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| Scullabogue Massacre | |
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| Part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 | |
_p162_Massacre_at_Scullabogue.jpg) Massacre at Scullabogue, illustrated by George Cruikshank (1845) | |
  Scullabogue Scullabogue (island of Ireland) | |
| Location | Scullabogue, Newbawn, County Wexford, Ireland |
| Coordinates | 52°21′33″N 6°46′21″W / 52.359291°N 6.772421°W |
| Date | 5 June 1798 |
| Target | Irish Protestants and Loyalists |
Attack type | Burning, shooting |
| Weapons | Fire, pikes |
| Deaths | 100–200 |
| Injured | 2 |
| Perpetrator | Rebel guards |
The Scullabogue massacre was a mass murder of civilians committed in Scullabogue, near Newbawn, County Wexford, Ireland on 5 June 1798, during the 1798 rebellion. A guarding party of rebels massacred up to 200[1] noncombatant men, women and children, most of whom were Protestant (there were also about 20 Catholics), who were held prisoner in a barn which was then set alight. The massacre was a reaction to reports of atrocities committed by government forces during the Battle of New Ross. Those killed were prisoners loyal to the British crown and it is the only instance during the rebellion where the rebels killed women and children.[2][3] A participant in the rebellion, General Thomas Cloney, put the death count at 100.[4]
- ^ Lydon, James F. The making of Ireland: from ancient times to the present, pg 274, Routledge
- ^ Dunne, Tom; Rebellions: Memoir, Memory and 1798, Lilliput Press, 2004; ISBN 978-1-84351-039-0
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gahanwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ A personal narrative of Those Transactions in the County Wexford, in which the Author was engaged, during the awful period of 1798 - Thomas Cloney et al. (James Mullen Pub. Dublin 1832), pg. 220