The blog post on the Shalley House has put me thinking of other photographs including this from Rathcooney Cemetery. When I took the photograph, I read it as ‘fourth’ eviction and mentally noted to ‘find out more’. It now appears that it may be ‘Murphy’s Fort Eviction’. I do very much like the effect of a house shape at the top of the headstone. The web has help provide some dots of knowledge as to the eviction in October 1904 but there is still more dots of knowledge to be found, I hope. “… in one famous case during the defence of ‘Fort Murphy’ on the Fell Estate near Watergrasshill when he [Sheehan] and fellow MP Eugene Crean were involved in physical altercations with the local RIC force. Along with O’Brien and a number of other local political figures, Sheehan was also involved outside the courthouse where the ‘Fort Murphy Defenders’ were arraigned and sentenced to varying prison terms.” “The tithe system passed away, and in its turn the landlord system fell, and the Glanmire and Carrignavar districts played their part in the many agitations which brought about those changes | “One such dispute came shortly after the Ballyhooly meeting, when he and DD Sheehan (MP for Mid-Cork) took on a party of RIC men sent to carry out an eviction at the house of Edward Murphy near Watergrasshill. Murphy’s house became a mini-fort, where a number of parties sent to carry out the eviction were repelled with paving stones and boiling water. Crean and Sheehan were cautioned by the police for daring to throw stale bread at them! Later, when Murphy and his fellow ‘defenders’ were arrested, Crean, along with fellow MPs Captain Donelan (East Cork), O’Brien (re-elected for Cork city in August 1904) and Sheehan, were involved in scuffles with the police outside the courthouse at Riverstown” 1904: October 21st |
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