Louis Darcy

Darcy was born and raised in the small country village of Clydagh, Headford, County Galway. At the time of his death, he was the Officer Commanding of the third Battalion of the Mid-Galway Brigade. The Headford Battalion as it was commonly known consisted of Volunteers from the Cloneen, Claren and Caherlistrane Companies.

Darcy was captured at Oranmore railway station by the Black and Tans. After two days imprisonment, he was identified by members of the Headford Royal Irish Constabulary. Later that night he was shot by the Black and Tans; his body was tied to the back of a lorry and pulled behind as it drove from Oranmore to Roscam, where it was thrown into the wood at Merlin Park.

British Military Intelligence received information on Darcy from an informant.[1]

There is a ballad written in honour of Louis Darcy.

• Tony D'Arcy

• History of Castlegar Parish, Padraic Ó Laoi, 1996.