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Civilian Patrick Byrne or Burns
Civilian Patrick Byrne or Burns (age 36 or 37) of Knockboy (Knockboy near Carrignavar)
Date of incident: 4 Oct. 1922
Sources: Death Certificate (Carrignavar District, Union of Cork), 5 Oct. 1922; FJ, 9, 10, 17 Oct. 1922; Evening Herald, 9, 17 Oct. 1922; Belfast Newsletter, 10, 17 Oct. 1922; CE, 11, 17 Oct. 1922; SS, 14 Oct. 1922; II, 17 Oct. 1922; Dail Debates, 4 Nov. 1924, col. 643; Boyne (2015), 399, fn. 16; Keane (2017), 311, 418; http://www.irishmedals.ie/Civilians-Killed-Civil-War.php (accessed 8 Aug. 2017).
Note: In what the Cork Examiner of 11 October 1922 called ‘a sensational tragedy’, two young men—Patrick Byrne and Daniel O’Hanlon—were taken from their homes in the district of White’s Cross (6 or 7 miles north-east of Cork city) on the night of 4 October 1922 and shot dead. Nothing was heard of them until the following Saturday, 7 October, when their bodies were ‘discovered, tied together, in a turnip field not far away. Both of the victims were Catholics, of the farmer class, and they were well known supporters of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.’ Their bodies had been riddled with bullets. See CE, 11 Oct. 1922.
At the subsequent military inquest, a female neighbour of Byrne and O’Hanlon admitted that she had learned just before the inquest that there had been a boycott of her farm by supporters of the National Army. When asked what reason there could have been for such a boycott, she replied, ‘Well, because they said I sheltered the boys [meaning the Irregulars].’ She further stated that she had ‘fed them whenever they came, which was not often’. She was pressed to say who in her opinion had committed the killings, but she would admit only that ‘the people of the district were saying the Irregulars had shot the [two] men’. She did concede, ‘I think it was a very cruel murder—the worst I ever heard.’ The military court concluded that ‘both deceased died of shock and haemorrhage caused by bullet wounds inflicted by persons in armed opposition to the National forces, and said persons are guilty of wilful murder’. See CE, 17 Oct. 1922.
Patrick T. Byrne was in 1911 one of the three resident children of the widow and farmer Kate A. Byrne of Knockboy. Along with a younger sister and brother, Patrick (then aged 25) assisted his 64-year-old mother in mananging the family farm.
