THE BARRACK SQUARE

This year, Shinrone Heritage Group was lucky to secure funding from the Heritage Council to record the memorials of St Mary’s graveyard,...

My latest book ‘Bully’s Acre, A history of Birr’s forgotten graveyard’ looks at the history of a long forgotten cemetery in the town of...

During the initial years of researching military burials in Birr, the burials of young men whose profession was listed as pensioner, were...

In a post from earlier this year, we revisited Birr Military Cemetery, after uncovering a medal and more information about one of the...

Today, we have a special guest post by previous contributor Fergal Browne. In this post Fergal recounts the life of Victoria Cross...

Recently, during a brief period of boredom, I decided to pass the time by checking various medal dealer lists. You’ll never know what...

In the military cemetery located in Crinkill, just outside Birr, there is a memorial commemorating the death casualties of the...