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unusual facts about Drumboe Castle



Executions during the Irish Civil War

On 14 March at Drumboe Castle in County Donegal, in the north west, four anti-Treaty IRA fighters, Charles Daly (26), Sean Larkin (26), Daniel Enwright (23), and Timothy O' Sullivan (23), who had been captured and held in the castle since January, were summarily shot in retaliation for the death of a National Army soldier in an ambush.

Sir Edmund Francis Hayes, 5th Baronet

Sir Edmund Francis Hayes, 5th Baronet (1850 - 1912) of Drumboe Castle, County Donegal was a Baronet in the Baronetage of Ireland.

Sir Samuel Hercules Hayes, 4th Baronet

He was educated at Harrow, and succeeded his father Sir Edmund Samuel Hayes, 3rd Baronet as baronet in 1860 and inherited the family estate of Drumboe Castle in County Donegal.


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