Old Court woods, Rochestown, Co. Cork where, on the 9th August 1922, during the Irish Civil War, Free State troops (having landed at Passage West the previous day) fought a day long battle with 200 Republican defenders. Resistance was finally broken when Captains Peadar Conlon and Frank O'Friel led twelve men in an attack on the last remaining Republican stronghold. By the end of the day seven Republicans and nine Free State soldiers had been killed with many wounded on both sides. old black and white