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Donegal Castle, I think. One mo, while I check...

Yep: freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donegal/castle...

OSI: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,592867,878555,7,9

derangedlemur Delighted (though hate you a little bit)! You've obliterated our land speed record... :)

National Library of Ireland on The Commons That's OK. I held the obliterated record already anyway.

Who's who in this photo?
Th officer (I'm going by the cut of his uniform) has Flying Corps wings above his campaign ribbons. campaign ribbons are also worn my the man to his right.
By the look of cap badges (a harp surmounted by a crown) and the dark uniforms they might be members of the RIC . The presence of a khaki clad officer also makes me think of RIC Auxiliaries, aka Black and Tans.

I'm assuming he's Auxiliary - those men were recruited from ex-WWI officers including the Royal Flying Corps. Most of the others seem to be Black and Tans. So many men (mostly WWI veterans) responded to British Government appeals for recruits to bolster R.I.C. (Royal Irish Constabulary) numbers, that there was a severe shortage of uniforms. Hence the Tans mostly ended up with khaki trousers and dark tops, either R.I.C. (dark green) or British police tunics (dark blue) - and hence the nickname...

For more on this attack, and some fascinating details on participants from both sides, see this link - irishconstabulary.com/topic/755/Q-Company

Peter Mc Thank you! Absolutely fascinating, and allowed me to tag with Q Company...
With regard to the "liquid fire" spoken of on irishconstabulary.com, the Irish Times reported that:
"... A sinister feature of the attack was the use of gas bombs and of bottles containing a thick red-brown corrosive liquid, which gave off nauseous fumes and partially choked the police occupants of the hotel..."

Peter Mc Very interesting, I read the account of the attack, fascinating!

On the Royal Welch Fusiliers website Fermoy is mentioned repeatedly. "On the 24th August 1887 the 2nd Battalion moved from Fermoy to Galway, finding detachments at Castlebar, Oughterard and Gort. On the 2nd Battalion leaving the following complimentary 'resolution'was received from the Magistrates of Fermoy:- "Resolved: that we the Magistrates assembled at Fermoy Petty Sessions, beg to record our unanimous approval of the conduct of the Royal Welch Fusiliers while stationed here for the past two years, their (sic) not being, to the best of our recollection, a civil case against them during that period, and that our clerk be directed to send a copy of this resolution to Col. Williamson, in command of the regiment. Signed Geo Montgomery, Chairman Fermoy Petty Sessions, 12th September 1887 From reading through their site it appears that they left in 1887 and went to Galway where they remained for some time. As I remember it the big open field behind became the grounds of the aerodrome that was attached to the camp and used up to quite recently. The mighty Munster team that beat the New Zealand All Blacks in 1978 trained on that field in the run up to the historic match.

Swordscookie Hastily changing Welsh to Welch! And date to Circa 1887! Would you have the link to that website, please.

The Royal Welch Fusiliers site is www.rwfmuseum.org.uk/ The quote above is from a google book below books.google.com/books?id=vytFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA339&l...

Swordscookie Thank you! :)

This is terribly cute! :D