Currow Farmer Shot Dead – Killeentierna Murder Raised in UK Parliament

Currow Farmer Shot Dead – Killeentierna Murder Raised in UK Parliament

A recent gathering at Kilsarcon Cemetery between Currow and Scartaglin of members of the O’Connor and extended families marked one of the most brutal and wrongful murders by the Black and Tans during the Irish War of Independence. A hundred years ago on this date on Tuesday, December 14th 1920 the brutality of the ‘Tans’…