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It was Monday, October 1st 1798 that Newtownmountkennedy man Hugh Woolaghan did just that, bursting into the Delgany home of one Thomas Doghtery,
Woolaghan was a member of the Newtownmountkennedy Corps of Yeonmanry, and he was determined, it seems, to flush out any remnants of rebel activity in Wicklow. The insurrection had been quashed since June 1798, and Dogherty had been lucky to get out of his family’s United Irish links alive. Tried in
Having been that close to death, Dogherty was no doubt happy

The might Ms Raughter at Delgany Graveyard 5FEB20