As part of our work for Tipperary County Council Decade of Centenaries Programme (funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media) on the mapping the 1920 Kilcommon Ambush, we delivered an online project inception talk on 21 July 2021. The talk covers a range of topics, from the background to the…
Our work on the Kilcommon Ambush was covered by Tipp FM as we ramp up with the project. You can catch it over on the Abarta Heritage post on the project by clicking here, with the audio embedded at the base of the piece.
One of the projects we have been engaged in recently is an analysis of the archaeological landscape of the August 1922 Battle for Cork, the largest engagement of the revolutionary decade in the county. Despite its scale and importance (the engagement led to the fall of Cork City), no detailed efforts to identify and map…
The Kilcommon Ambush of 16 December 1920 was one of the most significant carried out by the No. 1 (North) Tipperary IRA Brigade Flying Column during the War of Independence. Tipperary County Council have appointed the archaeologists of the Landscapes of Revolution Project from Abarta Heritage to work with local historians and the local community…
One of the main aims of the Landscapes of Revolution Project is to identify and raise awareness of the surviving landscapes of our revolutionary past, and offer communities new ways of conceptualising and interacting with the history and archaeology of the period. Over recent years, the project has invested considerable time in analysing the 1920…
Below arranged alphabetically are those men known to have served in ‘B’ (Midleton) Company, 4th Battalion, Cork No. 1 Brigade as of 11 July 1921. The information is transcribed from original scans of the IRA Nominal Rolls at the Military Service Pensions Collection (MA/MSPC/RO/31) which can be accessed online via The Military Archives website here.…
Below arranged alphabetically are those women known to have served in Midleton District Council of Cumman n mBan, 4th Battalion, Cork No. 1 Brigade Area as of 11 July 1921. The information is transcribed from original scans of the Cumann na mBan Nominal Rolls at the Military Service Pensions Collection (MA/MSPC/CMB/12) which can be accessed…
Below arranged alphabetically are those men known to have served in 4th Battalion Command, Cork No. 1 Brigade as of 11 July 1921. The information is transcribed from original scans of the IRA Nominal Rolls at the Military Service Pensions Collection (MA/MSPC/RO/31) which can be accessed online via The Military Archives website here. The addresses…
The Company designations and strengths of the 4th Battalion, Cork No. 1 Brigade as of July 1921. The information is transcribed from original scans of the IRA Nominal Rolls at the Military Service Pensions Collection (MA/MSPC/RO/31) which can be accessed online via The Military Archives website here. COMPANY LOCATION STRENGTH JULY 1921 A Cobh 201…
The 29 December 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the Midleton Main Street Ambush, one of the most significant and consequential actions during the War of Independence in East Cork. To mark that occasion, we produced a virtual video tour of the battlefield site, recouting the story of the engagement, its people, and its landscape.…
Remarks delivered for the occasion of the 2020 Thomas Kent Memorial Park Remembrance Day in Rostellan, Co. Cork. As part of this virtual talk the opportunity was taken to explore some of the local archaeology relating to the War of Independence and Civil War in this area, and incorporate them into the resultant video, which…
Demonstrating how surviving elements of Ireland’s landscapes of revolution can be identified is the central aim of this project. There has never been a nationwide effort to undertake this work, which is vital if we are to appropriately manage our Revolutionary-era heritage. Following on from projects such as the one undertaken at Knockraha, we began…
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