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War

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. 
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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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