Timothy O’Leary

Died

20 May 1922

Age

Rank

Constable

Force

Royal Irish Constabulary

Cause

Homicide - Shot

Duty Status

Retired

Roll of Honour Citation

Recently disbanded, he was abducted and shot dead after being ordered off a pony and trap at Callan’s Cross, Kilbrittain, County Cork, while on his way to visit his mother.

Roll of Honour Citation

Recently disbanded, he was abducted and shot dead after being ordered off a pony and trap at Callan’s Cross, Kilbrittain, County Cork, while on his way to visit his mother.

Circumstances

Recently disbanded, he was with his aunt when abducted and killed.

Abducted and shot dead after being ordered off a pony and trap at Callan’s Cross, Kilbrittain, County Cork, while travelling from Kinsale with his aunt to visit his mother. His body, with a bullet wound in his head and another in his neck, was found the following day.

Constable O’Leary had recently been disbanded from the RIC and had returned home to Kilbrittain. His brother, also a member of the RIC, had been killed in an ambush in 1920.