CO-KLBG-0034

Record Date: 
26 June 2013
Graveyard: 
Kilbrogan
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Do buanu chuimne

An Captaen

Proinsias O' Muirthile

O Arm Poblacht Eireann

Fear a bhi dilis da thir

Is da Chreideam

R. I. P.

Na Sasanaig a Mairb

Ar 9 la a Bealtaine 1921

Memorial Type: 
Celtic Cross
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.755926388889
Longitude: 
-8.7366113888889
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Captain
Name: 
Frank
Surname: 
Hurley
Date of death - day: 
9
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1921
Notes: 

 

Captain Frank Hurley.

An order was issued from the Brigade Council meeting of April 9th 1921,

 directing all Battalion O/C’s to have all available bicycles collected on Tuesday 10th May and safely dumped.  In pairs, or at most in groups of three the Volunteers collected the bicycles assigned to them.

Frank Hurley along with two other volunteers were apprehended as they were about to enter Scott’s yard.

 The Patterson family Carhue now live in that farm. The three prisoners were marched into Castle Bernard Park, where Captain Frank made a run to escape but was shot down in cold blood. Frank, a veteran Volunteer, Captain of the Laragh Company, was a fine soldier, and had gallantly fought with the Brigade Flying Column in many of its engagements.

John Desmond.