New Website: County Mayo. Irish Registration Act 1843.

The Irish Registration Act of 1843

Schedule B.,6&7 Vic.,Cap.74,Sec 3.

Licence to Keep Arms.

County Mayo

The following entries have been collected over a number years by myself, fellow collectors and dealers. In total over 1100 registrations from the 40 areas have been collated which is a very small sample of the 300.000 weapons the authorities had calculated were in circulation in private hands at this time.

The list below gives all those weapons found registered in County Mayo between 1843-1846.

Listed are the county prefix, licence number, description of weapon/s and where possible the maker/retailer.

Skelton back action lock percussion pocket/overcoat pistol with captive ramrod.

MA 217	Perc' Fowler. Oct Barrel 43.5" 10 Bore.	Calderwood
MA 431	Flk Brass Barrelled Blunderbuss.	W. Bond
MA 951	Pair Boxlock Pocket Pistols
MA 506	Flk B/Lock Brass Barrel Boarding Pistol. Folding Bay. Side Ramrod.
MA 867	Flk Brass Barrelled Blunderbuss.
MA 1005	Flk Swedish 10 Bore Doglock Musket. W&W sale 257 lot 914.
MA 1130	Converted Brass Barrelled Blunderbuss.	Silk
MA 1166	Pair Flk Duelling Pistols	Rigby
MA 140-?	Flk. Rifle	Wheeler
MA 1586	Flk 4 Bore Fowling Piece	W Ketland & Co
MA 1588	Flk 4 Bore Fowling Piece	Fowler
MA 1605	New Land Pistol	Calderwood
MA 1634	Flk Tap Action Pistol	Richards
MA 2108	Perc' Pocket/Overcoat Pistol.	Skelton

Skelton of Omagh octagonal barrelled pistol registered in Co: Mayo. (MA 2108)

We are always interested in guns/pistols manufactured by this gunmaker.
The connection, if any, between Richard Skelton of Monaghan and Skelton of Omagh has yet to be clarified.

Skelton of Omagh listed by Richard J. Garrett in
Irish Gunmakers, Published Hong Kong, 2008.