Famine Warhouse 1848

Famine Warhouse 1848
Teach Cogaidh Bhaile na Gharraí
Engraving from Michael Doheny's The Felon's Track (1849)
Alternative names	Ballingarry Warhouse The Widow McCormack's House
General information
Status	Museum
Type	Farmhouse
Architectural style	Vernacular
Location	Farranrory Upper
Town or city	Ballingarry
Country	Ireland
Coordinates	52°37′09″N 7°31′22″W / 52.619273°N 7.522898°W / 52.619273; -7.522898
Elevation	292 m (958 ft)
Technical details
Material	Stone, slate
Floor count	2
Designations
National Monument of Ireland
Official name	Ballingarry Warhouse
Designated	April 1989
Reference no.	659
Known for	Battle site
Website
ballingarry.net/warhouse

Famine Warhouse 1848, traditionally known as the Ballingarry Warhouse or The Widow McCormack's House, is an Irish farmhouse famous as the site of a skirmish in the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 (Ireland's contribution to the Springtime of the Peoples), at which the Irish tricolour was flown for the first time.^[1][2]

Located 3.9 km (2.4 mi) north-northeast of Ballingarry, South Tipperary, the house was owned by a Mrs Margaret McCormack at the time of the battle. Rebels led by William Smith O'Brien besieged 47 policemen of the Irish Constabulary. After the loss of two men the rebels retreated, and were later arrested and transported.^[3]

Known locally as the Warhouse, it became a National Monument in 1989, was renovated in 2000–01 and was renamed "Famine Warhouse 1848" in 2004. Today it houses a museum with exhibits on the Potato Famine and mass emigration, the rebellion, the high treason trials and exile of the Young Ireland leaders in Australia and their escapes to the US.

References

Coordinates: 52°37′09″N 7°31′22″W / 52.619273°N 7.522898°W / 52.619273; -7.522898