Béal na Bláth

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The cross at Béal na Bláth commemorates the death of Michael Collins.

Béal na Bláth , alternatively also Béal na mBláth , Béal na Blá , Bealnablath or Bealnabla , is a small village on the R585 southeast of Macroom in County Cork in Ireland . The village is best known for the fact that the IRA activist Michael Collins was ambushed here in 1922, in which he was shot.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Placenames Database of Ireland . Accessed August 16, 2012
  2. ↑ Hopkinson, Michael. 1988. Green Against Green: the Irish civil war. Page 177.

Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′  N , 8 ° 51 ′  W