Sionnaigh Tine massacre

Sionnaigh Tine massacre was an event that happened on May 16th 1825 in Donegal, Great Britain and Ireland where the residents of the Irish Gaeltacht village Sionnaigh Tine were slaughtered.

98 villagers were killed, with only one survivor, a 10-year old boy.

Lead-up.
The Irish language was seen as backward by the British and vowed to make English Ireland’s main language.

Sionnaigh Tine was a village of republicans and seperatists and once was a village of thieves, their activities were well-known by English and Scottish settler villages.

In 1825, a nearby village told the police and army about Sionnaigh Tine.

The massacre and cover-up.
The soldiers, settlers and police arrived in the village and rounded up peasants and shot and stabbed them.

The corpses were buried in shallow graves where their corpses were.

The massacre lasted three hours from 5:00 am to 8:00 am.

Aftermath
After the massacre, there was only one survivor, Michael McNamara, who was only a child at the time.

He developed a deep hatred for the British for massacring his home.

After he died in 1863 at the age of 48, bringing the whole population of Sionnaigh Tine to actual extinction, He went to the ghost world without seeing his relatives again until he saw his children in the 1970’s.

According to Michael, he states the dead villagers went to Hell and he could hear their cries for vengeance in the said afterlfie.