Ferryhouse Bridge & Boys Graves

Published on July 21, 2005 By theknitter In Life Journals

Ferryhouse Bridge & Boys Graves

Comments

on Jul 30, 2005

This whole sage is a terrible, terrible tragedy. How did it happen? Why did it happen? Why do such inhumane things happen? I don't really know. All I DO know for certain, that these horrors are not natural. I guess violence breeds violence.

Ps: Your photos are excellent, and with any luck, they'll stir up some latent, forgotten emotions in certain people, should they happen to come across this website.

Andrew

on Jul 31, 2005

The views arund the Bridge are ones we would all have been familiar with as we were marched up and down that road - also most of us who ansconded went over the Bridge and into the forests and hills beyond.

The Boys Graves I only came across in 2004 - and it really shocked me. Two of my friends died in Feryhouse yet we never got to see them buried - I always presumed that there was a Graveyard situated somewhere in Ferryhouse itself but in fact the boys are buried in a public graveyard (two of the graves are in isolated parts of the graveyard) only one mile from Clonmel town.

It's sad though that Ferryhouse still holds them in these graves - why were these children not returned to their families and communities?

theknitter

on Jul 31, 2005

FERRYHOUSE DEAD

Michael Drohan Clonmel 18/02/1891 aged 14 years

Christopher Cleary Stradbally Co. Laois 21/10/1893 aged 13 years

David O'Connell Ferryhouse, Clonmel 11/03/1898 aged 14 years

John Shinners Dublin 09/01/1901 aged 10 years

Michael Hurley Thurles 16/12/1904 aged 13 years

Michael Cuddihy Kilmoganny, Co. Kilkenny 17/12/1904 aged 15 years

Francis Sullivan Waterford 31/12/1904 aged 13 years

John Walsh Waterford 25/04/1906 aged 15 years

John McGuinness Arklow 11/11/1906 aged 14 years

Timothy Martin Kilkenny 22/07/1907 aged 11 years

Andrew Nolan Dublin 12/09/1908 aged 19 years

Bill O'Brien Co. Waterford 20/09/1908 aged 12 years

John Holden Ferryhouse 23/06/1910 aged 14 years

Henry Tynam Ferryhouse 12/12/1913 aged 15 years

Patrick Hogan Stirling, Scotland 17/09/1916 aged 11 years

Thomas Fenlon Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow 12/07/1921 aged 15 years

Patrick Kealy Co. Wexford 05/11/1926 aged 14 years

Patrick Hughes Wexford 25/02/1933 aged 15 years

John Whelan Thurles 13/11/1933 aged 18 years

Patrick Fennessy Clonmel 27/07/1935 aged 14 years (Drowned under bridge)

Bernard Fleming Gorey 24/02/1940 aged 12 years

John Lumsden Dublin 23/05/1941 aged 18 years

Francis Hogan Home Unknown 27/09/1949 Age Unknown (Poisoned by eating red berry's)

Denis Morrissey Home Unknown 17/02/1951 Age Unknown

Paul Cantwell Home Unknown 23/01/1957 Age Unknown

John Costello Home Unknown 11/07/1958 Age Unknown (Taken from Thames, London)

Thomas Murphy Home Unknown 11/06/1963 Age Unknown

Michael Bowes Home Unknown 08/03/1967 Age Unknown

John O'Donoghue Roscrea 11/04/1969 Age Unknown (Curved Spine)

Frederick Pedley McGuinness Arklow 13/08/1995 Age Unknown (Suicide, Hanging)

Cpt Joe Flaherty Kickham Barracks 27/08/1984 aged 30 years (Suicide, Shot Himself, Ex-Ferryhouse)

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