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This is beside Tarrants and Gortroe Inn which you captured already. Phil Singleton was Captain of the Lombardstown Company of the Irish volunteers during the War of Independence and spent time in jail. He was also a full time soldier with the Mallow Battalion Column. He rose to Quartermaster on the Mallow Battalion executive. He was an employee of Lombardstown Co-Op and escaped the raid by British forces in 1920 that resulted in the capture of about ten volunteers as he was “on the run” at the time. They were identified by a lady whose husband came to work in the area and she was condemned to be executed but the local priest got her away before capture. This building was a semi-detached unit in former times and the other half was then occupied by second family named Harty . James Harty was a member of the Lombardstown IRA Company. The house was leased from Henry Smith who bought Lombardstown House and estate in 1897.
