Dunlavin Green executions

These forces, composed of both Catholics and Protestants, were raised to help defend against a possible French invasion of Ireland and to aid in the policing of the country.

[2] For several months prior to May 1798, Wicklow and many other areas of the country had been subject to martial law which had been imposed in an effort to prevent the long threatened rebellion.

[3] The twenty-eight who came forward were immediately arrested and imprisoned, several of them being subjected to flogging in an effort to extract information about the plans and organization of the United Irishmen.

The bodies were either removed for burial by their families or interred in a common grave ("large pit") at Tournant cemetery.

A foray by the troops into the countryside failed and the garrison's officers were aware that they were outnumbered by the prisoners held in the Market House.

[3] In 1998, a commemorative stone was installed in St Nicholas of Myra Roman Catholic church, adjacent to the green.