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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

Nice Action Photo. I can see that they were working hard to make it a better Place.

www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03/17160807620/

Here is Bridget Phelan, 36, in the 1901 census..

Niall McAuley This woman could be 36. Do you think it is Bridget Phelan?

Yes, I think it is very likely, she's right there in Kilnagrange. Either this is Bridget, or Bridget (36) ordered a copy of a photo of another woman her own age.

Streetview

I think the bicycle suggests 1900 rather than 1890...

Where are all the chimney pots? Have they been blooped-out by the photographer?

Yeah, the Chimney Pots are conspicuous in their absence, thieves stealing Pots (note careful Grammatical spelling)!!!!

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