An OIRA memorial at Mass Hill, Ballyholland
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An OIRA memorial at Mass Hill, Ballyholland
Image: © Eric Jones Taken: 7 Nov 2016
This is a memorial for Volunteers Colman Rowntree and Martin McAlinden, members of the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA), who were shot dead shortly after capture by the British Army while in the process of laying a landmine on the Bettys Hill Road outside Ballyholland, Newry.
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