosicated, that the aapcrior oflfera having learned what bed been done by their gallant sahsltero aad bio goard of hoaoar, aeat a apceial meaaeage r to Lien tenant Croker, who proceeded inataatly to protect the revenae.... The nofortoante wretch waa oarried before tbe magiatratea dad feateaped to pay £6 floe, or go to Jail for three moatbti leaving bhidieireeeedftmily to starve ia the wild mountains •f Connemara.
