Anti-Treaty Soldier Francis Power

Anti-Treaty Soldier Francis Power (White’s Cross near Donoughmore)

Date of incident: 6 Oct. 1922

Sources: List of IRA Interments (Boole Library, UCC); Cork One Brigade (1963), Roll of Honour; Donoghmore Memorial; http://irishvolunteers.org/ira-1-cork-brigadedonoughmore-cemetery-co-cork/ (accessed 3 Feb. 2018).

Note: Francis Power was killed in action while fighting against Free State troops at White’s Cross near Donoughmore on 6 October 1922. He was a member of D Company of the Sixth Battalion of the Cork No. 1 Brigade.  He was buried in the Republican Plot in St Finbarr’s Cemetery in Cork city.