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Each story keeps the passage it was read from. Open one to read the passage as the book has it, and, where the companion has written its own telling, that too.
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Teampul Caireach Derquin church ruins on Inishmaan
near Illaunane · townland · Galway
Among the church ruins listed on Inishmaan is Teampul Caireach Derquin, alongside Kill Canonagh.
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RuinsofChurch — Kill Canonagh Ruins of Church — Tempiil Caireach Derquin.
Fort Dun
Internet Archive southislesofaran00burkiala, Chapter 13
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Fort Dun Eochla on Inishmore
Oghil Fort · minor feature · Galway
Fort Dun Eochla is listed among the forts on Inishmore in the parish of Killeaney.
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Fort Dun Eochla.
Dubh Chathair or the Black Fort.
Internet Archive southislesofaran00burkiala, Chapter 13
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Connemara mountains and bogs with ancient tree remains
near Connemara · locality · Galway
The mountains and bogs of Connemara were found scattered with the roots and remains of trees, evidence of former forest cover. The author describes them as lying in bare desolation, contrasted with the forested mountains of Baden in Germany.
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" The mountains and bogs of Connemara, with the roots and remains of trees scattered everywhere
84 FORESTS IN BADEN
Internet Archive southislesofaran00burkiala, Chapter 38
As the companion tells it
As you pass through Connemara in Galway, the mountains and bogs lie bare and desolate. But scattered everywhere among them are the roots and remains of trees, evidence that forest once covered this ground. The author contrasted this emptiness with the wooded mountains of Baden in Germany.
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Character and temperament of the Aran islanders
near Aran Islands · island or archipelago · Galway
The inhabitants of the Aran Islands are described as simple, innocent, thoughtful and intelligent, credulous and regarded by some as superstitious in matters of faith. They are noted for honesty, a high sense of decency and propriety, and for being polite and respectful to strangers without servility.
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" They are simple and innocent, but also thoughtful and intelligent, credulous, and, in matters of faith, what persons of a different creed would call superstitious. Lying and drinking, the vices which Arthur Young considers as appertaining to the Irish character, form at least no part of it in Aran, for happily their common poverty holds out less temptation to the vices of lying and drinking.
" I do not mean to say they are rigidly temperate, or that instances of excess, followed by the usual Irish consequences of broken heads, do not occasionally occur — such could not be expected, when their convivial temperament and dangerous and laborious occupations are remembered. They never swear, and they have a high sense of decency and propriety, honour and justice. In appearance they are healthy, comely, and prepossessing; in their dress (with few exceptions) clean and comfortable ; in manner serious yet cheerful, and easily excited to gaiety ; frank and familiar in conversation, and to strangers polite and respectful, but at the same time free from servile adulation. They are communicative, but not too
Internet Archive southislesofaran00burkiala, Chapter 25
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James O'Brien, MP and judge for Limerick city
Limerick · city · Limerick · 1854–1858
James O'Brien, Esq., Q.C., served as Member of Parliament for the city of Limerick from 1854 to 1858, when he was elevated to a judgeship in the Queen's Bench. He was of the Ballynalacken O'Brien family, descended from Bryan Boroimhe.
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This Turlough, King of Thomond, was ancestor of Teige O'Brien, who married Annabella, daughter of Ulick McWilliam Burke, of Clanrickarde, known as " Ulick of the Wine," and by her had, with other sons, Turlough Don, King of Thomond in 1498, and Donai. Turlough Don was ancestor of the family of Inchiquin, of which we have spoken, and from Donal sprang Turlough O'Brien, who was married to a grandniece of Sir Toby Butler, better known as the jovial Sir Toby, the great luminary of the Connaught Circuit, Solicitor-General for Ireland under James II., and the celebrated lawyer who drafted that treaty which will be remembered by all generations as the broken Treaty of Limerick. Turlough was the grandfather of John O'Brien, of Ballynalacken, who died in 1855, and of James O'Brien, Esq., Q.C., who was Member of Parliament for the city of Limerick from 1854 to 1858, when he was raised to a judgeship in the Queen's Bench. It is too near our own time to speak of
Internet Archive southislesofaran00burkiala, Chapter 42
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Legal dispute over Aran royalties
near Aran Islands · island or archipelago · Galway · 1746
In 1746, the case of The Mayor of Galway v. Digby, concerning the royalties of the Aran Islands, caused great excitement in Galway during the summer assizes. The trial was presided over by Mr. Justice Caufield.
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A.D. 1746. The case of The Mayor of Galway v. Digby, conversant as it was with the royalties of the islands of Aran, caused great excitement in the town during the summer assizes of the year. The action was tried before Mr. Justice Caufield. Mr. Staunton, Mr. French, and another, appeared as counsel for the
Internet Archive southislesofaran00burkiala, Chapter 22
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O'Brien sept bound to lodge Galway commons on Aran
near Aran Islands · island or archipelago · Galway
Ancient witnesses declared that the O'Brien sept was bound to serve and attend the lords of the islands and to give lodging and entertainment to all the commons of Galway when they came to the islands of Aran. The mayor of Galway promised to aid O'Brien against anyone who would besiege or spoil the islands or castle of Aran.
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calling before him auncient old credibel witnesses, they declared upon their oaths that they never heard of their parents or saw the said sept have no more than two meals in the town, and it was thereupon ordered that said sept shall have no more than two meals, they being always bound to serve attend and wait upon us and in our service as their ancestors had been, and further that it was the O'Brien sept that was bound to give lodging and entertainment to all the commons of Galway, when they shall repair to the islands of Aran. And the said mayor did grant and promise O'Brien to be aiders, helpers, maintainers and assisters, of him against all persons that would lay siege to spoil the islands or castle of Aran or otherwise wrong the said Morchowe or his sept." *
A.D. 1579. Queen Elizabeth, by her charter to the town of Galway, having recited that Richard III., late King of England, out of his abundant grace and for the greater security and safeguard of the town of Galway, willed and ordained that neither MacWilliam Burke, Lord of Clanricarde, nor his heirs, should have any rule or power in the said town of Galway, therein to act, exact, receive, ordain, or dispose of anything without the special license, and by the assent and superintendence of the mayor, bailiffs, and commonalty of the said town of Galway; appointed the * Hardiman's History of Galway, p. 207.
Internet Archive southislesofaran00burkiala, Chapter 18
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O'Briens of Ballynalacken descended from Bryan Boroimhe
Ballynalacken · townland · Cork · 1854–1858
The O'Briens of Ballynalacken, like the Inchiquin branch, traced their lineage in unbroken succession to Bryan Boroimhe. John O'Brien of Ballynalacken died in 1855, and his brother James O'Brien, Q.C., served as Member of Parliament for the city of Limerick from 1854 to 1858 before being raised to the Queen's Bench.
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This Turlough, King of Thomond, was ancestor of Teige O'Brien, who married Annabella, daughter of Ulick McWilliam Burke, of Clanrickarde, known as " Ulick of the Wine," and by her had, with other sons, Turlough Don, King of Thomond in 1498, and Donai. Turlough Don was ancestor of the family of Inchiquin, of which we have spoken, and from Donal sprang Turlough O'Brien, who was married to a grandniece of Sir Toby Butler, better known as the jovial Sir Toby, the great luminary of the Connaught Circuit, Solicitor-General for Ireland under James II., and the celebrated lawyer who drafted that treaty which will be remembered by all generations as the broken Treaty of Limerick. Turlough was the grandfather of John O'Brien, of Ballynalacken, who died in 1855, and of James O'Brien, Esq., Q.C., who was Member of Parliament for the city of Limerick from 1854 to 1858, when he was raised to a judgeship in the Queen's Bench. It is too near our own time to speak of
Internet Archive southislesofaran00burkiala, Chapter 42
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