| Carrickshock incident | |||
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| Date | 14 December 1831 | ||
| Location | Carrickshock, near Hugginstown, County Kilkenny 52°26′57″N 7°14′22″W / 52.4492°N 7.2394°W | ||
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The Carrickshock incident, Carrickshock massacre, or battle of Carrickshock[1] was a confrontation between the Irish Constabulary and local Catholic tenant farmers near Carrickshock, near Hugginstown, County Kilkenny, on 14 December 1831, during the Tithe War in Ireland.[2] Seventeen were killed: fourteen of a party attempting to collect tithes and three of the crowd of locals who confronted them. The incident was unusual among massacres in the Tithe War in that the majority of casualties were supporters rather than opponents of tithes.[3][4]
- ^ "Local news". Kilkenny People. 2 August 2006. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
Hatchet was a Protestant R.I.C. man attached to Piltown station. At the Battle of Carrickshock, near the village of Hugginstown, in December 1831 during the Tithe War, he sustained a broken jaw when a peasant drove a pitchfork into his cheek.
- ^ O'Brien 1905.
- ^ Owens 2004, p. 38.
- ^ Lahert 1994, p. 46.