Sionnaigh Tine

Sionnaigh Tine/Carrickville was a village in Donegal, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (modern day Republic of Ireland), it was destroyed in 1825 due to English-speaking neighbors from a village telling the police about them after speaking Irish was made illegal.

It was a Irish-speaking village, It also used to be an area of republicans and seperatists, English was barely spoken there.

On May 16th 1825, armed policemen ransacked the village, shooting peasants, rounding them up and shooting them.

Everyone who lived in the village was killed and the village set ablaze, but, there was one survivor of Sionnaigh Tine’s population, a 10-year old Michael McNamara.

Trivia.

 * According to Michael, he said the village was once a place of 1798 activity.