carrickshock

The Carrickshock Incident of 1831 ? The Carrickshock incident, Carrickshock massacre, or battle of Carrickshock[1] was a confrontation between the Irish Constabulary and local Catholic tenant farmers near Carrickshock, near Hugginstown, County Kilkenny on 14 December 1831, during the Tithe War in Ireland.[2] Seventeen were killed: 14 of a party attempting to collect tithes and three of the crowd of locals who confronted them. The incident was unusual among massacres in the Tithe War in that the majority of casualties were supporters rather than opponents of tithes. ... See - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrickshock_incident

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Strikes me that the fellow might be one of these guys -

We visited this "incident" before. flic.kr/p/JTbbqH

Hmm - Rockhall according to Google Maps ?? - goo.gl/maps/Wd2R68oftX3CEPi17

The Great God of Google says it was the 1831 Carrickshock incident en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrickshock_incident ... " ... Though not named in contemporary sources, since 1907 the names of the three dead have been given as James Treacy (the bayonetted youth) of Kilcurl, Patrick Power Kilcurl, and Thomas Phelan Kilkeasy. ... " Edit - And this ... "The incident has remained important in the local nationalist historical narrative. On 8 March 1920, during the Irish War of Independence, an Irish Republican Army assault on the RIC barracks at Hugginstown began with a muster at the Carrickshock site, chosen not for tactical but for symbolic value. In July 1925, a celtic cross memorial to the three locals killed was erected at the site of the incident. ... "

The Carrickshock Incident

The roof has fallen off the chapel since: www.google.ie/maps/@52.4520347,-7.2513449,3a,75y,79.23h,8... OSI: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,650885,633669,11,9

Aside - there is the cutest little cottage in the reverse view of the streetview above.

Front row far right is E. Walsh former Mayor of Waterford