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Civilian Cornelius O’Leary

 

Civilian Cornelius O’Leary (aged 45) of Ballymakeera (Ballymakeera near Macroom)

Date of incident: 4 Dec. 1922

Sources: Death Certificate (Macroom District, Union of Macroom), 5 Dec. 1922; CE, 7 Dec. 1922; Evening Herald, 7 Dec. 1922; Belfast Newsletter, 8 Dec. 1922; SS, 9 Dec. 1922; FJ, 9 Dec. 1922; Sean O’Mahony Papers, MS 44057/3 (NLI); Ó Héalaithe (2014), 240-48, esp. 247; http://www.irishmedals.ie/Civilians-Killed-Civil-War.php (accessed 11 Aug. 2017).

 

Note: In the attack by Irregulars on Ballymakeera the labourer Cornelius O’Leary, ‘a single man who was residing in the village with his married sister and her husband’, was shot and killed. See CE, 7 Dec. 1922. He suffered fatal head wounds and died of shock and haemorrhage within two hours. See Death Certificate (Macroom District, Union of Macroom), 5 Dec. 1922. 

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