Republican prisoners killed in Bahaghs, not Kenmare

I refer to the piece, by Ryle Dwyer, ‘When decisive leadership and selflessness saved the nation’ (Irish Examiner, March 4). While the topic was interesting, there was one inaccuracy.

Mr Dwyer mentions the atrocities carried out by Free State forces against Republican prisoners in Ballyseedy, near Tralee, and Countess Bridge, near Killarney. He says that a week later five more prisoners were blown up, near Kenmare. The location is incorrect. This took place a few kilometres east of Cahirsiveen, in a townland called Bahaghs. Free State forces were stationed in the nearby workhouse, as the local RIC barracks, situated in the town, had been burned down by Republicans.

Dwyer gives the correct location in his book, Tans, Terror and Troubles: Kerry’s Real fighting Story 1913-23, so it seems a simple error when writing the article.