Carrickshock incident
| Carrickshock incident | |||
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| Part of the Tithe war | |||
"The Affray at Carrickshock" (David Henry Friston) | |||
| Date | 14 December 1831 | ||
| Location | Carrickshock, near Hugginstown, County Kilkenny 52°26′57″N 7°14′22″W / 52.4492°N 7.2394°W | ||
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Local leaders James Gibbons | |||
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The Carrickshock incident, Carrickshock massacre, or battle of Carrickshock was a confrontation between the Irish Constabulary and local Catholic tenant farmers near Carrickshock, near Hugginstown, County Kilkenny, on 14 December 1831, during the Tithe War in Ireland. Seventeen were killed: fourteen of a party attempting to collect tithes and three of the crowd of locals who confronted them. The incident was unusual among massacres in the Tithe War in that the majority of casualties were supporters rather than opponents of tithes.