No. 3 Boeshill, Mohill, Co. Leitrim and formerly of Effrinagh, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim. Friday, 28th October 2022, peacefully at her residence surrounde.
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Living under the Shadow of Sheemore
Reporter:
4 Mar 2021
Teresa and Patricia Nangle, Battlebridge and Podge Mc Keon, Edenmore, Kilclare, descendents of the late Joe Nangle and Harry Mc Keon pictured at the Sheemore Ambush monument Picture: Noreen Gaffney );
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Living under the shadow of Sheemore I am pleased to join with my cousin Liam Scollan and contribute my thoughts and family history on the centenary of the Sheemore ambush.
My late father James McWeeney, a twenty year old at the time living with his parents and sister, was taken from our home on the afternoon of March 4, 1921 by the Black and Tans.
On the bright spring morning of Friday, March 4, 1921 a detachment of soldiers from the First Battalion of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, accompanied by a mixed force of RIC Auxiliaries, left Carrick-on-Shannon en-route to Gowel.