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WS Ref #: 1250 , Witness: John O'Driscoll, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921
... 11. coming from Bandon had reached Crossbarry before the other British units which gave us ... reached us that our Brigade O/C., Charlie Hurley, had been caught on the morning Of Crossbarry and had ... of the British columns moving to Crossbarry. The Brigade officers decided to give our 0/C. a military ...
... as they moved along. The officers decided to wait in ambush for the British at Crossbarry, which ... from the top of Kilbrogan Hill. Crossbarry is eight miles from Bandon and 12 miles from Cork. Our ...
... come from Ballincollig, Kinsale and Bandon converging on the Crossbarry. The British column ...
WS Ref #: 1524 , Witness: Michael O'Regan, Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921
... and revolver were captured. On the night previous to the Crossbarry ambush on 19th March 1921, Leo Murphy ... towards Crossbarry. It appears that Leo Murphy was aware of the impending ambush there, although he did not mention it. When we got within two miles of Crossbarry the ambush had started. We spent the day ...
WS Ref #: 1297 , Witness: Michael O'Driscoll, Lieutenant IRA, Cork, 1921
... a short time in billets, when we were called rout and ordered to Crossbarry. When we got to Crossbarry, the Column 0/C told us that the British were trying to surround us and we would fight them at Crossbarry. The column was in sections of fourteen men, and every section had a job to do. We went ...
... fighting before the British took flight. We continued to move back from Crossbarry up the high ground. We ...
WS Ref #: 1317 , Witness: Cornelius Calnan, Member IRA, Cork, 1921
... -Bandon road to Crossbarry area. The column reached Crossbarry area in the early morning of 19th March ... Crossbarry crossroads which as to the south and east of our position. When we had been in position ... . There was then a lull. Suddenly, firing broke out from the direction of Crossbarry crossroads and as none of the ...
... buried the Brigade 0/C. (Charlie Hurley) who had been killed on the morning of Crossbarry ambush ...
WS Ref #: 1478 , Witness: Ted O'Sullivan, OC Cork 3 Brigade IRA, 1921
... received news of the fight at Crossbarry. This was conveyed to me in a dispatch from Liam Deasy ... at Crossbarry. I immediately contacted Wm. O'Sullivan, a member of the Bantry Company who had experience ... Hurley (brigade 0/C) had been killed on the morning of Crossbarry (19th March 1921 when he endeavoured ...
... engine. It was delivered to the column before Crossbarry on 19th March 1921. ...
WS Ref #: 1771 , Witness: Florence Begley, Member IV and IRA, Cork, 1916 - 1921
... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1771 Witness Mr Florence Begley, 32 South Main Street, Bandon, Co. Cork. Identity, Member of Irish Volunteers and Irish Republican Army, Co. Cork. Subject. Crossbarry Ambush, 19th March, 1921. Conditions ...
... on the morning of the Crossbarry ambush at the outside farm of Mrs. O'Connell of Ballymurphy. This farm ... on the Crossbarry side. Miss J. Forde a step-sister of O'Connell pleaded with the officer in charge of raiding ... after leaving the house and yard firing started below at Crossbarry and the troops moved slowly ...
... or after so strong numerically. I may add though it is out of sequence that after the Crossbarry ... near Crossbarry village if one may call it so and after sometime they left their positions ... . I met Dr. Welply at Crossbarry village and accompanied him in his car to Barters, Of Ballinphellig ...
... 2 when we moved off towards Crossbarry. We arrived at Crossbarry approx I or 1.30 a.m. to my recollection. We were halted by the column O/c. and he gave orders that in case of alarm we were to mobilise at Beasley's farmyard. This was the customary procedure before men were detailed to billets. We ...
... that the British happened by accident to come in contact with the column at Crossbarry. It obviously ...
WS Ref #: 470 , Witness: Denis Lordan, Captain IV, Cork, 1916; Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921
... and Crossbarry district by burning the houses and contents. At dusk on Saturday evening, 19th March, the Column ... had, sent strong reinforcements from Cork, Ballin- collig, Bandon, Macroom and Kinsale to Crossbarry ... of the Column who were killed at Crossbarry and also the body of the Brigade O.C., who was killed ...
... at Slievegullane. On Friday night the Column marched from Slievegullane to Crossbarry district where ... from his section and in case of "Alarm" to mobilise at a point on the Bandon Crossbarry road where ... lorries moving on the Bandon Crossbarry road was also heard. When these reports were received by the O.C ...
... -west of Crossbarry. Here a short halt was called on the roadside and the whole Column, having got ...
WS Ref #: 832 , Witness: William Desmond, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921
... in the evaning. Including myself, there were fourteen of the Newcestown Company with the Column at Crossbarry ... at Kilpatrick and brought along in one of their lorries. When the firing started at Crossbarry he managed ... of interest. the Newcestown Company furnished the biggest number of men resent with the Column at Crossbarry ...
... of a back-to-back trap dead at Harold's gate at Crossbarry on the 19th March, 1921. The Saturday night previous to Crossbarry we took the rifles, ammunition and whatever equipment we had in the big ...
... tooth pulled. When I got back the Column had already started for Crossbarry and I overtook it at the Upton Industrial School. Abound Crossbarry we went into billets. We mobilised in the morning the 19th ...
... as it was bright, the firing started at Crossbarry. I heard Percival give order 'Come on, Kinsale party' and I ... Forde's fother. We got in over the fence again and moved on in the direction of Crossbarry. I saw ...
... the firing was not so hot our party advanced down towards a stream in the direction of Crossbarry, I ... been left. In the meantime Percival. and his own had gone on towards Crossbarry where firing had ...
... . It was to here that the Column came after Crossbarry and billeted at Sullivans and other houses ...
... -43- It is, of course, a tatter of history now that the fight at Crossbarry, which, though it started as an ambush, developed into a regular pitched battle, was the one which stands out from all others during those years as being the action in which the biggest forces were engaged on both sides ...
WS Ref #: 1254 , Witness: Michael Coleman, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921
... was in No. 1 section under Sean Hales. During the night we moved off for Crossbarry area. Crossbarry ... the alarm was sounded and we were ordered to Crossbarry Crossroads We all assembled in a field near ...
... of the Crossbarry fight and killed as he tried to fight his way through. I should have mentioned that during the Crossbarry fight Flor Begley, Assistant Brigade Adjutant, marched up and down one of the farmyards in the centre of the position playing the bagpipes. The night after Crossbarry we marched ...
... would reach Crossbarry first and an ambush was prepared for them. The place selected for the ambush was on the Bandon-Crossbarry road on the Bandon side of the crossroads where two farmers' houses ...
... 15. long convoy of lorries was sighted on the Bandon-Crossbarry road, We could hear the sound of lorries from all directions for some time but this was the first sight. We kept quiet as the lorries came on and just as the first of the lorries passed us they stopped and the soldiers jumped out. Some ...
WS Ref #: 1608 , Witness: Daniel Donovan, Officer IV and IRA, Cork 3 Brigade, 1917 - 1921
... . Shortly after we had begun to move away from Crossbarry area a small body of enemy troops ... in the engagement at Crossbarry were never known. We lost three men killed (Peter Monahan, Jerh. O'Leary, Con ... that Charlie Hurley (Brigade 0/C) had been killed on the morning of Crossbarry (March 19th 1921) in an effort ...
... 18th the column moved across the main Cork Bandon road to Ballyhandle in Crossbarry area. I ... Cork-Bandon road at Crossbarry. The column was divided into seven sections under the following section ...