ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21 ...

-3-took from anywhere we found it. Jem Cleary mademoulds and began to run buckshot. Large quantities ofbuckshot cartridges were made, and we carried them tomany parts of Co. Wexford.On one occasion, Pat Keegan, John Cleary,M. Davies and I with cycled,two hundred and fiftybuckshot cartridges on each carrier, over twenty miles toCaptain Kehoe, Skeeter Park, Co. Wexford, away up inthe mountainous district of the Three Rocks.Keegan's house (No. 10 Irish Street) was knownto all the initiated as "the munition dump". It washere that the buckshot was run and cartridges filled,pikeheads sharpened and handles fixed.The pikeheads were made by Jim Cleary at hisforge in Reilly's yard at the top of the old ChurchRoad - now St. Senan's - and we carried them in sackson our backs as we waded across the Slaney at a placeknown as the Point of the Island.Work went on every night (except Sunday) atKeegan's. We constructed a cave in Keegan's yardwhere we stored all the pikes, cartridges, crude bombsand shotguns. The shingle that we dug from the cavewas filled into sacks and formed a barricade acrossthe yard. Behind this first line of defence, one ortwo Volunteers did "sentry go" every night with ordersto fire on any R.I.C. man who dared to lift the latchof the door that led out to Keegan's yard. CaptainRafter made most of the powder that went into thebuckshot cartridges. It was known as "the devil".We captured four kegs of gunpowder in a raid on