Historical Collections Online

 

pump / Battle of Ashbourne, 1916

Bicycle pump, black composition, marked "Humber cycles", 15.75" long, picked up by Donor on the site of the Battle of Ashbourne, April 28, 1916. (Found on the day of the battle, no indication of ownership, but she believed it to have belonged to a person engaged and took it away as a souvenir).

 

photograph / Thomas Rafferty, 1916

Postcard photograph of Thomas Rafferty, killed in action at the Battle of Ashbourne in 1916, in costume of the Black Raven Pipers Band, Lusk.

 

photograph / Joseph Lawless, 1917

Photograph of Joseph V. Lawless in Irish Volunteer uniform in 1917. Full uniform, slouched hat, puttees and RIC carbine with fixed bayonet. This may be the carbine captured by Lawless from a Meath barracks during the Battle of Ashbourne, 1916, which was hidden and retrieved after Lawless' release...

 

hat / Michael Fleming, Ashbourne, 1916

A hat worn by Irish Volunteer Michael Fleming of Drumcondra, at the Battle of Ashbourne, 1916.

 

bullet casing / Battle of Ashbourne, 1916

Cartridge case, used in the Battle of Ashbourne, 28 April, 1916. Brass, base marked R- broad arrow -L- 12-VII, bore c..303, top crimped, length 2.4" and picked up that evening by Miss M. Adrien on the road from Rathgate.

 

field glasses / Battle of Ashbourne, 1916

Pair of field glasses used by the Fingal Volunteers at the Battle of Ashbourne, 1916. They were found hidden in a ditch after the action. The witness statement of Colonel Joseph V. Lawless, who fought with the Fingal Brigade at the Battle of Ashbourne, confirms that these field glasses belonged to...

 

rifle / Battle of Ashbourne, 1916

RIC carbine rifle. Captured from R.I.C. by Irish Volunteers at the Battle of Ashbourne, 1916. Captured from Royal Irish Constabulary by Irish Volunteer Joseph Lawless at the Battle of Ashbourne, 1916. Events detailed in his witness statement to the Bureau of Military History. A brass plaque added...