An anti-Treaty IRA motorised column in Tipperary. At this time, as civil war raged south of the border, and with no effective police or military presence, Ballyconnell was particularly vulnerable to the depredations of armed groups of various allegiance. Since 1921 it had been wedged up against the new border with County Fermanagh and Northern Ireland to the north by the Arigna Hills to the south and west. According to the 1911 census it was populated by 125 families, or in the region of 600 people, and was according to local pro-Treaty TD Sean Milroy, ‘in the values of country towns, a very considerable centre of county life’. This gang of Irregulars have been in the mountains for several months past.īallyconnell, was a small town in western County Cavan. The National Army later derisively referred to, ‘the shooting of a looter named Cull … He and others were raiding in Ballyconnell when a couple of officers who were in the area got in touch with them. ![]() ![]() ![]() In reprisal for the shooting dead there of one of their comrades, Michael Cull, an anti-Treaty IRA column sacked the small town of Ballyconnell in February 1923, shooting dead two civilians.Ĭull, according to the local newspaper, was holding up Ovens’ hardware and grocery shop in Ballyconnell when he was shot dead by a plain clothes Free State officer.
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