‘Something out of ordinary was afoot’ at Bweeng

AFTER Macroom, the biggest numbers to mobilise in Cork on Easter Sunday gathered at Bweeng, between Blarney and Mallow.

Here, there were companies from as far north as Castletownroche — 15 miles away — and Nadd, Donoughmore and Waterloo, all within five miles march of Bweeng.

The biggest company on parade there were the 75 men from Mourneabbey, the parish near Mallow where the Irish Volunteers’ Cork Brigade commandant Tomás MacCurtain spent his early years.