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  • WS Ref #: 366 , Witness: Alice M Cashel, Member Cumann na mBan, Galway; Vice-Chairman Galway County Council, 1920-1921

    • ... in Ballingeary, near the Pass of Keimaneigh, and when Sean Hegarty was ordered out of Cork ... and was told that I could go back to Ballingeary The morning papers told of Casement's arrest. There was no need of Cass now. I went back to Ballingeary on Easter Saturday. On Easter Sunday Séan and the local ...

  • WS Ref #: 841 , Witness: Patrick S O'Hegarty, Member Supreme Council IRB, London and Dublin, 1902 - 1916

    • ... : my brother, in Ballingeary, knew nothing whatever, never even heard of a projected Rising until ... west of Ballingeary, where he was. He set out, to find on Monday that the column had assembled ...

  • WS Ref #: 878 , Witness: Patrick O'Sullivan, Officer IV, Cork, 1916; Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921

    • ... -10- already the 7th. The area embraced by our newly constituted Battalion included the Companies 'A' (Kilnamartyra), 'B' (Ballyvourney), 'C' CCoolea), 'D' (Ballingeary) and 'E' (Inchigeela ... on the area. There were plans and preparations in 1919 for attacking Ballyvourney, Ballingeary ...

    • ... -12- burning on 2nd June of a big house called Glebe House near Inchigeela and which was going to be occupied by British troops. On Whit Sunday we thought to take the R.I.C. Barracks at Ballingeary ... , in this barracks. There were 12 of us for this job all armed with revolvers and we rode to Ballingeary ...

  • WS Ref #: 1543 , Witness: Patrick J Lynch, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921; Member Brigade Flying Column

    • ... 3. On 7th July, l9l, Dan McSweeney of Ballyvourney Company, with Volunteers of Coolea and Ballingeary Companies, held up and disarmed two R.I.C. men at the mouth of the Glen in the Ballingeary Company area. They seized two rifles and a sidecar by which they (R.I.C.) were travelling to Ballyvourney ...

    • ... the Ballyvourney, Ballingeary and Kilnamartra Companies, assembled in Ballingeary village to attack the R.I.C ...

    • ... left our camp and marched in extended formation via Reenaree and Ballingeary to the farmhouse of Jack ... , and was located in the Ballingeary Company area. In Coomrue we spent a further ten days training while ...

    • ... 2. of Baflyvourney Company, Jeremiah Lucey remained 1st Lieutenant and Dan t4cSweeney became 2nd Lieutenant. Dan Corkery became Battalion 0/C, Dan Lynch became Vice 0/C, and Charlie Browne Adjutant. Included in the Companies attached to the Macroom Battalion then were Kilnamartra, Ballingeary ...

    • ... and Ballingeary men. The attacking party numbered sixty. The barracks which was a two-storey building, stood ...

    • ... and from there to Carrigbati in the Ballingeary Company area where we remained for three clays. One ...

  • WS Ref #: 637 , Witness: Muriel McSwiney, Widow of Terence McSwiney

    • ... for the working-class people. After this we went to Ballingeary. It was my first visit ... loved Ballingeary. We returned to Cork and had a small house on the Douglas Road. Seán O'Hegarty ...

    • ... days the Stun Féin politics were clean. After Terry's release I went to live in Ballingeary. Terry ...

    • ... like the MacNeills. I was personally for the working class people. Alter this we went to Ballingeary ... in Irish she broke into verse quite naturally. I loved Ballingeary.. we returned to Cork and had a small ...

    • ... release I went to live in Ballingeary. Terry was only able to be there for part of each week as his ...

  • WS Ref #: 793 , Witness: Michael O'Sullivan, Dispatch rider IV, Cork, 1916; Engineering Officer IRA, Cork, 1921

    • ... of the Glen, about halfway between Ballyvourney and Ballingeary. An aeridheacht had been proclaimed which ... Reilly, Ballyvourney, Johnny Lynch of the Glen and Tadg Toomey, Ballingeary, took up position ...

    • ... with their bayonets. In September, 1919, we were preparing to attack Ballyvourney, Ballingeary and Inchigeela ...

    • ... as a nephew of his, a good young lad, was in the Battalion. In Ballingeary the police were in the habit ...

  • WS Ref #: 1585 , Witness: Timothy Dineen, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921

    • ... regularly once a week. In about the middle of this year, the company officers went to Ballingeary to inspect a Lee Enfield rifle which Captain John Lynch of Ballingeary had obtained for the use ...

    • ... , Ballingeary and Inchigeela, and were known as A, B, C, D and E Companies, respectively. ...

  • WS Ref #: 1598 , Witness: James Wickham, Officer, IV Cork, 1916

    • ... 7 of a small pocket diary, and read as follows: "WE GO INTO ACTlON AT NONNTO-DAY P.H.P." The Cork Brigade officers were in Ballingeary at this time. As motor cars at that period could only be used ... the officers, as they had set out for Cork before he reached Ballingeary. The officers arrived in Cork city ...

  • WS Ref #: 1698 , Witness: Liam Roche (de Roiste), Member Sinn Fein, 1913 - 1921; Member Dail Eireann, 1918

    • ... , Tooreenduv, Ballingeary. Wife and self have come here for a short holiday. There were many priests ... , was being interred. Terence McSwiney is also in Ballingeary. We met him in the village and went ...

    • ... an Irish Surer School, or Summer College of Irish, in Ballingeary, Co. Cork. August 29th: Received a copy ...

    • ... is to be established in Ballingeary. He is one of the membersof the organising committee. (On his ...

    • ... in Ballingeary during July and August sensions this year were: Caitlin Sheehy, who became Mrs. Cruise O'Brien ...

    • ... received from him many years previously a subscription for the Irish College in Ballingeary. On Saturday ...

    • ... . RSHS at Sheares St. San last night and is going to Ballingeary tomorrow flora, within a radius of ten ...

    • ... 208. 1915. of the Kingdom". (That was not what the Orange members wanted, but the coercion of the rest of Ireland). July 12th. In Ballingeary yesterday at a meeting of Colaisde na Mumhan Committee. Went by car from Macroom. Coming back, nearing Kilbarry, a man - ordinary small farmer type ...

    • ... the College here (in Ballingeary) as a student; his textbook in his hand like the youngest. He is a Vice ...

    • ... , "in Ballingeary, in fact". "I suppose you know you are being shadowed by the police?". ...

    • ... 277. 1916. February 10th. Claude Chevasse of Oxford University, at Macroom Petty Sessions, yesterday, was fined £5, with the alternative of a month's imprisonment, for speaking in Irish in Ballingeary. That's Splendid! Sergeant Appleby asked Chevasse some questions. Chevasse replied in Irish, so ...

    • ... of the Gaelic League. Yesterday, he, Chevasse and Peadar Ó Hannracháin went to Ballingeary and addressed ...

    • ... was surprised, but I made some excuse. I crossed to the north, having in my mind get to Ballingeary ...

    • ... then knew the roads better. He was guarding an "evicted farm". As Ballingeary was some considerable ...

    • ... 336. 1916. July 19th. (In Ballingeary). Among students of Coláiste na Mumhan here at present are: Maighréad de Brún, sister to Rev. Dr. Pádraig Browne of Maynooth, who was with Sean MacDiarmuda the night before his execution. Both of them were here previously. Maighread is studying for Master ...

    • ... on a Sinn Féin platform. I knew him in Ballingeary as a student some years ago - a fine character. Count ...

  • WS Ref #: 1719 , Witness: Dan Corkery, Member IRB Cork, 1913 - 1916

    • ... An aeriocht was held in Ballyvourney early in July, 1918. A number of armed R.I.C. men from Ballingeary attended the gathering. This R.I.C. party were attacked on their way back to their barrack by some men from Ballyvourney, Reinaree and Ballingeary Companies. Their arms were seized. As a result ...

    • ... -50 were now organised in Kilmichael, Rusheen, Canavee, Ballingeary, Inchigeela, Ballyvourney ...

    • ... 3. Volunteer activities. The strength of all units increased and, in many cases, doubled. There were now fifteen companies in Macroom district, as follows - Coachford, Rylane, Aherla, Kilmichael, Rusheen, Canavee, Ballingeary, Inchigeela, Ballyvourney, Coolea, Macroom, Clondrohid, Ballinagree ...

    • ... 7. This battalion was numbered 8. It consisted of Ballingeary, Ballyvourney, Inchigeela, Kilnamartyra and Coolea Companies. Some short time later, Coachford Company was transferred to the 6th Battalion (Donoughmore), and Aherla Company to the 3rd (Ovens). We had now ten companies in Macroom ...