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Group at Hugginstown

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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• beachcomber australia said:

  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. ... "

• bawdy kittens said:

  The Carrickshock Incident

• derangedlemur said:

  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

• beachcomber australia said:

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

• DannyM8 said:

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