Sir, I beg to differ with Richard Roche (February 11th). Sir Richard Musgrave's Memoir of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 does not refer to 84 victims at Scullabogue. I quote: ". . . It appears, on the evidence of different persons, that one hundred and eighty four Protestants were burned in the barn of Scullabogue and that thirty seven were shot in the front of it . . ."
In addition, Thomas Pakenham's The Year of Liberty quotes a number of sources: more than a hundred - nearly two hundred according to one account - including about twenty women and children - Yours, etc.,
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