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Franciscan Rock Abbey cloisters and burials at Askeaton
Askeaton · townland · Limerick
The Franciscan or Rock Abbey at Askeaton was a splendid cruciform building with very perfect gray marble cloisters enclosed by twelve pointed arches on each side. The chapter house serves as the burial ground of the Naishes of Ballycullen, and a monument with a black letter Latin inscription was erected by ladies of the Brien and Browne families to their Stephenson husbands.
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The Franciscan or Rock Abbey, was a splendid cruciform building. The cloisters, of gray marble, which are very perfect, are enclosed on each side by twelve pointed arches, supported by cylindrical columns. The abbey was one of the finest in Ireland. The chapter house forms the burial ground of the ancient family of the Naishes of Ballycullen, the oldest, I believe, Catholic family of the county. There is an old black letter Latin inscription on a monument erected by two ladies of the Brien and Browne families to their husbands, members of the Stephenson family, in the central chapel. Tuesday is market day. Population 1637.
Messrs. J. N. Russell and Sons have very large flour mills at Askeaton, in fact they are amongst the finest in the south of Ireland, and contribute much to the industrial prosperity of the town.
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Holycross Abbey founded by Donald O'Brien
Holycross · townland · Tipperary · 1169
Donald O'Brien, king of Limerick, founded Holycross Abbey in County Tipperary in 1169. It was so called for having a great relic of the holy cross. The abbot held the title of Earl of Holycross and sat in the Irish House of Peers. It was a daughter house of the Cistertian abbey of Nenay in County Limerick.
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1169. This abbey of Holycross, in the county Tipperary, was founded by Donald O'Brien, king of Limerick ; it was so called for having a great relic of the holy cross in it : the words of the charter began thus : " Donald, by the grace of God, king of Limerick, to all kings, dukes, earls, barons, knights, and other Christians of whatsoever degree throughout Ireland, perpetual greeting m Christ, fcc." The Bishop of Lismore, as Pope's Legate, the Archbishop of Cashel and the Bishop of Limerick signed this charter as witnesses. King John, when Earl of Morton, comlrmed this foundation. The abbot of this house had title of Earl of Holycross, had a seat in the house of peers in Ireland, and was commonly Yicar-Greneral of the Cistertian Order in Ireland. The house was a daughter of the Cistertian abbey of Nenay, in the county of Limerick.
Suiry or Inislaunog.
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Inquisition held at Kilmallock on Burke lands
Kilmallock · town · Limerick · 1522
An inquisition was taken at Kilmallock on 18 October 1522, finding that Richard Oge Burke had died in 1596 seized of Dromkeen, Drumrask, Rathkipp, Pallasbeg and other lands. The inquisition established the extent of the family's estates in the barony.
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the Barony of Coshma, which he exchanged with the Bourkes of Castle Connell, for the third part of that of Clanwilliam ; and that he was governor of Dromkeen the j'ear he died. His eldest son, William Duffe, was father of Meyler Bourke of Dromkeen, whose descendants were styled " Sloght Meyler," to distinguish them from the Castle Connell family. His grandson, Richard Oge Burke, was found by Inquisition taken at Kilmallock, 18 October, 1522, to have died in 1596, seized of Dromkeen, Drumrask, Rathkipp, Pallasbeg and other lands. This Richard Oge was father of Meyler, grand-father of Ulick, and great grand-father of Richard, who becoming the male heir of the family, inherited Dromkeen and the other entailed estates in 1640. He was in Holy Orders of the Protestant Church, and anglicised his name into Burgh, a common practice in those daj's with those who adhered to the English interest. For the same fashionable reason at that time, he called his eldest son Ulysses instead of Ulick — Ulick was an Irish corruption of William, or William Oge, and was first given to Sir William Bourke, ancestor of the Marquesses of Clanrickarde ; but had no more real connection with Ulysses than the classic Cornelius had with the Celtic Connor, for which it has been substituted.
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Irishtown streets and gates of Limerick
Limerick · city · Limerick · 1300–1620
The Irishtown streets included Mungret-street, Palmerstown-street, Broad-street, and John-street leading to John's Church. A wall ran around the entire Irishtown with gates at East and West Water Gate, Mungret Gate, and John's Gate.
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The streets in the Enghshtown, at this time, were " the Great Street," now Mary-street and Nicholas-stieet, which bisected the town, and from which ran Fish-lane, Prison-lane, Change-lane, Stag-lane, Bishop's-laue, Merritt's-lane, Whitehouse-lane, Eed Lion-lane, Plag-lane, Broad-lane which joined St. Munchin's Church ; and lower down on the same side was Meetinghouse-lane; at the other side, where the Cathedral stands, were Creagh,' first called Crevaagh-lane, Quay-lane, Bow-lane, (perhaps originally Bough-lane or Creagh-lane;) Newgate-lane, near the Castle, with Castle-street leading to Thomond Bridge. The small lane which divides the large house said to have been Sir Geoffrey Gallway's Castle, from the Exchange, was called afterwards. Churchyard-lane, and then Gridiron-lane. The English Town was surrounded by a wall, which had Fish Gate, Prison Gate, Abbey Gate, Little Island Gate, Barrack Gate, Island Gate, and a bastion near St. Munchin's. At the other, or river side, there were Creagh Gate and the Castle Gate. The streets in the Irishtown were, Mungret-street, Palmerstown-street, and the various intersecting lanes, with Broad-street and John-street, to John's Church. A wall ran around the entire of the Irishtown ; and the gates were East and West Water Gate, Mungret Gate, and John's Gate. An imaginative writer describes the city at this period as very like a spider, whose narrow waist might be said to be Ball's Bridge, which, in our memory, had houses on each side of it, and was so narrow that even two cars could not pass at the same time. Subsequently, the houses on the east side were thrown down.2
' Creagh, (or Crevaagh) the Irish for bongh. The name of an ancient and respectable family in Limerick descended from the O'Neils, who wore green boughs in their caps during a victory over the Danes.
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Jacobite cavalry encamped beyond the Shannon
Limerick · city · Limerick · 1690
Three thousand five hundred horsemen were encamped within five miles of Limerick, beyond the river Shannon, maintaining free communication with the city during the siege.
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Forty days after the battle of the Boyne, William appeared before Limerick, not indeed without a trembling apprehension of the consequences — because, though he had been made aware of the existence of divided councils within, and though a large portion of the French army had already gone to Galway to take shipping for Prance, the advice of Sarsfield and the majority of the Irish officers had prevailed to defend the city to the last. Boisseleau had been left in command of twenty thousand Irish soldiers, not one half of whom had been armed.^ Three thousand five hundred horsemen were encamped, in addition, within five miles of Limerick, beyond the river Shannon, and kept up a free communication with the city.
Limerick, at this period, was not the Limerick of to-day. Within the time, no city in Ireland or England has undergone so extensive a change, and such wonderful improvement. The city was then confined within the walls of the Englishtown and the Irishtown, but both were distinct ; whilst forty or fifty years before, as we learn from Dr. Thomas Arthur's MSS., portions of the Irishtown were a suburb — the south suburb of the city. The chief houses of business, the dwelhngs of the gentry and nobihty, the Cathedral, the churches, the gaol, and the Courthouse, were in the Englishtown. It was here that the Lord of Brittas, the Earl of Thomond, Sec. &c., had their residences. The bright river washed the walls which ran in a hue with King John's Castle, where the Castle Barracks now are, and with the ground on which the City Gaol and the City and County Court House now stand, down by
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Killalough castle at Lough Gur
near Lough Gur · lake or lakes · Limerick
The castle of Killalough, a little further on from the Black Castle, was placed for the defence of the almost isolated spot of Knockadoon at Lough Gur.
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The lake, or Lough Gur, lies embedded between high green hills, rendered in several places precipitous by gray limestone rocks, which stand thick and frequent upon their surface. It is almost of a circular, perhaps, more properly, an oval form, being from west to east. In the centre stands a steep hill, called Knockadoon — the hill of the castles or fortresses ; it being defended at the east and south by two (of which hereafter), around whose base the waters spread like a river, varying throughout but little in their breadth. The whole extent seems to have been about two English miles.^ The view of Garrode's Island from Knockadoon is beautiful. At the north side stands the hill of Knocknasilla. The house of a Mr. Harte, sub-agent of Count de Salis, owner of the property, is passed at the west side, and farther on is a fort or lioss, standing above the water's edge on the hill slope, of about seventy-five feet in diameter, and ten feet above the surrounding level. Ascending this hill still higher, are two natural caves in the rock, about which there are some notices of no interest; thence there is a view of the Black Castle at the opposite side, standing at the northeast base of Knockadoon. A quick descent down the hill, and a walk of about a quarter of a mile, brought me sufficiently near it. It is a square, thick tower, evidently built about the period of the Roses ; its upper story, the bower, as well as the roof and parapets, are gone, so also are the outworks, whose site is occupied by a farmhouse and offices, and near it the handsome residence of Mrs. Cleary, sister of E. J. Synan^ Esq., M.P. Crofton Croker was much mistaken in saying that it stood on an island out of the reach of musketry. It stands on the isthmus which connects Knockadoon with the surrounding country, and was placed there, as well as the castle of Killalough — a little further on — for the defence of that almost isolated spot ; but neither castle could be deemed out of the reach of musketry; neither at the Brufi' side is the country in the least rugged, so as to render the approach of cannon a matter of difficulty. In 1600, Sir George Carew, President of Munster to Queen Elizabeth, reconnoitred the place, then held by 200 men for the Earl of Desmond. He found it
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King William's Standard Pillar at Singland
Singland · townland · Limerick · 1690
A pillar of ashlar masonry, thirteen feet high and three feet in diameter, stands on the road to Singland House in the parish of Singland (St. Patrick's). Local tradition identifies it as the spot where King William's royal standard was raised during the siege of Limerick, and where his tent and staff were likely located.
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In this parish of Singland, or St. Patrick's, there are some remarkable relics of the siege ; one is "this Standard Pillar" of King William (so called), and is pointed out by the inhabitants as the pillar on which the Royal Ensign of William was raised during the siege of 1600. It is on the high road which leads to Singland House, and is sometimes called " the Pillar " simph- by the people ; but every one in the parish, or at least in that portion of it, in which the pillar may be seen, tells it was there the King had his standard, as it was in the same spot, most likely, be had liis tent, and was encompassed by his staff. It is built of "ashlar" masonry, thirteen feet high and about three feet in diameter; the stones are rather large, and in most instances they are roughly chissled ; it is situated on a rise in tlie road, about 100 yards from Singland House. A short wall or butress is built up against it to the N.W,, and appears to be contemporaneous ia structure with the pillar itself ;a few cabins to the S.E. are just close up by the pillar on that side, and even the children there say that the pillar had something to do with " the war." About a thousand yards distance to the N., in a direct line, is New Castle House, in which it is asserted King William spent some of his time during the siege. The other object here of interest connected with the siege is " King William's Well,'* which is about 100 yards from the pillar, and in a Held about 50 yards from the high road, and nearly opposite Singland House, on the other side of the road. A stream of pure water runs to the road from tlie well, and joins another stream from the well of Shesharee, which is some distance off, on another road. King William's ■well is deep, but covered with a thick coating of leaves and greenish, weedy, deposit, which conceal its waters from the view — at least so it was on the beautiful evening I visited the locality. Tradition says that a large flag or standard lies buried in a field near the well. There are other evidences hereabouts, that it was the site of a camp ; and the well is said to have supplied
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Limerick confined within Englishtown and Irishtown walls
Limerick · city · Limerick · 1690
In 1690 Limerick was confined within the walls of the Englishtown and the Irishtown, which were distinct. Portions of the Irishtown had been a mere suburb forty or fifty years earlier, according to Dr. Thomas Arthur's manuscripts.
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Limerick, at this period, was not the Limerick of to-day. Within the time, no city in Ireland or England has undergone so extensive a change, and such wonderful improvement. The city was then confined within the walls of the Englishtown and the Irishtown, but both were distinct ; whilst forty or fifty years before, as we learn from Dr. Thomas Arthur's MSS., portions of the Irishtown were a suburb — the south suburb of the city. The chief houses of business, the dwelhngs of the gentry and nobihty, the Cathedral, the churches, the gaol, and the Courthouse, were in the Englishtown. It was here that the Lord of Brittas, the Earl of Thomond, Sec. &c., had their residences. The bright river washed the walls which ran in a hue with King John's Castle, where the Castle Barracks now are, and with the ground on which the City Gaol and the City and County Court House now stand, down by
' This heir-loom has been preserved with a tender care for orer 170 years in the Cripps famil^v. Tlie ring is for the little linger, but massive and of the tinest gold — and the setting is as fresh and as faultless as if it had come from the hands of the goldsmith. We know nothing more interesting as a token of regard from a Royal hand to one who had done him a service.
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Nunnery of Killone founded in County Clare
Killone · parish · Clare · 1172
In 1172, Donald, king of Limerick, founded a nunnery at Killone in County Clare for Augustinian nuns of the Order of Canons Regular of St. Augustin.
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1172. The said Donald founded at Kil-oen, in the county of Clare, a nunnery for Augustinian nuns of the Order of Canons Regular of St. Augustin.
Clare or Kilmoney.
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O'Neill lays siege to Limerick
Limerick · city · Limerick · 1154
O'Neill, accompanied by Dermod MacMurrough, laid siege to Limerick, then chiefly inhabited by Danes, drove out Turlogh O'Brien, and expelled the Dalcassians from Thomond, dividing Munster between rival claimants.
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The unfortunate Turlogh O^Brien having ineS'ectually attempted to procure shelter among the Danes of Limerick, fled to Ulster, where he was sheltered by the native chieftains, to whom he was able to make ample recompense for their hospitahty, having carried with him many jewels and valuables to the number of sixty, besides the drinlving horn of Brian Boru, and one hundred and twenty ounces of gold.^ In the arrangement which followed the defeat of Turlogh, Desmond fell to Dermod M'^Carthy, and Thomond to Teige O^Brien. The fortunes of Turlogh CConnor had scarcely obtained the ascendant over those of O^Brien when a new rival appeared in the person of Murtagh 0''Loughlin (MacLoughlin or O^Nedl), representative of the royal Hy-Niells of T}Tone, and the host and champion of the king of Munster, in Avhose favour he formed a league of the Ulster princes, and having conquered Turlogh O^Connor, replaced Tui-logh CBrien on his throne, or as the Four ]\Iasters say, to one-half of his kingdom. On the return of Teige O^Brien into Thomond he was barbarously deprived of his sight by his brother Dermod Finn, and died the next year, 1154. Turlogh O'Brien having made submission three years after his restoration, Roderick, his father, incurred the resentment of O'Neill, who, accompanied by Dermod MacMurrough and his troops, entered Desmond, and exacted the submission of the Macarthies. He next laid siege to Limerick, then chiefly inhabited by Danes, drove out Turlogh O'Brien, expelled the Dalcassians from Thomond, and divided Munster between Dermod Macarthy, whose father had been murdered, as before mentioned, at Cashel, and Connor, the son of Donald O'Brien, in whose person, as the senior representatives of Murtagh-More O'Brien, the
' Note to Four Masters, 1151.
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Patrick Street was a tidal marsh in living memory
Patrick Street · street · Limerick · 1800–1851
Captain Creagh, who died in Cashel, recalled in 1851 that he remembered shooting snipe in Patrick Street when the ground was a marsh covered by the tide and deemed unfit for building. The New Town, later the finest portion of the city, was then meadows and corcasses down to the water's edge.
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Merchant's Quay, George's Quay, &c., till they met at Ball's Bridge. The wall then went round by the Island and the Abbey, meeting at St. Munchin's Church, and joining Thomond Bridge, where also there was a gate. The old maps and plans of the city show that, though it was confined within comparatively narrow limits at this time, it was handsome and regidar, particularly when viewed from the river, to which it showed a noble frontage v/estward, old St. ]\lary's Cathedral, with its towers, then, as now, a prominent object in the foreground. The New Town, now the finest portion of the city, and the great centre of its trade, was not built for seventy years afterwards. Meadows and corcasses then occupied the grounds down to the water's edge. Captain Creagh, an old and highly respectable gentleman, who died some years ago in Cashel, informed me in 1851, that he remembered shooting snipe in Patrick-street, on the ground on which the houses of which the office of the Reporter and Vindicator, is one, are built ! — that the ground in question was a marsh which the tide covered, and that it Avas deemed unfit for building on when he was a boy. The walls in the Irishtown were of recent construction as compared with the Englishtown — that is, they were built at intervals of time, commencing in the fourteenth century ; they were occasionally repahed, and they were not extended throughout until the early part of the seventeenth century.
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Plundering of Slane on the march to Dublin
Slane · town · Meath · 1150
In 1150, the King of Munster marched to Dublin, plundering Slane in Meath on his way. He successfully exacted hostages from the Danes of Dublin during this campaign.
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In the year 1149, the King of Munster once more led an army into Connaught, destroying the Dun or Castle of Galway. In the next year he marched to Dublin, plundering Slane, in Meath, on his way, and exacted hostages from the Danes of Dublin. In the following year (1151), while absent in West Munster, opposmg the Macarthies, he was deposed by his brother, Teige Gle, whom he had released from prison, assisted by the king
• Ibid. Ad. An. 1138. « Ibid. Ad. An. 1134.
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Reconciliation of O'Brien and O'Connor at Terryglass
Terryglass · townland · Tipperary · 1144
In 1144, Turlough O'Brien was reconciled with O'Connor at Terryglass in Ormond. This truce, however, only lasted a year before Ireland was plunged into a wave of predatory excursions.
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Torlough, the brother and successor of Connor O^Brien, whose son Murtagh was obliged to content himself 'vvith Thomond, began his reigTi by a war with Turlough O^Connor and an invasion of Leinster. He was set upon the throne of Lunerick by Murtagh M'Niell of the line of Heremon, who succeeded to the monarchy of Ireland. In punishment of O'Connor's raid into Munster, in sustainment of the claims of Connor, grandson of Murtagh- ]\Iore O'Brien, Turlough O'Brien marched into Connaught, and cut down the Ruaidh Rheithigh* (the red birch tree of Hy-Fiachra Aadhne, under which the kings were inaugurated), and demolished its stone fort, but returned without effecting any important results^ and in 1144 was reconciled to O'Connor at Terryglass, in Ormond — though, as we learn from the Four Masters,^ the truce only lasted a year, the next year having been signalised by so many predatory excursions that Ireland was made " a trembling sod,'' to use the expressive language of these annalists. Turlough founded a monastery for the Cistercian monks in 1148, the great monastery of Nenay, or Commogue, in the county of Limerick, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin.
In the year 1149, the King of Munster once more led an army into Connaught, destroying the Dun or Castle of Galway. In the next year he marched to Dublin, plundering Slane, in Meath, on his way, and exacted hostages from the Danes of Dublin. In the following year (1151), while absent in West Munster, opposmg the Macarthies, he was deposed by his brother, Teige Gle, whom he had released from prison, assisted by the king
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Roderick O'Connor builds castle at Tuam
Tuam · town · Galway · 1161
In the year 1161, Roderick O'Connor built a famous castle of lime and stone at Tuam, noted as an important construction event of that period.
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' It Avas in the year 1161 Roderick O'Connor built a famous castle of " lime and stone at Tuam." 1 During ttie reign of Murtagh Mac Neil), Monarch of Ireland, there was convened a national Synod at Kennanus or Kells in the county of Meath ; the design of this Council was the reformation of discipline and manners, and to institute two new Archbishopricks in Ireland, viz. those cf Dublin and Tuam. The persons appointed by the Pope to preside in this Council were Giolla Criost O'Conaire, Bishop of Lismore, and Pope's Legate, and the Koman Cardinal Johannes Papiro (Paparo) ; the four palls or copes were then conferred on the four Archbishops. This Council, says Keating, is thus recorded in an old Book of Cluainadnach, viz. in the year from the Incarnation, being bissextile, 1157 (52 for 57 is a mist.ake) was celebrated in the spring, a noble Council at Caennanus, in which Synod presided Cardinal John, a Presbyter of the blessed St. Lawrence, and the Assembly consisted of twenty-two Bishops, five Bishops elect and so many Abbots and Priors belonging to the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and our apostolic father Eugenius. This Cardinal condemned, and by all proper methods extirpated simony and usury, and commanded tithes to be paid by apostolical authority. He delivered four copen (palls) to the four Archbishops of Ireland : — to the Archbishops of Dublin, of Tuam, of Cashel, and Armagh Primate over the rest ; and as soon as the Council was ended the said Cardinal passed the seas. Thus that old Book. Amongst the Bishops that assisted at this Council was Turgesius, Bishop of Limerick. The suffragans then appointed under the Archbishoprick of Cashel, were Limerick, Killaloe, Inniscatha (which, about the beginning of the twelfth century, was united to Limerick), Waterford, Lismore, Cloin, Cork, lioss and Ardfearth Sir James Ware says that this Synod ■was held in 1152. — Andq. Uiber., cap. 16.
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Roderick O'Connor burns Croom
Croom · town · Limerick · 1151
Roderick, the last monarch of Ireland of Milesian descent, entered Thomond and proceeded as far as Croom, which he burned, before returning with great spoils captured from the area.
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Altogether there fell of the Mononians five thousand men. The loss on the other side was severe, but not at all to be compared with that of the army of Munster, which the monarch now divided into two principalities, appointing the two treacherous Munster princes its rulers. Roderick, the last monarch of Ireland of Milesian descent, now entered Thomond, and having proceeded as far as Croom, which he burned, returned after the capture of great spoils.
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St. Peter's Cell nunnery founded in Limerick
Limerick · city · Limerick · 1172
In 1172, Donald, king of Limerick, founded a nunnery for Augustinian nuns of the Order of Canons Regular in the English town of Limerick. The house was dedicated to St. Peter and was called St. Peter's Cell.
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1172. The said Donald, king of Limerick, founded a nunnery for Augustinian nuns of the Order of Canons Regular, in Limerick, in the English town. This house was dedicated to St. Peter and was called St. Peter's cell.
30 HISTORY OF LIMERICK.
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Synod of Kells distributes palliums to four archbishops
Kells · town · Meath · 1152
The great National Council of Kells in 1152, presided over by Cardinal Paparo, papal legate, distributed palliums brought from Rome to the four Archbishops of Armagh, Cashel, Dublin and Tuam, and first introduced tithes into Ireland.
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right line of succession was restored. But Turlough O^Brien being once more restored by Roderick O^Connor;^ wbo entered IMunster after O^'Neill^s departure for the North, cruelly put out the eyes of the la-w^ul king Connor O^Brien, as well as those of his son — acts of barbarous policy to disqualify them for the throne^ the fruits of which he did not long enjoy, being deposed by his son Murtagh and banished into Leinster. This occurred in 1165, but Murtagh was not recognised as king until 1167, in which year his father, Turlough O'Brien, died. He was slain, however, in the next year by Connor O'Brien, grandson of Connor Na Cateragh, but after a short interval, the assassin and his accomphces were themselves put to death by Dermod Fioun, the brother of his grandfather, aided by OTaolain, prince of the Desies. In the reign of Torlogh O'Brien several interesting events occurred in the history of the Church, amongst others the great Synod or National Council of Kells, at which Cardinal Paparo, Legate of Pope Eugenius III, presided, and distributed the palhums brought by him fi-om Rome to the four Archbishops of Armagh, Cashel, Dublin and Tuam — a concession promised by Innocent II. to St. Malachy, Bishop of Down, who, with a view to obtain this favor, had himself journeyed to Rome in the year 1139. St. Malachy again visited the Continent in the Pontificate of Eugenius III, and ched in the Abbey of Clairvaux, then presided over by Saint Bernard, who wrote his biography, and made those strictures on the state of the Irish Church, the severity of which is partly to be ascribed to the austerity of St. Bernard's character, partly to the want of exact information. Another event referred to this reign which is supposed to have led to the introduction of the English, an important epoch in the history of Ireland, at which we have arrived, was the alleged abduction of Dervoghal, the wife of O'Euarc, prince of Brefihy, by the cruel and sacrilegious tyrant MacMurrough, who was obliged to make ample satisfaction for the outrage. But the truth of this story, which has been so long held as an authentic piece of history, has of late years been seriously questioned ; and we have heard from the late Professor O'Curry, that he had in his possession some Irish manuscripts which invalidate the claims of this episode of the Irish Helen to be regarded as a portion of our authentic history. The date of the Synod of Kells is 1152. By it tithes were first introduced into Ireland, but they were not enforced until after the English invasion, A.D. 1172, when they were estabhshed by the Svnod of Cashel.2
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Teige O'Brien blinded in Thomond
Thomond · street · Dublin · 1153–1154
On his return into Thomond, Teige O'Brien was barbarously deprived of his sight by his brother Dermod Finn, and died the following year.
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The unfortunate Turlogh O^Brien having ineS'ectually attempted to procure shelter among the Danes of Limerick, fled to Ulster, where he was sheltered by the native chieftains, to whom he was able to make ample recompense for their hospitahty, having carried with him many jewels and valuables to the number of sixty, besides the drinlving horn of Brian Boru, and one hundred and twenty ounces of gold.^ In the arrangement which followed the defeat of Turlogh, Desmond fell to Dermod M'^Carthy, and Thomond to Teige O^Brien. The fortunes of Turlogh CConnor had scarcely obtained the ascendant over those of O^Brien when a new rival appeared in the person of Murtagh 0''Loughlin (MacLoughlin or O^Nedl), representative of the royal Hy-Niells of T}Tone, and the host and champion of the king of Munster, in Avhose favour he formed a league of the Ulster princes, and having conquered Turlogh O^Connor, replaced Tui-logh CBrien on his throne, or as the Four ]\Iasters say, to one-half of his kingdom. On the return of Teige O^Brien into Thomond he was barbarously deprived of his sight by his brother Dermod Finn, and died the next year, 1154. Turlogh O'Brien having made submission three years after his restoration, Roderick, his father, incurred the resentment of O'Neill, who, accompanied by Dermod MacMurrough and his troops, entered Desmond, and exacted the submission of the Macarthies. He next laid siege to Limerick, then chiefly inhabited by Danes, drove out Turlogh O'Brien, expelled the Dalcassians from Thomond, and divided Munster between Dermod Macarthy, whose father had been murdered, as before mentioned, at Cashel, and Connor, the son of Donald O'Brien, in whose person, as the senior representatives of Murtagh-More O'Brien, the
' Note to Four Masters, 1151.
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Tithes affray at Newcastle 1834
Newcastle · town · Limerick · 1834
An affray over tithes occurred at Newcastle in 1834, part of the broader agitation against the tithe system in Ireland. This event is noted alongside the parliamentary debate and act on tithes.
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Tithes introduced in Ireland (1152), 28; not enforced until English invasion in 1172, 28; bill as to [1816] address of Bishops, 437 ; affray at Newcastle [1834], 488 ; debate and act, 488.
Tokens (see Mint) of traders, seventeenth century, 200; of James II., 287.
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Treachery at Killaloe and O'Brien's Bridge opens path to Limerick
Killaloe · town · Clare · 1651
Ireton relied on treachery rather than arms: Fennel was compelled to abandon the pass of Killaloe and Kelly that of O'Brien's Bridge, acts which gave the Parliamentarian army easy passage to the very walls of Limerick.
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demanded that tlie matter should be referred to a court martial. This A\a3 done, and Colonel Tuthill, who commanded, and his captain were cashiered. At length the besieging army reached the gates of Limerick, and sat down before the walls ; but aware of the strength of the city, and satisfied that it was well nigh impregnable, Ireton did not trust to the chances of arms, but tried what could be done by further exercise of that treachery, which had compelled Fennel to abandon the pass of Ivillaloe, and Kelly that of O^Brien''s bridge, acts of treachery which gave an easy march to the Parliamentarians within the very shadow of the old walls of Limerick.
From an entry in Dr. Thomas Arthur^s diary, 23rd June, 1651,' it is apparent that the Parliamentarians in their attack on this occasion, made good their footing on the King^s Island ; he states that he professionally attended Dominick FitzDavid Eice, who nobly and strenuously defended the city on the occasion of this invasion of the island by the Parliamentarian army, Mr. Rice having received a severe wound, which demanded amputation of the lower part of the leg. He also saved the life of Doctor Credanus, who was struck by a shell, which lacerated his hands and tendons, and threatened gangrene. He gives the names of several who died of the pestUence which raged through the city, including in the list the names of many distinguished citizens.
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Turgesius, Bishop of Limerick, attends Synod of Kells
Limerick · city · Limerick · 1152
Amongst the bishops that assisted at the Synod of Kells was Turgesius, Bishop of Limerick. The suffragans appointed under the Archbishoprick of Cashel included Limerick, Killaloe, Inniscatha, Waterford, Lismore, Cork, Ross and Ardfert.
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' It Avas in the year 1161 Roderick O'Connor built a famous castle of " lime and stone at Tuam." 1 During ttie reign of Murtagh Mac Neil), Monarch of Ireland, there was convened a national Synod at Kennanus or Kells in the county of Meath ; the design of this Council was the reformation of discipline and manners, and to institute two new Archbishopricks in Ireland, viz. those cf Dublin and Tuam. The persons appointed by the Pope to preside in this Council were Giolla Criost O'Conaire, Bishop of Lismore, and Pope's Legate, and the Koman Cardinal Johannes Papiro (Paparo) ; the four palls or copes were then conferred on the four Archbishops. This Council, says Keating, is thus recorded in an old Book of Cluainadnach, viz. in the year from the Incarnation, being bissextile, 1157 (52 for 57 is a mist.ake) was celebrated in the spring, a noble Council at Caennanus, in which Synod presided Cardinal John, a Presbyter of the blessed St. Lawrence, and the Assembly consisted of twenty-two Bishops, five Bishops elect and so many Abbots and Priors belonging to the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and our apostolic father Eugenius. This Cardinal condemned, and by all proper methods extirpated simony and usury, and commanded tithes to be paid by apostolical authority. He delivered four copen (palls) to the four Archbishops of Ireland : — to the Archbishops of Dublin, of Tuam, of Cashel, and Armagh Primate over the rest ; and as soon as the Council was ended the said Cardinal passed the seas. Thus that old Book. Amongst the Bishops that assisted at this Council was Turgesius, Bishop of Limerick. The suffragans then appointed under the Archbishoprick of Cashel, were Limerick, Killaloe, Inniscatha (which, about the beginning of the twelfth century, was united to Limerick), Waterford, Lismore, Cloin, Cork, lioss and Ardfearth Sir James Ware says that this Synod ■was held in 1152. — Andq. Uiber., cap. 16.
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Turlogh O'Brien seeks shelter among Danes of Limerick
Limerick · city · Limerick · 1151
The unfortunate Turlogh O'Brien ineffectually attempted to procure shelter among the Danes of Limerick before fleeing to Ulster, carrying with him jewels, gold, and the drinking horn of Brian Boru.
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The unfortunate Turlogh O^Brien having ineS'ectually attempted to procure shelter among the Danes of Limerick, fled to Ulster, where he was sheltered by the native chieftains, to whom he was able to make ample recompense for their hospitahty, having carried with him many jewels and valuables to the number of sixty, besides the drinlving horn of Brian Boru, and one hundred and twenty ounces of gold.^ In the arrangement which followed the defeat of Turlogh, Desmond fell to Dermod M'^Carthy, and Thomond to Teige O^Brien. The fortunes of Turlogh CConnor had scarcely obtained the ascendant over those of O^Brien when a new rival appeared in the person of Murtagh 0''Loughlin (MacLoughlin or O^Nedl), representative of the royal Hy-Niells of T}Tone, and the host and champion of the king of Munster, in Avhose favour he formed a league of the Ulster princes, and having conquered Turlogh O^Connor, replaced Tui-logh CBrien on his throne, or as the Four ]\Iasters say, to one-half of his kingdom. On the return of Teige O^Brien into Thomond he was barbarously deprived of his sight by his brother Dermod Finn, and died the next year, 1154. Turlogh O'Brien having made submission three years after his restoration, Roderick, his father, incurred the resentment of O'Neill, who, accompanied by Dermod MacMurrough and his troops, entered Desmond, and exacted the submission of the Macarthies. He next laid siege to Limerick, then chiefly inhabited by Danes, drove out Turlogh O'Brien, expelled the Dalcassians from Thomond, and divided Munster between Dermod Macarthy, whose father had been murdered, as before mentioned, at Cashel, and Connor, the son of Donald O'Brien, in whose person, as the senior representatives of Murtagh-More O'Brien, the
' Note to Four Masters, 1151.
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Ulysses Burgh serves as Rector of Kilteely and Grean
Kilteely · town · Limerick · 1672
In 1672, Ulysses Burgh of Dromkeen was appointed Rector of Kilteely and of Grean, obtaining his first preferment in the district where his family's estates gave him considerable influence. He later obtained the Deanery of Emly in 1685.
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This Ulysses Burgh of Dromkeen, was, like his father, a Protestant clergj-man. He improved his interest by marrying a lady of illustrious descent, Marj' Kingsmill, daughter of William Kingsmill, M.P. for Mallow, and grand-daughter of Sir Warham St. Leger, by Ursula, daughter of George Lord Abergavenny, and grand-daughter of the ill-fated Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham. She was consequently very nearly related to the house of Plantagenet. Ulysses Burgh obtained his first preferment in the district where the estates of his family gave him considerable influence, and in 1672 we find him Rector of Kilteely and of Grean. In 1685 he obtained the Deanery of Emly, with a house and some preferment in the City of Cashel. But in three j'ears more Ireland became the scene of civil war. The Dean of Emly was obliged to fly — and we next find him in London. He accompanied William III. to Ireland. However, in 1692, Dean Burgh was named Bishop of Ardagh ; and as this see was a very poor see, and before and since has only been held with another Bishopric, the King promised Dr. IJurgh speedy promotion, and gave the Deanery of Emlj', which he was vacating, to his son-in-law. Dr. Thomas Smyth,* afterwards Bishop of Limerick. The new Bishop of Ardagh, however, never received the promised advancement, for he died in less than six months after obtaining the mitre. He was ancestor of that gallant soldier — Sir Ulysses Burgh, Lord Downes, G.C.B., general in the army, and aid-decamp to the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War ; and also of that eminent lawyer and statesman — Chief Baron Hussey Burgh ; whose grand-son now holds part of the Dromkeen estate.
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Vereker family mansion at Roxborough with Dutch-style gardens
Roxborough · townland · Limerick · 1702–1733
Connel Vereker purchased the estate of Roxborough near Limerick from the Hollow-Sword-Blade Company during Queen Anne's reign and erected a mansion in a park laid out with canals, terraces, and hedges in the stiff Dutch fashion, all long since removed. He served as High Sheriff for County Limerick in 1729 and died in 1733.
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* The family of Vereker first settled near Limerick in the reign of Queen Anne, when Connel Vereker of Douglas and Grange, in the County of Cork, (a gentleman paternally of Dutch descent, but whose mother was heir to a branch of the Celtic O'Connells), purchased the estate of Koxborough from the Ilollow-Sword-Blade Company, and erected a mansion, which still exists, in a park laid out with cnnals, terraces, and hedges, in tlie stiff Dutch fashion, all long since removed. He served as High Sheriff for the County of Limerick in 172'J, and died in 1733. Henry, hi*
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William appears before Limerick after the Boyne
Limerick · city · Limerick · 1690
Forty days after the Battle of the Boyne, William arrived before Limerick with apprehension, as Sarsfield and the majority of Irish officers had resolved to defend the city to the last, despite the departure of much of the French army.
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Forty days after the battle of the Boyne, William appeared before Limerick, not indeed without a trembling apprehension of the consequences — because, though he had been made aware of the existence of divided councils within, and though a large portion of the French army had already gone to Galway to take shipping for Prance, the advice of Sarsfield and the majority of the Irish officers had prevailed to defend the city to the last. Boisseleau had been left in command of twenty thousand Irish soldiers, not one half of whom had been armed.^ Three thousand five hundred horsemen were encamped, in addition, within five miles of Limerick, beyond the river Shannon, and kept up a free communication with the city.
Limerick, at this period, was not the Limerick of to-day. Within the time, no city in Ireland or England has undergone so extensive a change, and such wonderful improvement. The city was then confined within the walls of the Englishtown and the Irishtown, but both were distinct ; whilst forty or fifty years before, as we learn from Dr. Thomas Arthur's MSS., portions of the Irishtown were a suburb — the south suburb of the city. The chief houses of business, the dwelhngs of the gentry and nobihty, the Cathedral, the churches, the gaol, and the Courthouse, were in the Englishtown. It was here that the Lord of Brittas, the Earl of Thomond, Sec. &c., had their residences. The bright river washed the walls which ran in a hue with King John's Castle, where the Castle Barracks now are, and with the ground on which the City Gaol and the City and County Court House now stand, down by
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Williamite reconnaissance on Limerick
Limerick · city · Limerick
King William sent out a detachment of horse and foot that advanced within cannon-shot of Limerick, facing opposition from Irish regiments. William later approached within two miles of the city.
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At one in the morning of the eighth, King William sent out nine hundred horse and two hundred foot, detached out of the Eegiments of Oxon, Trelawney, Cuts, Lanier, Loyd, and Danes, under the command of Herr Bentiuck, Earl of Portland, and Brigadier Stewart, &c., who advanced within cannon-shot of the city, notwithstanding the opposition made by three regiments of the Irish foot, one of horse, and another of dragoons, who stood but one volley, though they had the cover of the hedges through which they fired. About four hours after, the detachment returned to the camp, and gave William an account of the position of the Irish. About seven o'clock, P.M., William himself proceeded with a fresh party of 200 select horse, being accompanied by Prince George, Major-General Ginkle, the Herr Overkirke, and other great officers, and approached within two miles of the city.^
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William marches to Caherconlish
Caherconlish · town · Limerick · 1690
On the 8th of August, William entered the county of Limerick and marched to Caherconlish, within a short distance of Dromkeen.
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On the 6th he reached Sallywood, having sent a party of horse the day before towards Limerick. In the army of William were several refugee Protestant clergymen, who accompanied him on his march, and among them was Ulysses Burgh, Dean of Emly. On the 8th of August William entered the county of Limerick, marching to Caherconlish, within a short distance of Dromkeen, the ancient patrimony and residence of the Burghs of Dromkeen.3 Burgh visited his house, which he found standing,
• The epitaph on Strafford's tomb shows what was thought of him : — " Here his wise and valiant dust
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William's tent and pillar standard at Singland
Singland · townland · Limerick · 1690
William's tent was situated in Singland, where the pillar standard on which he raised his flag could still be seen. Cannon from the city played throughout, with several shots coming over William's tent and falling near it.
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* This tent was situated in Singland, where the " pillar standard," on which William raised his flag, may yet be seen.
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William's trumpeter sent to summon Limerick
Limerick · city · Limerick · 1690
William ordered a trumpeter sent with a summons to the city at six or seven in the evening. Governor Boisseleau, the Duke of Berwick, and Colonel Sarsfield opposed capitulation, claiming 50,000 French had made a descent on England. Boisseleau sent back the answer that he would commend himself to the Prince of Orange by a vigorous defence.
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It was now resolved at a Council of war, at which William presided in person, to march towards the citj in order of battle, for they were aware that the country being very close, the Irish soldiers lined the hedges, and had determined to fight it out with undiminished valor. As they moved from the height of Park through the boggy ground towards the citadel, two great guns, which were mounted on the Abbey of the Canons Eegular of St. Augustin near Ball's Bridge,^ did much mischief to them. Between six and seven in the evening William ordered a trumpeter to be sent with a summons to the city, as a deserter had previously informed them, a great part of the garrison, with some of the officers, were for capitulating ; but Monsieur Boisseleau, the Governor, the Duke of Berwick, and Colonel Sarsfield, &c. resolutely opposed it, telling the garrison of the great divisions that were in England; upon which 50,000 French had made a descent they said; and the Prince of Orange would be obliged to draw off his army in a few days, to defend the kingdom of England, and thereupon prevailed upon them to stand to their arms. The trumpeter was sent back with this answer from Monsieur Boisseleau, the Governor, that as King James had entrusted him with the garrison, he would recommend himself to the Prince of Orange by a vigorous defence. About eight at night William went to his camp a short mile from the city, having been on horseback from four in the morning, giving the necessary orders, and exposing himself amidst dangers, in which the Prince of Denmark everywhere accompanied him. The cannon ceased not all the time to play from the city, several of the shot coming over WiUiam^'s tent and falling near it.^ The same evening a party of the Eoyal
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