{"id":5217,"date":"2024-12-23T10:50:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=5217"},"modified":"2025-12-23T10:50:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:50:51","slug":"joseph-moran-a-civil-war-casualty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/joseph-moran-a-civil-war-casualty\/","title":{"rendered":"JOSEPH MORAN. A CIVIL WAR CASUALTY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Private Joseph Moran, National Army, was the only fatality of the Pike&#8217;s Bridge ambush. He was buried in Boycetown cemetery, Kilcock. According to the Register of Purchases of Grave Space (01 March 1909 \u2013 01 June 1939) the grave was purchased by his wife, Mrs. Bridget Moran, Balfeighan, Kilcock, wife of a labourer, on 26 April 1923 for the sum of \u00a31, and Joseph, aged 35 years, was interred in the cemetery on 25 March 1923. His grave is located in Section of Ground 2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Leixlip-Battle-image.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5218\" src=\"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Leixlip-Battle-image-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private Joseph Moran, National Army, was the only fatality of the Pike&#8217;s Bridge ambush. He was buried in Boycetown cemetery, Kilcock. According to the Register of Purchases of Grave Space (01 March 1909 \u2013 01 June 1939) the grave was purchased by his wife, Mrs. Bridget Moran, Balfeighan, Kilcock, wife of a labourer, on 26 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decade-of-centenaries","category-people"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Karel Kiely","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/kkiely\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8491,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions\/8491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}