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The Civil War in Edenderry, 1922



An interesting document in the Bureau of Military History compiled during the Irish Civil War, 1922-23, lists the names of the Free State Troops who were present in the Edenderry Barracks (the former workhouse) on the night of 12-13 November 1922. In the first few months of the Civil War, from the end of June until the beginning of September 1922, the Edenderry workhouse was attacked six times by the Anti-Treaty IRA. Ciarán Reilly writes that of the 120 stationed in Edenderry barracks during the Civil War, thirty-three were from Edenderry. He has identified his great-grandfather, William McEvoy as one of them. Can you identify any of your own ancestors?
  Name
Age
Address
William Nolan
35
Blundell St
James Mullen
35
Main St
William Kenny
25
Blundell St
Denis Collins
22
St Marys Rd
William Foran
29
Carrick Rd
William McEvoy
35
Drumcooley
William Keyes
18
Drumcooley
James Whelan
27
Cloncannon
James Bland
44
Railway St
Patrick Walker
29
Windsor St
James Gowran
36
Main St
John Mooney
24
Conoboro
Bernard Farrell
18
Derravilla
George Ladley
17
Main St
Bernard Farrell
22
Cloncannon
James Briens
35
Blundell St
John McCormack
26
Rathmore
John Cummins
23
Conoboro
Chris Connell
50
Blundell St
Thomas Hussey
50
Blundell St
Thomas Fulton
48
Blundell St
Thomas Brereton
22
Blundell St
Christopher Hope
29
Conoboro
Joseph Judge
40
Blundell St
Bernard Hope
22
Conoboro
James Bland
33
Drumcooley
Thomas Connor
46
Blundell St
Peter Fulton
20
Main St
Michael Graham
31
New Row
Matthew Hynes
33
Rathvilla
Pat O’Connor
18
Glann
Bernard Mulraney
20
Ballykillen
Patrick Mulraney
22
Ballykillen


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