Colonel Stephenson’s Regiment of Foot

Irish Confederate foot of the Munster Army fighting alongside the Royalists in 1649

• April: Mustered at Polemonnty

Apparently this was a ‘double regiment’ organised into two battalions of 419 and 427 men respectively in 1649. Note the seventeen soldiers belonging to Colkitto in the second battalion – are these the last surviving Redshanks?

Mustered April 1649¹⁾.

• The collonell's company : captain, lieutenant, ensigne, 2 serjeants, one drumme, 38 musketts, 24 pikes, sicke 11, absent 8. In all : 86.
• Lieutenant-collonell Purcell’s company: captain, lieutenant, ensign, 2 Serjeants, 1 drumme, 28 musketts, 28 pikes, 5 sicke ; absent, 2. In all : 69.
• Captain Richard Stephenson's company : captain, lieutenant, ensigne, 2 Serjeants, 1 drumme, 29 musketts, 20 pikes, 3 sick. In all : 58.
• Captain Garrott FitzGrerrald's company : captain, lieutenant, ensigne,. 2 Serjeants, 1 drumme, 30 muskets, 1 sick. In all : 47.
• Captaine Aliexander Brett's company : captaine, lieutenant, ensigne, 2 Serjeants, 1 drumme, 24 musketts, 35 pikes ; sick, 5. In all : 70.
• Captaine Morrish Harbert's company : captaine, lieutenant, ensigne, 2 Serjeants, 1 drumme, 38 musketts, 33 pikes, 12 sick. In all : 89.
• Captaine John Oge FitzGerrald's company: captain, lieutenant, ensigne, 2 Serjeants, 1 drumme, 29 muskets, 36 pikes, 1 sick ; absent, 4. In all : 75.

The whole number, 419.—This regiment is well armed.

• Major Carmuck's companys : captaine, lieutenant, ensigne, 2 Serjeants, 37 armed with pikes. In all : 64. The rest ill-armed.1
• Captaine Daniell O'Neill's company : captain, lieutenant, ensigne, 2 Serjeants, 31 musketts, 23 pikes. In all : 53.
• Captaine Morrogh McSwynye's company : captain, lieutenant, ensign, 2 Serjeants, 25 musketts, 24 pikes, In all : 51.
• Captaine Sowrley McDonnell's company : captaine, lieutenant, ensigne, 2 Serjeants, 1 piper, 33 musketts, 32 pikes. In all : 68.
• Captaine James Cambell's company : captain, lieutenant, ensigne, 2 Serjeants, 17 musketts, 31 pikes, never a good pike amongst them. There are seven unarmed men in the company.
• Captain Doran's company: captaine, lieutenant, ensigne, 2 Serjeants, 1 drumme, 25 musketts, 40 pikes. In all : 68. The company is very ill-armed, [many] of the pikes unserviceable, many calivers unfixed.
• Captain Galloghor's company : captain, lieutenant, ensigne, 2 Serjeants, 16 muskets, 36 pikes. In all : 54. Never a good pike nor musket in this company.
• Seaventeene souldiers belonging to Coolekittagh.
• Captaine Madden's company : captaine, lieutenant, ensigne, two Serjeants, 30 musketts, 15 pikes.

The whole number, 427.