Burning of Knockcroghery

Date: June 21, 1921 • Location: Lanesborough, Ireland

Irish War of Independence: Most of the village of Knockcroghery in County Roscommon was burned by British forces.

The Irish War of Independence, also known as the Anglo-Irish War or the Tan War, was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and its paramilitary forces the Auxiliaries and Ulster Special Constabulary (USC). It was part of the Irish revolutionary period.