Cork Captured by pro-Treaty Forces. 

Introduction from Chronology

There was stiff resistance to the advancing pro-Treaty forces at Rochestown and Douglas with (it is claimed) eight pro-Treaty soldiers were killed.  The anti-Treaty forces withdraw to Ballincollig and then (in some confusion) towards Macroom. 

The major towns in west Cork are soon taken by pro-Treaty forces.

More Detail

John Borgonovo has written a detailed account of the taking of Cork by pro-Treaty forces in The Battle for Cork: July-August 1922

There were eight casualties on the pro-Treaty side including brothers Gerard and Fred McKenna from Connaught St, Phibsboro, Dublin who were killed in Rochestown on August 8^th. Ian MacKensie Kennedy, who was from Scotland, died fighting on the anti-Treaty side. There is a memorial to him in Goughanebarra.

Memorial to Ian MacKensie Kennedy:

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