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Civilian Jeremiah Daly

 

Civilian Jeremiah Daly (aged about 48) of Garryndruig near Kilbrittain (Farrannagark near Bandon)

Date of incident: 19 April 1923

Sources: Death Certificate (Bandon District, Union of Bandon), 19 April 1923; SS, 28 April 1923; Inquests, CRT/2003/1/4 (1923), (Cork City and County Archices); Daily Report of the 15th Infantry Battalion for 19 April 1923, CW/OPS/04/06 (Military Archives).

 

Note: Jeremiah Daly died of his injuries at Farrannagark in Rathclarin parish near Bandon when he was knocked down by his horse after the animal was frightened by a National Army military lorry. He had been leading his horse and cart near Rathclarin graveyard while carting seasand to his farm when the military lorry came around the corner. Daly was pinned underneath the cart and suffered severe injuries. See SS, 28 April 1923. He died shortly afterwards at the Bandon Union Hospital. See Death Certificate (Bandon District, Union of Bandon), 19 April 1923; Inquests, CRT/2003/1/4 (1923), (Cork City and County Archices); Daily Report of the 15th Infantry Battalion for 19 April 1923, CW/OPS/04/06 (Military Archives). 

Jeremiah Daly was in 1911 the only son of the farmer Mary Daly (a widow aged 74) and lived with his mother at house 15 in Garryndruig townland in Rathclarin parish. He described himself to the census-taker as a farmer’s son. He was then 36 years old according to the census.

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