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The Great Irish Potato Famine began in 1845 and due to further potato blights and poor growing weather lasted until 1852. It had a catastrophic and long lasting effect on the Irish population. Over 1 million people died and 1 million people were…

Even though the Independence Museum Kilmurry is situated in the heart of the War of Independence battlegrounds there was little or no recorded activity around this area during the United Irishmen Rebellion of 1798. This rebellion still being sung…

Abraham Morris was a member of the landed gentry and a magistrate who would have probably never been remembered in history only for a feud that he became involved in with Art Ó Laoghaire. This incident would be immortalised in the poem “Caoineadh…

The Princess Mary 1914 Christmas Gift Box was a brass box that was intended as a Christmas present for ‘every sailor afloat and every soldier at the front’ in the Great War on Christmas Day 1914. This ‘gift from the nation’ was named after Princess…

It is one of the smallest items in our collection, but this tiny badge is a reminder of one of the most important movements in the decades leading up to the Irish revolutionary period.

Anybody who has read any of our local historian Michael…

Kilmurry and Cork were very much affected by the Confederate Wars of the 1640’s in Ireland. There were two incidents in particular on both sides of what is now Kilmurry Parish.
The grotto in Kilmurry village was chosen as it is the site of Sceach an…

Membership card of Cork Total Abstinence Society (Father Mathew)

The early days of January each year are usually devoted to the often futile attempt of adopting a new year’s resolution. However it might be sobering to contemplate a small medal in the collection of Independence Museum Kilmurry that reflects the…

Timothy D. Keating

Timothy D. Keating was born of Cors. Keating and Mary Dennehy 12 of March 1871 at Kilbarry. Inchigeela. He had five brothers, Jeremiah D., Con. D. Jack D., William D., and Patrick D.; of whom he was the eldest. Thady, as he was…

Montage of Photographs (x2), Baptismal Certificate and US Citizenship of Timothy D. Keating