Sinnott's Cross Memorial, Tubrid, Mooncoin, County Kilkenny
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On the 18th June 1921, the Kilkenny IRA Brigade ambushed a party of Black and tans at Sinnott’s Cross, Tubrid, Mooncoin, County Kilkenny. One Black and Tan was killed in the action.
This Memorial commemorates this action
Kilkenny County Council Library Service
Kilkenny County Council Library Service
1921
Declan Macauley
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Kilkenny County
Hugginstown, County Kilkenny Commemorative Plaque
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The Kilkenny IRA’s Brigade attack and capture the RIC Barracks in Hugginstown on the 8th March 1920. This plaque commemorates that event
Kilkenny County Council Library Service
Kilkenny County Council Library Service
1920
Declan Macauley
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Kilkenny County
Kilkenny Barracks, Kilkenny City
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British soldiers withdrew from Kilkenny Military Barracks on the 7th February 1922. It was also the scene of a homicide and the execution of two Anti-Treaty volunteers in 1922.
Kilkenny County Council Library Service
Kilkenny County Council Library Service
1922, photographed in September 2020
Declan Macauley
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Kilkenny City
Kilmanagh, County Kilkenny
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Site of ‘incidents with the Black and Tans in local public house in 1921, later in 1923 the site of a ‘small house burning’ by Free State soldiers
Kilkenny County Council Library Service
Kilkenny County Council Library Service
1921-1923, photographed in September 2020
Declan Macauley
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Photographs: Dylan Vaughan
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Kilkenny County
Coolbawn Memorials, Castlecomer, County Kilkenny
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The Kilkenny Brigade attempted to ambush a military escort transporting explosives from the Castlecomer Barracks to the Wolfhill Coal-Mine on the 18th June 1921. However, their plans were betrayed to the Royal Devonshire Regiment. As a result, the ambushers became the ambushed and in the subsequent action two volunteers were killed.
Kilkenny County Council Library Service
1921, photographed September 2020
Declan Macauley
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Photographs: Dylan Vaughan
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Kilkenny County
Friary Street Memorial, Kilkenny City
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A company of 14 IRA Volunteers ambushed a convoy of 7 soldiers from the Royal Devonshire Regiment in Friary Street, on the 12 February 1921. resulting in the deaths of 2 of the attackers and a civilian.
Kilkenny County Council Library Service
Kilkenny County Council Library Service
1921, photographed September 2020
Declan Macauley
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Kilkenny City