What the records say
- When
- 1816
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 8
- Coordinates
- 53.93° N, 6.62° W
- Description
- arson and murder attack in Ireland
Burning of Wildgoose Lodge
Arson and murder attack in Ireland
The Burning of Wildgoose Lodge was an arson and murder attack on Wildgoose Lodge, County Louth, Ireland, on the night of 29–30 October 1816, in which eight occupants were killed, including an infant aged five months. The house was near the County Monaghan border, in the townland of Reaghstown, civil parish of Philipstown, barony of Ardee. Eighteen men were executed for the crime, many of them innocent.
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