`."System- "SystemhglUF-"System--@Times New Roman--- &2 x`cCastlerea Killings     2 xc  @Times New Roman--- 52 `cIntroduction from Chronology         2 Sc  @Times New Roman--- 2 `ScOver these two days, there are six people killed in the vicinity of Castlerea, Co.                       t2 `FcRoscommon. Three civilians, two IRA men and one member of the BA are                  2 ` ckilled.    2 c  --- 2 ` cMore Detail    2 c  --- 2 `PcIn the early morning of April 6th, two men call to the door of John Gilligan in                        z2 )`JcLoughglinn or Loughglynn, Roscommon and ordered him to get dressed. Half                    2 >`Pcan hour later, his wife heard some shots. She found his body a few hours later                  2 T`Qcwith a sign tied around his neck saying: Spies and Informers this is your fate.                     22 i`cIRA.. Gilligan was an ex       2 i'c- X2 i-3cBA soldier. Nearby, there was a knock on the door               )2 ~`cof John Wymes, an ex       2 ~c- Y2 ~4cmember of the RIC. His body was later found by his              /2 `csons with a sign saying:        2 c  [2 !5cSpies and Informers this is your fate. IRA.. Both             e2 `<cmen were killed by the South Roscommon Brigade of the IRA.                  2 Vc    2 `c   y2 `IcIn the early morning of April 7th, Pat Conry from Tarmon, Castlerea, Co.                       p2 `CcRoscommon is taken from his home by masked raiders. He is shot and                  2 vc  2 y cbattered    2 `Scto death with rifle butts. He was a member of the 1st (Castlerea) Battalion of the                     }2 "`LcSouth Roscommon Brigade of the IRA. The same gang then go to the house of                      z2 7`JcJames Monds from South Park or Knockmurray, Castlerea. They say that they                       2 M` cwere looking    h2 M>cfor Johns son (William) who was 14 or 15 years of age. But,                 }2 b`Lcinstead, they take James from his home and, next morning, his body is found                     2 x` cnearby.     2 xc   2 `NcBoth Burke and OHalpin & Corrin say that the RIC reported that both these                       :2 `cmen were killed by the IRA for         G2 X(cwanting to leave the IRA and emigrate.            |2 `KcHowever, Burke states that IRA testimony and local memory strongly assert                   2 `Pcthat the men were killed by the Crown forces and deliberate misdirection cannot                     g2 `=cbe ruled out. It would seem that both killings were carried               2 3c  "2 8cout by the RIC       2 `Ocmurder gang from Castlerea. (What is unusual is that Monds was a Protestant                  z2 `Jcand, although he was not a member of the IRA, according to the O/C of the                      t2 *`FcSouth Roscommon Brigade, he identified with the Volunteer movement.)                   2 *c   #2 F`c(OCallaghan men     d2 F;ctions the killings of Conry and Monds but does not mention                 C2 \`%cthe killings of Gilligan or Wynes.)          2 \tc   y2 x`IcIn retaliation for the killings of Conry and Monds, the ASU of the South                     @Times New Roman--------------- g2 `=cRoscommon Brigade went into Castlerea on the night of April 7                 --- 2 Tcth---  2 ]c  2 b clooking for      2 ` csuitable t   j2 ?cargets. The kill the BAs Lance Corporal Eugene Weldon of the                 2 `NcLeicestershire Regiment on the Main St of Castlerea. A female civilian, Mary                    |2 `KcAnne McDonagh, is also fatally wounded. According to OCallaghan, she was                    G2 `(cwounded in an exchange of shots. OHalpi          @2 #cn & Corrin quote the O/C of the           }2 `LcBA in Roscommon (Major E.S.W. Tidswell) as saying that she was hit by shots                      "Arial--ccbbaa