LI-KBRA-0057

Record Date: 
6 December 2015
Graveyard: 
Kilbradran
Exact wording of epitaph: 

ERECTED IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF

CAPTAIN TIMOTHY BRIAN MADIGAN  I. R. A.

BORN WEST END SHANAGOLDEN JANUARY 1897

ELECTED CAPTAIN SHANAGOLDEN

IRISH VOLUNTEERS 1917

MEMBER RATHKEALE RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL

MAY 1920

KILLED BY CROWN FORCES AT HIS HOME

IN CLASHGANNIFF

DEC 28  1920

ONE ARMED MAN

CANNOT RESIST A

MULTITUDE

NOR ONE ARMY CONQUER

COUNTLESS LEGIONS

BUT NOT ALL THE ARMIES OF

ALL THE EMPIRES ON EARTH

CAN CRUSH THE SPIRIT OF

ONE TRUE MAN

AND THAT MAN WILL PREVAIL

TERENCE MACSWINEY

Memorial Type: 
Open book
Grave location
County: 
Limerick
Latitude: 
52.541926388889
Longitude: 
-9.0477680555556
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Captain
Name: 
Timothy Brian
Surname: 
Madigan
Date of birth - month: 
January
Date of birth - year: 
1897
Date of death - day: 
28
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1920
Address: 
Clashganniff, Shanagolden