DESTRUCTION RESUMED.
REBELS BLOW UP VIADUCT. ANCIENT CASTLE BURNED. A. and N.Z. LONDON, March 11. Armed men burned down T -wo wings -f the Devlin workhouse, after giving the occupants 10 minutes to leave. The Rikerslown viaduct of the "DundalkGreenore railway was blown up by a land , mine. The explosion was heard 10 miles | away. | At Sir Thomas Esmonde's mansion at Ballynastraghbury, 50 fire-raisers gave the occupants 10 minutes to lmve. and then used gas bombs and petrel to destroy the building. Rebels burnt Clony Castle, a magnificent Norman building belonging to the Greville Nugent family.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18347, 13 March 1923, Page 7
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