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Shelling of Millmount Tower 1922

The Shelling of Millmount Tower - Civil War Drogheda

On 28 June 1922, National Army outposts in Drogheda were attacked by anti-Treaty forces, this marked the outbreak of the Civil War in Louth. Liam Leech, a section commander in the anti-Treaty garrison in Millmount was shot dead at Pitcher Hill by an army sniper. On the same day a member of the National Army, Volunteer John Lynch from Co Meath, was wounded in the leg and died in the Cottage Hospital.

After the fall of the Four Courts in Dublin, the army in Drogheda issued an ultimatum on 4 July demanding unconditional surrender of the Millmount garrison. There was no reply and at 9.15 a.m. an artillery bombardment commenced. The tower and buildings were shelled, and a breach blown in the outer wall, but when the army stormed the complex, it had already been abandoned. During this operation a bystander, Alice Slowey, was accidentally killed by an army patrol.

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