Fiolar: picking up the thread having just got back from the old country. Can't find Granure on the OS 1:50000 map, sheet 86. Closest I can find is "Garranure" about a mile and a half east, and very slighly south, of Ballynacarriga. Could this be the same place? This location is very close to Tom Barry's "11 miles south east of Kilmichael - just across the Manch Bridge[on Bandon river]". Yes: the men must have been shatterd, mentally and physically, having marched 26 miles, gone 30 hours without sleep and experienced a "fire fight", the first for most of them, in which 20 men died, 17 Auxies, 3 IRA. As a matter of interest, the battle took place about 2 miles south of Kilmichael, itself only about 10 miles from where Michael Collins was killed.