Myles Walter Keogh, born at Orchard in Leighlinbridge on March 25th 1840, was an Irish soldier who fought in the Pope's Irish Battalion during the Papal War of 1860 before leaving for America to fight in their Civil War and later as an officer in the famed U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment during the Indian Wars of the 1870s. He was killed with Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, June 25th 1876. At a time when Irishmen fighting abroad numbered thousands, his career was distinguished for its dramatic quality and for the valour he displayed.

The website is the brainchild of Baltinglass native, Robert Doyle, ably assisted by English historian and Keogh expert, Elisabeth Kimber. It is hoped that within the next year, the site will be the premier source of information for all interested in this remarkable Carlow man.

Articles will be posted on a regular basis and a four part series on his time in the Papal Army is now online.