Name: Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society
Author: Cork Historical and Archaeological Society

Army halts at Sir Richard Osborne's Castle near Dungarvan

Dungarvan · town · Waterford · 1642

On the night before the assault on Dungarvan, the Lord President and Lords stayed at Sir Richard Osborne's Castle while the army quartered between the castle and the town. Scouts captured and hanged a gentleman and his man riding toward Dungarvan.

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Tt ,, L „. That night the Lord President and the rest of the Lords
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Ballybrood coal mine and geological formation

Ballybrood · townland · Limerick

A coal mine was worked at Ballybrood many years ago but abandoned as unprofitable, though local people still believe coal exists in paying quantities. Lewis records that basalt forms the principal substratum, rising to form the hill of Ballybrood, suddenly terminated by limestone near a rivulet.

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(s) The Groodie takes its rise from a pool, Poll Groodie, near Ballybrood, " townland of the height" (braid), and falls into the Shannon about a mile north of Limerick. The people say that there is a great deal of coal in Ballybrood, and a coal mine was worked there a great many years ago, but abandoned after a little expense, it being considered that the coal would not pay the cost of workin . how-
ever, allege that this enterprise was conducted in a very unbusinesslike manner and the search not properly made, and still hold strongly to their opinion that coal there is in Ballybrood, and in sufficient quantity to yield a handsome profit for the working. Lewis says with regard to Ballybrood parish that "basalt forms the principal substratum, and rises to a considerable elevation, forming the hill of Ballybrood; it assumes in some places a shivery slaty appearance, and in others is tabular and compact, but is suddei ly terminated by a small rivulet between the church and . house (now the residence ol Mr. 1 i, where the limestone formation com-

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 204

Cahernarry church tower and St. Nicholas dedication

Cahernarry (Cripps) · townland · Limerick · 1400–1862

The graveyard at Cahernarry contains a tower erected in Bishop Warburton's time and dismantled about thirty years before, plus a small ivy-covered portion of a church built by Richard White in the early fifteenth century, dedicated to St. Nicholas. Locals call the ruin Puicín.

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Cahernarry. — In my note I omitted some items. In the graveyard is the tower belonging to the church, erected in the time of Bishop Warburton, dismantled about thirty years ago. Close to the tower there is a very small portion of the church built by Richard White early in the fifteenth century. This is covered with
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Colonel Burke hanged in Cork by Cromwell

Cork · city · Cork · 1653

Colonel Burke, the second son of Lord Brittas, was hanged by Cromwell in Cork in 1653 following the confiscation of the family property.

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disguise of a priest, being permitted to pass unchallenged through the English lines, but was captured at Carrick-on-Suir and brought back to Limerick and hanged on Gallows Green, Garryowen, 1607. Linehan mentions that Sarsfield's wife was granddaughter to John Burke. John Burke's cousin, Theobald Burke of Castleconnel, got his lands — seven and a half ploughlands — and was made Baron Burke of Brittas in 161 8. In the battle of Liscarroll, September 3rd, 1642, between the English under Lord Inchiquin and the Irish under General Barry, Lord Brittas served under the latter. The Brittas property was confiscated by Cromwell, and the second son of Lord Brittas, Colonel Burke, was hung by Cromwell in Cork in 1653. Lord Brittas was restored to his property by Charles II. in 1666, but the estate was again lost under James II., as Theobald, Lord Brittas, and his son John, both of Ballymoney, county Limerick, were attainted in 1696. The lands of Brittas were purchased in 1703 by Thomas Stepney, the Grange, Portmarnock, county Dublin. Towards the close of last century the lands (j) came
Who sings, " Lady love, lady love, come to me now, Come and live merrily under the bough ;

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 256

Cork, Youghal and Limerick under direct crown allegiance

Limerick · city · Limerick

The towns of Cork, Youghal, and Limerick owed direct allegiance to the English crown, unlike the surrounding Desmond territories. Limerick in practice governed itself as a free city, making war on Galway by sea and on the O'Briens by land without regard for Dublin.

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Passing now to the possessions of the Earls of Desmond, we must first notice the towns of Cork, Youghal, and Limerick, all owning direct allegiance to the crown of England ; though Limerick, at least, practically governed itself as a free city, making war on Galway by sea, or on the O'Briens by land, without any regard to the orders of the Deputy in Dublin.
The territories of the Earls of Desmond also acknowledged the authority of the kings of England, differing in this from those of the MacCarthys. But this acknowledgement was merely nominal. The Earls of Desmond claimed an exemption from attending Parliament ; members of the Commons were seldom or never sent by the boroughs or counties under them ; the judges no longer went on circuit ; for a hundred years no deputy had visited Munster. The earls appointed their own officials, who gave judgment according to the Brehon code, with an admixture of feudal elements.

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Curragh castle near Kanturk and Neptune Blood's house

Curragh · townland · Cork · 1510–1800

A castle once stood at Curragh, about a mile from Kanturk, on the site of which Neptune Blood built a house early in the century. This castle, said to have belonged to the Mac Auliffs, may be the one captured by the Earl of Kildare in 1510 according to the Annals of Loch Cé.

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The people of Kanturk have a legend to account for the name. They say that O'Donoghue chased a boar of great size from Lough Lein, Killarney, which was killed by him at the junction of the Ealla and the Dalua. In a note, Transactions of the Ossianic Society, vol. v., p. 62, the writer connects the origin of the name of Kanturk with boar worship. He says, "It is remarkable that most of these legends (Fionn's achievements against boars,) prevail at sites which in Hindostan are considered sacred — the junction of rivers." Dr. Joyce gives a more prosaic origin of the name. He says, "The name shows that the little hill near the town must have been formerly a resort of one or more of these animals [boars]." According to this explanation Ceanntuirc means "boar's hill," and not "boar's head," as it is usually supposed to mean. In the Annals of Loch Ce, under year 1510, Garrett, Earl of Kildare, is said to have marched from Carraig Cital, county Limerick, to the castle of Ceann-tuirc, which lie captured. It seems to me that the Purcells will have some trouble in proving that they were settled at Kanturk in 15 10. This castle can hardly have been the present castle of Kanturk, whose imposing ruins frown not far from the Irish Rhine. There is a tradition in the district, corroborated, I think, by history, that Queen Elizabeth, when she heard of the great strength of the castle which MacDonogh was building, gave orders that he was not to complete it, and so the castle came to be, and is, I believe, still called " MacDonogh's Folly." There was another castle at Curragh, about a mile
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As the companion tells it

Close to Curragh, somewhere around here, a castle once stood about a mile from Kanturk. It was said to have belonged to the Mac Auliffs. The Annals of Loch Cé record that in 1510, Garrett, Earl of Kildare, marched from Carraig Cital in county Limerick and captured the castle of Ceann-tuirc. The castle at Curragh may be the one those annals refer to. The people of Kanturk have a legend for their name. They say O'Donoghue chased a great boar from Lough Lein in Killarney and killed it where the rivers Ealla and Dalua meet. A writer in the Transactions of the Ossianic Society connected this to boar worship, noting that legends of Fionn's battles with boars cluster at river junctions considered sacred in Hindostan. Dr. Joyce offers a simpler origin. He says the name shows the little hill near the town must have been a resort of boars. Ceann-tuirc means boar's hill, not boar's head as is usually supposed. The imposing ruins of the present Kanturk castle are a different place. Tradition says Queen Elizabeth, when she heard of the great strength of the castle MacDonogh was building, ordered him not to complete it. It came to be called MacDonogh's Folly. On the site of the old castle at Curragh, Neptune Blood built a house early in the century.

Desmond's oath of allegiance taken at Waterford

Waterford · city · Waterford

In response to Earl Thomas Maol's profuse assurances of submission, Henry VIII confirmed him in his title, and his oath of allegiance was taken at Waterford before Sir William Skeffington, the Commissioner of the Privy Council.

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Earl Thomas's son by his first wife having died of the plague at Jerpoint Abbey, he sent his grandson (now his heir) to the English court, partly as a hostage for his loyalty, and partly for the sake of his education in the royal household, whence the youth was scornfully named " the Court Page " by disloyal Geraldines. In reply to the earl's profuse asseverations of submission, Henry VIII. confirmed him in his title, and his oath of allegiance was taken at Waterford before Sir William Skeffington, the Commissioner of the Privy Council. A certain amount of goodwill always existed between the Kildare and Desmond branches of Geraldine/7) and in the rebellion of" Silken Thomas,"(s) Desmond took no decided part against his youthful kinsman, although the brothers of Archbishop Allen, murdered by " Silken Thomas," wrote to one of their brethren, Warden Allen of Youghal, that the Earl of Kildare's son " makes all that ever he can to obtain my Lord of Desmond's goodwill and as yet we do our best to keep him from his purpose, and shall do with God's grace." When Lord Ophally (" Silken Thomas") heard in a curiously roundabout wayk) the report of his father's execution at the
(7) " The Earls of Desmond and other lords will not attend Parliament nor the Council, nor aid the Deputy, unless the Earl of Kildare hold that office." — " Report on State of Ireland to Henry VIII.," History of Earl s of Kildare.

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 95

Dr. Leahy's funeral and burial at old chapel, Newry

near Newry · town · Down · 1890

Dr. Leahy's obsequies were celebrated in the cathedral of Newry on 9 September 1890 before an immense crowd. His remains were laid in the cemetery attached to the 'old chapel' of Newry, where the Dominicans had officiated.

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If humility be the foundation of all other virtues, there is little doubt that Dr. Leahy had reached the climax to which this virtue leads, true nobility and sanctity of soul, combined with a holiness of life to which few can attain. No wonder, then, that his death, like his life, was considered that of a saint. His obsequies were celebrated in the cathedral of Newry on the 9th September, 1890, and were attended by an immense concourse of people, besides many prelates, amongst whom was Dr. O'Callaghan, O.P., who was celebrant on the occasion. The remains of the deceased bishop were laid in the cemetery attached to the "old chapel" of Newry, where for some years the Dominicans had officiated.
The Most Rev. Joseph Larocca, general of the Order, died in January, 1891. His successor, Father Frlihwirth, a native of Austria, was elected at Oulins, near Lyons, on the 20th of the following September. Being a man of great learning, he was appointed master of studies in the Dominican convent of Gratz in 1876, and more than once declined the episcopal dignity.(ll)

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 62

Dublin's free-thinking society

Dublin · city · Dublin

Dublin served as a hub for the free-thinking elements of Irish society and housed the central committee for Catholic interests seeking parliamentary reform. The city, alongside Belfast, harbored republican sentiments.

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While Ireland was in this miserable condition the news of the great French Revolution arrived. But the class at first most influenced thereby was the northern Presbyterians and dissenters, republican by their origin ; and Belfast became one of the great centres of republican and Jacobin feelings, together with Dublin where the free-thinking elements of society were chiefly to be found. The Catholics, at the same time, showed signs of disunion among themselves ; those higher in the social scale were not averse to the English connection, but sought for the alleviation of their disabilities by parliamentary reform, and entrusted their interests to the care of a central committee in Dublin. Pitt himself was favourable to their claims ; and something like friendly relations existed between the English government and the bishops and the more educated portion of the Catholics. Their church in general stood true to its habitual opposition to atheism and disorder — a spirit which explains such acts as the address of seven Roman Catholic bishops of Munster, in June, 1798, to their clergy, who were therein called on to warn their flocks of the " calamities both temporal and eternal which they were likely to bring on themselves by unlawful oaths and associations." The lower orders of Catholics on the other hand were waging a lawless war in the south and in the north. There was also a third party in the unhappy country, consisting of nominal dissenters in the north, freethinkers in Dublin and elsewhere, who sought aid from France to destroy the English connection.
The two parties last mentioned were the most dangerous to the Government, but they were weak as long as they remained separate ; and Wolfe Tone, with others like him, seeing this, managed to bring them together, and thus founded the great party of the "United Irishmen." Pitt conscientiously compelled the Irish Parliament to carry out his measures for the relief of the Roman Catholics ; but the concessions came too late, and the Catholic demands were increased ; and, owing to their belief that intimidation would be effective to secure their ends, riots and

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 117

Dungarvan taken, pillaged and burned by Lord President

Dungarvan · town · Waterford · 1642

The Lord President arrived at Dungarvan, a small seaside town about ten miles from Youghal, and took, pillaged, and set fire to it, killing many inhabitants. The castle, fortified by Richard Butler's men, denied him entrance and was besieged.

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At his first coming thither he took and pillaged the town, killed many
of the people in it, and then set it on fire ; but the castle, which was

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 45

Kanturk name linked to Purcell boar's head arms

Kanturk · town · Cork

The Purcell family of Pullen and Kanturk obtained lands in the plains of Duhallow through Ormond connections. The family claimed the name Kanturk, meaning 'boar's head,' derived from the boar's head shown in their arms and crest, though Smith offered a different account.

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(9) To supplement the scanty information given in a previous note, I have been favoured with the following by Mr. Lyndhurst Purcell of Cork, and Mr. Hewson of Hollywood, county Limerick. The Purcells are of Norman extraction, the name being derived from the porcelle shown in their arms. The first in Ireland arrived in the army of Henry II., in 1172. About a century after Sir Hugh Purcell founded (as Ware relates) the convent of Franciscan Friars at Waterford. When James Butler, first Earl of Ormond, was authorised as Count Palatine of Tipperary to create Palatine Barons, he so created the head of the Loghmoe family, and the Barons of Loghmoe afterwards intermarried with the Butlers of Ormond and other noble families. One of the Loghmoe family settled in Waterford, and left three sons, one of whom remained in Waterford, another settled in Kilkenny, and a third in Croagh, county Limerick. Of this Croagh family was General Purcell mentioned in the text, and Colonel Garret Purcell. Colonel Garret after the war took service in Spain, but returned during the Jacobite war, when he must have been an elderly man." The Purcells of Pullen and Kanturk descend from a Richard Purcell, who married into the Ormond family, and through the duke's interest obtained lands in the plains of Duhailow ; and this family claims the name ot Kanturk, "boar's head," as being derived from the boar's head shewn in their arms and crest, though Smith (bk. ii., ch. vi.) gives a different, but conjectural, account of the origin of the name. Arms, or, a saltire between four boars' heads, sa, couped, gu. Crest, a hand, couped above the wrist, erect, holding a sword vertical, hilted, or, pierced through a boar's head, sa, couped git, the sleeve az, turned up arg.
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Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 46

Kanturk town origin and McCarthy tenure

Kanturk · town · Cork

The town of Kanturk derives its name from Crann-tuirc, 'the boar's head,' commemorating an ancient chief killing a boar there. The territory was held by the McCarthys, former kings of Desmond, who retained Kanturk until the seventeenth century.

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Close to " the meeting of" these waters is the small country town of Kanturk, or Crann-tuirc, " the boar's head," so called in memory of an animal of this species being killed there by some ancient chief. The territory originally was in the possession of the McCarthys, the former kings of Desmond, who contrived to preserve Kanturk until the seventeenth century.
About a mile from the town or village, a tiny tributary called the Brogucen joins the Dualloa, and at the distance of two fields from this rivulet stands Kanturk Castle, which was built (but never completed) in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. This edifice, raised by an overbearing and savage chieftain, Donough McCarthy, was built in a quadrangle, three stories high (one hundred and twenty feet long by eighty in width), of common brown stone, with the windows, mouldings and coigns of dressed limestone. It went by the name of Carn'^-na-S/iaiii-sctor, or " the rock of the court of the seven masons named John," owing to a legend that seven masons employed there all happened to have the same name, Shane or John, and that they were also forced by Donough McCarthy to work without any wages. There was, besides, another tradition that this brutal chief stopped all wayfarers and compelled them to labour at his castle until they dropped down dead from fatigue and starvation. Not satisfied even then, McCarthy caused the blood of these poor victims to be mixed with the mortar used to cement the stones of the building.

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 152

Kyle burial ground and unbaptised children tradition

Caherconlish · town · Limerick

A field called "Kyle" (Irish cill, meaning church or burial ground) lies near a pagan cairn and three whitethorn trees. Local tradition holds that unbaptised children were buried there, and human bones—not those of children—were also found nearby years before.

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the digging of the earn. A few yards north of this earn, and not far from the public road, three whitethorn trees may be noticed. The field in which these are is called "Kyle." This is the Irish cill, Latin cella, "a church ;" but the word also denotes a burial ground. Whether this particular kyle which lay beside the whitethorn trees was a pagan or Christian place of interment I cannot say for certain ; probably pagan, for an old man told me there was a tradition in the locality that unbaptised children were buried here. Many years ago some human bones — but not of children — were found near this kyle. The proximity to the pagan earn proves nothing, for the early Christians built their churches and had their burial grounds close beside the pagan places of interment. I have already drawn attention to this in my paper on Lough Gur, in which I pointed out that the stone circles are near the Christian burial grounds.
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Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 258

Mathew Parker of Gortroe's eccentric bequest

Gortroe · townland · Cork · 1740

Mathew Parker, son of John Parker of Gortroe, married Catherine Chinnery in 1740 and was known for his eccentricity. He left the bulk of his property to the Lord Shannon of the day rather than to his own family.

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Mathew Parker was a gentleman of some eccentricity, and he left the bulk of his property, I believe, to the Lord Shannon of the day, and away from his own family.
Feere, Lott.

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 86

Meeting at St. Peter's Church, Cork after death of Earl of March

Cork · city · Cork · 1380

On 26th December 1380, Edward Earl of March and Ulster died at the house of the Friars Preachers in Cork. The Prelates, Peers and Commons were summoned to St. Peter's Church, Cork, where Colton the Chancellor was chosen as Lord Justice.

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Mayor of Cork, 1386. Was one of those summoned by Colton, the Chancellor, to meet at St. Peter's Church, Cork, upon the death, at the house of the Friars Preachers, on 26th December, 1380, of Edward Earl of March and Ulster, for the purpose of choosing a Lord Justice. The "Prelates, Peers, and Commons" were summoned, and Colton was chosen. See Lawelyn, Thomas/ Roche, David FitzThomas ; and Staunton, Miles.']
Ponsonby, Richard, of Crotto, Kerry.

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Muskerry Legion stationed at Inchigeelagh

Inchigeelagh · townland · Cork · 1803

One half of the Muskerry Legion was on permanent duty in 1803, with one officer and one-third of that number stationed at Inchigeelagh, the remainder at Macroom. Their drill sergeant was Mr. Knolles, transferred from Mr. Hedge's Corps.

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At this time one half of the Muskerry Legion were on permanent duty, one officer and one-third of that number being stationed at Inchigeela, the remainder quartered at Macroom. Their drill sergeant was Mr. Knolles, who, after completing the drill of Mr Hedge's Corps, was transferred to the Muskerry Troop.
On January 24th, 1804, Major-General Sir Eyre Coote arrived in Cork and took over the command of the South-West District from General Myers, who addressed the Muskerry Legion and Yeomanry as follows : —

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 12

O'Callaghan received enthusiastically in Cork, 1884

Cork · city · Cork · 1884

Following his consecration as coadjutor-bishop of Cork in Rome, Dr. O'Callaghan arrived in Cork on 2 August 1884 and was received enthusiastically by the people. He later took possession of the diocese on the death of Dr. Delany.

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About a month afterwards, on the 2nd of August, Dr. O'Callaghan arrived in Cork, and was received enthusiastically by the people. On the death of Dr. Delany, one of the most eminent bishops of this century, Dr. O'Callaghan, by right of succession, took possession of the diocese. In order to give some idea of what he has done since then it is merely necessary to quote the words of the Irish Catholic of the 8th September, 1888 : — "To speak in detail of Dr. O'Callaghan's services to the Church since he has been raised to the episcopate would be impossible within the limits at our disposal, but it is no exaggeration to say that his lordship has displayed in the great sphere of duty to which he has been called those characteristic virtues of humility, devotion, and self-abnegation, as well as of firmness, in every righteous cause, which have always rendered him the beloved of his brethren in religion, and the esteemed and revered friend of those beneath his sway." May God prolong his life to continue the glorious work in which he is engaged — ad vinltos annos.
A little more than three months after Dr. O'Callaghan's consecration the Most Rev. Dr. Hyland closed his earthly career. He was, as my readers may remember, especially connected with St. Mary's. His death occurred at Trinidad, at the early age of forty-seven years, but though his life was short, it was full of merits and good works. He was born in Dublin in 1837, of a good pious family, four members of which entered the religious state.(3) The deceased prelate joined the Dominican Order in 1856, and, like the bishop of Cork, made his noviciate at Tallaght, under the care of Father Burke. Having been professed, he went to Rome to complete his studies, to which he applied himself with great assiduity and marked success. In 1861 he was raised to the priesthood, and, returning to Ireland in the following year, was immediately assigned to Holy Cross Abbey, Tralee, whence after twelve months he went to Cork. There are still in our city so many devoted friends by

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O'Farrelly rath superstitions at Carrigofarrelly

Caherconlish · town · Limerick

A large earthen fort lies a short distance south of Carrigofarrelly Castle, and the rock's name indicates it belonged to the O'Farrelly. When the fort was dug out and planted with potatoes, not a single potato grew on the fort's site, and certain misfortunes reportedly befell the men who dug it out.

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shows that there was one, Cnocatancashlane, that is, Cnoc-a-tseanchaislean, " the hill of the old castle." About a mile to the west of Cnocatana Castle is the castle which the people now call Carrigoreilly Castle, but which I have already pointed out in the Journal is Carrigofarrelly, " the rock of the O'Farrelly," with whom I have already dealt. A large portion of this castle is left ; it is a small square structure. A very good view of this part of the country may be had from the summit. There is some tradition in the district of the castle having been taken by storm, and the last Burke owner being slain. About forty years ago a large human skull was found by some men when sinking a drain near the castle. Lewis, following Fitzgerald, says that this castle was last inhabited by the O'Dalys. These O'Dalys were simply small farmers, who held the land on which the castle is built. Fitzgerald's mode of imparting this information is apt to be misleading. I have already pointed out that there is the site of a large earthen fort a short distance to the south of this castle. It is not very often we can get the name of the people who lived in these raths ; but with regard to this one, I think there can be no mistake, for the name of the rock on which the Burkes built their castle points out that it was the O'Farrelly. When this fort was dug out, the field in which it lies, and the site of the fort, were planted with potatoes ; but the people say not a single potato grew on the site of the fort, and that certain misfortunes happened to the men who dug out the fort. The little stream which runs to the east of the castle is known as Sruhane-na-Gcearc, " the stream of the moor-hen." The cearc has long deserted the stream, and the name itself I had some trouble in obtaining. About a mile and a half to the south-west of this castle, and in the townland of Greenane, that is " sunny place," there was another castle on the top of a hill, called Greenane Castle. Only one or two stones of this castle are now left, the rest having been taken away within this century to build houses in the neighbourhood. This castle, Fitzgerald says, was last inhabited by the O'Xunans, but the same remark will apply which I have made with reference to the O'Dalys. A little north of this, and in the townland of Skehard, there is a fort, around which the whitethorns still linger. East of this, not far from Caherconlish rectory, and in Skehard townland, there is a large earn or burial mound ; about half a dozen of the stones which originally surrounded it are left. Fifty years ago, when an attempt was made to dig out this earn for top-dressing, the skeleton of a man was found buried in(4) standing posture. This was quite enough to put a stop to

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 257

Prostrate stones at Stuake

Stuake · village · Cork

West of Donoughmore Cross, near the Roman Catholic Church at Stuake, two large prostrate stones lie in a field. They measure between twelve and eighteen feet in length and three or four feet in breadth.

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II. After passing the Roman Catholic Church at Stuake, about a mile from Donoughmotv Cross to the west, there is a mad running southwest, on the south of which in a field were two large stones lying prostrate. They were from twelve to eighteen feet in length, and three or four in breadth, and perhaps fifteen inches in thickness. In one of these, unless it was in another similar one near the top of Meenahony, on the Barrahaurin side, there was an oval depression two or three inches in depth, and about a foot in its longest axis and six inches in its shortest. '1 his was perfectly formed. But I will not say positively that it was artificial, as many of the blocks of stone about this country have cup-like hollows in which were at one time nodules of softer material which had been W( irn away by water.

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Skinners from Kilmallock followed rebel camp buying sheep skins

Kilmallock · town · Limerick

Skinners from Kilmallock followed the rebel camp to purchase sheep skins for a penny farthing each. The rebels killed large numbers of sheep merely for their skins, throwing away the flesh, with each sheep bearing up to ten pounds of wool of a large English breed.

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The townsmen found that morning two great sows/1*) one fully, the other almost finished, made musket proof, with four wheels, and so large that 30 men might easily move in them, whereof they made matter for the fire to work on. Also the enemy had barricaded every entrance into the town with cupboards, forms, tables, frames and such like lumber, to hinder the horse coming on them which they expected from Cork. And within a mile of the town on the way they went, there were afterwards found in ditches and furze, barrels of biscuit, a bag of bullets for ordnance, a mortar, and such things cast away that they might fly the faster ; nay, they made such haste that they left behind them the carriage of their piece of artillery. You will wonder when I tell you that the enemy, in one week which they spent in Buttevant and Moyalloe, viz., from Wednesday to Wednesday, did consume at least 40,000 English sheep, and probably three or four thousand English cows and oxen. I received from a credible relation that they most wickedly killed abundance of this number of sheep merely for their skins, which they sold for one penny farthing each to skinners of Kilmallock, who followed the camp for that purpose, and threw away the flesh. Few of these sheep had less than ten pounds of wool on them, being of so large a kind as in the best places in England.
(14) This preparation of sows for the attack of a castle defended by cannon and hand-guns is a remarkable survival of the ancient mode of attack, but it must be remembered that the cannon of the besieged was mounted on a platform on the top of the Great Castle, and could not bear on the sozv close under the walls. A sow was actually used about this time at the siege of Ballyally Castle, in county Clare (see Narratives Illustrative of Hie Contests in Ireland in 1C41 and 1690; edited for the len Society by Thomas Crofton Croker, in 1S41).

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Slieve-na-Calliagh hills named from legendary woman

Slieve na Calliagh · hill or hills · Meath

The Slieve-na-Calliagh hills in County Meath take their name from Calliagh Vera, a woman celebrated in Irish lore who also gave her name to a kistvaen at Monasterboice in County Louth.

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very simple definition of a cromleac, authorities are not quite agreed on the subject ; we need not however puzzle our heads about it. This one you see has a flat flag" forming a cover to a kind of chamber. Some of those in Palestine are similar. That at Killin is associated with stone circles which are commonly called " Druidical circles," but it is really more of a kistvaen than a cromleac. The kistvaen, rather cistvaen, is a rectangular chamber derived from the word cist or chest, and is supposed always to mark a place of sepulture. There is one beside the Ballymascanlan cromleac. The one in Paddock tovvnland, parish of Monastcrboice, called Calliagh Dirra's house (Journal Arc/uvology, 2nd series, vol. v., p. 498) is one of the best of its kind in the county. There are five others, but somewhat dismantled, in the townlands of Grange- Irish and Commons, parish of Carlingford, on the eastern slope of the mountains. No names have survived with any of them except the one in Monasterboice. Calliagh Vera was a woman celebrated in Irish lore, who gave her name to the Slieve-na-Calliagh hills in the county Meath.
Two kistvaens of another kind were discovered at Dromiskin, in a field near my gate, in 1862. They were formed of stone flags, and each contained the skull and bones of the person interred there. In one a stone box, containing another of wood, inside which was some unctuous charcoal and a small bronze pin with ring attached. These were given by my father to Lord Clermont, and by him deposited in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy. The other kistvaen contained the skeleton of a female lying on the back, head to the west. How many more interments were made in this field one cannot say. It may have been a cemetery attached to the monastery.

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 234

Standard yard at the old Exchange, South Main Street, Cork

South Main Street · street · Cork

Old Voster made a standard yard screwed down on the sill of the south window of the old Exchange on South Main Street, Cork. The Exchange was later demolished, and the yard was removed by Richard Sainthill.

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Vosterburgh. — Our fellow-member, Mr. G. C. Beale, lias entrusted a letter to me, written by a valued correspondent of our Society, Mr. K. J. Lecky, of London, from which, with his permission, I have culled the following notes of local historic interest : — " Vosterburgh(') —Few now recollect it even in its decay. Old Voster was an ingenious Dutchman, and brought in the natural water of the hill to some advantage. Some of the remains I remember. One was a little boy(z) [fountain] perched upon a square pedestal, from which the water flowed. It stood at the corner as you turned to the right to the hall door. To the south, across the avenue, were two ponds. The first, I think, had a triton in the centre, blowing a jet from a conch shell, and the other had one or two swans, with streams from their bills. The overflow was taken on to the road by a little spout in the centre of a shallow alcove which was built up.(3) ... I never was at the old burying-ground,(4) although often hearing of it. Abraham Abell told a story of a milk girl getting an awful fright on the road one morning early by seeing a human skull rolling down the road before her, out of which jumped a rat, who must have had a long journey. . . . Old Voster wrote that really good arithmetic that so long carried his name. He was a capital mechanic. I have a boxwood slide rule of his make, three feet long, covered with logarithmic and other scales beautifully divided. I had some other things of his doing, engraved copper plates for copy books, but they have disappeared. He made a set of standard measures, gallons, etc., for the Corporation, which were built of squared plates of brass, bolted together at the angles, and a standard yard, screwed down on the sill of the south opening or window of the old Exchange in the South Main Street, which Mr. Richard Sainthill had removed when the Exchange was demolished. I am not sure if he made the table or head of ' the nail' which stood in the centre of the open halKs) of the Exchange, but it is likely that this was before his time."

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 285

Thaddeus appointed bishop of Cork and Cloyne

Cork · city · Cork · 1490

Pope Innocent VIII appointed Thaddeus McCarthy bishop of Cork and Cloyne on the resignation of William Roche, praising his probity of life and prudence in spirituals. The appointment came after disputes over the see of Ross were settled.

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On the same day the Pope, in another bull, appointed Thaddeus bishop of Cork and Cloyne on the resignation of William Roche ; and again, as William Roche had not got a proctor to resign his see, the Pope, in another bull addressed to Thaddeus, " moto proprio," appoints him bishop of Cork and Cloyne. In this bull the Pope mentions his appointment to Ross : " Ecclesias Rossen, tamquam vacante licet in vero non vacaret ;" " vitre ac morum honestate decorum in spiritualibus providum et temporalibus circumspectum aliis que virtutum donis insignitum." To the church of Ross appointed as if vacant, though really not vacant ; adorned with probity of life and manners ; in spirituals prudent, in temporals circumspect.
Thaddeus, who was present in Rome to carry out his appeal so very successfully, and his being fully justified and with praise elevated to a higher position, returned to Ireland. The city of Cork and the townsmen of Youghal, the Geraldines and Philip O'Ronan, refused to receive him. In two years again we find blessed Thaddeus in Rome. We have no details of his arrival in Ireland and refusal by the above, nor of his stay in Rome, but there is extant another bull of Innocent VIII., dated xv. kalends of August, 1492. In this Pope Innocent VIII. relates that he has heard with much displeasure that certain sons of iniquity, namely, Maurice, Earl of Desmond, and William Barry, and Edmund Maurice de Geraldine, and the community of the city of Cork, besides the university of the city of Youghal, in the Cloyne diocese, and their chiefs William

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 290

The Marina and Navigation Wall begun in 1763

Marina · street · Wicklow · 1763–1838

The Marina extends from the Municipal Buildings to Blackrock Castle as a fine tree-lined walk. The Navigation Wall quay was begun in 1763 to prevent the channel from being choked with mud and reached as far as Tivoli by 1838.

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Let us come now to "The Marina," which is one of the finest walks in Europe, extending as I may say from the Municipal Buildings to Blackrock Castle, in a si line, with its double row of fine trees, its band house, boat houses, and regatta quay, and its very beautiful views of river scenery, which include the hills of Glanmire, which name I must protest against, for its proper name is Glen, or Gloun Murria (Mary's Glen), which shows how our beautiful Irish names get corrupted The Navigation Wall (quay wall of the Marina), was begun as far back as 1763, "to prevent the channel from being choked with mud." I did not know it until 1838, when it was as far down as Tivoli, or rather opposite Tivoli, and its long white line of solid limestone masonry looked very pretty in the sunset.
It was rather a ticklish walk though, for one stream of people going down and another coming up, and having to pass each other on four feet, or less than \We feet of a pathway with twenty feet of water at each side. It was mostly small boys, fishermen, or an occasional foolhardy drunken man that ventured along that wall, and the ladies kept aloof while it was in the grub or chrysalis state ; it is very handy for their bicycles now, and wide enough for a marching army. A party of little boys would offer their services as volunteer " navvies " to help the men who were filling in the reclaimed spaces with the dredgings of the river ; but instead of being encouraged and petted, they took the barrows away from us, and hunted us as well, so we had to content ourselves with gathering shells on the sea shore.

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 282

Youghal assessment for sack for the King's army, 1642

Youghal · town · Cork · 1642

In 1642, a general assessment "upon the ablest men of Youghell" was made to provide forty butts of "secke" (sack) for His Majesty's army. Alderman Theobald Ronaine, M.P. for Youghal, contributed £12.

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Admitted freeman of Youghal, 1610; bailiff, 1627; mayor, [629. Was a merchant in the town and a prominent participator in its public affairs. Was wealthy and contributed £12 to the general assessment "upon the ablest men of Youghell," to provide
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Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 131

Baltimore borough incorporated 1613

Baltimore · town · Cork · 1613

Henry Piers and Sir Thomas Crooke were the first two members for the borough of Baltimore, which was incorporated on 25 March 1613. Piers, of Tristernagh in Westmeath, served as secretary to the Lord Deputy.

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Henry Piers and Sir Thomas Crooke {q.v.) were the first two members for the borough of Baltimore, which was incorporated 25th March, 161 3. He was of Tristernagh, county Westmeath, and was secretary to the Lord Deputy. " By conversing with many of the Roman Church he turned to that faith against the advice of his wife and her friends, and prevailed on some of his children to embrace that religion." He travelled in Germany, Spain, Italy, etc., for eight years, and wrote an account of his travels, which was amongst the MSS. in the Chandos Library.
He married Jane, daughter of Dr. Thomas Jones, archbishop of Dublin, and died 16th September, 1623, leaving issue. His grandson, Henry Piers, of Tristernagh, was created a baronet iSth January, 1660, and was progenitor of the present baronet.

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 87

As the companion tells it

The town of Baltimore was incorporated as a borough on 25 March 1613, and its first two members were Henry Piers and Sir Thomas Crooke. Piers came from Tristernagh in County Westmeath and served as secretary to the Lord Deputy. He spent eight years travelling in Germany, Spain, Italy and elsewhere, and wrote an account of his journeys, which was among the manuscripts in the Chandos Library. He married Jane, daughter of Dr. Thomas Jones, archbishop of Dublin. The source says that by conversing with many of the Roman Church he turned to that faith against the advice of his wife and her friends, and prevailed on some of his children to embrace that religion. He died on 16 September 1623, leaving issue. His grandson, also Henry Piers of Tristernagh, was created a baronet on 18 January 1660.

Bishop of Cloyne recalls former Dominican monastery at Youghal

Youghal · town · Cork

Bishop Browne of Cloyne visited Youghal shortly after his consecration and received addresses from local bodies. He alluded to the former Franciscan and Dominican houses in Youghal and a famous statue of Our Lady of Graces from the Dominican monastery.

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The Bishop of Cloyne, Most Rev. Dr. Browne, visited Youghal a short time after his consecration, and received a number of addresses from various bodies in the town. Amongst them was one from the Presentation Convent Schools. In his answer the Bishop alluded to the Franciscan and Dominican houses which had formerly existed in Youghal, and in reference to the latter expressed himself thus : — " There was another monastery in this great old town — a Dominican monastery — also amongst the earliest foundations of the great Dominican Order in Ireland, and in that monastery was a famous statue of Our Lady of Graces.(l5) May I not conclude that it is that Mother of Graciousness who has watched over this great old Catholic town, and that it is owing to her intercession with our Divine Lord that the faith has been preserved through every phase of difficulty and trial, so that now it has come to our lot to see once again in this town a display of Catholicity, such as must give comfort to the heart of a bishop."
The consecration of the new side altars in the church, Pope's Quay, took place on the 5th February, 1895, during the celebration of a solemn Triduum, which opened the previous Sunday. The altar of St. Dominic was consecrated by Dr. Browne, whilst the Bishop of Cork performed a like ceremony at that of the Rosary, over which was placed the miraculous statue of our Lady of Graces. An overflowing congregation attended each evening of the Triduum, and truly eloquent sermons were preached by the Venerable Archdeacon Coughlan, Blackrock ;

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 64

Meeting of Earl of Desmond with Sir Warham St Leger at Lough Gur (1566)

near Lough Gur · lake or lakes · Limerick · 1566

In July 1566, Sir Warham Sentleger met the Earl of Desmond at Lough Gur and imparted the tenor of the Queen's letter to the Lord Deputy. Desmond's displeasure, courage, and power were noted.

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" Limerick, July yd, 1566. Sir Warhame Sentleger to Sir H. Sydney, Lord Deputy. Meeting with the Earl of Desmond at Lough Kirr. Tenor of the Queen's letter to Lord Deputy imparted to Desmond. Desmond's displeasure, courage, and power. Necessity of ending the controversy."
" Castellcyehan, November i\th, 1 573. Justice Nicholas Walshe to the Lord Deputy. Earl of Desmond met at Knockdalton by Rory Oge and Piers Grace. The Earl and Countess put on Irish raiment at Lough Gur, and make a proclamation."

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 89

Raths of Gurranes levelled and chambers filled

Gurranes · townland · Cork

Multiple named raths—Rath of the Poets, Rath of the Women, Rath of Cuan O Lochain, and Rath of the door-keeper Dubhthach—stood inside the grounds of Gurranes House. They were levelled and their underground chambers filled with clay within living memory of local labourers.

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tovvnland of Gurranes, about six or seven miles by road north of Bandon, and about three miles south-east of Crookstown station on the Macroom line. This portion of the townland was known by the old people as K4t;-K47r;lju. Probably the small rath on its western side is the one called after Brian's daughter, Sadhbh, 4)110 SAirb 4t) "OUT} yo t)&\i, " Sadhbh's court is this western court." H<xt eujlcjnn was called after CUjlcerjn, Cian's harper ; it still exists and gives its name to the townland lying north of Raithlenn. 4)1111 "Cfl4J5r)e-4jl), " Draighnean's Fort,'; was called after Cian's trumpeter ; it stood on the limestone rock where Castlemore was afterwards built. The site of Dun Drinane church is still pointed out adjacent to the castle on the east side. A portion of the cemetery was lately discovered at the foot of the rock in clearing a farm yard. This place lies two and a half miles in a straight line north-west of Raithlenn. The Ford of the Spoils on the east must have been near where the public road now crosses the stream, north-east of the great rath. The Rath of the Poets, the Rath of the Women, the Rath of Cuan O Lochain (the ollamh), the Rath of the doorkeeper (Dubhthach), stood inside the grounds of Gurranes House, east of high road, and were levelled, and their underground chambers filled with clay within the recollection of the labourers I met there some thirty years ago. The top of the inside rampart of Rath-Raithlenn was covered with small mounds containing cinerary urns, which were broken and their fragments scattered about, doubtless by treasure-seekers. A large number of raths still remain at a little distance to the south and east. These must have been the residences of the guards and military followers of the king. I discovered an ogham stone in one of them; it has some twenty-seven letters, well preserved, and lies where it was found, about half a mile south of the central rath. This identification of Raithlenn fixes also the birthplace of St. Finnbarr, as his father, Amergin, was smith to Tighearnach, the king of Raithlenn, and his mother a ward of the king. I suggest that this district offers a rich field for exploration; its chief features are still preserved. We have records carrying its history back to the dawn of Christianity, and it may have existed long before.

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 259

As the companion tells it

Somewhere around here, inside the grounds of Gurranes House, east of the high road, four named raths once stood together: the Rath of the Poets, the Rath of the Women, the Rath of Cuan O Lochain, who was the ollamh, and the Rath of the doorkeeper Dubhthach. They were levelled, and their underground chambers filled with clay, within the recollection of labourers who were met here some thirty years before the account was written. The old people knew this part of Gurranes by its own name. A small rath on the western side was probably the one called after Brian's daughter, Sadhbh. Another fort was called after Culcerin, Cian's harper. A third, Draighnean's Fort, was named after Cian's trumpeter and stood on the limestone rock where Castlemore was later built. The great rath of Raithlenn lies about two and a half miles north-west. Its inner rampart was covered with small mounds holding cinerary urns, which were broken and scattered, likely by treasure-seekers. A number of raths remain to the south and east, likely the residences of guards and military followers of the king. An ogham stone was found in one of them, about half a mile south of the central rath. It has some twenty-seven letters, well preserved, and still lies where it was found. The district's history runs back to the dawn of Christianity, and may be older still.

1358 murage grant incorporated town of Caherconlish

Caherconlish · town · Limerick · 1358–1378

Caherconlish was formerly an incorporated town, as shown by a grant dated November 9th, 1358, conferring murage for 20 years on the Provost, Bailiff, and Commonalty. The tolls were collected from Limerick and Waterford merchants passing through the town.

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At the year 1304, Annals of Inisf alien, occurs the following: "Torlogh O'Brien proceeded with an army to Cathair Cinnlis, and attacked the English of that town, of whom he made great slaughter ; he demolished the castle, and burned the town from the inner citadel to the outer walls." Early in this century some heavy iron swords and a large quantity of human bones were found in a field just beside the present village at west side. These may have been relics of the year 1304. Lewis says that "Caherconlish was formerly incorporated, as appears from a grant made in the 32nd of Edward III. and dated November 9th, 1358, conferring murage for 20 years on the Provost, Bailiff, and Commonalty of the town of Catherkenlyshe." This money was obtained in tolls and customs from Limerick and Waterford merchants, who had to pass through Caherconlish. The memory of the " mayor " of Caherconlish has been well preserved by the people. About fifty years ago there died an old man in Caherconlish, named John Doyle, in his youth he had been connected with a lawless body of men dubbed in the district, "Sovereign Pickers." They visited people's houses by night, and demanded money for "powder and balls." If the people did not yield to the demands of the Sovereign Pickers they were tried, and if convicted, punished, and John Doyle being one of the presidents of these self-constituted tribunals was called the "Mayor" of Caherconlish.
(To be continued.')

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 186

Anthony Stawell's lands at Clohenasbeg and Carracroone

near Kilbrittain · street · Cork · 1725

Anthony Stawell of Kilbrittain held the lands of Clohenasbeg and Carracroone under his grandfather Anthony's will. He was elected MP for Kinsale in 1725 but was unseated as 'mis-elected,' having obtained a majority through votes of 'pretended freemen,' and Sir Richard Meade was returned in his stead.

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He had the lands of Clohenasbeg and Carracroone under his grandfather Anthony's will. Being elected M.P. for Kinsale, he was unseated as "mis-elected," having obtained a majority by reason of votes of "pretended freemen," and Sir Richard Meade {q.v.) was returned in his stead.
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Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 190

Arms distribution at Leemount Barracks to Muskerry Association

Leemount · townland · Cork · 1822

On 22 March 1822, members of the Muskerry Association received carbines, pistols, ball cartridges, flints, swords and belts from Captain Sir Augustus Warren at Leemount Barracks, each man pledging to be accountable for the equipment. This formed part of the arming of a yeomanry cavalry corps drawn from gentlemen of the Muskerry district.

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Then follows a list of the members (who generally sign the book) " of the Muskerry Association," who acknowledge to have received from Captain Sir Augustus Warren the following articles : — viz., One short carbine with swivel ramrod, one pistol with carbine bore, twenty rounds of ball cartridge, four flints, one straight sword and scabbard, one sword belt for waist, one black cavalry pouch, one shoulder belt with swivel, " and for which we promise to be accountable to him," 22nd March, 1822. — Leemount Barracks.
The recipients were : — Edw. Ashe St. George Browne (note, given back)

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 146

Barmeath name linked to Medb's Gap

Barmeath · townland · Louth

Barmeath, formerly spelt Barne and Berne-Meath, is derived by Ordnance Letters writers from two Irish words signifying 'Medb's Gap,' potentially linking it to the Táin Bó Cuailgne. Most river and place names from the tale have disappeared and may never be identified.

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Another place connected with the same time is Barmeath. It used to be spelt Barne and Berne-Meath, which the writers of the Ordnance Letters derive, not improbably, from two Irish words signifying "Medb's Gap." This, if true, would be another link with The Cattle Prey of Cuailgne. But most of the names of rivers and places mentioned in the tale have long ago disappeared, and it is hardly possible will ever be identified.
Before passing on it will be sufficient to mention that many of these raths have Irish names, the word "lios" or fort being the usual prefix, such as Lisaclog and Lisbilla(,) in Roche Parish; Lisdoo and Lisnawilly, near Dundalk; Liscalga, near Reaghstown, etc., but these arc not necessarily, though some may be, associated with them from the very first. Others have English names, such as Martin's Eort, parish of Philipstown, Ardee Barony, Crinnian's and Murray's Fort, parish of Clonkeen ; but these are called from the names of farmers and others who owned the land in later times. We must now pass on to

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 234

Barry family mural monument at Abington Church

Abington · townland · Limerick · 1633

A mural monument with arms and date 1633 in Abington Church was erected by Dulamus Barry in honour of his parents, his wife Joanna Burke, and his sons. Dineley recorded a copy of the Latin inscription, and Linehan reported the monument lying in the churchyard of Abington, though the author could not find it.

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again under the hammer, and were bought by Sir Nicholas Lawless, a rich Dublin merchant, raised to the peerage by the Irish Parliament with the title of Baron Cloncurry. His descendant now holds the land-. About a mile north of Brittas Castle, at opposite side of river, arc the fragments of an old building ; this is supposed to be the remains of a house erected by the Barry family, who had a mural monument with arms and date 1633 in Abington Church. Dineley gives a copy of the Latin inscription. Dulamus Barry erected it in honour of his parents, his wife, Joanna Burke, and his sons. Linehan says that it was lying in the churchyard of Abington, but I have not been able to find it. Near the site of the Barry house is the old fort or rath, Rathreagh or Rathrarege, which gives name to the townland.

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 257

Belfast as likely origin of Volunteer medal

near Belfast · city · Antrim · 1784

The artwork and motto of the 1784 Volunteer medal suggest it may have been made in Belfast, Cork, or Dublin. The motto's character particularly evokes Belfast, where the Volunteer pulse beat quicker than perhaps anywhere else in Ireland.

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The threat conveyed in the legend upon this medal is similar to that used by a Dublin regiment who labelled their gun " Free trade or this." This medal adds another unique illustration to one of the most interesting and momentous periods ot Irish history. Its similarity in shape to the medal of the Limerick Volunteers is suggestive, and might possibly point to its original ownership by some member of the Volunteers of that city or neighbourhood. On the other hand the character of its art work has more the appearance of having been made in either Belfast, Cork or Dublin ; and the ring of its motto, as if it came from the former city where the Volunteer pulse beat quicker than perhaps in any other part of the country. Who " T. S." was is so far a riddle which must remain to be solved. It is disappointing that the name in full is not on the medal or that of the troop or corps to which it belonged, but otherwise it reminds us of reforms that were required, demanded, and refused, and of the Irish Volunteers, who, having taken up arms to defend their country against foreign invasion, never fulfilled the threat conveyed in the inscription or turned their guns upon the representatives of the Crown, although their just demands were defeated and rejected,

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 136

Berwick fountain site of Tuckey's Bridge, Cork

Cork · city · Cork · 1784

The Berwick fountain in Cork marks the exact site of Tuckey's Bridge, which once spanned a canal at that place. An equestrian statue of George II was first erected on the bridge; Smith's Complete Irish Traveller (1784) noted it was of bronze and executed by a Dublin artist.

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The next place of interest is Christchurch Lane and the church itself. The lane is a very nice place to walk in, summer and winter, being well flagged ; having a Protestant National School on one side, and the cleanly kept old graveyard on the other, in which, and in the crypt, many monuments and relics of antiquity are to be met with. For traces of the city wall Council Member Robert Walker, architect, etc., has an ancient lease of a house "built on the city wall" in this lane, and showing on its face a well-drawn picture of the house itself, with the ground before it seemingly made up to the level of the wall, and showing an arch or a breach in the wall itself. There are many traces of the old city about here. Berwick fountain is the exact site of Tuckey's Bridge, which spanned a canal at that place, and on which the equestrian statue of George II. was first erected. Smith in his Complete Irish Traveller (1784), says, "The statue is of bronze, I think, and executed by a Dublin artist." He did not

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 106

As the companion tells it

As you pass through Cork, there are traces of the old city all about here. The Berwick fountain marks the exact site of Tuckey's Bridge, which once spanned a canal at that place. On that bridge an equestrian statue of George the Second was first erected. Smith, in his Complete Irish Traveller, published in 1784, writes of the statue: it is of bronze, I think, and executed by a Dublin artist. The record does not say how long the statue stood on the bridge, nor what became of it. The canal itself has gone, and the bridge with it, and the fountain stands where they once were. Nearby, Christchurch Lane still runs with its old graveyard and its Protestant National School, and an ancient lease held by architect Robert Walker shows a house built on the city wall, with an arch or breach drawn plainly on the face of the document.

Bishop's house at the see of Ross

Ross Carbery · town · Cork · 1448

A papal report describes the diocese of Ross, noting that the bishop maintained a commodious house outside the city on the sea, about half a mile distant. The diocese itself was only one day's journey across, with canons living throughout.

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twenty ; chancellor, eight ; twelve canons at nearly an equal value of four marks, and four vicars at the same value, who all personally or by substitute say daily in the church the divine office and some masses ; but on festivals they sing masses. The canons live through the diocese, which is only one day's journey. The bishop has a rather commodious house without the city on the sea, about half a mile distant. (l) He presents to twenty-four benefices ; the fruits consist of corn, tithes, and pasture, and amount to sixty marks. (2)
Having made this digression for information regarding the see of Ross at the time, and also the precautions taken by the Holy See, we now return to blessed Thaddeus. On 20th December, 1448, Donaldus was bishop of Ross. On Palm Sunday, April nth, 1473, Odo, or Hugh Ohedersgroyl (O'Driscoll), was consecrated bishop of Ross, in the church of St. Cecilia at Rome {Brady). In 1482, on the 3rd of May, feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross, " Tateus electus Rossen " was consecrated in the church of St. Stephen de Cano, Rome, by Stephen, archbishop of Antivari. In the bull of his appointment he is styled " Tateus Machari," the Latin form of the Celtic name for McCarthy, a cleric of the diocese of Cork, " de nobili genere ex utroque parente procreatus, ac marum honestate decorus, and et in vigesimo septimo sun: aetatis constitutus." It is dated St. Peter's, iv. kalends of April, anno 1482, eleventh year of Sixtus IV.

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 290

Blarney Castle keep built in two distinct phases

near Blarney · townland · Cork

The keep of Blarney Castle was constructed at two different periods, with possibly many years between them. The original slender tower or 'peel' is embedded bodily within the larger later addition, yet remains structurally distinct from the newer work.

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Xow, a curious and interesting fact concerning the keep (or great tower) of Blarney Castle is that the pile as it now stands was built at two different periods, with an interval of perhaps many years between them. The slender tower or " peel," W which was the first keep of the castle, is actually embedded bodily in the greater mass of the addition, yet on close examination it is found to be quite distinct from the newer work, for in joining the new to the old very little grafting was done, and
(0 A "peel" generally means a tower devoid of a bailey, but it sometimes means a small slender keep, and it is in tins sense I use it. It is well to bear in mind that " castle " means a keep and a bailey together.

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 198

Boskill and the Frend family since Cromwell's time

Boskill · townland · Limerick · 1650–1699

Boskill, from Bos meaning 'the palm of the hand or level spot' and Coill 'a wood', has been home to the Frend family since Cromwell's time when Captain John Frend received part of Burke's territory. The old churchyard of Temple Michael lies on the property of Frend's descendants, Mrs. Minchin and Mrs. de Ros Rose.

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This old churchyard is on the property of Mrs. Minchin, Busherstown, Roscrea, and Mrs. de Ros Rose, Ardhu, Limerick, daughters of the late Mr. Benjamin Frend, of Boskill. Perhaps from Bos, " the palm of the hand, or level spot"; and Coill, "a wood." The Frend family have been settled here since Cromwell's time, when Captain John Frend got a slice of Burke's territory. The late Mrs. Frend, a dear old lady, and a very kind friend to the writer, was daughter to Dean Bagwell, of Clogher diocese, who married a Miss Croker, of Ballinagarde, and whose father was a member of the Irish House of Commons, being a representative for Tipperary. Sir Jonah Barrington placed him in his " Black List," as he voted for the Union. One of his sons and brother were also members of the Irish House of Commons. Mrs. Minchin is married to George J. Minchin, esq., and a deputy lieutenant for King's County. One of Mr. Minchin's sisters is married to Mr. Gabbett, of Caheiiinc. Mrs. de Ros Rose is married to Robert de Ros Rose, esq., who has an old family residence in Caherconlish district, Ahabeg, which is the Irish 4ti ^j-cce be45, " the little exercise green." Mr. de Ros Rose's penchant for coaching is well known in the county, but it is not so well known, perhaps, that his ancestor, Mr. Thomas Rose, of Ahabeg, was the first

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 204

Cahernarry glebe house oak timber dated 1746

Cahernarry (Cripps) · townland · Limerick · 1746

During repairs to the Cahernarry glebe house, a piece of oak hard as iron was found in the roof marked with the date 1746. An old man also reported that King William's English army encamped on Cahernarry hill, and he had seen traces of the camp.

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ivy, which probably is the reason why the people call it Puicin, which means "a cover for blindfolding the eyes." Puic also means " a bribe, for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise." This church was dedicated to St. Nicholas. Up to the time of the disestablishment of the Church, Cahernarry was a perpetual curacy in the gift of the Dean of Limerick, and this arose from the fact that Robert of Emly, bishop of Limerick, 1 25 1- 1 272, gave to Thomas Wodeford, dean of Limerick, and his successors the benefices of Carnarthy and Rathsiward in 1253. Rathsiward, or Rathurd, lay between Donaghmore and Limerick, and took its name from the old fort whose history I have given. In Rathurd there was an important monastery, but no traces of ecclesiastical buildings are now visible, and the parish is merged in that of St. Nicholas. The incumbent of Cahernarry, Rev. G. M. Luther, has informed me that a few years ago, when some repairs were carried out at the glebe house of Cahernarry, a piece of oak, hard as iron, was found in the roof, on which was marked 1746. An old man also told me that the English army under King William encamped on Cahernarry hill, and that he saw traces of the camp there. North of Rathurd is Singland, corrupted from Sain Aingeal, " a different angel," because a different angel from the one named Victor, who usually attended St. Patrick, appeared to him here. After the battle of Sulchoit, near Limerick Junction, Mathgamhain and Brian pursued the Danes to Limerick, which they captured a.d. 968. "The whole of the captives were collected on the hills of Saingel, and every one of them that was fit for war was killed, and every one of them that was fit for a slave was enslaved." — Cogadh Gaedhel Re Gailaibh. At Singland, I have often heard, is to be fought the last battle between the Gael and the Saxon, when the latter will be defeated with dreadful slaughter, and driven out of Ireland for good. The sign given that this battle will be the final one is that a man with six fingers on his right hand will rush from the Irish ranks and seize the bridle of the English general's horse.

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 236

As the companion tells it

Somewhere close to Rathurd, between Donaghmore and Limerick, stood a place that took its name from an old fort. There was an important monastery here, but no traces of ecclesiastical buildings are now visible, and the parish is merged into that of St. Nicholas. The church at Cahernarry was dedicated to St. Nicholas, and up to the disestablishment of the Church, Cahernarry was a perpetual curacy in the gift of the Dean of Limerick. This arose from the fact that Robert of Emly, bishop of Limerick, gave the benefices of Carnarthy and Rathsiward to Thomas Wodeford, dean of Limerick, and his successors in 1253. North of Rathurd is Singland, a name corrupted from Sain Aingeal, meaning a different angel, because a different angel from the one named Victor, who usually attended St. Patrick, appeared to him there. After the battle of Sulchoit, near Limerick Junction, Mathgamhain and Brian pursued the Danes to Limerick, which they captured in 968. The captives were collected on the hills of Saingel, and every one fit for war was killed, and every one fit for a slave was enslaved. At Singland, it is said, the last battle between the Gael and the Saxon is to be fought, when the latter will be defeated with dreadful slaughter and driven out of Ireland for good. The sign given that this will be the final battle is that a man with six fingers on his right hand will rush from the Irish ranks and seize the bridle of the English general's horse.

Carrickittle rock and Earl of Kildare's castle, 1510

Carrickittle · townland · Limerick · 1510

Near Kilteely village was a remarkable rock called Carrickittle (Carraig Ciotal, 'Ciotal's Rock'), now largely quarried away. The Earl of Kildare built a castle on this rock in 1510, shown in Speede's Map of Munster. The author speculates that Ciotal may be identified with Caetil the White, a chief of the Gaill-Gaedhil killed in 853.

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To the north of Ballinalough is the parish of Kilteely,(l6) that is, " St. Tidal's church." Lewis mentions that on an eminence near the village are some remains of the church of Kildromin, founded by the Knights Templars in 1291. Lonan, chief of the Ui Fidhgheinte, who made a great feast for St. Patrick on Mullach Cis, was buried at Kilteely. Near the village is, or rather was, a remarkable rock, for the greater part is now quarried away, which the people call Carrickittle, that is, as it is written by the Four Masters and in the Annals of Lough Ce, Carraig Ciotal, " Ciotal's Rock." The Earl of Kildare built a castle on this rock in 1 5 10, which is shown in Speede's Map of Munster contained in Pacata Hibemia. Dr. Joyce, in Irish Names, thinks that Ciotal is a diminutive from " Cet," a name which often occurs in old Irish tales, but he is not quite satisfied with this derivation owing to the absence of the genitive inflexion. In the Wars of the Gaedhil with the Gaill, it is stated that in the year 853 Amlaibh, king of Lochlainn, killed the son of Cennfaeladh, king of Muscraidhe Breoghain, a district not far from the town of Tipperary, and Caetil the White, with his whole garrison. This Caetil was a chief of the Gaill-Gaedhil, or apostate Irish, and it is not known where his fortress was situated. There is the probability however that it was not far from Tipperary, and as there seems to be great diversity in the annals as to the proper form of this name, may there not be a possibility that he may be identified with Ciotal of Carrickittle. Dr. Todd considers the name Caetil to be the same as the Scandinavian name Ketill. Many years ago a number of what an old man called Danish pikes were found near Kilteely. The same old man told me that under a large stone about a mile to the west of the Boughal Breaga he found, a few years ago, several axe heads made of a metal he did not know, and a couple of coins with inscriptions ; as these were neither gold nor silver he did not

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 276

Carrigparson rock, castle tradition and graveyard

Carrigparson · townland · Limerick

Carrigparson, meaning 'the parson's rock,' gives its name to the parish and is sometimes called Castle Hill, indicating a castle once stood there. An old tradition names Pierce Burke as the last occupier, with the castle lying just north of the rock; nearby are an old graveyard with remains of an old church.

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which must have been brought from some distance ; it is a very hard limestone, and of a kind not found in the district. The people say that the present High Park House occupies the site of one of the Burke castles, and that the red gate was the entrance to it. About a mile north-west of Knockphleimon, a high hill may be noticed. The rocks of which it is composed are very much split and cracked by volcanic action. This hill has no name. It is referred to in the " Indenture of Perambulation, made on 31st August, 1609, between Donat, Earl of Thomond, Bernard, Lord Bishop of Limerick, Sir Francis Barkley, knight, and Sir Thomas Browne, knight, on the one part ; and the Mayor, Sheriffs, and Citizens of Limerick, on the other part," for marking out the boundaries of the county of the city of Limerick by great stones, or other notable signs. In this document this hill is called " the hill south-east of Carrigparson," so that nearly three hundred years ago the hill would seem to have been also nameless. A very short distance to the north-west of this hill is Carrigparson, " the parson's rock," from which the parish takes its name. Lewis says another name for this parish is Willestown, but this name is not used in the district. I have already conjectured that Ballynelye, the name of a parish given in the " Livery of Seisin of the possessions of Peter Walshe of Owney," may be the old name of this parish. Ballynelye I take to mean the town or place of the aileach or stone fort. There is no parish of this name now in Caherconlish district. The people sometimes call Carrigparson Castle hill, which shows that there must have been a castle on or near the rock, though no trace of it is now left. An old man told me he heard a tradition that Pierce Burke was the name of the last occupier, and that the castle lay a little north of the rock. There was a small glebe of five acres a short distance to the west. I could find no tradition of a glebe house, but it was probably from the parson who lived here that the rock came to get its pretty name. The date given in the Walsh document is 1592 ; that of the " Indenture of Perambulation" is 1609. A little distance north-east of the rock is the old graveyard, in which are some remains of the old church. Near the graveyard is portion of a very old road, which formerly ran from Carrigofarrelly Castle, passing close to High Park House and through Carrigparson and Cooleyhenan on to Limerick. Lying between Knockphleimon and the village of Ballyneety is the parish of Kilcullen, " the church of the holly trees." There is no trace now left of the old graveyard of Kilcullen, but an old man pointed out the site of it to me ; the last of the stones, he told me, were removed from it for fencing purposes very many years ago. There is a tradition that when the monks were expelled from Lodan Abbey they buried a cartload of gold near this graveyard, and my informant said he went to seek for this gold some

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 272

Cat Fort entrance gate in Hospital Lane

Hospital Lane · street · Cork

The entrance gate of Cat Fort is located in Hospital Lane, and the lane's name likely derives from the hospital of the Knights Hospitallers.

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Cross the ferry and we go south to the Red Abbey. St. Austen's, or Augustine's, called the Red Abbey from the colour of the friars' gowns, was a place of great note in the olden times, for its grounds extended up to Friar's Walk, and its rights to the strand of the river, including fisheries. Its square tower still braves the driving rain and the howling blast, and will do so for another century at least if not meddled with. The district, it might be said, was all consecrated ground, for the House of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem was but a short distance south-east from the abbey, and it may be supposed that the monks acted as chaplains and spiritual advisers to the good knights ; their lands joined and they lived together in brotherly harmony. Not one stone remains of St. John of Jerusalem's Hospital. An old graveyard at the back of the houses at the south side of Douglas Street, and called St. John's, is all that now remains in memory of the Knights Hospitallers. I was at a funeral at the old place when I was a small boy, and the memory of it remained with me, for I took a liking to the quaint old place, and in after years I often stood looking through the bars of a little iron gate which was the entrance to it, and wished I could get into it again. There are several priests buried there, but the place is almost a common now, for you can get into it from any of the houses in front of it. There is a little stone-mullioned window as a grave mark, and it is placed upside down and stands over the earth like the letter U, and it is the only mark or token of the religious house of which it formed a part. I was withC. G. Doran, architect (Council Member), about two years ago, and while we were exploring the place a working man came up to us and said " he was paid a small sum yearly for taking care of it, as the owner did not want it preserved, and she would rather all the stones were removed." The headstone of a Cork soldier is the great attraction of the place, for the inscription on the stone above him records that he took part in every battle of the Peninsular War except that of Waterloo. It does not say why ; it was too much for him perhaps, and though the names of all the battle-fields are recorded, he left his bones in his native city. The entrance gate of Cat Fort is in Hospital Lane, and I think the name of the lane comes from the hospital of the good knights. The escape of Lady Fanshawe from the Red Abbey is a romantic story of the place, but she did not escape from the abbey, but from the city; for, like a valiant woman as she was, she made her way

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 155

Catherine Spenser buried at Bandon

Bandon · town · Cork

Catherine, eldest daughter of the poet Edmund Spenser, was buried at Bandon. She had married into a Cork family and had issue.

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He married Catherine, eldest daughter of Edmund Spenser, the poet (she was buried at Banddn), and had issue. The statement that the late Cardinal Wiseman was descended from this m.p. wants proof.
Wood, Attiwell.

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 215

Catholic church of Clenor dedicated to St. Craebhnat

Clenor · parish · Cork · 1855–1860

The Catholic church at Clenor was dedicated to St. Craebhnat about thirty-three years before the article was written, by Bishop Dr. Keane of Cloyne. This links the modern church to the local saint's cult.

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The Catholic church of Clenor was dedicated to St. Craebhnat about thirty-three years ago, by the Most Rev. Dr. Keane, bishop of Cloyne. A pattern used to be held some years ago at St. Craebhnat's well, the day being March 9th, but on account of some improprieties the parish priest caused it to be discontinued
Crann a bulla" Tree.

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 42

Deception regarding relief of Moyalloe

Mallow · town · Cork · 1641–1642

A captured footman followed his instructions and falsely claimed to his rebel captors that the Lord President was marching from Cork with all his forces to relieve Moyalloe. The deception was intended to mislead the enemy forces.

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The same day they of the Great Castle sent out a footman to inquire of the welfare of their friends at Doneraile, withal to inform them how the country abroad stood, and of the Lord General's inclination or removing from the Lord Roche's, where he had continued sickly since Friday, with directions to the footboy that if he should fall into the enemy's hands he should affirm that he came from Cork, and that the Lord President was coming from thence with all his force for relief of Moyalloe. This plot fell out right by chance, for the footboy had not gone a mile from the town before he was seized on by the vigilant scouts, brought to the camp, and examined by all the lords and council,

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 17

Discovery of Garranes Rath souterrain

Garranes · townland · Cork · 1829

Subterranean chambers were discovered in 1829 within a circular rath on the townland of Garranes in county Cork. Thomas Crofton Croker examined the site and communicated an account of the chambers to the Royal Society.

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The following account of subterranean chambers, discovered A.D. 1829, on the townland of Garranes, parish Carrigtwohill, barony Barrymore, east riding county Cork, was in that year communicated by the late Thomas Crofton Croker, F.S.A., M.R.I.A., in a letter addressed to the secretary of the Royal Society. This account is contained in a volume named " Miscellaneous Antiquities," which belonged to the well-known Cork antiquary, John Windele, and which now belongs to our President, Mr. Day, who has called my attention to it. This account I insert here, as it is not accessible to the general reader, and is closely connected with the subject of the present papers.
Mr. Croker examined these chambers with Mr. Robert O'Callaghan Newenham, whose pencil has so skilfully illustrated Irish antiquities. By his account they are situated within a circular rath of one hundred and twenty feet diameter ; and at a third of that length from the south side of the rath there appears a circular pit, about seven feet in depth,

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 243

Drumcashel stone fort with caiseal

Drumcashel · townland · Louth

Drumcashel is the only stone fort the author knows of in County Louth, where the mount was once connected, perhaps surrounded, by a caiseal or stone fort. Most raths in the county were built principally for the protection of cattle.

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Raths or forts, too, are various in their form and size. Stone forts are not common as in other parts of Ireland. I only know of one, that at Drumcashel, where the mount was once connected, perhaps surrounded, by a caiseal or stone fort. Many of these raths were made principally for the protection of cattle. In the mountains the number of them is very great, and the people say that from each four or five others can be seen. In former days these hills were a famous pasture ground for cattle. Now about the commencement of our era there was a celebrated king ruling in Ulster, Conor MacXessa, who had deposed his predecessor and relative, Fergus Mac Roigh. It was under this Conor that the chieftains of the Red Branch, a species of order like the later ones of knights in feudal times, won their spurs. One of the most celebrated of these so-called heroes was Cu Chullaind, a nephew of Conor. His father was chief of the country about and to the south of Uundalk, and Castletown Mount, formerly called Dundealgan, one of the most remarkable fortified mounts in Ireland, was his residence. Improvements in modern times — which often might have been in such cases dispensed with, and the house built by one of the Byrnes, in whom the property is still vested — have erased most of the defences about it. Poetry and tradition have weaved so much of fable about the exploits of Cuchullain that true historical fact is not easily seen. At this time the district of Cuailgne, which in the not very purely pronounced Irish of these parts has been corrupted into "Cooley," extended over a large part of the count)-, and while the level plains were fertile producers of grain when forest and bog did not cover them, the rest, especially the mountains, were famous for the cattle that they produced. The number of cattle raths everywhere still to be seen is abundant proof of this.

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 233

Etymology of Knawhill townland, Duhallow

Knawhill · townland · Cork

The townland of Knawhill in the parish of Knocktemple, barony of Duhallow, is discussed in relation to its Irish name. O'Donovan gives the Irish form as meaning 'the wood of bones,' correcting a previous derivation in the Journal.

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Some Stray Notes. — The writer of the paper " Folk-Lore of the Months," in the December number of the Journal, derives Knawhill, a townland in the parish of Knocktemple, barony of Duhallow, from Cr)4ttJ fujl. This, I think, must be a mistake, for O'Donovan, in his supplement to O'Reillys Dictionary, gives Cl}4''JC0lll as the Irish form of this name. It means the wood of bones. There was another and better known Ct)4U)C0]U, in the parish of Kilshane, barony of Clanwilliam, about a mile and a half east of the town of Tipperary, now corrupted to Cleighile. It lay near the old road leading from Cashel to Cork. This is evident from the following passage in the Annals of the Four Masters : — " 1600. O'Neill marched from Cashel, westward across the river Suir, and set out for Kinsale, by the route of Cnamh-Choill and Sliabh na Muice, keeping to the east side of Sliabh Claire, and passing through Bearna Dhearg, into Clangibbon and Roche's Country." Dr. Todd, in the Wars of G.G., translates CT)4ri)C0)U, " hazle or nutwood." I think, however, he must have confused Crjdlij, "a bone," with Ctjort), "a nut." Lough Gur has a rival for the possession of the impatient serpent. Miss Banim, in Here and There Through Ireland, has the following account of him : — "There was only one sarpint left in the entire universal island, an' that one St. Patrick chained deep down in a lake on the top of the Galtee mountains, that you may have heard tell of away in Tipperary. St. Patrick told him he would never leave that until he himself would come of a Monday to set him free. Every Monday morning the sarpint comes to the surface of the lake and calls out, ' Is it time yet, Patrick ?' Patrick answers, ' It's not the Monday yet.' When the sarpint says, ' Is fadha Luan e, Padraic' (It's a long Monday, Patrick), an' sinks again for another week." When preparing the paper on " Lough Gur," for the Journal, I conversed with several old people living beside the lake, but I did not get any tales of serpents from them. I heard numerous stories of various appearances of the Earl of Desmond, and another visitant, whom the people call the Dwarf. The latter appears at rarer intervals than Earl Gerald. He is generally described as having a long red beard and whiskers trailing behind him. The people speak pretty freely of the Earl, but they have a certain dread of this dwarf, and do not like to talk about him. The lake is said to belong to him, and he, I am informed, appeared to and threatened two men recently who were taking more than their fair share of fish from the lake. The story of the dwarf is an old one, older, perhaps, than the Desmond legend. The old people consider the lake is named from an Irish chief, and they may possibly have taken "gair"in its usual meaning of " short," and thus Lough Gair might mean the lake of the short fellow. I consulted several competent Irish scholars as to the meaning of the name of the lake, but they could only confess their ignorance, so, on the principle that it is better to have guessed and lost than never to have guessed at all, I gave some possible explanations in the Journal. O'Donovan mentions the name of the lake in his supplement to O'Reillys Dictionary, but gives no hint as to the meaning. Gair, meaning "head," occurs in a line quoted by O'Connellan from one of the Seabright MSS. in Trinity College, Dublin. Of me 2lm4U5er) 5lllT)5el, 34m 5Uf 51161)46, "I am Amergin Glungel, of hoary head and gray beard." Dr. Joyce gives

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 28

Fenian insurgents defeated at Tallaght

near Tallaght · town · Dublin · 1867

Sub-Inspector Dominick F. Burke, in command at Tallaght on the night of 5 March, defeated the Fenian insurgents, taking many prisoners and capturing a large quantity of arms and ammunition.

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2. Sub-Inspector Dominick F. Burke. In command at Tallaght on the same night, when the Fenian insurgents were defeated, many taken prisoners, and a large quantity of arms and ammunition captured.
3. Sub-Inspector Oliver Milling, who proceeded on the morning of the 6th of March from Kilfinane to Kilmallock, with a small body of constabulary to the relief of the

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 153

Footman sent to Doneraile during the Munster rebellion

Doneraile · townland · Cork · 1641–1642

During the rebellion, the garrison of the Great Castle sent a footman to Doneraile to check on the welfare of their friends and report on the state of the country. The footman was captured by vigilant scouts and examined by the lords and council.

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The same day they of the Great Castle sent out a footman to inquire of the welfare of their friends at Doneraile, withal to inform them how the country abroad stood, and of the Lord General's inclination or removing from the Lord Roche's, where he had continued sickly since Friday, with directions to the footboy that if he should fall into the enemy's hands he should affirm that he came from Cork, and that the Lord President was coming from thence with all his force for relief of Moyalloe. This plot fell out right by chance, for the footboy had not gone a mile from the town before he was seized on by the vigilant scouts, brought to the camp, and examined by all the lords and council,

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 17

Governor Parker receives freedom of Cork city

Cork · city · Cork · 1726–1731

Brigadier-General Gervais Parker served as governor of Cork and received the freedom of the city in a silver box on 23rd January 1726. He was also governor of Kinsale and commander-in-chief in Ireland.

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A general of horse ; governor of Cork, and received the freedom of the city in a silver box, 23rd January, 1726; governor of Kinsale, 1726; commander-in-chief in Ireland.
His return was petitioned against by Richard Ponsonby (q.V. ), and he was declared to have been " miselected," and Ponsonby obtained the seat.

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 86

Hon. James O'Brien, MP for Charleville and Youghal, collector of Port of Cork

Youghal · town · Cork · 1725–1771

Hon. James O'Brien, third son of the Earl of Inchiquin, served as MP for Charleville (1725-27) and Youghal (1727-60). He was collector of the Port of Drogheda from 1730-54 and of the Port of Cork from 1755-67. His son became Marquess of Thomond.

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M.P. Charleville, 1725-27; Youghal, 1727-60.
Third son of William, third Earl and eighth Baron of Inchiquin, by Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Villiers. Was a captain of Foot; collector of the Port of Drogheda. 1 73D-54. and of the Port of Cork, 1755-67.

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 27

John Buckley executed at Blarney for burglary of Mr. Stopford's house

near Blarney · townland · Cork · 1799

John Buckley of Blarney was found guilty of breaking into the house of Mr. Stopford at Blarney and was executed there on 21 June 1799. His body was buried in the 'Croppie's Hole' in the new gaol at Cork.

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I >ne ut" these eight, John Buckley, of Blarney, was found guilty of the burglary, and was executed on 21st June, at Blarney. His body was buried in the "Croppie's Hole," in the new gaol at Cork.
The name remains still vividly in the minds of the peasantry of Muskerry, and is used as a term of reproach to a tell-tale, or an informer; and the phrase, "You'd beat Malachi himself,'' is in use to .1 robust liar.

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 123

Kenmare Castle ruins at Hospital

Hospital · town · Limerick

Sir Valentine Browne received a large grant of Desmond land at Hospital from Queen Elizabeth and built a castle there, now in ruins and known as Kenmare Castle. His son Sir Thomas Browne married Mary Apsley of Limerick.

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(>°) There were two chief families of Browns in county Limerick. The Camas family, who descended from Walter Brown, who settled at Kilpeacon in the beginning of the last quarter of the seventeenth century, having come hither from Wexford. He married Catherine, a daughter of the Knight of Glen. Several members of the Camas Browns covered themselves with glory in the Continental wars of the eighteenth century. A member of the family was living at Ballynacailleach, near Lough Gur, early in the eighteenth century. His son, James Brown, was a woollen draper in Limerick, and this James Brown's granddaughter became Marchioness of Clanrickarde. The other family was the Hospital one, descended from Sir Valentine Browne, who large grant of the Desmond land at Hospital from Queen Elizabeth, where he built a castle, now in ruins, and known as Kenmare Castle. Sir Thomas Browne, son to Sir Valentine, married Mary, daughter of William Apsley, of Limerick, by his wife, Annabella, eldest daughter of [ohn Browne, master of Anew Another daughter of William Apsley, Joan, was the first wife of Richard Boyle, first Earl of Cork. He got ^500 a yeai with her, and this he calls "the beginning and foundation of his fortune." He us that seven years previously, in 133S, being then twenty-two years of age, he had arrived in Ireland with ^22 3s. in cash, and two tokens — a diamond ring and a bracelet, worth ^10 each.
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Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 209

Kilcooley Abbey: monastic lake, beehive structure, and sedilia

Kilcooley · townland · Galway

The Cistercian monks at Kilcooley formed a large lake to provide both a water fall and a fish-pond. A beehive-like structure about a hundred yards north-east of the abbey was likely a pigeon or ice-house. The chancel is kept roofed to preserve an ancient monument, and the abbey contains two one-seated sedilias, one ornamented with Butler escutcheons.

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in the year 1269, when Archbishop David Maccanvill turned the Benedictine monks out of Hore Abbey and placed therein Cistercians, he granted Glankeen to them. Hore Abbey also enjoyed the livings of Railstown and Lismolin in this diocese, and other spiritual as well as temporal possessions, including several mills, the principal of which was at Camas on the Suir ; their abbey, being in a low marsh near Cashel, could have no mill immediately attached to it. In Kilcooley the land about the abbey was almost as low, but, by forming a large lake, the monks appear to have provided themselves with a fall of water and a
Hore Abbey.

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 151

Lismore great fort and burial mound, Smarmore

Lismore and Mocollop · parish · Cork

On the White Mountains in the parish of Smarmore stands Lismore, described as one of the largest raths the author has seen, containing inside it a mound marking the burial-place of some chief. Close by is a smaller, more carefully constructed lis with deeply scarped ramparts, about the size to contain a wattle-built hut for a chief.

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This account of the Cattle Prey has detained us somewhat, but it has left its traces yet upon the county in the shape of some of these forts that still remain. On the White Mountains, parish of Smarmore, is Lismore, the great fort, one of the largest raths I have seen. Inside it is a mound, marking the burial-place of some chief. Close by it is another lis, the ramparts of which are much deeper and more scarped than those of the large one. It is very much smaller, but was much more carefully constructed, is just about the size that would contain a tolerably largesized wattle-built hut containing more than one room, such a one as might be made for a chief. Standing there the idea came irresistibly

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Lord Lieutenant visits Bantry and Cork

Bantry · town · Cork · 1797

On 20th August the Lord Lieutenant arrived in Cork by way of Bantry, which he had been inspecting. He was escorted into the city by local corps and received loyal addresses from Cork, Bandon and other localities.

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On 20th August the Lord Lieutenant arrived in Cork by way of Bantry which he had been inspecting, and was escorted into the city by the various local corps, and received loyal addresses from Cork, Bandon and other localities. Outrages and seditious oaths, how ever, continued. Two brothers named Barry, arrested by the Muskerry corps for burglary and robbery at Mr. O'Leary's house at Donoughmore, were hung on 28th October ; and others were committed by S. Swetc for administering oaths, and by J. Hawkes for conspiracy to rob. A murder that occurred before the last mentioned date was that of Mr. John Oliflfe, of Lissaniskey, parish of Knockavilly, which gave the same corps much police duty, partly
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As the companion tells it

Up ahead is Bantry, a town on the road toward Cork. On the 20th of August in 1797 the Lord Lieutenant passed through here, having been inspecting the place, before continuing on to Cork where local corps escorted him into the city. He received loyal addresses from Cork, Bandon and other localities along the way.

Lough Gur garrisoned for the Queen during Desmond Rebellion

near Lough Gur · lake or lakes · Limerick · 1600

In 1600, Lough Gur was seized for Queen Elizabeth during the Desmond Rebellion, and the army rested there before the President marched into Clanwilliam, a country of the Burkes, to confront the rebellious freeholder John Burke.

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" Loghguire being now possessed for the Queene, and the armie well refreshed, the President marched into Clan-William, a countrie of the Burkes ; whereupon one of the principal freeholders then in rebellion, called John Burke, halfe-brother to Pierce Lacy, desired to come unto the President, but no eare would be given to his request until he had first testified his humble submission, whereof he made scruple, alledging that his conscience would not suffer him so to doe, having before being taught by his instructors that it was sinful and damnable personally to submit himself to her Majesty. His answer was much disdained, and he plainly told that he should never hope to be accepted for a subject and receive the benefit thereof except hee would absolutely disclaime that rebellious opinion, which he, absolutely refusing was sent awaye with this proviso, that although himself did fly into the woods, yet his castles, towns, and corne, which he could not carry with him, should be the next morrow destroyed, which was not vainely meant but truely peformed, for by the noone of the next day, being the twenty-nineth of May (1600), the armie came upon his lands, many of his houses, some of his corne, and one of his castles fired, when a second messenger came to intreate that hee might bee admitted to make his submission ; whether it were that some Popish priest had granted him a dispensation, or that he would undertake himself to dispence with his conscience rather than see himselfe ruin'd is to me uncertaine, but sure I am that this alteration was now wrought in him. Very unwilling was the President to acccept him to mercy which the day before hee so unadvisedly refused, yet being much importuned by his mother and others, who with weeping eyes intreated for him, and the rather that he had married one of Sir George Thornton's daughters, was inclined to admit him to his presence. The President now on horse-

Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 254

Maunsell family monumental slab in Caherconlish graveyard (1662)

Caherconlish · town · Limerick · 1662

A monumental slab in Caherconlish graveyard bears a 1662 inscription commemorating Aphra Maunsell, Mary Maunsell, and others of the family. The stone was moved from its original position and placed over the door of the Gabbett vault.

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This Maunsell stone was moved from its original position and placed over the door of the Gabbett vault where it now is. Referring to this last, a tablet some years ago was inserted in the tower by Mr. D. F. Gabbett, on which is the following : —
The Family Vault beneath the Chancel of this Church was erected about a.d. 1670 by William Gabbett, Esq., of Caherline, Co. Limerick, great-grandson of Robert Gabott, of Acton Burnell, Salop, Exon of the Yeomanry Guard. A° 2, Henry VII., i486.

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Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society

The stories, best first

Army halts at Sir Richard Osborne's Castle near Dungarvan

Ballybrood coal mine and geological formation

Cahernarry church tower and St. Nicholas dedication

Colonel Burke hanged in Cork by Cromwell

Cork, Youghal and Limerick under direct crown allegiance

Curragh castle near Kanturk and Neptune Blood's house

Desmond's oath of allegiance taken at Waterford

Dr. Leahy's funeral and burial at old chapel, Newry

Dublin's free-thinking society

Dungarvan taken, pillaged and burned by Lord President

Kanturk name linked to Purcell boar's head arms

Kanturk town origin and McCarthy tenure

Kyle burial ground and unbaptised children tradition

Mathew Parker of Gortroe's eccentric bequest

Meeting at St. Peter's Church, Cork after death of Earl of March

Muskerry Legion stationed at Inchigeelagh

O'Callaghan received enthusiastically in Cork, 1884

O'Farrelly rath superstitions at Carrigofarrelly

Prostrate stones at Stuake

Skinners from Kilmallock followed rebel camp buying sheep skins

Slieve-na-Calliagh hills named from legendary woman

Standard yard at the old Exchange, South Main Street, Cork

Thaddeus appointed bishop of Cork and Cloyne

The Marina and Navigation Wall begun in 1763

Youghal assessment for sack for the King's army, 1642

Baltimore borough incorporated 1613

Bishop of Cloyne recalls former Dominican monastery at Youghal

Meeting of Earl of Desmond with Sir Warham St Leger at Lough Gur (1566)

Raths of Gurranes levelled and chambers filled

1358 murage grant incorporated town of Caherconlish

Anthony Stawell's lands at Clohenasbeg and Carracroone

Arms distribution at Leemount Barracks to Muskerry Association

Barmeath name linked to Medb's Gap

Barry family mural monument at Abington Church

Belfast as likely origin of Volunteer medal

Berwick fountain site of Tuckey's Bridge, Cork

Bishop's house at the see of Ross

Blarney Castle keep built in two distinct phases

Boskill and the Frend family since Cromwell's time

Cahernarry glebe house oak timber dated 1746

Carrickittle rock and Earl of Kildare's castle, 1510

Carrigparson rock, castle tradition and graveyard

Cat Fort entrance gate in Hospital Lane

Catherine Spenser buried at Bandon

Catholic church of Clenor dedicated to St. Craebhnat

Deception regarding relief of Moyalloe

Discovery of Garranes Rath souterrain

Drumcashel stone fort with caiseal

Etymology of Knawhill townland, Duhallow

Fenian insurgents defeated at Tallaght

Footman sent to Doneraile during the Munster rebellion

Governor Parker receives freedom of Cork city

Hon. James O'Brien, MP for Charleville and Youghal, collector of Port of Cork

John Buckley executed at Blarney for burglary of Mr. Stopford's house

Kenmare Castle ruins at Hospital

Kilcooley Abbey: monastic lake, beehive structure, and sedilia

Lismore great fort and burial mound, Smarmore

Lord Lieutenant visits Bantry and Cork

Lough Gur garrisoned for the Queen during Desmond Rebellion

Maunsell family monumental slab in Caherconlish graveyard (1662)