APPENDIX TWO
The Militia Battalions
Militia battalions with associated Line regiments
Connaught
Rangers; depot in Galway ;
1st Battalion the 88th foot, 2nd the 94th foot; affiliated volunteer or
militia battalions: 3rd the Mayo militia, 4th the Galway militia, 5th the
Roscommon militia.
The Royal
Dublin Fusiliers; depot Naas;
1st battalion 102d foot, 2nd 103rd foot; affiliated volunteer or militia
battalions: 3rd Kildare militia, 4th City of Dublin militia, 5th County of
Dublin militia.
Royal Inniskilling
Fusiliers; depot Omagh;
1st battalion 27th foot, 2nd 108th foot; affiliated volunteer or militia
battalions: 3rd Fermanagh militia, 4th Tyrone militia, 5th Donegal militia.
Royal Irish
Fusiliers; depot Armagh; 1st battalion 87th foot, 2nd 89th foot; affiliated
volunteer or militia battalions: 3rd Armagh
militia, 4th Cavan militia, 5th Monaghan militia.
Royal Irish
Regiment; depot Clonmel;
1st battalion 18th foot, 2nd 18th foot; affiliated volunteer or militia
battalions: 3rd Wexford militia, 4th Tipperary militia,
5th Kilkenny militia.
Royal Irish
Rifles; depot Belfast, 1st battalion 83rd foot, 2nd 86th foot; affiliated
volunteer or militia battalions: 3rd North Down militia, 5th the South Down militia,
6th Louth militia.
Leinster
Regiment; depot Birr; 1st
battalion 100th foot, 2nd 109th foot; affiliated volunteer or militia
battalions: 3rd King’s County militia, 4th Queen's County militia, 5th Meath
militia.
Royal Muster
Fusiliers; depot Tralee; 1st battalion 101st foot, 2nd 104th foot; affiliated
volunteer or militia battalions: 3rd South Cork Militia, 4th Kerry militia, 5th
Limerick County
militia.
King's Royal
Rifle Corps; 8th battalion Carlow
militia, 9th was the North Cork militia, depot Mallow.
The King’s (Liverpool) Regiment; 5th (later 8th) battalion
Liverpool Irish Volunteers.
Rifle Brigade; 6th battalion Leitrim militia
with Longford militia, 9th Westmeath, 16th Middlesex Volunteers or
London Irish.
The Irish
Guards were based in London though the officers and men were Irish.
Militia battalions with associated Royal Artillery
Royal Regiment
of Artillery; militia
depots in Antrim, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Dublin
city, Limerick city, Londonderry city, Mid-Ulster, Sligo, Tipperary, Waterford and Wicklow.
Affiliated
volunteer or militia battalions:
Antrim militia,
Clare militia, Cork City militia, Limerick City militia, Londonderry militia, Sligo militia, Waterford militia, Wicklow militia
Note: these arrangements
were not fixed in stone and the status of a particular battalion could be
changed at any time. Nor does the list include the ‘service battalions’
composed of volunteers from 1914-1918 which raised the total of Irish
battalions during the First World War to 82. These battalions were added to the
existing regiments and by 1918 the Royal Irish Rifles had 20 battalions.
Sources Whitaker’s
Almanac 1903, Harris, The Irish Regiment, Colles, History of
Ulster.
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