Belfast to Kerry - Lower Stansfield Street, Belfast, UK
N 54° 35.659 W 005° 55.377
30U E 311168 N 6053576
This mural, entitled "Belfast to Kerry - Tragedy at Ballykissane", is painted on the gable-end wall of a house in Lower Stansfield Street in Belfast. It is in memory of a gentleman called Charles Monahan.
Waymark Code: WM11EAY
Location: Ulster, Ireland
Date Posted: 10/07/2019
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The text on the mural tells us:
Born in Riley Place in the Market
area of Belfast, Charles was one
of many people who left Belfast
to take part in the events leading
up to the Easter Rising.
Charles role was to meet up with
3 other vols and help guide Roger
Casement land a ship full of
weapons.
On the 21st April, 1916, the driver
took the wrong road and drove
off the pier into the River Laune
at Ballykissane.
Charles, 37, drowned along with
two of his comrades.
The Extra mural Activity website also tells us:
One of the first casualties of the Easter Rising, on the evening of Good Friday, was Belfast-born Charles Monahan (Charlie Monahan, Cathal Ó Monacháin/Ó Muineacháin), who died along with Con Keating and Daniel Sheehan in a motor accident in Kerry, when their car – which only had one headlamp – was driven off a pier. His body was not found until October 30th. The driver, Tommy McInerney – shown here studying a map – survived. This mural is in the Markets; Monahan is also claimed by east Belfast and a 2006 mural to him survives to this day on Mountpottinger Road.