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1922-114
Civilian Jeremiah Collins
Civilian Jeremiah Collins (aged 43 or 44) of Hollyhill near Glengarriff (Derrycreigh Mountain near Hollyhill)
Date of incident: 22 Sept. 1922
Sources: Death Certificate (Glengarriff District, Union of Bantry), registered 7 Aug. 1923; http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail1924051500005?opendocument (accessed 6 Aug. 2017); Keane (2017), 308, 417.
Note: A civilian named Jeremiah Collins was kidnapped from his home at Hollyhill near Glengarriff and murdered on 22 September 1922. Little is known about the circumstances of his killing. He had been employed as a porter at the Eccles Hotel in Glengarriff. His younger brother Daniel Collins found his dead body on Derrycreigh Mountain on 31 December—more than three months after his abduction. The body was presumably in poor condition by then. His death certificate indicated that he had probably died from gunshot wounds. See Death Certificate (Glengarriff District, Union of Bantry), registered 7 Aug. 1923.
On 15 May 1924 the West Cork Labour T.D. Tadhg Ó Murchadha (Timothy Joseph Murphy) asked the Free State Minister for Finance Ernest Blythe whether he was aware that a compensation claim made by Timothy Collins of Hollyhill near Glengarriff in relation to the kidnapping and murder of his son Jeremiah on 22 September 1922 had been rejected. The son had been employed at the Eccles Hotel in Glengarriff and had been contributing 10s. a week to his parents’ support. Blythe replied that the claim had been carefully considered but denied because Timothy Collins had not been financially dependent on his deceased son. See http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail1924051500005?opendocument (accessed 6 Aug. 2017); Keane (2017), 308, 417.
Jeremiah Collins was in 1901 the eldest of the five sons of the farm labourer Timothy Collins and his wife Hannah. Jeremiah had one younger sister as well as four younger brothers—Timothy, Daniel, Michael, and Patrick. The family then resided at house 19 in Dromgarriff townland near Glengarriff. In 1901 Jeremiah Collins (then aged 22) listed his occupation as a farm labourer. At the time of his death in December 1922, Collins would have been about 43 or 44 years old, to judge from the census record, though his death certificate gave his age as 39.
