It can be recalled that the first Fenian Centre in Templemore—Mr Patrick Mackey—was married to a daughter of a Colonel commanding the troops in the barracks. She became a Catholic in order to do so. After her husband died she moved with her family to Newry to where part of the 11th Battn. had been transferred. One of the suggested dates for the Fenian Rising was to have been in May 1865, and on the particular night 10 of the 11 soldiers on guard duty at the barracks were Fenians. Had the Rising taken place on that night (rather than in 1867) it is interesting to speculate what the outcome might have been considering the large number of Fenians in the Regiment at the time and the huge amount of armaments that could have been made available.