Search

03 Oct 2025

Address sought for Leitrim's only Victoria Cross winner

Address sought for Leitrim's only Victoria Cross winner

Victoria Cross medal

Charles Irwin & Well Park Manorhamilton native, Charles Irwin (1825-1873) the only Leitrim man to win the Victoria Cross, which is the most esteemed British honours system award, earned for exceptional bravery in military battle.
Charles won the Victoria Cross for his part in the relief of Lucknow in Northern India on November 16, 1857. He died in March or April 1873 at the age of 48 and is buried in Aghadrumsee Graveyard, Rosslea.


Galway based Manorhamilton native and famed local historian, Dominic Rooney has a few years ago written a Leitrim Guardian article on Charles Irwin. Dominic wishes to do some further research on Charles Irwin and is seeking readers' help with a question he has about the Manorhamilton Victoria Cross recipient.
Following Charles' baptism in Manorhamilton Church of Ireland in early 1925, the church's baptismal record for him states his and his family's address as Well Park possibly in the Froxfield (also known as Moneenshinnagh) townland. Dominic would like to find out where exactly Well Park was as it is not listed on any Ordnance Survey map, etc.
If any reader has the answer to this question or can throw some further light on it, Dominic would be delighted to learn of it. Any reader with an answer to this question or some further light on it can email their information to P. J. Leddy – pjleddy@yahoo.com (phone 087-6222816).

To continue reading this article,
please subscribe and support local journalism!


Subscribing will allow you access to all of our premium content and archived articles.

Subscribe

To continue reading this article for FREE,
please kindly register and/or log in.


Registration is absolutely 100% FREE and will help us personalise your experience on our sites. You can also sign up to our carefully curated newsletter(s) to keep up to date with your latest local news!

Register / Login

Buy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.

Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.