This massacre at Bunclody had caused people…
December 1831 CE
This massacre at Bunclody had caused people to organize their resistance with agreed signals such as warning the community of the approach of police by the ringing of chapel bells.
Such a warning results on December 14, 1831, in an ambush of a detachment of forty police at Carrickshock in County Kilkenny; they are routed by the forewarned inhabitants and see nineteen of their number killed, including their Chief Constable.