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JayEnnis wrote: »

Market Square Enniscorthy, And some spa with a marker.

Judgement Day wrote: »

The Battle of Tubberneering memorial on the old N11 at Clough near Gorey.

Slightly off topic - an account of the interesting battle below from a forthcoming South East Guide that I'm working on.


Clough

On June 4th 1798 Gorey was still under the control of Crown forces and some 1,500 men and five cannons had been gathered together there under the command of a Major General Loftus. On the morning of the 4th, General Loftus proceeded south from Gorey to engage rebel forces gathered in the vicinity of Carrigrew Hill. At the south end of Gorey he divided his forces, with Colonel Walpole proceeding along the present main road to Clough where he turned off left (immediately beyond the present filling station) in the direction of Ballymore. In the meantime General Loftus, his second- in -command Colonel Scott and the main contingent took the left turn outside Gorey and headed for Ballycanew.

Colonel Walpole, who some historians maintain may have held his commission due to friends in Dublin Castle rather than military prowess was keen to make a name for himself, ignored the advice of his staff officers regarding the sighting of rebel scouts and this sealed his column’s fate. Rounding a bend in the road little more than two miles from Clough, at a place called Tubberneering, his company ran into a hastily prepared rebel ambush. The terrain was ideal for an ambush, high mud banks covered with bushes on each side of the narrow road made the use of Walpoles’ cannon impossible and his soldiers were caught in a vicious crossfire. Walpole himself was one of the first to fall but his force rallied and the battle raged on for almost two hours before the crown forces fell back in some disarray on Clough. Their retreat/rout continued on back into Gorey and didn’t stop until the safety of Arklow was reached. A relief column sent by General Loftus arrived at Clough too late to save the day and was in fact itself annihilated with only 2 out of 100 men escaping with their lives! By the time General Loftus and the main column reached Tubberneering and then Clough it was all over. The General led his column back towards Gorey but when he came in sight of Gorey Hill, at the southern approach to the town, he realised the size of the Rebel force gathered there and the danger he was in and turned back retreating to the relative safety of Carnew. That night almost all of Co.Wexford save for the isolated fort at Duncannon and the town of New Ross were under Rebel control. However, the Rebels failed to press home their advantage in the following days and Tubberneering was in some ways the turning point of the whole rebellion in the south east, culminating in the defeats at Arklow, New Ross and Vinegar Hill. It now seems probable that the hesitation of the Rebel leadership to press on to Arklow and then Dublin was due to news of the failure of the rebellion in Dublin extracted from Lord Kingsborough captured on the June 2nd 1798 on a ship in Wexford Harbour. But this is speculation and we will probably never know why the rebellion faltered.

There’s not much today to remind the traveller of the bloody events of that day save for, a Celtic Cross memorial at the junction with the N11.

scaller wrote: »

Tibet.

patff wrote: »

Slieve Coillte looking towards Bannow Bay?