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Pitchcapping is a form of torture which involves pouring hot pitch or tar (mainly used at the time for water-proofing seams in the sides of ships and boats) into a conical paper cap and forcing it onto an individual's head, which is then allowed to cool before being rapidly removed.
Croppies' Acre in summer. The name is referenced in the title of two folk songs of the period: the Loyalist song, Croppies Lie Down and the rebel song The Croppy Boy. The memorial park in front of Collins Barracks, Dublin (now a part of the National Museum of Ireland) is known as Croppies' Acre, as the remains of people executed during and after the 1798 Rising were dumped there for the ...
The Wexford Croppies finally faced defeat after General Lake launched several attacks. As rain poured on the county for the first time since the rebellion began, General Lake's men entered the county from five points: Duncannon, New Ross, Newtownbarry, Carnew and Arklow.
The militia reached the village of Oulart at 2 p.m. on 27 May. Finding a mass of "from four to five thousand combatants" occupying the high ground of Oulart hill, they rashly advanced and pursued the rebels to the summit.
The Croppies' Acre (Irish: Acra na gCraipithe [1]), officially the Croppies Acre Memorial Park, is a public park in Dublin, Ireland. It contains a memorial to the dead of the 1798 Rebellion . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
This was the fate of Bagenal Harvey, Fr. Philip Roche, and five others hanged on Wexford Bridge; John Esmonde hanged in Sallins with his coat reversed to indicate that he was a Yeomanry deserter; Watty Graham whose head was paraded through Maghera; Henry Joy McCracken hanged before the Market House in Belfast; Fr John Murphy, stripped, flogged ...
John Murphy (c. 1753 – c. 2 July 1798) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ferns, who is mainly remembered for his central role in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 in County Wexford, which is sometimes known as the Wexford Rebellion.
Croppies and the Battle of Tara Hill [49] Kilcumney Hill Memorial Kilcumney Hill Co. Carlow: Battle of Kilcumney Hill [50] Fitzgerald Memorial Kildare: Co. Kildare: Lord Edward FitzGerald [51] Staker Wallace Memorial Kilfinane: Co. Limerick: Staker Wallace [52] 1798 Memorial Killurin: Co. Wexford: General war memorial [53] Fr. Kearns Memorial ...