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The Siege of Hurley's Mill

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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• Niall McAuley said:

  The evicting force came in the early forenoon to find the house locked and barricaded against them, while the yards and adjoining fields were crowded with sympathetic neighbours and townspeople who had been summoned by the ringing of Church bells and blowing of horns. To a demand for possession, Tim Hurley replied that if they wanted possession they'd have to fight for it. When the bailiffs rushed with a battering ram against the shuttered parlour window, they were met with showers of scalding water from the upstairs windows. The eviction failed! www.failteromhat.com/castleviewevictions.php

• Niall McAuley said:

  OSI 25" link: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,542570,544838,7,9

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Niall McAuley Thanks Niall. Good clear account, but no light cast on the Land League Hut...

• Niall McAuley said:

  Arrangements had been made to build a hut for the evicted tenant if the eviction were successful, and in the evening about two thousand persons assembled in the town with thirty carts, and conveyed the materials of the hut to Hurley's holding, near Hurley's holding, near which they erected it. Bands were in attendance, and the proceedings were marked by great rejoicings. trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/75850828

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Niall McAuley Excellent! That explains the hut then - well done, Trove! And you too, Niall... :)