“The Rebels storming The Turret at Lieut. Tyrrel’s”. Illustration by George Cruikshank. An incident during the Battle of Clonard, County Meath, July 11, 1798, when Irish rebels set fire to Lieutenant Thomas Tyrrell’s house in an attempt to dislodge the defenders. From History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798; with Memoirs of the Union, and Emmett’s Insurrection in 1803 by Maxwell. Published in London 1854.

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