Lough Mask Murders  The Lough Mask Murders were the murders on 3 January 1882 of Joseph Huddy and his grandson, John Huddy, in the townland of Upper Cloghbrack, County Galway, on the southern shore of Lough Mask in the west of Ireland. Joseph Huddy was the bailiff for Arthur Guinness, Lord Ardilaun, a major landlord in a region where agrarian disturbances of the Land War were prominent. The victims' bodies were weighed down and concealed in the lough itself. The controversial lack of credible witnesses led to four well-publicised trials of the accused in December 1882. Joseph Huddy, who lived in Creevagh near Cong, had been bailiff for the Guinnesses for over 30 years. On the morning of the murders, Joseph Huddy left home with his 17-year-old grandson, John Huddy, (sometimes erroneously reported as being Joseph's nephew) to go to Clonbur and Cornamona to serve ejectment processes on twelve of Lord Ardilaun's tenant farmers who had been withholding rent. The area was close to land managed by Charles Boycott, eponymous target of the most famous boycott of the Land War. The Huddys began service in the village of Middle Cloghbrack (also known as America) before proceeding to Upper Cloghbrack, a densely populated area with no defined village centre, on the southern shore of Lough Mask. At 10:00 a.m., the Huddys left Michael Coyne, their driver, where the road intersected with the main road running south to Cornamona. After telling Coyne to meet them in about an hour, by which time they would have served all 12 ejectments, the last one being served on Mathias Kerrigan, they set out on foot. When they had not returned by 4:00 p.m., the driver drove on to Cornamona where he alerted the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). The police proceeded to Upper Cloghbrack to look for the missing Huddys. The next day, the police questioned all of the adults of Upper Cloghbrack, but no one had any information on the Huddys even though it was known that Huddy and his grandson had gone into Upper Cloghbrack for the purpose of serving ejectment papers the previous day. After tracing the Huddys' movements as far as the house of Mathias Kerrigan, the police found evidence of a struggle in Kerrigan’s yard, as well as a mark made by a bullet in the wall of the gable end of Kerrigan’s house and bloodstains on the wall.