‘O’Donoghue of the Hills’: The Knocknaboul Eviction

On 18th May 1881 about sixty police under the command of Sub-Inspector Davis assembled at Knocknaboul near Kingwilliamstown on the Cork/Kerry border with land agent Arthur Edward Herbert JP of Killeentierna to evict Denis O’Donoghue and his family of nine children.   The scene was described by one who witnessed it:   There was no […]