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Mrs Lindsay was captured as a spy by the IRA following the disastrous attempted ambush by the IRA at Dripsey on 28th Jan 1921 when six IRA men were captured. Mrs Lindsay was held in the hope of exchanging her for some prisoners taken at Dripsey but when these were executed Mrs. Lindsay was taken up Bweeng mountain and shot on about 9th March 1921. The house she was kept in for a few weeks is gone and only some stones and sheet iron from the roof remain in a forested location.
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