Anglesboro Explained

Settlement Type:Village
Anglesboro
Native Name:Irish: Gleann na gCreabhar
Native Name Lang:ga
Pushpin Map:Ireland
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Ireland
Coordinates:52.3424°N -8.2883°W
Blank Name Sec1:Irish Grid Reference
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Ireland
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Munster
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:County Limerick
Unit Pref:Metric
Elevation M:198

Anglesboro or Anglesborough (historically anglicized as Gleanagruer) is a small village at the foot of the Galtee Mountains, in southeastern County Limerick, Ireland.[1] The nearest town is Mitchelstown in County Cork, approximately 12 kilometres away.

Liam Lynch (1893-1923) was an Irish republican military leader. He served as Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army between March 1922-April 1923. He was born at Barnagurraha and attended Anglesboro National School. A leading military commander in the War of Independence, he opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty on the grounds that it dis-established the Irish Republic proclaimed in 1916 and he assumed the position of Chief-of-Staff of the anti-treaty IRA called the "Irregulars". He was killed in a skirmish with Free State forces on the Knockmealdown Mountains in County Tipperary on 10 April 1923, aged 29.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gleann na gCreabhar/Anglesborough . 2023-03-07 . logainm.ie . Irish.
  2. Web site: Letters of Liam Lynch. National Library of Ireland. 30 November 2014.