Dummy/Practice grenade from the War of Independence era found by George Lehane while digging potatoes in 1985, in the back garden of The Cornerstone Bar, Crookstown. The public house was previously owned by Stephen Murphy a well known IRA activist…
Tricolour which draped coffin of Michael Galvin and was presented to his widow Annie Galvin by those colleagues who buried him after his death in the Lissarda Ambush on 22nd of August 1920.
Bone cross reliquary containing memorial card of Michael Galvin killed in action at Lissarda Ambush on 22nd of August 1920 - made by his fellow Kilmurry Company Volunteer Denis O' Mahony.
A simple-enough piece of metal symbolises the local innovation used when it came to assembling weapons a century ago in mid-Cork.
This pike-head was donated to our collection at Independence Museum Kilmurry by a former Irish Volunteers/IRA member…