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| File Reference |
DP7329
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| Name |
Timothy Kenefick |
| Gender |
male |
| Address detail |
| Street |
9 Maddens Buildings, Cork
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| County |
Cork
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Date of birth |
1894
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| Notes |
Date of birth not recorded on file but age at time of death given as 27 years on death certificate
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| Date of death |
1922-09-08
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| Place |
Nadrid, Coachford, County Cork, Ireland
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| Associated files in MSPA |
DP7329 Temporary File; 2RB406; 32APB9; W19;
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| Civilian occupation |
Bar Manager;
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| Easter rising service |
No |
| Organisation |
Irish Volunteers |
| Rank |
Company Signaller
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| Brigade |
1 Cork Brigade
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| Organisation |
Irish Republican Army |
| Rank |
Lieutenant
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| Brigade |
1 Cork Brigade
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
Sean Hegarty;
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| Organisation |
Irish Republican Army |
| Rank |
Signalling Officer
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| Brigade |
5 Cork Brigade
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
Ted O’Sullivan
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| Pension Claim |
No |
| Award Pension |
Yes |
| Army Pensions Act 1923/1953 |
YesYes |
| Type of Award |
DADependant's allowance
RGRemarriage gratuity
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| Military Service Pensions Acts 1924 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1934 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1949 |
No |
| Digital file |
Scanned/digital copyW19 Timothy Kenefick.pdf
Scanned/digital copyDP7329 Timothy Kenefick.pdf
Scanned/digital copyDP7329 Temporary File Timothy Kenefick.pdf
Scanned/digital copy32APB9 Timothy Kenefick.pdf
Scanned/digital copy2RB406 Timothy Kenefick.pdf |
| File dates |
22 January 1923 – 12 January 1963
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| Subject Information |
File relates to Ellen Kenefick’s receipt of a dependents’ allowance under the Army Pensions Acts, between 1934 and her remarriage in 1941, in respect of her first husband IRA Signalling Officer Timothy Kenefick. An allowance was also awarded to the son of Timothy and Ellen Kenefick up to the age of 18, and to their daughter up to the age of 21 or her marriage if before that.
File also relates to Ellen Kenefick’s unsuccessful application in 1928 for an award under the Army Pensions Acts, 1927 when it was decided that her “...case [was] not one for consideration under the terms of the Act…” File further relates to the posthumous award of a Service (1917-1921) Medal in respect of Timothy Kenefick to his widow Ellen Carson, formerly Kenefick in [1962].
File further relates to unsuccessful representations on behalf of Ellen Carson for the reinstatement of hew dependents’ allowance following the death of her second husband. Ellen Kenefick was granted a remarriage gratuity of £90 (ninety pounds sterling) in 1943 following her remarriage on 30 August 1941.
Timothy Kenefick’s was found shot dead, and with evidence of his having been beaten, at Nadrid, Coachford, County Cork on 8 September 1922 during the Civil War. He had been taken into custody by National Army soldiers, allegedly operating under the command of “General Dalton”, earlier that day in the Coachford area. According to material on file Timothy Kenefick served from 1917 onwards with the Irish Volunteers and IRA and during the War of Independence, Truce period and Civil War.
File includes: original handwritten material submitted and signed by Ellen Kenefick in support of her applications; representations on behalf of Ellen Kenefick from Hugo V. Flinn TD, her mother Barbara Murphy, Sean MacEntee TD, Minister for Finance and Eamon de Valera, President of the Executive Council; original signed undated Garda Síochana report regarding the circumstances and means of the Kenefick family and the degree of dependency of Ellen Kenefick on her husband at the time of his death; signed handwritten report dated 9 May 1929 from Defence Forces Adjutant General Colonel S. O’Higgins to the Secretary, Army Pensions Board stating that Timothy Kenefick was “…an active Irregular” at the time of his death; material (16 April – 17 May 1930) relating to unsuccessful request from Hugo V. Flinn TD that a grant of compensation be made to Ellen Kenefick and her children in the same way as compensation was paid to the family of one of the [IRA] prisoners killed at Ballyseedy, County Kerry in March 1923; typed copy of the proceedings at the inquest into the death of Timothy Kenefick held at Coachford on 11 September 1922; typed copy document headed “Inquisition” giving the details of the verdict of wilful murder, against the officers in charge of the National Army forces at Coachford and Richard Mulcahy as Minister for Defence, passed at the inquest into the death of Timothy Kenefick held on 11 September 1922 at Coachford before the Coroner John Joseph Horgan and also giving the names of the jury; reference to an unsuccessful application made in 1923 by Ellen Kenefick to the Compensation (Personal Injuries) Committee) in respect of the death of her husband and refused by the then Minister for Finance on the grounds that “…at the time of his death [ Timothy Kenefick] was an active Irregular and the leader of an Irregular column.”; material relating to Ellen Kenefick’s granting of power of attorney to Áine Ceannt of the Irish White Cross Society in respect of her dependents’ allowance and Áine Ceannt’s subsequent acting on behalf of Ellen Kenefick in dealings with the Department of Defence in relation to the payment and administration of the dependents’ allowance; material relating to Ellen Kenefick’s application for and receipt of payment for her children’s educational fees from the Department of Defence; representations on behalf of Ellen Kendrick in respect of her applications for a posthumous Service Medal for her husband and the reinstatement of her dependents’ allowance following the death of her second husband from S. Ó Muirthile, Rúnaí Onórach, Cumann na bhFiann I gCorcaigh; original signed and initialled handwritten and typed memoranda and correspondence involving officials of the Department of Defence regarding the possibility of allowing the reinstatement of allowances to widows who had remarried and whose subsequent husbands had died; and handwritten statements regarding Timothy Kenefick’s service and death from Ted O’Sullivan and Sean Hegarty.
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