OSi map of Hacketstown 1913
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Hacketstown RIC Station in 2020 |
Here is what the Nationalist reported about the Hacketstown barracks
and the events that unfolded at it in the Hacketstown notes 20th
January 1923:
“Civic Guards -A Sergeant and four members of the Civic Guard
arrived in Hacketstown from the depot on Wednesday and took up their
quarters in the barracks that had been prepared for them at
Kilconnaught, about a quarter mile from town. On Friday night a
party of men numbering about a dozen, armed with rifles and
revolvers and having gained admittance ordered the guards to pack up
their personal belongings and be ready to quit at the word of
command. All government property such as beds , clothing , uniforms
etc. were piled in a heap in the yard and drenched with petrol and
set alight. Thee Guards were then marched towards town and warned
under pain of serious penalties not to be found in possession of the
building again.
The burning was subject to vigorous denunciation from the alter
on Sunday by Rev. Father Monahan P.P.
, who called the civil population to support the civic guards, whom
they were all glad to welcome amongst them, and thus show these
unarmed, unoffending men that they (the public) had no sympathy with
the perpetrator of the outrage.”
