What is recorded here

Soldiers Graves marks two unmarked deaths from the Battle of Ballinamuck, fought on 8th September 1798 in County Longford. The stones vanished or never existed, leaving only memory behind a flat field. Whatever fell there stopped breathing young, perhaps without shoes, perhaps with a name no one wrote down. The grave is not a hole but a absence, a place where forgetting failed to arrive.

Situated in the area of the 'Battlefield', scene of the battle of Ballinamuck which took place on the 8th September 1798 (see LF002-011001-). This is the SE of the two graves marked as 'Soldiers Graves' on the OS 25-inch plan (surveyed 1911). When inspected, in 1976, there was no visible surface trace (SMR file). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 25 January 2013

British and Irish rebel forces fought at the Battle of Ballinamuck on 8 September 1798; the British victory ended the 1798 Rebellion in Ireland, leading to the capture of rebel leader Henry Joy McCracken and the collapse of the uprising in the west.

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