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| File Reference |
MSP34REF59730
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| Name |
Mary Cleary |
| Gender |
female |
| Maiden/Other names |
Molly Cleary
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| Address detail |
| Street |
Bunmore, Ballycroy
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| County |
Mayo
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Address detail |
| Street |
Shean, Ballycroy
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| County |
Mayo
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Notes |
Date of birth not recorded on file
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| Notes |
Date of death not recorded on file
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| Associated files in MSPA |
34SP60642
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| Related files |
MSP34REF59760 (Anne Malone née Cleary, sister)
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| Easter rising service |
No |
| Organisation |
None |
| Pension Claim |
Yes |
| Award Pension |
No |
| Army Pensions Act 1923/1953 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1924 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1934 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1949 |
No |
| Digital file |
Scanned/digital copyMSP34REF59730 Mary Cleary.pdf
Scanned/digital copy34SP60642 Mary Cleary.pdf |
| File dates |
05 February 1941 - 02 December 1942
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| Subject Information |
File relates to Mary Cleary’s unsuccessful application for a military service pension under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1934. Applicant claimed membership of Cumann na mBan in the service periods between 01 April 1919 and 30 September 1923 during the War of Independence, Truce period and Civil War.
Mary Cleary (Molly Cleary) states that she was a member of H Company (Ballycroy), 2 Battalion, West Mayo Brigade, Cumann na mBan under the command of Peg Malone and Liam Malone. During the War of Independence (January 1919 – July 1921), she claims that she took part in dispatch work and tended to wounded IRA men following ambushes of British forces at Skirdagh and Kilmeena in her home which was “turned into a temporary hospital as it was situated in a lonesome mountain district”.
During the Truce period, Mary Cleary claims that she attended first-aid classes in a training camp in Shean, Ballycroy, County Mayo.
Taking the anti-Treaty side in the Civil War, the subject states under the command of Anthony Farrell she did typing work for dispatches on a typewriter in her home. Reference states that her home was Brigade headquarters during the period. Further states that she tended to IRA members following ambushes of National forces in Glenamoy and other places. By the second critical date (July 1922), the branch had been re-organised into 3 Battalion, 5 Brigade (North West Mayo).
In her application in 1941 she wrote that that her “reason for not applying for pension before … was as I was member of Sinn Féin up till recently”.
File includes reference in support of the subject’s claim from William Chambers (1941) and James Kilroy (1942). Subject did not appear before the Advisory Committee.
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