Drumgath Old Graveyard - the Resting Place of the Barnmeen Martyrs
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Drumgath Old Graveyard - the Resting Place of the Barnmeen Martyrs
Image: © Eric Jones Taken: 14 Apr 2012
The five Barnmeen men found guilty on very weak evidence of the murder of Samuel Duncan a shoemaker of Rathfriland in 1829 and hung at Downpatrick are buried at Drumgath. Their funeral cortege was said to have been some two miles long. Image
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