The Kilgobbin Memorial was erected in memory of the Officers & Men of this district who fell in the Great War, some of these were from Stillorgan. Below is a transcription of the memorial, further details can be found on the Irish War Memorials website.
As far as we are aware, the Kilgobbin memorial is the only public Great War Memorial in South County Dublin. Following Irish independence there was no appetite in the country for commemorating Irish soldiers who fought with Britain and its Allies in the Great War. Young men of different religious denominations – middle class and working class – poor and wealthy – the cream of Irish manhood were slaughtered in their thousands and forgotten by successive Irish governments until the late twentieth century.
In the late 1990's it became clear that the limestone plaque on the Kilgobbin memorial, which had been subjected to severe weathering, would eventually result in the names of the original 29 soldiers becoming illegible. Ken Kinsella worked alone for a number of years to find the money to restore the memorial; otherwise it would have remained ensconced in the middle of briars, scrub, and long grass and inaccessible to most people. It was originally designed and erected in 1924 by local stonemasons from Barnacullia, following an initiative taken by Mrs. Belinda Barrington Jellet of ‘Clonard House’, Sandyford.
1914-1918
Royal Flying Corps Albert Erskine Carson Archer, flight Commander, Beaufield Stillorgan 9 Feb 1916 age 19 France
Duke of Cornwall Light Infant. Hugh P. Dwyer
Royal Engineers Edward Grady
Queens Royal West Surrey Regt. James Brennan
Machine Gun Corps. David Nolan
Royal Irish Rifles Lt. Nathaniel F. Hone
Royal Irish Rifles Christopher Mulligan
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Lt. E. Arthur Trouton
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers W. S. Collen
Connaught Rangers William Murphy, Carrickmines
Irish Guards John Quinn
Irish Guards Denis Doyle
Irish Guards John Doyle
Irish Guards Edward Byrne (Golden Ball)
Irish Guards Edward Farrell
Irish Guards William Murphy, Ballyogan
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders John Carey
50th Btn. Canadians James J. Dwyer
Royal Garrison Artillery Lt. Richard T. Scallan, Ludford
Royal Irish Regt. Andrew Felton
Royal Irish Regt. George Mason, Sandyford Village
Royal Dublin Fusiliers Lt. William S. Drury
Royal Dublin Fusiliers Lawrence Mooney
Royal Dublin Fusiliers George Mahon, Rosemount, Dundrum
Royal Dublin Fusiliers Philip Connor
Royal Dublin Fusiliers William Gatercole
Royal Dublin Fusiliers Joseph Doyle
Royal Field Artillery Lt. Eric Manly
Royal Field Artillery John Casey
Royal Irish Fusiliers John Redmond, Ballyogan
Royal Irish Fusiliers Michael Carey
Royal Dublin Fusiliers Patrick O'Driscoll
Royal Dublin Fusiliers Sgt. Major Joseph Fitzpatrick
Royal Dublin Fusiliers Denis Higgins
Royal Dublin Fusiliers William F. Burrows
Royal Irish Rifles Joseph Doyle
Irish Guards James Robinson
Royal Irish Fusiliers John Robinson
Connaught Rangers Joseph Mooney
Welsh Regiment Patrick O'Neill
Royal Army Medical Corps Francis Sidney Mitchell, Ardlui, Blackrock kia Menin Road 15 Feb 1916
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