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Burning of Wildgoose Lodge

1816 · 53.93° N, 6.62° W

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1816
Type
Meurtre
Tués
8
Coordonnées
53.93° N, 6.62° W
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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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