The Red Cow Murders 1922

#OnThisDay 1922 Three teenage IRA members were found shot dead in a quarry in Clondalkin, (near the Red Cow roundabout). They had been putting up Anti-Treaty posters/intel gathering in Drumcondra when they were arrested by Charlie Dalton Deputy Head of Intelligence for the Army. They were taken by car & interrogated in Wellington Barracks, released but never seen alive again. Some had been shot more than 15 times.
This event is known as the Red Cow Murders.

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