Dunmanway Killings - Killings in Dunmanway, Ballineen Enniskeane and Clonakilty

Killings in Dunmanway, Ballineen Enniskeane and Clonakilty

Over the next two days, ten Protestant men were shot dead in the Dunmanway, Ballineen and Murragh area. In Dunmanway on 27 April, Francis Fitzmaurice (a solicitor and land agent) was shot dead. Also that night, David Gray (a chemist) and James Buttimer (a retired draper) were shot in the doorways of their homes in Dunmanway.

Next evening, 28 April, in the parish of Kinneigh, Robert Howe and John Chinnery were both shot dead. In the nearby village of Ballineen, sixteen-year-old Alexander McKinley was shot dead in his home. In Murragh, Reverend Ralph Harbord was shot dead; he was the son of Reverend Richard C M Harbord, also from the Murragh area. Later, west of Ballineen, John Buttimer and his farm servant Jim Greenfield were both shot dead.

The same night, sixteen-year-old Robert Nagle was shot dead in his home on MacCurtain Hill in Clonakilty, ten miles south. Nagle had been shot in place of his father Tom, whose name was on a list of informers and who had gone into hiding along with the uncle of Alexander McKinley. John Bradfield was shot in place of his brother Henry. Henry had been 'wanted' by the IRA for providing information resulting in IRA "arrests, torture and deaths".