The burning of Moydrum Castle 1921

[@tonycullen2946]

A very interesting article Dr Hughes. Thank you. I am sure the children learnt a lot thanks to the school and are now able to form their own opinion of the history. I lived very close to the castle in the early 1980's had no knowledge of the history but did suspect something of the sort. Our boys would have loved to have seen your video back then whilst they played in and around the ruins. It is a very good article on the important history of Athlone. Thanks again.

[@dwansbo]

An interesting addition to this incident has been passed down the generations of my family. The shots fired at the car being driven by the British officers were from behind a hedge bordering a farmstead belonging to the Wansboro family. The farm was located where the Jolly Mariner pub once stood, now apartments and a marina. The nearby football field is called Wansboro Field today. Neighbouring land belonged to the Ward family, it is unknown whether they were Involved in the incident. The Wansboro house was one of the houses burnt down by the Black and Tans, it was never rebuilt, the family which consisted of two bachelor brothers moved into the cow shed where they lived out their days until they passed away in the sixties. My grandfather, a third brother had married and moved away from Athlone some years previously, he died tragically in1916 as a result of a fall from a ladder while working in Waterford to support his young family. As there were no direct descendents the land in Athlone valued at £4000 was left to the church.

[@odettehokemeir4425]

Very informative video!

[@windowman929]

British oppressors living it up at the indigenous Irish expense, what could go wrong...

[@paulmills3030]

A barren county, with burnt and destroyed history

[@dermotcole3881]

Very interesting local history very well written

[@buy_large_mansions]

Insurance assessors today would probably put the damage to the castle around €6 trillion, inflation is a hell of a drug.

[@harrymurray247]

Very good, well done.

[@northwaleslife4844]

Its a shame Ireland does not look after its heritage

[@lexzoolia1]

Oisin needs to pay Ratso immediately

[@robertomeara3469]

Didnt burn enough of them

[@nickjupp6868]

Really

[@robertomeara3469]

@@nickjupp6868 Yes,all the hardship them shitholes caused to ordinary folf.

[@notnek202]

Evil

[@Hello-yn2dx]

Many of them will now be filled with fake refugees.

[@Lar308]

Exactly - there are many still here today in the republic still living it up on their ill gotten gains from Cromwell and lizzy the 1st etc and we still have not liberated the northern counties.

[@seanohare5488]

Very well done Mr Hughes also important for the younger people know their local history handcocks not caring for the Irish people fight for Independence freedom best they leave Ireland poetic justice

[@Yentonian1989]

A shame to destroy history.

[@robertomeara3469]

Was a shame evicting tenants from their cottages in their thousands,the rich simply got a taste of their own medicine.Should of wiped them all.

[@rolanddeer6212]

​@@robertomeara3469Tis a shame the hard working Irish are being left homeless in favour of deviant terrorists.

[@ivanoday4635]

What do you know, or care, about history, you squid?

[@Yentonian1989]

@@ivanoday4635 OK Ivan the Terrible...

[@ivanoday4635]

@@Yentonian1989 I'm curious Jason, Do you ever cry about it when your zealous Marxist friends obliterate history in one of the countless but invariably monstrous ways they have of doing that? History lover?