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The Valley of Knockanure is the name of several ballads commemorating a murder by the Royal Irish Constabulary that occurred during the Irish War of Independence at Gortaglanna (Gortagleanna) near Knockanure, County Kerry, Ireland.
Knockanure (Irish: Cnoc an Iúir) [1] is a civil parish in County Kerry, Ireland. It is near the town of Listowel and the village of Moyvane.
THE VALLEY OF KNOCKANURE. In memory of Jeremiah Lyons, Patrick Dalton and Patrick Walsh, murdered by Crown Forces. at Gortagleanna, Co. Kerry on 12th May, 1921. You may sing and speak about Easter Week or the heroes of Ninety-Eight, Of the Fenian men who roamed the glen in victory or defeat,
- The Events in Gortaglanna, Morning, May 12, 1921
- Retrieval and Burial; The Work of Cumann Na mBan
- The Burial of Jeremiah Lyons in Duagh
In a report of May 17, 1921, the Crown Forces continued to stick with their narrative that the deaths of Walsh, Lyons and Dalton were the result of an IRA ambush. General E P Strickland, Military Governor of Munster, wrote that a ‘small patrol of police’ from Listowel ‘encountered a gang of eighty rebels and put them to flight after killing their l...
The Dublin Evening Telegraph of May 17, 1921 reported that on Saturday May 14, ‘The parents and friends of the victims proceeded to Tralee from Listowel on Saturday, recover the bodies for burial in their respective districts’. This succinct account covers up the long and traumatic story of the recovery and burial of the three men, a story that has...
Jeremiah ‘Jerry’ Lyons was brought back to his home village of Duagh (about 5 miles from Listowel) for his funeral and burial in the local cemetery at Springmount. Lyons, the son of a local shopkeeper, also named Jeremiah Lyons, and his wife Anne Corridan, was the youngest, at 20 years old, of those killed at Gortaglanna, and a popular commandant o...
On Thursday, April 7, Mick Galvin, an IRA volunteer, was killed by British forces during an ambush at Kilmorna in Knockanure. The IRA had been lying in wait to ambush a group of British soldiers who were cycling to Listowel after a visit to Sir Arthur Vicars at Kilmorna House, his residence.
Knockanure is a civil parish in County Kerry, Ireland. It is near the town of Listowel and the village of Moyvane.
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Moyvane (Irish: Maigh Mheáin, meaning 'main or middle plain'), [1] also sometimes known as Newtownsandes, [1] is a small village in County Kerry in the south west of Ireland. It is situated off the N69 road between Listowel to the southwest and Tarbert to the north. The village of Knockanure lies to the immediate south. The parish in which the ...
