Thomas Allen (Irish Volunteer)

While Allen was young his mother died and he and his sister moved a few miles away to their grandparents house at Ballasport in the Hill of Down.

Having learned his trade locally as a boot maker Allen relocated to Dublin to seek employment with Winstanley's.

Four days into the rising Allen was mortally wounded from gunfire that ricocheted off fellow Volunteer Sean O'Carroll from a group of British soldiers advancing through Smithfield while barricading a window.

Fellow Longwood native Eamonn Duggan, who was also serving with the Irish volunteers in the Four Courts attempted to get medical assistance from Richmond Hospital for Allen but the British officer in charge of the exchange refused to allow the message through and by the time medical attention was received it was too late and Allen died in Richmond Hospital He was 29 years old at the time of his death.

The priest telling of Father Rooney's whereabouts would begin the fund for Thomas Allen's memorial, which still stands at Kilglass.