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Famine Warhouse 1848
Teach Cogaidh Bhaile na Gharraí
The Widow McCormack's House, Near Ballingarry.JPG
Engraving from Michael Doheny's The Felon's Track (1849)
Alternative names Ballingarry Warhouse
The Widow Margaret McCormack's House
General information
Status Museum
Type Farmhouse
Architectural style Vernacular
Location Farranrory Upper
Town or city Ballingarry
Country Ireland
Coordinates 52°37′09″N 7°31′22″W / 52.619273°N 7.522898°W / 52.619273; -7.522898
Elevation 292 m (958 ft)
Technical details
Material Stone, slate
Floor count 2
Designations
Official name: Ballingarry Warhouse
Designated: April 1989
Reference #: 659
Known for Battle site

Famine Warhouse 1848, traditionally known as the Ballingarry Warhouse or The Widow McCormack's House, is an Irish farmhouse famous as the site of a skirmish in the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 (Ireland's contribution to the Springtime of the Peoples), at which the Irish tricolour was flown for the first time.

Located 3.9 km (2.4 mi) north-northeast of Ballingarry, South Tipperary, the house was owned at the time of the battle by Margaret McCormack, the widow of Thomas McCormack. Rebels led by William Smith O'Brien besieged 47 policemen of the Irish Constabulary. After the loss of two men the rebels retreated, and were later arrested and transported.

Known locally as the Warhouse, it became a National Monument in 1989, was renovated in 2000–01 and was renamed "Famine Warhouse 1848" in 2004. Today it houses a museum with exhibits on the Great Famine and mass emigration, the rebellion, the high treason trials and exile of the Young Ireland leaders in Australia and their escapes to the US.

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