BALLAGHKEEN CAVALRY, CO. WEXFORD, LATE 18TH CENTURY IRISH YEOMANRY SHOULDER BELT PLATE. Oval, copper, crowned Maid of Erin harp engraved at centre, ribbons above and below bearing the regimental title ''Ballaghkeen Cavalry'', twin hooks and pair of fixing studs to reverse, circa 1798, 3.4'' x 2.6'' (8.6 x 6.8cm) vertical approx. Of superior quality, probably originally silver plated to the front, and in which case possibly an officer's example. In 1798 the regulars and militia in Co. Wexford totalled less than 600, leaving the defence of the county to the volunteer yeomen and infantry. Most of the yeomanry units were stationed in towns like Gorey, Ferns, Ennsicorthy, Newtownbarry, and Ballaghkeen, with the result that the United Irish rebels were able to mobilise in the countryside almost unhindered. Such was the weight of numbers involved on the rebel side in Co. Wexford that even major towns could not be held during the early stages of the conflict, the numerical disadvantage that the yeomanry and volunteer infantry faced being considerable (the Wexford yeomanry had a strength of only approximately 2,000 at the start of the rebellion). The residents of Ballaghkeen played a prominent part in the rebellion on 1798, the United Irishmen of Wexford including many Catholic farmers, traders and small businessmen from the town, the United Irishmen from Ballaghkeen first raising their standard at Oulart. A number of skirmishes and outrages took place in and around Ballaghkeen during 1798. Hunter Gowan, the Enniscorthy magistrate, who went out on his rounds as an executioner in train, complete with a hanging rope and cat o' nine tails, had a man flogged to death at Ballaghkeen, and threatened the same treatment to anyone else from the town who left their homes and joined the rebels. BALLAGHKEEN CAVALRY, CO. WEXFORD, LATE 18TH CENTURY IRISH YEOMANRY SHOULDER BELT PLATE. Oval, copper, crowned Maid of Erin harp engraved at centre, ribbons above and below bearing the regimental title ''Ballaghkeen Cavalry'', twin hooks and pair of fixing studs to reverse, circa 1798, 3.4'' x 2.6'' (8.6 x 6.8cm) vertical approx. Of superior quality, probably originally silver plated to the front, and in which case possibly an officer's example. In 1798 the regulars and militia in Co. Wexford totalled less than 600, leaving the defence of the county to the volunteer yeomen and infantry. Most of the yeomanry units were stationed in towns like Gorey, Ferns, Ennsicorthy, Newtownbarry, and Ballaghkeen, with the result that the United Irish rebels were able to mobilise in the countryside almost unhindered. Such was the weight of numbers involved on the rebel side in Co. Wexford that even major towns could not be held during the early stages of the conflict, the numerical disadvantage that the yeomanry and volunteer infantry faced being considerable (the Wexford yeomanry had a strength of only approximately 2,000 at the start of the rebellion). The residents of Ballaghkeen played a prominent part in the rebellion on 1798, the United Irishmen of Wexford including many Catholic farmers, traders and small businessmen from the town, the United Irishmen from Ballaghkeen first raising their standard at Oulart. A number of skirmishes and outrages took place in and around Ballaghkeen during 1798. Hunter Gowan, the Enniscorthy magistrate, who went out on his rounds as an executioner in train, complete with a hanging rope and cat o' nine tails, had a man flogged to death at Ballaghkeen, and threatened the same treatment to anyone else from the town who left their homes and joined the rebels.
BALLAGHKEEN CAVALRY, CO. WEXFORD, LATE 18TH CENTURY IRISH YEOMANRY SHOULDER BELT PLATE. Oval, copper, crowned Maid of Erin harp engraved at centre, ribbons above and below bearing the regimental title ''Ballaghkeen Cavalry'', twin hooks and pair of fixing studs to reverse, circa 1798, 3.4'' x 2.6'' (8.6 x 6.8cm) vertical approx. Of superior quality, probably originally silver plated to the front, and in which case possibly an officer's example. In 1798 the regulars and militia in Co. Wexford totalled less than 600, leaving the defence of the county to the volunteer yeomen and infantry. Most of the yeomanry units were stationed in towns like Gorey, Ferns, Ennsicorthy, Newtownbarry, and Ballaghkeen, with the result that the United Irish rebels were able to mobilise in the countryside almost unhindered. Such was the weight of numbers involved on the rebel side in Co. Wexford that even major towns could not be held during the early stages of the conflict, the numerical disadvantage that the yeomanry and volunteer infantry faced being considerable (the Wexford yeomanry had a strength of only approximately 2,000 at the start of the rebellion). The residents of Ballaghkeen played a prominent part in the rebellion on 1798, the United Irishmen of Wexford including many Catholic farmers, traders and small businessmen from the town, the United Irishmen from Ballaghkeen first raising their standard at Oulart. A number of skirmishes and outrages took place in and around Ballaghkeen during 1798. Hunter Gowan, the Enniscorthy magistrate, who went out on his rounds as an executioner in train, complete with a hanging rope and cat o' nine tails, had a man flogged to death at Ballaghkeen, and threatened the same treatment to anyone else from the town who left their homes and joined the rebels. BALLAGHKEEN CAVALRY, CO. WEXFORD, LATE 18TH CENTURY IRISH YEOMANRY SHOULDER BELT PLATE. Oval, copper, crowned Maid of Erin harp engraved at centre, ribbons above and below bearing the regimental title ''Ballaghkeen Cavalry'', twin hooks and pair of fixing studs to reverse, circa 1798, 3.4'' x 2.6'' (8.6 x 6.8cm) vertical approx. Of superior quality, probably originally silver plated to the front, and in which case possibly an officer's example. In 1798 the regulars and militia in Co. Wexford totalled less than 600, leaving the defence of the county to the volunteer yeomen and infantry. Most of the yeomanry units were stationed in towns like Gorey, Ferns, Ennsicorthy, Newtownbarry, and Ballaghkeen, with the result that the United Irish rebels were able to mobilise in the countryside almost unhindered. Such was the weight of numbers involved on the rebel side in Co. Wexford that even major towns could not be held during the early stages of the conflict, the numerical disadvantage that the yeomanry and volunteer infantry faced being considerable (the Wexford yeomanry had a strength of only approximately 2,000 at the start of the rebellion). The residents of Ballaghkeen played a prominent part in the rebellion on 1798, the United Irishmen of Wexford including many Catholic farmers, traders and small businessmen from the town, the United Irishmen from Ballaghkeen first raising their standard at Oulart. A number of skirmishes and outrages took place in and around Ballaghkeen during 1798. Hunter Gowan, the Enniscorthy magistrate, who went out on his rounds as an executioner in train, complete with a hanging rope and cat o' nine tails, had a man flogged to death at Ballaghkeen, and threatened the same treatment to anyone else from the town who left their homes and joined the rebels.
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