Clare Cumann na mBan 
              Pension and Medal Applications                 
                         1916 - 1923 
                                                     
                 Nan Hogan who led the East Clare Cumann na mBan Brigade 
         
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                              Delia Armstrong: 
                 File Reference     MSP34REF33297 
                 Name               Delia Armstrong 
                 Gender             female 
                 Maiden/Other       Mungovan 
                 names 
                 Address detail      
                 Street             Inch, Ennis 
                 County             Clare 
                 Country            Ireland 
                 Address detail      
                 Street             Ballymacaula, Cahercalla, Ennis 
                 County             Clare 
                 Country            Ireland 
                 Address detail      
                 Street             Kylea, Inagh, Ennis 
                 County             Clare 
                 Country            Ireland 
                 Date of birth      1891 
                 Notes              Exact date of birth not recorded on file 
                 Date of death      1970-01-15 
                 Associated files in 
                 MSPA               34E6689 
                 Related files      MSP34EF40282 (Minnie Egan, sister) 
                 Easter rising      No 
                 service 
                 Organisation       CumannnamBan 
                 Rank               Unknown 
                 Unit               2 Battalion 
                 Company            B Company (Inch) 
                 Brigade            Mid Clare Brigade 
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                Commanding        Slyvester Barrett 
                Officer(s) 
                Pension Claim     Yes 
                Award Pension     Yes 
                Army Pensions     No 
                Act 1923/1953 
                Military Service 
                Pensions Acts     No 
                1924 
                Military Service 
                Pensions Acts     Yes 
                1934 
                Grade             E 
                Notes             Awarded 1 and 31/36 years experience of pension purposes in 1942. 
                Military Service 
                Pensions Acts     No 
                1949 
                Digital file      Scanned/digital copyMSP4REF33297 Delia Armstrong.pdf 
                                  Scanned/digital copy34E6689 Delia Armstrong.pdf 
                File dates        12 July 1935 - 20 April 1971 
                                  File relates to Delia Armstrong’s receipt of a military service pension in respect of 
                                  her service with the CumannnamBan in the service periods between 1 April 1920 
                                  and 31 March 1923 during the War of Independence, the Truce Period and Civil 
                                  War. Applicant also claimed unsuccessfully for service in the periods between 1 
                                  April 1917 and 31 March 1920 and 1 April 1923 and 30 September 1923. Delia 
                                  Armstrong (née Mungovan) had at least one sister Minnie Egan (née Mungovan) 
                                  (MSP34REF40282) active with CumannnamBan and one brother T. Mungovan who 
                                  was a member of the Irish Volunteers/IRA. Attached to the Inch Company, 2 
                                  Battalion, Mid Clare Brigade, CumannnamBan, it is stated that the applicant took 
                Subject           part in general CumannnamBan activity in during the War of Independence 
                Information       (January 1919 – July 1921) including: fund-raising; propaganda work; election 
                                  work; intelligence-work; storing arms and ammunition; making haversacks; first-
                                  aid training; dispatch-work; sheltering wounded IRA Volunteers Peadar O’Loughlin 
                                  (DP2747) and Austin Geraghty after the Shessymore ambush (4 December 1919) 
                                  and attending to wounded IRA Volunteer Jack Hassett and Ignatius O’Neill 
                                  (24SP12754) after the Monreal ambush (18 December 1920).  
                                  During the Truce period (July 1921 – June 1922), Delia Armstrong states that she 
                                  was active in fund-raising by organising concerts and dances and also supplied 
                                  meals to IRA training camps in the locality.  
                                  Taking the anti-Treaty side in the Civil War (June 1922 – May 1923), the applicant 
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               states that she took part in similar activity. Delia Armstrong claims that Free State 
               soldiers fired at her home and she was once fired on by National Army troops 
               while walking to Church on Good Friday.  
               File includes signed handwritten and typed statements regarding subject's service 
               from Sean O’Keeffe (1941); PC McMahon (1941) and Brian Bairead (1941). File 
               further contains a typed summary and sworn statement made by the applicant 
               before the Advisory Committee on 16 May 1941. ARCHIVIST’S NOTE: Sisters Delia 
               (MSP34REF33297) and Minnie (MSP34REF40282) (née Mungovan) were likely 
               close relations to the Mungovan family of Magowna, Inch County Clare who were 
               also active with Inch Branch, 2 Battalion, Mid Clare Brigade, CumannnamBan – Lily 
               (MSP34REF47730), Margaret (MSP34REF49081), Delia (MSP34REF47729) and 
               Patrick Mungovan (34E7835 – File Not Found).  
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
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