Richard Kirwan died at his house on Cavendish Row, Dublin, on 1 June 1812, in the 78th year of his age. He was born in Galway, and his scientific work brought honour to his native country, though his reputation stood higher abroad than at home. For many years before his death he served as president of the Royal Irish Academy and also of the Dublin Library Society. He was a fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, a member of the academies of Stockholm, Upsala, Berlin, Manchester, and Philadelphia, of the Mineralogical Society at Jena, a doctor of laws, and inspector general of his majesty's mines in Ireland. His manners were rather singular. He never ate in company, owing, as was supposed, to some disorder in his throat. He held curious beliefs, among them that mankind owed much of its knowledge, particularly astronomy, to the antediluvians, and that Greek was the first language spoken by man. His religious opinions were unsettled to the last, though it has been asserted that he died, in the words of the source,

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On 27 March 1972, somewhere around here on Parnell Street in Dublin, the Noyeks timber factory burned and 8 people died, seven women and one man. The central heating was out of order that morning, so mobile gas heaters had been hired. On the Monday afternoon, a can of highly flammable adhesive used for sticking cork flooring was knocked over beside one of the heaters, the fumes ignited, and fire exploded through the three-storey building. RTÉ One later made a programme about it for its Disasters series, using archive footage and interviews with eyewitnesses and relatives of the dead.

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Green Street Court-House in Dublin is where Joseph Brady stood trial for the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Burke. When Brady was called to the bar on the morning of the 10th, the trial was postponed for 24 hours. Dr. Webb Adams, assigned to act as counsel for Brady, declined to conduct the defence, saying he was not prepared. Another lawyer named Sullivan was then directed by the bench to assist him. Brady was placed in the dock again on the 11th, and the trial at Green Street Court-House began. Many jurors on the panel failed to appear, though it was known that absentees would be fined 100 pounds. Swearing in the jury took one hour, with counsel for the prisoner having the right to challenge 20 of the number. The case for the Crown was opened by a Mr. Porter. He told the packed jury that their duty was one of the most serious that could fall on citizens. Porter described the crime as one of unparalleled atrocity, a crime that had shocked the whole civilized world. He said the object of the conspiracy was to remove all whom they regarded as tyrants, probably with the ultimate purpose of forming a republic, of which the four original leaders, Mullett, McCaffrey, Curley, and Carey, would be the leading spirits. He referred to Sheridan's share as undertaking to provide arms when there should be a call for them. Brady and men of his class, he said, were among those always prepared for murder, but without doubt entirely indifferent as to the ultimate objects of that murder. Brady was at hand when the various ambushes were laid for Forster.

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The Gallows, a site at the eastern end of North King Street, known originally as Abbey Green. The first recorded use of that name is 1558. The site extends along Halston Street and Green Street, and an archaeological assessment in 1988 revealed skeletons in the ground across the site. The site appears to be a burial-ground. Adult male and female burials and infant burials were found, all laid east-west apart from two infant burials buried roughly north-south, just inside the site at the Green Street side. Excavations revealed 18 fully articulated skeletons, male and female adults and some children, and initial examination dates them to the late 17th or early 18th century. The city's gallows once stood on this site. Further excavations in 1999 uncovered about 430 articulated human skeletons and about 120 disarticulated remains, likely late in date and associated with executions at Newgate prison.

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This is Thomas Street in Dublin, where in 1798 Lord Edward Fitzgerald was captured after a violent struggle. Fitzgerald stabbed Mr. Swann with a dagger that went in at the side of his breast, ran along the ribs, and came out close to the bladebone behind. Mr. Ryan then rushed forward and fired a pistol at Lord Edward, but missed him. Lord Edward knew him, and crying out "Ryan, you villain!" he pulled the dagger, of which he had never let go, from Mr. Swann's body, struck Mr. Ryan at the pit of the stomach, and drawing it back, ripped his belly open down to the navel. Both Mr. Swann and Mr. Ryan had grasped Lord Edward round the body. Lord Edward, as yet unhurt, made for the door. Mr. Ryan let go his hold and fell to the floor with his bowels hanging out, but Mr. Swann still held on. There was a ladder in the lobby outside the door, leading to the loft, which opened to the roof. This had been prepared as a means of escape if needful, and Lord Edward was rushing toward it when, finding his progress impeded by Mr. Swann's weight so that he could not mount the ladder, he lifted his arm to strike Mr. Swann again with the dagger he still held. All of this passed in perhaps less than a minute. Meanwhile the military from the barracks had arrived, and Major Sirr, having completed his arrangements, entered the hall and began to ascend the stairs. Hearing the firing above him, he rushed up with a pistol in his hand, just as Lord Edward had lifted his arm to dispatch Mr. Swann. Major Sirr fired without hesitation and hit Lord Edward on the arm near the shoulder. The arm fell powerless, and Lord Edward became a prisoner.

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This is Vicar Street in Dublin. In 1803, Lord Kilwarden lay mortally wounded in a guard-bed, weltering in his gore. It was eight o'clock on a Sunday morning. Major Sirr threatened mass reprisals. Kilwarden's dying wish was that no man should suffer except by due process of law. Robert Emmet's execution followed. The gallows stood with a noose, in the words of the source, "black and greasy from the numbers it had launched into eternity."

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Bridgefoot Street, in Thomas Street, Dublin, was a place of mass execution in 1798. Rebels were beheaded and quartered at the corner of the street. The blood flowing from the block where the poor rebels were quartered clogged up the sewers, and dogs were seen licking it up. The Lady Lieutenant was driving past and got such a fright from the scene that she fainted in the carriage. When she arrived home, she wrote to her brother, who was high in the Government, begging him for God's sake to stop the wholesale massacre of the defenceless. Her appeal had the desired effect. An order came to stop all further executions. Enough blood had been shed. The rest of the prisoners were ordered to be transported, and vessels were sent over for that purpose. One of these was Gallagher, who had been taken back to the Provost Prison until a hangman could be found. He was placed on a transport ship, heavily ironed. The night before the ship sailed, his young wife was permitted to see him, and his manacles were taken off for the occasion. His wife had brought a coil of sash cord under her dress. Night came on before she left, and Gallagher held one end while she took the other ashore. The captain, as soon as he thought the wife was out of sight, ordered the prisoner to be put in irons again. When they went to him, he said, "Can you not wait one minute?" They paused, and he leaped overboard, towed by the rope safely ashore before the sailors had time to overtake him in a boat. He was put aboard a smuggling lugger that carried salt to France. Years afterwards, James Moore, his former master, met him in London. He told him he was a wealthy hotel-keeper in Bordeaux, and the handsome landlady was the person who pulled the cord with him aboard the transport ship.

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Founded in 1745 by Jonathan Swift, Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Saint Patrick's Hospital stands on a parcel of land acquired from the trustees of Dr Steevens's Hospital, intentionally located beside it. Swift declared his desire for an asylum to be built, and the hospital is marked as Swift's Hospital on early maps. The building is a detached U-plan seven-bay two-storey hospital over a basement, built about 1750. The formal façade was designed to resemble a Palladian villa, with a regular arrangement of windows and a central pedimented breakfront giving a strong sense of symmetry. Its architect, George Semple, based his design on London's Bethlem Asylum. The hospital accommodation was contained primarily in the symmetrical wings to the rear, where cells were laid out side by side to facilitate supervision of patients. The inscription on the front reads, "St Patrick's Hospital founded by Jonathan Swift D.D. Dean of Saint Patricks A.D. 1745." A carved coat of arms sits above the door. The entrance hall has a cantilevered granite staircase with nosed steps and a wrought-iron and timber balustrade. The wings to the front were designed by Thomas Cooley in the late eighteenth century. The long ranges to the rear were extended at the same time, first to designs by Thomas Cooley and subsequently by Davis Whitmore. The front and west range retain much of their original form and character.

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Saint James's Hospital stands on a site where construction began in 1703 as the Dublin city workhouse. By 1730 it was used primarily as a foundling hospital. The former master's house, built about 1740, and its adjoining former linen factory are the only surviving eighteenth-century buildings remaining on the campus. The house is five-bay three-storey, with a hipped slate roof, granite eaves course, and rubble calp limestone walls. The chimneystacks have been removed, leaving brown brick chimneybreasts to the north and south. Two-over-two timber sash windows serve the ground and second floors, with overlights to the first floor. The round-arched door opening has a carved granite Gibbsian surround with a lintel, flanked by segmental-headed sidelights with granite surrounds. The building is now in third level educational use. Most workhouses in Ireland post-date the establishment of the Poor Law Unions in 1838, so the survival of this earlier workhouse building is notable. It shares with later workhouses a simple symmetrical imposing form.

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Built in 1796 to a design by John Trail, Kilmainham Gaol opened as the county gaol for Dublin. It originally consisted of an administrative wing and entrance to the north, a spine block running north to south, and two blocks of cells set around courtyards. The entrance block, with its heavy rusticated and vermiculated stonework and a chained serpent, the mythical hydra, over the door, was designed to impress and intimidate. Though built as a prison for ordinary offenders, the gaol's history coincided with every major struggle for national independence from 1798 to the end of the Civil War, and the consequent imprisonment of its participants. It was closed by the Prison Board in 1910 but reopened in 1916. As the place of execution of the 1916 leaders, it is one of the key sites in the national story. The cell block to the east was replaced about 1860. Governor's apartments and a stone breakers' yard were added to the front about 1860 to form an entrance court. Roman Catholic and Protestant chapels were located on the first floor of the spine block, the Catholic chapel having an elliptical-headed chancel, tiered timber seating, a gallery, a carved timber communion rail, and a timber altar from 1882 on a stepped platform. After the release of Éamon De Valera, its last prisoner, the gaol was closed and fell into ruin. It was restored by a voluntary association in the 1960s and is now managed by the Office of Public Works as a museum.

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On the Inchicore Road, behind a small confectioner's shop, Curley's father and father-in-law, both old men, walked up and down bareheaded. When the flag ran up the staff, they gave vent to their grief in loud wails and threw themselves on their knees. After praying for some time with fervency, they began keening. Their piercing cries attracted the attention of the crowd, which rushed from all points to find the cause. The impression spread that someone had fallen over the bridge that spans the river at this point. The old men remained on their knees for an hour after the execution. Curley died firmly. He had retired to rest at twelve o'clock and rose that morning at six, looking calm and refreshed. At a quarter to seven, Canon Kennedy and the Rev. Mr. Findlater arrived and took him to the chapel, where he partook of the last sacraments. An hour was spent there. Mgr. Kennedy then told Curley to arise, and he at once obeyed. The procession formed in the same manner as at the execution of Brady. On their way through the corridor, Marwood joined the party, putting up his hand to his head as a salute. The priests took their places behind Curley, and the litany of the dying was recited, Curley repeating the responses in an audible, firm voice. He wore a crucifix around his neck. About ten paces from the scaffold, Marwood made a signal to halt and proceeded to pinion Curley, whispering something in his ear. Curley offered not the slightest resistance, and when the operation was over he stood erect and firm. Just before his arms were caught in the straps, he stretched forth his right hand and shook hands with Governor Gildea, saying, "Good-by, and thank you." The litany was then resumed, Curley repeating the responses with intense fervency. At the foot of the scaffold he took a last glance at those present, and then ascended the steps lightly.

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This is a burial ground, enclosed on an L-shaped plan, used exclusively for the burial of members of the Sisters of Mercy community since it opened in 1884. The older rectangular section dates from that year, and a further rectangular section was added to the north and opened in 1985. About three hundred identical limestone headstones stand within the walls, marking roughly four hundred and fifty burials, and giving the cemetery an ordered, uniform appearance. A carved limestone high cross on a stepped plinth stands at the centre of the early graveyard. A single-bay chapel sits at the east end, with a pitched slate roof, carved granite coping, and a cross finial. Its walls are snecked rock-faced rusticated limestone, with cut limestone stepped buttresses rising over a rusticated plinth. A carved granite cross marks the west gable. Pointed arch openings face east and west, with carved granite voussoirs and hood mouldings. The east opening held wrought-iron double-leaf gates, but these were blocked about 1990 with the construction of the Emmet Court apartment complex to the immediate east. A life-size Calvary group stands at the west end of the later graveyard. The cemetery forms part of a religious complex associated with Saint Vincent's Church and convent. The Sisters of Mercy had opened a convict rehabilitation centre for women at Goldenbridge in 1856, to the north-east, and established a church, convent, national school, and commercial laundry. The burial ground appears as a rectangular-plan 'Burial Ground' on the 1907 Ordnance Survey map and again on the fourth edition map around 1935. Two paths are shown on that later map, one from the former industrial schools to the north and east, entering through a carved granite gate opening, and another from the chapel. The cemetery remains in active use and continues to serve the Sisters of Mercy community.

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Islandbridge sits along the road where Carey fled after the assassination in 1882. He testified he made for the Island Bridge gate of Phoenix Park. It was 17 minutes past 7 when he was leaving the men, and the whole transaction was over by 20 past 7. He looked at his watch when he left the pathway. That night Curley came to his house about half-past 8. Carey was not there. He met Curley about 9 at the corner of Holies Street.

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As you pass through Inchicore, there's a tale from an old police magistrate's book. One night, two musicians from a regimental band climbed a wall into a garden here that was full of choice fruit. The police were tipped off quietly and caught the pair coming out at the very spot where they had got in. Both men were Germans. Their pockets were crammed full, and each had a handkerchief stuffed with as much as could be bundled in. But they had not taken a single peach, apricot, or plum. They disregarded the pears and the apples. The entire haul of their raid was onions. The magistrate committed them for a week, and the regimental authorities dismissed them from the service.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Twenty Years' Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate (1880), Frank Thorpe Porter, Project Gutenberg #55668, Chapter 23 · source

This is the demesne of Hollybrook, once called Ballyhely, the chief residence of the O'Hely family. The O'Helys possessed the Curlews, Ballinafad, and the district along the western shore of Lough Arrow. Though they were not called chiefs of Tirerrill, they held high rank in the territory. The Four Masters styled them princely brughaidhs. They were strong enough to fight the MacDermots in 1344 and the O'Rorkes in 1389. The family kept their standing into the 17th century. Dermot O'Hely of Castledargan served as a juror at an Exchequer inquisition in 1585, alongside the leading gentry of the county. Carbury O'Hely was proprietor of Comyn near Sligo in 1641, under a grant of James I. That land later passed to Anthony Ormsby under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation. A notable figure was Diivesa O'Hely, who died in 1328. She was called daughter of O'Hely and was the wife of Donnell O'Connor Sligo. She became the mother of the most distinguished chieftains that great family ever produced. The coadjutor bishop of Clonfert, John Healy, is a scion of the Muinter Healy of Ballyhely.

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Somewhere close to Drimnagh, a story goes that Colonel Nicholas Walker, a Cromwellian officer, stood masked on the scaffold at the execution of Charles I in 1649, and later retired to live here after the Restoration. Elrington Ball disproved the tale by examining the Hearth Money Rolls.

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Somewhere around here is Newlands, the former residence of Lord Kilwarden, Chief Justice of Ireland. He was murdered in 1803 during the insurrection led by Robert Emmet. That is what the record gives us. Newlands adjoined Belgard, and it was from here that Kilwarden set out on the day he met his death. The rising Emmet led was small and brief, but it reached Kilwarden in the streets of Dublin, and he did not survive it. The house at Newlands stood as his home before that end came.

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Close to Belgard, somewhere around here, stands the modern Castle of Belgard, rising on the site of its ancient predecessor on a wooded eminence. The old structure withstood 600 years of war and time. This place is inseparably tied to the Talbots of Belgard, who held the castle as far back as the 15th century and defended it against forays by the mountaineers. In the time of Charles the First and during the Commonwealth, John Talbot of Belgard sided with the Confederate Catholics. His estates were forfeited, and he followed the monarchy's adherents into exile, rendering distinguished service in the war in Flanders. On the Restoration, the estates were restored to the family, as the record says, "for reason known unto the King in an especial manner meriting his grace and favour." At the war of the Revolution, Colonel John Talbot of Belgard took up the cause of James II and fought at the battles of the Boyne and Aughrim. The estates would have been forfeited a second time, but Colonel Talbot was included in the Articles of the Treaty of Limerick. His age kept him from going abroad with his comrades in arms, so he retired to Belgard and passed his remaining years there.

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Somewhere around here, a powder mill blew up in April 1787. It belonged to Councillor Caldbeck and had been erected four years earlier, storing some 260 barrels of powder. Two men working in the mill were killed, and the blast shattered houses for miles. It was felt as far as Dublin city and County Kildare, even bringing down a stack of chimneys near Meetinghouse Yard on Usher's Quay. The cause was never known.

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As you pass through Saggart, this was a town that saw fire in 1580. Viscount Baltinglass and Feagh mac Hugh O'Byrne burned it that year. O'Byrne was a considerable source of annoyance to the English, and Sir G. Carew, writing around 1590, called him "the very gall of Ireland, and the flame from which all others take their lights." Carew wrote that even those who dwelt within sight of the smoke of Dublin were not subject to the laws, and that O'Byrne, "like one absolute within himself, with his den of thieves, ruleth all things in his own country at his own will." His force did not exceed 100 persons, though neighbours who feared him dared not complain. By 1598, the Description of Ireland mentions the Den of Tassagard and the Fount of Tassagard as men of name in this county.

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Rathcoole is a town the road passes through or near. In 1803, Felix Rourke was hanged here, from one of the rafters of a house that had recently burned. It was the house of the parish priest, Father James Harold. Rourke had been a Colonel of the Kildare insurgents. He fought at Clonard, Johnstown, and Hacketstown, then took Lord Cornwallis's amnesty and surrendered to Colonel Hunter. He was lodged in Naas Jail, and remained a prisoner there until 1800. Lord Edward had made him a present of his favourite mare, and he was a great favourite with his lordship. In 1803, he took part in Emmet's abortive rising. He was arrested by Alderman Blonham in the Liberty. He was tried in Dublin on the 6th of September 1803. The chief witness against him was a pedlar named Mahaffy, then in the Kildare Militia, who swore he had seen Rourke in Dirty Lane the night of the insurrection, armed with a blunderbuss, commanding as a Colonel of rebels. Rourke was sentenced to be executed outside his father's door. But that order was varied. On the 10th of September he was hanged from a rafter of the priest's burned house. Father James Harold himself had been arrested, tried by court-martial on the evidence of an informer named Walsh, and transported to Botany Bay.

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You are passing through Rathcoole, a town touched by the reckoning of 1798. On a June morning that year, a man named John Clinch sat in the Provost Prison awaiting execution and wrote a last letter to his father. He had been condemned on the word of a man he called Walsh, his persecutor, who he said had sworn to several falsehoods. The charges against him were that he swore Walsh to be true to the French, that he was a sergeant in the rebels, and that he attended a meeting of sergeants to elect a captain. Clinch declared all of it false. He told his father he had spoken the truth at his court-martial and would meet his fate with fortitude. He asked that a priest be brought or sent, saying he could then die happy. He begged his father to comfort his dear mother on the trying occasion, and sent his love to his sister Swords, Ann, Kitty, Fanny, Alicia, Michael, and Larrey, and to his brother-in-law Swords. He closed asking forgiveness for any omission, as he was preparing for what he called that awful moment.

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As you come through Rathcoole, you are near the road where a horrible thing happened in April 1642. The country was disturbed, and a number of English had taken refuge in Lord Castlehaven's house at Maddenstown, near the Curragh of Kildare. It was thought no longer safe for them there, so Colonel Mervyn Touchet was directed to convey them to Dublin. He attempted it without any escort. The party were driving in carts along the road near Rathcoole when, in Touchet's own words, the rebels fell upon them, barbarously killed some, and wounded others, himself and one more escaping by the goodness of their horses. A servant of Touchet's, governing the carts and being an Englishman, they took, and whilst they were preparing to hang him, Sir John Dougan's eldest son, Walter Dougan, came forth from his father's house with a party, and rescued him with the rest of those that were left alive, and brought them safe to Dublin. In a few days afterwards the Marquess of Ormonde sent out a party towards the place where this murder had been committed. Touchet went with them, and coming near, they met Sir Arthur Loftus, Governor of the Naas, with a party of horse and dragoons, having killed such of the Irish as they met. But the most considerable slaughter was in a great straight of furze, seated on a hill, where the people of several villages, taking the alarm, had sheltered themselves. Sir Arthur having invested the hill, set the furze on fire on all sides. The people, being in considerable number, were all burned or killed, men, women, and children. Touchet saw the bodies and furze still burning.

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Somewhere around here, in 999, the Battle of Glenmama was fought — the decisive clash of a brief Leinster revolt against Brian Boru, King of Munster. Brian and the High King of Ireland, Máel Sechnaill II, led the combined forces of Munster and Meath against the allied armies of Leinster and Dublin, commanded by King Máel Mórda of Leinster. The two armies met in a narrow valley, and Máel Mórda's forces were routed in at least three directions. They were pursued, and the main body was slaughtered as they tried to rally at fording points along the River Liffey. The main commanders were killed or captured. The battle led to Brian's occupation of Dublin and the submission of Máel Mórda and King Sigtrygg Silkbeard of Dublin to Brian Boru. The peace did not last, and it eventually led to the second Leinster revolt and the Battle of Clontarf in 1014.

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Built by Adam de Hereford, this is a motte and bailey at Castlewarden North in Kildare. It stands on a gentle west-facing slope, much of the ground around it altered by the Castlewarden Golf and Country Club. In 1977 it was described as a fairly level, D-shaped mound with a straight east side and traces of a low bank at the south-west. A broad fosse girdled the mound from south-east to west-north-east, with a high, wide outer bank beyond it, and a second, shallow fosse outside that. The bank and fosse were not noted along the straight east side, but a shallow fosse or leat ran north-east from the base of the mound to connect with a nearby stream. A gap in the enclosing bank at the west had no corresponding causeways across the inner and outer fosses. A lower, almost square area immediately to the east, defined by a low bank on a scarp, was later identified as a possible bailey. Today that bailey serves as the 10th Green, with the 11th Tee to the south. The motte is abutted to the north by the 13th Green and to the south by the 12th Green. The monument was associated with a series of low earthworks and enclosures, and was registered as a Historic Monument, a Medieval Earthwork Complex, on 19 July 1976.

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As you pass through Kill in Kildare, this was the parish of a poor lame old priest, turned of 90 years, around 1800. His parish income was £75, and he gave half of it to his curate. He would have needed a second assistant, were there means to support him, because he had three chapels to be served every Sunday in his parish, despite his infirmities. The Diocese of Kildare also had two religious houses at that time: one of Carmelites in the town of Kildare, and another of Dominicans at Newbridge, each consisting of two members.

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Coming up through Kill now, a town in Kildare with a story that reached all the way to Rome. A landholder here, known as William the Irishman, gave the patronage of a chapel subordinate to Kill's mother church to the Abbey of St Thomas. His brother Robert le Hyrais witnessed the deed, but after William's death Robert disputed the abbey's claim. Robert was in holy orders and had probably been William's own chaplain. The case went to Rome, where judges appointed by the Pope settled it in 1224 to 1225 with a compromise. Robert had to surrender all claims to the chapel, but the abbot and canons gave him the chapel and its belongings for his lifetime, subject to a small payment at Christmas. Robert was to serve the chapel and pay all episcopal dues. Kill's mother church kept the right to baptize all infants and bury all parishioners, and those attending the chapel still had to come to the mother church with their offerings on Easter, Pentecost, Christmas, and the feast of the mother church. The record calls William by many names — le Hyrais, Hireys, Hibernicus, Iberniensis — and the writer wonders whether he was truly Irish or only called so for adopting the native way of living.

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Up ahead is the town of Kill, in Kildare. A hospice once stood here, founded and endowed with twelve acres of land by Thomas of Hereford. It was very likely managed by the Hospitallers, set up to take in ordinary travellers passing through the area. The more distinguished guests would have been received in the preceptory buildings instead of the hospice. Kill lay near Kilteel and Tully, which sat right on the road to the south, along which there was incessant coming and going — messengers of the Lord Deputy, government officials, officers and soldiers, clergy of various ranks, and private persons travelling on business. These were practically the only places where such travellers could put up, so the accommodation must have been extensive. The castle of Kilteel itself consisted of a fortified gatehouse with two rooms above it, leading into a courtyard surrounded by domestic offices and dormitories. In the main building there were four large apartments, 26.8 feet by 20.6 feet, the lowest and top rooms vaulted and the two intermediate rooms floored, with a winding stone stair leading to them, all lighted by narrow slits.

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Somewhere around here, a scholar called Thomas Hibernicus was born. Thomas worked hard at the Sorbonne, where he no doubt wrote many of his works, then travelled into Italy and settled at the monastery of Aquila. Marian of Florence says he flourished there in 1270. He ended his life at Aquila and lies buried in the monastery. On his deathbed he bequeathed the books he had written, and many other manuscripts, to the College of Sorbonne.

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A burial site at Naas East, County Kildare, in an esker known as Gallow's Glen. Human remains were first uncovered in May 1972, during ground reduction works for the construction of a house. The discovery was initially thought to be animal bone, lying 1 metre below ground level. It was reported to the National Museum of Ireland and investigated by Joseph Raftery on 21st May 1972, who found a burial pit containing four inhumations. A later re-examination by the National Museum identified the buried. Skeleton 1 was a male aged 35 to 44. Skeleton 2 was a juvenile of 8 to 14 years. Skeleton 3 was an adolescent male of 14 to 17 years. Skeleton 4 was a young adult male. The burials were deposited head-to-toe, the upper bodies placed on top of the lower ones but facing opposite directions. This pattern strongly suggests all four were buried at the same time, in a single episode. On 27th May 2020, further archaeological testing at Dalemount on the Dublin Road in Naas uncovered more human bone, in clusters across the eastern area of the site, along with scattered individual fragments. The remains were disarticulated, confirmed by Dr. Clare Mullins, forensic archaeologist. They lay in a layer of soil spread across the eastern surface. No artefactual material was recovered with any of the remains. It remains unclear where the 2020 remains were originally interred, but they may relate to the 1972 discovery to the north.

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As you pass through Sallins, this is where the new County Kildare section of the Grand Canal was opened in 1786. The Duke of Leinster and the company gentlemen boarded the Milecent packet that morning to an excellent breakfast and music, then set off from Sallins with streamers flying and the discharge of several pieces. They went through the Company's bridge and the Leinster and Wolfe Locks, and the crowd seized the track line and drew the boat in triumph to the excavation of the third lock at Old Town. They passed through each lock in less than 3 minutes. The account of the day noted the curving line of the canal and the beauty of the adjacent country, ancient and modern buildings, all enhanced by the consideration of the utility of the work to the comfort and industry of the inhabitants of the large tract of country through which it was to pass. It filled every breast, the writer said, with a glow of satisfaction.

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Discovered in 1935 during gravel extraction in an esker at Ploopluck, this was a cemetery of pit burials. Four recorded burials held inhumations, three of them accompanied by bowl food vessels, one crouched, one unaccompanied. A fifth burial held four individuals with a bowl food vessel and an urn sherd, though it may not belong to the cemetery itself.

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Somewhere around here are the ruins of Jigginstown Castle, built in the late 1630s when Charles I sat on the throne. It was one of the largest buildings in Ireland at the time and the first constructed of red brick, said to have been imported from Holland, with plans for pavement and columns of Kilkenny marble. Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the most powerful figure in the country in that decade, built it. His intention was for the castle to be a place where the King could reside on royal visits. Strafford's downfall came quickly. He was executed for treason in 1641, and the house was never completed. It was largely destroyed during the civil strife of the 1640s. The ruins were still visible in the 1950s, according to Strafford's biographer Veronica Wedgwood, and the basement and ground floor still stand today.

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The River Liffey at Dublin has seen its share of extraordinary winters. In 1338 the river froze so hard that people walked out onto the ice without fear. Athletic sports were fearlessly exercised upon it, and fires were even kindled on the frozen surface for cooking. The abbot of St Mary's held at that time a limited right of fishery on the river, and customs of fish, as well as a liberty to use hake nets on the North Strand. The citizens were subsequently permitted to exercise in feats of tilting and archery over this frozen tract. Wagers of battle, single combats, were decided upon the ice under what the record calls the chivalrous sanction of the times. No part of the harbour was then embanked. The Liffey, the Tolka, and the Dodder, together with the currents of the tide, flowed uncontrolled and undirected over the whole intermediate ground. The vigilance of the superiors of St Mary's, and of those of Thomas Court and Kilmainham, and of the Archbishops of Dublin, in reference to St Sepulchre's, had precluded the extension of the city for centuries. In that winter of 1338 the Liffey held still long enough for fires, for tilting, and for single combat.

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This is St. Austin's Holy Well, on Baroda Stud Farm. The Ordnance Survey Letters record that it was named after St. Augustine. Jackson notes that while no pattern was associated with the well, tokens were left at it. By 1968, according to Clarke, the well had been dry for the previous 30 years and was surrounded by some half dozen trees. It was, in his words, 'restored to use and blessed' in 1968. The well does not appear on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1838 or the latest edition of 1939, though it is marked on the intervening 25-inch map as St. Austin's Holy Well.

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Somewhere around here, shortly before 1798, a blacksmith named Martin Murphy was driving his ass-cart from Athgarvan to Kildare across the Curragh, and gave a lift to a travelling tinker. The story goes that they heard horses galloping behind them, and turned to see a troop of men clothed from head to foot in armour, led by a knight on a white charger. The knight halted his troop, rode forward to where the two men had pulled up, and asked the blacksmith to inspect his charger's shoes. Murphy got down and examined each one. The shoes were of silver, and as thin as a cat's ear, but the nails were sound, and so he told the knight. The knight thanked him, rejoined his men, and galloped on. Murphy did not linger, and soon reached Kildare, where he told his adventure and was corroborated by the tinker. The armoured riders, it is said, are knights who lie in an enchanted sleep in a cave under the Rath of Mullaghmast, waking once in seven years to gallop round the Curragh, visit Kilkea Castle, and return.

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As the road brings you through Newbridge, there are standing stones in a meadow near the river bank, about 300 yards north-west of the town. Three large stones stand on end, edgewise to each other. The middle one is five feet broad, seven feet high, and two feet thick. The other two are much smaller. About sixty yards south-east from this group stands a fourth stone, less than the middle one but larger than the two side stones. These stones are said to have been erected in memory of a celebrated battle fought here by Brien Boruma, king of Munster, against the O'Mahonys of Carbery. That is the story told of them. The record gives the sizes and the arrangement but nothing more of the battle itself, who won or what year it was.

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The Curragh around you is open ground, and a legend says it came to Saint Brigid through a bargain with a king of Leinster. This king had horse's ears, which he kept hidden under long hair. He feared discovery, because a king had to be without personal blemish, and if his deformity were known he would lose his throne. He came quietly to Kildare and spoke with Brigid. She agreed to remove the deformity, on one condition: she would be granted as much land as her mantle would cover. The king willingly promised it, pleased at the thought of parting with so little territory. Brigid put him into a deep sleep, and when he woke he found his head furnished with a pair of human ears. A week later the promised ground was to be handed over. A large crowd assembled to witness Brigid receive the first acquisition of land for her cell. Before removing her mantle, she explained to the people the nature of the king's promise. Then she called seven of her nuns, handed them the mantle, and told them to spread it on the ground as far as it would stretch to the north, east, and south. To the amazement of the king and his people, the mantle enlarged until it covered the whole of the present Curragh, and more besides. To the east the nuns were stopped close to the River Liffey by a smith issuing from a forge with a red-hot iron in his hand. Northwards they met a red-haired woman and would proceed no further. To the south, a larger extent of the king's territory would have been covered had not the nuns seen a hare cross their path, so they put down the mantle and turned back. Thus Brigid acquired the Curragh from the miserly king.

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Marked 'Graves' on the 1838 OS map, this place sits some 80 metres west of the Gibbet Rath. The rath was traditionally the scene of a massacre of insurgents by Crown forces under General Duff in 1798, and these graves may be associated with that event.

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In the town of Kildare, around 1680, an informer named Geoghegan put his trooper escort through something they would not forget. He made the soldiers sit on horseback firing pistols for two and a half hours straight, a piper playing before them. The soldiers said they did not know upon what account this was done. Geoghegan was an ex-friar, and Shaftesbury's deputy. His guards believed him mad, and they had reason. After the pistols, he suddenly flew at one of the escort, swearing he would run the astonished soldier through the body. The soldiers resolved to take no notice of his eccentric commands, a policy that took real courage, especially when Geoghegan threatened them with the vengeance of King and Parliament, vowing to have them turned out of the army. After that outburst, he betook himself to bed, and beat an old man who happened to be sitting by the fireside. His brutality was not confined to his escort. The rough troopers had to step between Geoghegan and casual wayfarers or peasants who crossed his path. Growing bold with impunity, he did not limit himself to harrying Romanists. He apprehended and carried off one Justice of the Peace, a staunch and zealous Protestant. He fined another 30 pounds. A third was forced to purchase his freedom for thirty pieces of eight. In conversation, Geoghegan openly said that if the Lord-Lieutenant dared to obstruct him, he would have him over to England, and, maybe, make his head shake.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The life of James, first duke of Ormonde, 1610-1688; (vol. 2) (1912), Burghclere, Winifred Anne Henrietta Christina Herbert Gardner, Baroness, 1864-1933, Internet Archive lifeofjamesfirst02burg, Chapter 29 · source

Somewhere around here, on the 2nd of July 1798, the Reverend James Porter was executed at the gate of his own Meeting-house at Greyabbey. He was a minister of the Synod of Ulster, and the first name on a list of ministers who were executed, banished, imprisoned, or fled the kingdom for their part in the Rebellion of 1798. Porter had been born at Tamna Wood, near Ballindrait in County Donegal. The notes recording his story were taken down in 1845 from Andrew Stilly of Ballindrait, by the Reverend Classon Porter of Larne.

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About 1899, a burial site at Knockshough Glebe in Kildare gave up a La Tene glass bead from a gravel pit where human bones lay. Lord Walter Fitzgerald, writing in 1909, recorded that the bead was found at the top of a hill, 18 inches below the surface, in the same gravel pit where 12 skeletons had been found. Raftery described the bead among three La Tene glass beads now in the National Museum of Ireland's collections.

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Somewhere close to Grangebeg there's a kistraen, what people called a giant's grave. It's bounded by large stones and measures 21 feet by 10 inside. Nobody round here remembers how old it is or what it was for. Like a lot of these megalithic structures, it has a rude door at one end, two big stones set up as jambs with an opening about 2 feet wide. O'Donovan noted that an old map in the State Paper Office shows a castle or large house on this land, likely connected to a similar structure over in Grangemore. The remains of Grangebeg old church were greatly damaged by the late Captain King, who used the stone for fencing.

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A possible hall-keep and bawn at Lackagh More, on level pasture with a motte visible about 150 metres to the west and a church and graveyard about 35 metres to east-north-east. What remains is very poorly preserved: an L-shaped south corner formed by south-east and south-west walls, built of thin, coursed flags with a gentle base-batter. Traces of a north corner survive as a low, L-shaped mass of mortared masonry without facing-stones, 13.5 metres to north-east of the south corner and slightly off-line to the west. Immediately to its south, a short, narrow, rectangular, stone-built, subterranean passageway with a wicker-centered, pointed-arched vaulted roof appears to be a later feature. It is misidentified as a souterrain on the 1939 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Traces of a fosse enclosing a possible bawn to the north, noted in 1986, are no longer visible at ground level, though a low scarp may mark its line. The site may date to the late 13th or 14th century.

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This is a children's burial ground in Kill, Kildare. It sits on the south face of a low narrow pasture ridge running east to west. A shallow hollow, open towards the south, contains about half a dozen low, unworked field stones marking burials. Smaller stones cleared from fields have been thrown into the site. In 2002, archaeological testing in advance of the M7 Heath to Mayfield Motorway Scheme revealed the disarticulated remains of an infant, confirming this was a children's burial ground. Further geophysical survey and excavation in 2003 revealed the remains of some 70 child inhumations. The volume of burial activity had caused multiple truncations to the remains. Finds included shroud pins, coffin nails, and organic materials.

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This burial ground at Lughil sits on a low ridge, in tillage. It is an unenclosed rectangular area, 20 metres by 10, densely overgrown with hazel, boultry and thorn. A plain headstone noted in 1986 can no longer be seen, probably hidden beneath the dense growth.

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Somewhere around here, in 1600, the Earl of Ormond was secretly moved to Ballybrittas Castle. Sir Terence O'Dempsey placed his castle at the Earl's disposal for his better comfort. The Earl was a prisoner there, guarded by twenty of Owny mac Rory's most trusted men. His health had broken down, and it was necessary he be properly housed and cared for. His life was of more importance to Owny's schemes than his death would have been. He was taken there by night under a subterfuge to deceive the bonnaghts, who probably wished to convey the Earl to Ulster. To outwit them, Owny had one of his trusted men, who resembled the Earl in height and appearance, put on the Earl's night-gown and walk by the wood-side where the Earl was accustomed to take exercise, while Owny and his guard placed the Earl on horseback and quietly rode to the castle. On the 14th of May, Sir Geoffrey Fenton wrote to Sir Robert Cecil, Secretary of State, with the news. Rumours reached the Council in Dublin on the 27th of May that Owny was prepared to release the Earl upon pledges. He regained his freedom on the 12th of June, handing over hostages as guarantee for payment of 63,000, a very large sum for those times. Owny mac Rory had consented on receiving instructions from his Chief, the Earl of Tyrone. The sum was never paid, as two months later Owny mac Rory died, and those who had custody of the hostages included Redmond fitzJohn Keating of Ballymoyleran.

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Somewhere close to Morett, in 1690, Stephen and Elizabeth Fitzgerald held Moret Castle in Queen's County. The O'Cahils claimed the property, saying they had been excluded by Queen Elizabeth. They attacked but were driven off by the Fitzgeralds. The next morning Stephen went for a walk in his garden and was seized by a party of the O'Cahils and carried off. After a time it struck them they might exchange their prisoner for the castle. They approached the walls and produced Stephen, sending a flag of truce with a message to Elizabeth. They told her they had her husband in hold and she had her castle sure enough, and they would change if she pleased, rendering the squire and she rendering the keep, and if she would not, the squire would be throttled before her eyes in half an hour. Elizabeth replied without hesitation that she could get another husband but never another castle. Stephen was hanged. Elizabeth later made her son swear vengeance atop the castle.

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A levelled burial mound at Ballydavis, near Portlaoise in County Laois. In March 1953, human remains were discovered during bulldozing at a gravel pit that was being levelled and cleared under a land reclamation scheme. Workmen at the site said that six to eight skeletons had been found and removed. The National Museum of Ireland sent Ellen Prendergast to investigate. She found that the remains had been buried at various points on top of the gravel mound, under about 0.3 metres of soil, and darker patches visible in the section may show where the burials had originally been placed. No objects of any description were found with them. The burials appeared to have been extended, and a number of remains still in place were aligned west to east. There was no evidence of any stone protection around any of the burials. The remains were not kept by the museum but were handed over to the local parish priest, who was to arrange for reburial. The Office of Public Works files suggest these may have been famine burials. In 2004, archaeological testing was carried out in the vicinity of the burial by John Purcell. More recently, excavations in this same townland produced evidence for a prehistoric complex, including four ring-ditches, seven furnaces, and a number of pits and post-holes, showing that this ground held the dead long before the graves found in 1953.

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Close to Ballydavis, in 1477, the son of Owny O'More was slain. The Four Masters record the killing at Baile-Daithi, a name meaning the town of Dathi or David, which is this place now called Ballydavis. The men responsible were MacPierce Butler and Art O'Conor. There is a remarkable natural phenomenon in this locality called the Sluggera, a swallow-hole, a large opening in the earth into which a considerable stream rushes and is lost. Before the new Heath Chapel was built by Reverend N. O'Conor some 50 years before this record, the district chapel stood on the Ballydavis side of the Great Heath. That building still exists, converted into a National School. The burial ground adjoining it is still occasionally used.

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Close to Dysart, a castle once stood where something savage happened in 1646. Colonels Farrell and Roger McGuire brought their regiments to besiege it after Sir John Pigott refused to surrender. The pikemen carried lighted sheaves on the points of their pikes, hurling them into the castle windows, and set the door alight through the grate. The defenders, smoked and driven into corners, were slaughtered before any assailant even entered the door. The source says the outcries within were as if on doomsday. Pigott himself was killed, along with a wooden-legged minister. Bryen Oge O'Dwyne, called a rank Puritan and Pigott's brother-in-law, ran to the half-burnt door and begged Colonel Farrell for his life. Farrell promised it and defended him from his own men, who rushed in butchering everyone in their path, sparing only women and children, as the General had commanded under pain of death. Ten or eleven men were saved by disguising themselves as women. The house was very rich and was rifled in an instant by the common soldiers. The source records that Dysert was taken by force. A separate account tells of Harry Lalor of Dysart, who escaped the slaughter at Mullaghmast by noticing that none who entered the fort before him came back. He drew his sword, fought his way to the survivors, and fled to Dysart without seeing the Barrow.

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This is the place of a burial at Cappoley, near Portlaoise in County Laois. In November 1951 a human skull was found during quarrying at a sandpit in this townland. According to the Garda report, the skull fell from the top of the quarry and broke into small pieces. The site was reported to the Coroner and the Gardaí, who informed the National Museum of Ireland. A site investigation was undertaken by PJ Hartnett. He described the area as a small drumlin-type natural gravel mound, which up to recent years had been tree-covered. No trace of a pit was evident in the upper gravel, as the section had been cut back since the discovery. A local said the remains were found at a depth of 0.45 to 0.60 metres below the surface, and other bones were apparently also found in the sand pit some years before. The remains were not acquired by the Museum. The quarry was known as Norton's quarry and was at Sheffield house. The Battle of Plumes in 1599 was apparently fought in the vicinity.

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Somewhere around here in 1169, Dermot Mac Murrogh defeated the Ossorians after drawing them out onto open ground with a feigned retreat, where Norman cavalry could strike freely. What followed was grim. Two hundred severed heads of the enemy were laid out before him as a trophy. He picked them up one by one, studying each face, until he recognised the head of a personal foe. He held it up by the ears and hair and tore at the face with his teeth. After that, his army ravaged all of Ossory with fire and sword, until Mac Gilla Patrick was forced to sue for peace and submit to Dermot. Giraldus is the one who tells this story, and it is a horrible one. The defeat of the Ossorians came because they left their position chasing a retreat that was never real, and the open plain gave the cavalry every advantage. What happened here was not just a battle but a deliberate humiliation of a people who had resisted.

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In 1958, human bones were discovered at the burial ground at Killeany. The bones were found about 100 yards south of the castle in a low-lying area beside a river. No visible surface remains. According to the OPW report, these bones did not represent burials and probably came from the old burial ground at Killeany, partly destroyed when a road was built through it. The Grand Jury constructed a road through the graveyard before 1839. It is not marked on the 1841 or 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps.

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Somewhere around here is the ground called Gorthnaclea, the field of stakes. In 1014, after the battle of Clontarf, the remnant of Brian's army was marching home when their hereditary enemy swarmed down on them. The Ossory chief MacGiolla Phadruig attacked with such determination and in such numbers that he threatened to annihilate them. This treacherous and cowardly attack at such a time roused the indignation of the Dalcassians to such a pitch that even the wounded insisted on being allowed to share in the fight. At their urgent request, stakes from a neighbouring wood were fixed in the ground, on which they might support their weakened frames, keeping their right hand free to strike. Near each wounded man was posted a soldier to shield and succour him, and in this unexampled manner they presented an undaunted front to the foe. This extraordinary order of battle so impressed their enemies that they dared not risk an encounter with such enthusiastic valour, and retreated, leaving the way open for the remnant of Brian's army to proceed to their own country. Moore has immortalised it in his song "Remember the glories of Brian the Brave," but his version is not historically correct. The moss of the valley did not grow red with their blood. They could not conquer, for the reason that the enemy did not close in the fight. Yet the poet's version is not unreasonably extravagant. The heroic spirit, ready to conquer or die, was certainly displayed here, and sheds a parting gleam of glory on the victors of Clontarf.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clare and the Dalcassian clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway ... with an ancient and a modern map (1893), White, P. (Patrick), Internet Archive historyofclareda00whit, Chapter 43 · source

Grantstown Castle is a circular tower house on a gentle north-east facing slope of a ridge overlooking Grantstown Lake. It stands near the walled garden of Granstown House, later called Ballygran. The castle was originally owned by the Lords of Upper Ossory. It belonged to Gilbert Rawson in 1653, to Edmond Morris in 1691, and was granted to Richard and Edward Fitzpatrick in 1696 by William of Orange. About one third of the wall has collapsed between north-east and south-south-east, the fallen material forming a large cairn that almost obscures the ground floor. The tower is built from well-coursed limestone rubble, and much of the external render still survives. It has five storeys and an attic, with a vault over the third floor. The whole tower has a batter, more pronounced at the base. The entrance was at east-north-east, now almost obscured by rubble, but the doorway was pointed with an external rebate and a yett hole. Inside, a right turn through a pointed doorway leads into a small lobby that had a wooden roof. The ground floor chamber is lit by a round-headed window with a single gun-loop. From the lobby a mural stair rises, becoming a spiral from the first floor up, giving access to all upper floors. The second floor is a five-sided chamber with a large fireplace. The third floor is a loft under the barrel vault with no natural light. The fourth floor has a murder hole shaft and a twin-light window. The attic leads to a wall walk with a machicolation over the entrance. Carrigan described it as "one of the few round castle in our Diocese," 19 ft in diameter inside, the wall fully 11 ft thick all round, with five storeys and a beautiful spiral stairway.

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This is a tower house at Aghmacart. Part of the north wall and the north-east angle survive, standing two storeys high, built of roughly coursed limestone rubble. A north-to-south barrel vault covers the ground floor. On the first floor there is a large opening with a segmental arch, and remains of a corbel to the north which carried an attic floor. Evidence of a bawn to the north and south is defined by a low bank and an outer fosse. Numerous earthworks in the fields to the north, south, and west of the castle may date to the medieval period. The castle stands on wet, marshy land with a stream immediately to the south-east, and some of these earthworks may be associated with drainage of the field. A small circular earthwork, defined by a scarp, encloses the castle at a distance of about 10 metres from its walls. More extensive earthworks lie in the field to the west of the roadway, between the castle and the priory. A large rectangular platform, about 20 metres north to south and 25 metres east to west, defined by a scarp of 0.3 metres, sits 20 metres west of the castle and may relate to eighteenth or nineteenth century drainage. Carrigan described the broken castle as standing about 40 perches south of the churchyard, probably marking the position of the Grange, or farm house, belonging to the Priory. The castle was perfect, or nearly so, until 1801, when it fell. One of its walls still stood to a height of 20 feet. In one small field south of the castle stood the Priory mill, known as the Black Mill. Its modern successor was used as a fulling mill by the present proprietors until not many years ago.

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This is the tower house at Galesquarter, built by the MacGillapatricks around 1425. The Cromwellians damaged it in the mid 1600s and left it uninhabitable. It stands five storeys high, built of roughly coursed limestone, with a wall-walk. Most of the north portion is missing, and the doorway is gone. A mural stairwell sits in the north-east angle. The ground floor has a barrel vault running north to south, with evidence of a loft reached through an opening in the north wall. Mural passages run through the south wall on the first and second floors, with chambers in the south-east and south-west angles. Remains of wicker-centring survive in the south-east chambers. A large cut-limestone fireplace stands on the second floor of the east wall. The third and top floors were supported on wall thickness. There is an intramural wall-walk and a pitched gable on the south wall, with a chimney stack on the east. Carrigan refers to a sheela-na-gig on the east wall and a draw-well in the courtyard, but no trace of either is visible. A well-preserved seven-sided bawn wall survives, with gun loops at north and east, and an inner defensive wall with angle towers close to the tower house. This inner wall appears to have been destroyed at north and east.

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A rectangular four-storied tower house stands on a slight rise above the flood plain of the Rathlogan river. It belonged to the Butlers of Ormond in the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1839 it was recorded as in good preservation and inhabited. The building was much modified in the 18th and 19th centuries, with brick-vaulted chambers inserted at ground-floor level, the fourth floor rebuilt, and a crenelated parapet added. The external render dates from that later period and remains in excellent condition. A bow-fronted perron was built against the south face to reach a large first-floor doorway, cut through what had been an original window. The original entrance, a pointed doorway with a rebated external chamfer, survives at ground-floor level at the south end of the west wall, with a guardroom to the south and a spiral stair accessed from the north-west angle. The first-floor chamber was lit by round-headed single-light windows, with a smaller chamber to the west repeated at each level. The third floor has ogee-headed windows, some with expanded circular bases for a gun, and an original polished limestone fireplace. The fourth floor appears largely or entirely rebuilt, its crenellations mimicking those of an early 17th-century castle.

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This is the deserted medieval settlement of Grangefertagh. Carrigan in 1905 said the town of Fertagh stood in the field between Steepleview House and the churchyard. Earthworks linked to the settlement can be seen on aerial photographs to the north, south and west of the Augustinian abbey.

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Built on the flat flood plain of the River Goul at the base of a west-facing slope, Foulkscourt is a five-storey tower house of roughly coursed limestone rubble, with punch-dressed quoins and a base-batter. The castle and estate belonged to the Butlers of Ormond, "from at least 1560 to 1698, in which latter year they disposed of both, by a fee-farm grant, to a Scotchman named Mr. Hely, ancestor of the present proprietor." Carrigan recorded this in 1905. The tower house occupies the north portion of a bawn on a raised platform. The River Goul runs roughly north to south along the west edge of the bawn, then curves northeastward north of it. There are good views in all directions except to the east. A vault over the third floor has now collapsed. All other floors had wooden floors supported by corbels. There is some evidence of external harling. The parapet is largely gone, with the best survival on the south face and south-east angle. A string-course marks the base of the parapet, with drainage holes above. At the south-east angle the string-course rises, perhaps to the base of a platform above a cap house. A crude cruciform loop is in the east wall of this possible cap house. A high chimney stack rises from the parapet at the west end of the south wall. The tower house was entered through a pointed doorway with a double chamfer, north of centre in the east wall, now blocked up with masonry and concrete render. There is a yett-hole at the apex and another on the south side. The entrance lobby is protected by a murder-hole and a cross-loop in the wall opposite the doorway. A guardroom sits immediately to the north. A mural stairway to the south leads to a spiral stair rising in the south-east angle, giving access to all floors up to fourth-floor level.

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The road takes you near Urlingford, in County Kilkenny. In the 1760s and 1770s, violence in the Irish countryside was sometimes aimed at land and rents, sometimes at tithes. Protestant clergymen were at first seldom touched. The tithe-farmer drew most of the hatred. But there were exceptions. Some clergymen got savage threatening letters and fled their parishes in fear of the Whiteboys. A few had their houses attacked, their property damaged, and suffered atrocious personal outrages. Lord Luttrell told the Irish House of Commons what happened to one of his friends. The man was riding one morning near the town of Urlingford and found a pair of ears and a cheek nailed to a post. Soon after, he overtook a muffled figure riding on in great and evident pain. It proved to be the clergyman to whom those parts belonged. The panic that followed was blamed on political and religious causes. It was said French money was found in the pockets of arrested Whiteboys, that men looking like officers and speaking French had been seen in remote southern districts, and that Whiteboys had marched in large bodies with the discipline of regular soldiers.

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This is the castle ringwork at Fennor, on high ground at the north end of a ridge with commanding views, Fennor church 500 metres and the castle 625 metres to the south-south-east. The heavily overgrown enclosure has a raised circular platform defined by two fosses and banks with possible stone wall-footings, and was described in the 1870s by Healy as a 'beautiful rath near Fennor Church some 45 yards in diameter, surrounded with fosse, rampart and parapet.'

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Inchirourke is an unclassified castle in south Tipperary, standing on top of a low rise of ground in undulating pasture, with extensive bogland to the north and west and good views in all directions. Around 1300 this land was owned by John de Fresingfeld. In 1312 Edmond Butler secured the manor from de Fresingfeld. The 17th century Civil Survey contains no mention of a castle, suggesting it was already in ruins by that time. Only a portion of the ground floor survives, standing to a maximum height of 3 metres. What remains are short sections of the north wall, 0.95 metres thick, and the south wall, 1.60 metres thick and 7.7 metres long, with wall-footings running east for a further 1.5 metres. A barrel vault covers the ground floor, built of roughly coursed limestone rubble with clear evidence of wicker-centring on its underside. There were possibly two barrel-vaulted ground-floor chambers running east to west. Only the south chamber survives. Remains of the north vaulted chamber are visible as a springer from the north face of the dividing wall. A large gap in the centre of the south wall may be the remains of a broken-out window or doorway. A chamfered limestone window or door jamb lies within the castle. The original external south wall was built in two phases, now visible in the exposed west face. The physical remains are insufficient to identify whether this was an early medieval castle or a late medieval tower house.

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This is a deserted medieval settlement at Noard, in the parish of Twomileborris. It sits on a slight rise in gently undulating pastureland. Medieval records call this a borough, and in the thirteenth century it was held in demesne by the archbishop of Cashel. In 1416 a document names "the lordship of Burgageleyth." The earliest mention of "the Blakecastell of Burisse Lieghe" comes from 1516, and another record from 1614 calls it "the Blakecastle of Burries." The complex holds three sites: a tower house, a church site with a graveyard, and a possible ringwork.

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Coolcroo is a possible tower house, poorly preserved, standing on flat pasture with extensive views. The north half survives to first-floor level only, its walls built of roughly coursed limestone rubble with a prominent base-batter. A small tower projects from the north wall, surviving to second-floor level, and contains a garderobe whose outlet is visible at the base of that wall. The ground floor has a barrel-vaulted chamber running east to west, with a recess holding a slit ope and a gun loop in the north wall, and a secret chamber above the recess at mezzanine level. That secret chamber is reached from the first-floor room in the north tower. Mural stairs in the east wall lead to a lobby in the north-east angle, giving access to the first-floor chamber and the smaller chamber in the north tower, from which the garderobe and upper tower chambers are reached.

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A deserted medieval settlement at Galbooly. It sits on a west-facing slope in pastureland, with a church and graveyard immediately to the west. East of the church, a large range of low earthworks spreads across the field, visible from the air though they form no definite pattern. On the ground, a possible roadway and a possible house platform were found near the field's east boundary. Aerial photographs show further earthworks surrounding the church and graveyard.

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Moycarky tower house stands on the summit of a natural rise with good views in all directions. William Cantwell is listed as its proprietor in 1640, and the Civil Survey described it as "a bawne and castle in repaire." It is a four-storey tower house with an attic, built of roughly coursed limestone rubble with large well-cut quoins and a high, slim base-batter, with a two-storey turret running the length of the north wall. A pointed vault covers the first floor; all other floors were of timber. A well-preserved bawn with circular towers at the north-east and south-west angles surrounds the tower, the result of two phases of building, the first associated with the tower house in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, the second in the seventeenth century when the wall was partially rebuilt and the angle towers were added. A sheela-na-gig, now lost, was formerly set into the south wall of the tower house.

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This is a castle ringwork in the townland of Moycarky. It sits just off the crest of a gentle slope facing north-east. A large roughly D-shaped area is enclosed by a substantial bank and an external fosse. Inside that, a roughly square platform is defined by a scarp that has been levelled. The centre of the platform is slightly raised and may mark the foundations of a medieval building. The outer enclosure has been completely levelled at the north-east to make room for a concrete floor and a slatted shed for farmyard expansion. A modern gap breaks the south-east sector. North-west of the central platform, inside the outer enclosure, low linear mounds may represent former walls or boundaries, though they form no clear pattern. A sunken trackway runs immediately east of the site, extending east to west, and appears to be associated with it.

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Erry, in south Tipperary, is the site of an unclassified castle. It stood on flat grassland at the base of a west-facing hillslope, with a stream just over a hundred metres to the west and a church and graveyard fifty metres to the north. A watermill stood about 140 metres to the south-west. Earthworks of a possible deserted settlement surround the castle to the west, north and south. All that survives now are grass-covered wall-footings of a small rectangular tower, about 6.3 metres north to south and 7.4 metres east to west, sitting in the centre of a possible bawn. The dimensions and shape suggest these may be the remains of a tower house with its associated bawn, attached to the south end of the graveyard wall.

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Somewhere close to Ballysheehan, in November 1641, news arrived from Ulster that the Irish were up in arms and the planters fleeing to the sea ports. When word came that the Cavanaghs in Wexford and the O'Farrells in Longford had taken back their old homes, it stirred hearts across the two baronies of Ormond. Some made a raid on the cattle of William Kingsmill, who with his brother-in-law Sir William St. Leger had begun a little settlement here, north of Cashel. St. Leger pursued the raiders with two troops of horse, determined to create a salutary terror. Four labourers were hanged at Grange, eight at Galbertstown, six at Ballymurren. His lieutenant, Captain Peisley, burnt houses wholesale and shot several persons at Golden and Ardmayle. These proceedings lashed the country into fury and the people were with difficulty restrained.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clonmel (1907), Burke, William P., 1864-1941, Internet Archive historyclonmel00burkgoog, Chapter 6 · source

The pit-burial at Ballyknock was uncovered during archaeological excavation of the N8 Cashel bypass. A pit containing frequent inclusions of burnt bone and charcoal was found under a field boundary. A radiocarbon date of 3460±70 BP, calibrated to 2940 to 1610 BC, was obtained for the cremation.

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As you come through Gallows Hill, you are near where people sentenced to death in Clonmel were taken by car to be hanged. The last recorded execution on the hill was in 1785. Bodies were usually handed to relatives, and there are recorded cases where someone hanged came back to life. Edmund Grady was tried for rape at the spring assizes of 1776 and hanged on the 27th of April. His spine was not broken, and he revived during his wake. He was recaptured and sentenced again at the next spring assizes. On the 5th of May 1777 he was executed in the street facing the jail door. The sheriff told the hangman not to cut him down until ordered, and he hung for over an hour and five minutes. Some, like Father Sheehy, were hanged in the street in front of the gaol rather than brought out here.

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As you come through Cashel, the cathedral up on the rock is hard to miss. In 1495 the Earl of Kildare set fire to it, meaning to destroy Archbishop Creagh. He readily confessed his guilt and added, in words from the source, "that he never would have done it, but that he thought the Archbishop was within at the time." The candour of that confession convinced King Henry he could not be capable of the intrigues he was charged with. When the Bishop of Meath finished the last article of impeachment with the words, "you see all Ireland cannot rule this gentleman," the king replied, "Then he shall rule all Ireland," and appointed him lord-lieutenant. The cathedral is built in the pointed style, and its stone roof has helped preserve the carvings on the arches and capitals. Divine service continued inside until Archbishop Price removed the roof from the choir in 1752 and turned the whole into a ruin. The nave and choir run about 200 feet from west to east, with the steeple at the centre of the cross. The round tower, like most others, has no written history. In 1647 Lord Inchiquin stormed the rock and put to death all the clergy he could find.

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Somewhere about Rock of Cashel, in 1645, Lord Inchiquin overran Munster and came to Cashel. The people retired to the Rock, where the cathedral church stands, and thought to defend it. But it was carried by storm. The soldiers gave no quarter, so that within and without the church there was a great massacre. Among others, more than twenty priests and religious men were killed. After the enemy was subdued, the conquerors set about dividing the spoil. There was no small consultation how to divide every one's portion, until at a general council of war Lord Broghill proposed that the kingdom might be surveyed, and the number of acres taken with the quality of them. Then all the soldiers were to bring in their demands of arrears, and so to give every man by lot as many acres of ground as might answer the value of their arrears. The kingdom being surveyed, the highest land was estimated at four shillings the acre, and some only at a penny. The soldiers drew lots for their several portions, and the whole forfeited lands were divided among the conquerors and adventurers for money. At the same time it was agreed that the Irish should be transplanted into Connaught, which so shattered them that they never made any head afterwards.

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Somewhere close to Rockwell, William Roe was shot on the 2nd of October, 1847, by a tenant he had evicted the previous month. That single act was part of a larger pattern in Tipperary. The book describes how the decree too often went out for vengeance upon the landlord or the agent, and upon the man who succeeded to the farm. A large proportion of the neighbourhood would look with indifference on the most atrocious acts of violence, and by screening the criminal, abet and encourage the crime. Murders were perpetrated at noon-day on a public highway, and whilst the assassin coolly retired, the people looked on and evinced no horror at the bloody deed. Charles O'Keeffe, agent for Valentine Maher of Turtulla, evicted 180 persons. Shortly after, on October 24th, 1838, he was shot dead in the street at Thurles, and the murderer could never be discovered. James Scully of Kilfeacle evicted 30 tenants in the winter of 1841. The following April 17th he was fired at and wounded in the jaw, but recovering, he was murdered on the 26th of November subsequent. On the 5th of April, 1838, Austin Cooper and Francis Wayland, 2 land agents near Tipperary, were proceeding to the fair of that town, accompanied by Cooper's brother, all 3 armed. At Ballinaclough they were fired at by 3 men. The fire was returned, and Samuel Cooper alone escaped with his life. Philip Maguire of Toorin was shot at his own door in November, 1835, by a tenant whose crops he had distrained. Throughout this awful time there were few landlords or agents who had not been under fire. Avery Jordan, a Tipperary land agent, told the Devon Commission, "There were a few shots fired into my own house very lately, but there was nobody shot; we do not mind these little trifles."

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Somewhere around here, Mary McCarthy, known as Moll Carthy, lived at Marlhill, near New Inn, County Tipperary. She was a mother and smallholder. She was murdered in November 1940. Henry Gleeson from Holycross was convicted of her murder and executed in April 1941. He was granted a posthumous pardon in 2015.

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Somewhere around here is the moat of Knockgraffon, the scene of several of Croker's fairy legends. It is a treasury of legendary lore. Aged women in the neighbourhood kept alive a store of traditions about the ancient Irish kings, and about the fairies who still guard their hereditary dominions. Those fairies are expected, at some future period, to lay claim to those dominions and again govern, in the words of the source, "in the flesh." The wild fictions of Dr. Keating are rife among the peasantry here. Keating was a native of the neighbourhood and long a resident in it. In many instances, the incidents and events the doctor dignified by the term history were found preserved by the memories of old and young alike in this remarkable locality. What one writer set down as fact, the people here carried as living memory.

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Standing on a south-facing slope below the crest of a limestone ridge, Cloghabreedy is a tower house in south Tipperary. The remains of a bawn wall lie to the south-east, with low-lying wet ground at the base of the slope to the south. The Ormond Deeds of 1561 mention Theobald Butler in relation to Cloghabreedy. According to the Civil Survey, the land was owned in 1640 by "John Butler of Cloghbrydy Irish Papist," and on the land stood "a Bawne a thatcht house with severall Cottages." The survey makes no reference to the tower house within the bawn. By the 1840s, the Ordnance Survey Letters described the remains as the north wall, "it is forty feet high and five feet thick." Only a length of that north wall survives, standing up to third-floor level, with an internal partition wall toward the east end. It is built of limestone rubble, randomly coursed, with no base-batter. At ground-floor level, no features are visible except the remains of a largely collapsed arched recess at the east end. A substantial wall slot sits over that recess. The first floor was vaulted. A single-light window is contained within the springing vault on the north wall. The second floor appears to have been entered through a doorway in the west wall, shown by a partial door recess at the west end of the north wall. A similarly placed recess at third-floor level suggests a spiral stair occupied the north-west angle. A flat-headed single-light window survives at second-floor level within a segmental-headed embrasure. At third-floor level, partial remains of a window embrasure survive at the east end.

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In 1988, a burial ground at Caherabbey Lower came to light after human bones were reported in a section of the Roadstone quarry near Cahir. It sat on a high gravel ridge overlooking the River Suir. The burials consisted of 30 individuals, subsequently excavated and examined, occupying an area of approximately 10 square metres. They included men, women and children, buried as extended inhumations in simple shallow pits, aligned east to west with their heads to the west. No grave-markers were noted, nor any evidence of grave-goods, coffins or other coverings. A roughly circular field boundary indicated on the 1906 edition 6-inch map encloses the highest part of the ridge, which may have been a stone-walled enclosure around the summit. Only the eastern half of that boundary appears on the 1840 edition map. Traces of a mortared stone wall were found during the excavation. Radiocarbon dates from the human remains give a range of 1200 plus or minus 35 years before present, calibrating to 693 to 941 AD, and 1080 plus or minus 35 years before present, calibrating to 893 to 1019 AD. The ridge itself has now been completely removed by quarrying.

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Somewhere about Cahir Castle stands a fortress on an island site, its shape following the broken ground it sits on. At its heart is a great square keep, ringed by extensive outworks that form an outer and an inner ballium, with a small courtyard between the two. Seven towers flank these outworks: four circular, three square and larger in size. Even in the nineteenth century its general character closely matched what it presented in 1599, when it was taken by the Earl of Essex. That appearance is preserved in the Pacata Hibernia, which pictures the castle as it stood at the time of its capture. The castle had recently been put into thorough repair, but so judiciously that its picturesque effect was in no degree injured. A short distance up the river from the castle are the ruins of an ancient monastery, said to have been built in the reign of King John for canons regular of the order of Saint Augustine. The town of Cahir itself had a cheerful aspect, its prosperity drawn principally from extensive flour mills in the immediate neighbourhood, actively and continually at work, and conducted almost exclusively by the people called Quakers. In several parts of the south of Ireland such towns were known as Quaker Towns, remarkable for neatness, cleanliness, industry, and sobriety.

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A possible portal tomb at Lissava stands on the break of a south-facing slope of Bain, at the eastern end of the Galty mountains, in forestry. Deciduous scrub and ferns are reclaiming the slope after previous vegetation was burnt. The view is extensive to the east and south but blocked upslope to the north and by trees to the west. The tomb consists of a large sandstone conglomerate slab partially resting on a triangular-shaped side-stone to the south-west, sloping down to the north-east where it rests on the ground. It is aligned north-west to south-east, presuming that the triangular stone is a side-stone. A distinct linear depression runs north-east to south-west across the centre of the capstone. There is a lot of stone rubble in the chamber. A rectangular block of quartz lies loose immediately north-east of the tomb, and a scatter of rubble extends about 3 metres south-west of it. There is also a mound of rubble 1.5 metres to the north.

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Somewhere close to Kilcoran, Edmund Sheehy made a dying declaration in 1766 before his execution. Condemned for murder and treason tied to the Whiteboy disturbances, he denied being at the meeting here, the murder of John Bridge, and the battle of Newmarket. He said clergy and officials pressured him to falsely implicate other gentlemen in exchange for a pardon.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clonmel (1907), Burke, William P., 1864-1941, Internet Archive historyclonmel00burkgoog, Chapter 40 · source

This is the site of Rehill Castle, in the townland of Rehill in Shanrahan parish. It stood on top of the south-west edge of a ridge running north to south, sloping gently to the south-west, in pasture. The Glennyrea River lies about 60 metres downslope to the south-west. The Civil Survey describes Redhill castle as "a castle and some thatcht houses with a Bawne about them" and records that the castle, bawn, and lands of Rehill, being a manor, had appendant a Court-leet and a Court-Baron. It notes that "the castle of Reighhill [was] lately repayred." On the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map, a roughly square dashed area marks the site, possibly indicating the bawn. By the second edition map, only a short length of hachuring is shown. There is no visible trace of the castle above ground.

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Somewhere about Mitchelstown Caves, in the county of Tipperary, about six miles from the town, are the far-famed Mitchelstown caves. One of these caves is called the Cave of the Grey Sheep. A tradition holds that the last Earl of Desmond lay concealed in a cave here, hiding from his pursuers. He was found by his cousin, the White Knight, who delivered him into the hands of his old enemy, Sir George Carew. Carew had him sent to the Tower of London, where he died and lies buried. The writer says that if we believe in curses, we should say a curse rests on the Fitzgibbons or Kingstons for this black treachery. There are two routes from Mitchelstown to Mallow. One goes through Kildorrery and Doneraile. Kildorrery stands on the crown of a high hill, very difficult of ascent. Our forefathers went right at it in a straight line, having no idea of ascending a hill in curves. The other route follows the valley of the Blackwater, a far pleasanter way to approach the town of Mallow.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the county and city of Cork (vol. 2) (1861), Gibson, Charles Bernard, Internet Archive historyofcountyc02gibsiala, Chapter 242 · source

A burial ground, Skeheenaranky. It sits in rolling pasture sloping to the south-east, a D-shaped enclosure with one straight side. The landowner knows it as the Lios. Power in 1908 recorded that this field was called the field of the early church, though no trace of that church remains above ground.

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Ó Danachair recorded this holy well in 1955, calling it Our Lady's Well. A strong flowing spring, not marked on maps. Rounds were made on Saturdays and on 15th August. The water cured sore eyes and other ailments, but there were no devotions by then. The well moved when profaned. Its water would not boil. A fish lived in the well until a priest took it away, for reasons unknown.

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This is a burial ground in the townland of Castlequarter, in the Coshlea barony of Limerick. It stands on the crest of a hill, on a slight east-south-east facing slope, in pasture. The 1840 Ordnance Survey map marked it as a burial ground and showed an oval-shaped earthwork. Only a short section of the south-east part of that enclosure survives above ground. It consists of two earthen banks with a fosse between them, cut through at the north-east by a road running north-west to south-east. The inner bank is about 3 metres wide at the top. The outer bank is narrower, about 1.7 metres, and has a sharper profile, which may suggest it was a later addition. A cropmark of a circular enclosure is visible on aerial imagery.

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The workhouse at Kilshanny, indicated on the 1905 map as 'Union Workhouse', opened in 1851 within a walled enclosure of 7.5 acres. The complex included a hospital, chapel, and mortuary in a typical workhouse layout, with a separate fever hospital in the south-east corner. A graveyard lay outside the north wall. The workhouse closed in 1916, was burnt in the 1920s, and demolished in the 1940s. The high perimeter wall of random-rubble limestone still encloses the site, which is now pasture. Foundations of walls are discernible in places, and parch marks outline where buildings stood. An arched cut-limestone entrance with a pediment survives in the south wall, flanked by smaller arched doorways, with a blank shield-shaped plaque in the pediment. A circular iron horse-driven drive-shaft of a water pump survives in the north-west quadrant.

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A holy well at Brigown, in pasture west of Brigown church and graveyard. The well is an unenclosed spring beside a bush. The 1842 and 1905 maps do not mark it. There is no evidence of holy use. Local tradition says a woman washed her clothes in the well one evening. The next morning the monks found it had gone dry, but a new well had appeared about 880 metres to the north-east in Ballynamona.

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This is the site of a former military barracks, built about 1800. What remains are limestone boundary walls, built in random rubble with cut tooled limestone quoins. The walls have central angled projections on three sides, each fitted with gun loops. A blocked entrance on the west elevation is flanked by dressed stone piers. There is also a handball alley to the north-west, three-sided, with a rendered back wall and sloping side walls of coursed rubble limestone, possibly part of the original barracks buildings. A single-storey building to the north-east corner may incorporate fabric from earlier structures. Lewis described the barracks as “a neat range of buildings adapted for three officers and seventy-two non-commissioned officers and privates.” The buildings were burned in 1922 and demolished in the 1940s. The perimeter walls still stand, with their bastions and other features, a reminder of the town's military heritage.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20818110 · source

As you travel through the barony of Condons and Clangibbon in Cork, this is the country where a notable capture took place. Towards the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, in a part of Clangibbon called the wood of Sleve-grot, the White Knight took the Sugan Earl of Desmond prisoner. For this capture, Queen Elizabeth gave the White Knight a thousand pounds. The Sugan Earl was the claimant to the Desmond title, and his seizure in this wooded country marked the end of his challenge. The reward of a thousand pounds shows what that capture meant to the crown at the close of Elizabeth's reign, a period running from 1598 to 1603. Waterpark, which is now the estate of Sir Henry Cavendish, baronet, stands in this same part of Clangibbon, connecting the present landscape to the ground where the White Knight carried out his capture.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The ancient and present state of the county and city of Cork. : Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical, and topographical description thereof. (1893), Smith, Charles, 1715?-1762, Internet Archive ancientandprese00caulgoog, Chapter 181 · source

You're passing through the barony of Condons and Clangibbon. This tract was once called Ive-le-bane, meaning the white or fair territory, or more properly, the White Knight's country. It takes its present name from Gilbert, alias Gibbon, commonly called the White Knight. In Camden's time the lord here was John Fitz-Gerald, called John Oge Fitz-John Fitz-Gibbon. Camden says he had the name of the White Knight from the grey hair of his head. The land once belonged to the O'Kiefs of Fermoy, then passed to the Condons, or Cauntons, an English family. It is now mostly the estate of the Lord Kingston. Mitchelstown is the principal place in this barony.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The ancient and present state of the county and city of Cork. : Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical, and topographical description thereof. (1893), Smith, Charles, 1715?-1762, Internet Archive ancientandprese00caulgoog, Chapter 179 · source

Somewhere around here is Kilcrumper churchyard, where Davy Roche had his strange adventure. He was walking home from the fair of Kilcumber, a little merry after the day, when he fell in with a funeral procession. What struck him odd was that he knew not a soul in the crowd but one man, and he was sure that man had been dead for years. He went along with the burial and stayed to see the corpse laid in the ground. As soon as the grave was covered, a piper who had come with the crowd started up, and the whole company fell to dancing as if it were a wedding. Davy wanted to join in, for he had a good foot on him then, but held back because they were all strangers. The one man he knew came up and said, "Davy, take out a partner and show what you can do, but take care and don't offer to kiss her." Davy said he wouldn't, even if her lips were made of honey. He bowed to the prettiest girl in the ring and they danced a jig that won the admiration of everyone there. But when the jig was over, Davy, warm with the dancing and the drink in him, forgot himself and kissed his partner. The moment the kiss left his lips he was alone among the tombstones, with not a creature near him. He said the stones seemed to be dancing too, but that may have been the drink and the wonder of what happened. He got home near morning, and no one could get a word out of him until he woke from a dead sleep about twelve o'clock the next day.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888), ed. W. B. Yeats, Project Gutenberg #33887, Chapter 40 · source

This is a tower house at Moorepark in Cork, standing on a limestone outcrop overlooking the Funshion River to the south-west. It is a rectangular 5-storey tower, about 13 metres north to south and 10 metres east to west, with rounded corners and battered walls. Fragments of a bawn wall survive along the cliff edge to the west, and an aerial photograph shows the outline of the full bawn, possibly 80 metres by 80 metres, with circular corner towers. A walled passageway runs from the bawn down the cliff face to a partially collapsed circular tower at the base, its ground floor pierced by 5 gun loops and the first floor by 1. The tower is entered through a pointed-arch doorway at the south end of the west wall. Inside, a lobby leads to a straight mural staircase and to the main ground-floor chamber. The staircase rises through the building, turning to a spiral at the 4th-floor level and continuing up through mural chambers to a small central turret at the very top, 8 floors up. The main chambers on each floor are vaulted, some with wicker-centred vaults, others with plank-centred segmental vaults, and lit by deep window embrasures with ogee-headed lights. There are mural passages, a murder hole in the floor of one 1st-floor chamber, and a garderobe shaft that serves as a chimney for a late-inserted fireplace. Ceiling joists on the ground floor date to 19th-century renovations. This was a castle of the Condons. It was granted to Fleetwood in the late 16th century as part of the Munster Plantation. The Condons temporarily repossessed it during the wars of the mid-17th century but lost it again. It finally passed to the Moores, later Earls of Mount-Cashel, in 1781. Mount-Cashel repaired the tower in the late 19th century.

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This is Patrick Street in Cork, where a torchlit crowd once packed the old street to hear Charles Stuart Parnell speak. Before eight o'clock struck, the street was full. Ten bands played, a score of tar-barrels stood, and a thousand torches lit the night. The crowd swayed round the Examiner Office. Tired torch-bearers staggered. Bandsmen dug their way through into Falkener's Lane. By Marlboro' Street corner, fifty or sixty people were crushed, and a mass-moan went up. Whenever a torch dripped pitch on a neighbour's hand, another cry rose — pain, terror, and ribald delight mixed. Then all eyes burned to the window over the bookshop. An alderman thrust out his head and shoulders. The crowd knew a greater figure was coming. There he was. They roared, faces torch-lit, the whole mass a bubbling cauldron underneath. Parnell looked down, waiting. He was tall, bearded, deadly-pale, distinguished-looking. He was a calculator, his phrases cut well beforehand. No disorder or ecstasy came over him from the heart-surge below. He was elected head of the poll the next day, despite the Whigs, the Bishop, and the Cork Examiner.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The glamour of Cork (1919), Kelleher, D. L. (Daniel Lawrence), Internet Archive glamourofcork00kelliala, Chapter 3 · source

Close to Fermoy stood a monastery that was the head of the great religious institutions founded by St. Finnchua in the beginning of the seventh century. This saint received the waters of baptism from St. Ailbhe, and studied at Benchor under its holy founder, St. Comghall. He was subsequently abbot of that great monastery, but resigned that office to establish the great religious school in his native territory at Fermoy. He was remarkable for his penitential spirit, and towards the close of his saintly career made a pilgrimage to Rome. The ancient name of this place was Magh Meine, and it was known by that name until the siege of Drom Domhghaire, which took place about the year 220. Munster was at that time invaded by Cormac Mac Airt, who, full of confidence in his Druids and in the valour of his troops, encamped at Drom Domhghaire, in the south-east of the county Limerick, since called Cnoc Longa, the hill of the encampment. In this emergency a famous Druid named Mogh Ruth hastened from his residence in Oilean Dairbre, now the Island of Valencia, to the aid of the Munster army, and through his skill and bravery a brilliant victory was achieved. The troops of the monarch were pursued by the men of Munster, led by their Druid Mogh Ruth in his chariot drawn by wild oxen, till driven beyond the borders of the province and into Magh Raiglme, in Ossory. The men of Munster returned home in triumph after repulsing the invader, and called a convocation of the states and people of the provinces to give thanks to their friend and deliverer Mogh Ruth. After this they unanimously agreed to give and confirm to him and his descendants for ever the possession of the plain and country then called Magh Meine, the mineral plain, in reward for his great services.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 426 · source

Somewhere around here, close to Corrin, there is a carn whose story Croker took into his Fairy Legends of the South of Ireland. Local lore says it was linked to a prince called Eobeard-a'-Chairn. Death by drowning had been foretold for the child. His anxious father, to remove all danger, had the child taken for nursing to the summit of this wild and waterless peak, where a residence was built at a height of 727 feet. But all efforts to escape the stern edict of fate were futile. The child met the end decreed in a basin of water. There are also two holy wells on Corrin, and the sites of two houses, one each on Coghlan's and May's farms. At one well on Coghlan's farm, called Tobereendowny, meaning the Lord's Well, devotions were performed on Sundays, and rounds are still occasionally made.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Place-names and antiquities of S.E. Cork, Ireland (vol. pt.2) (1917), Power, Patrick, Internet Archive placenamesantiqu02powe, Chapter 9 · source

This is Rathcormack, where the Duke of Wurtemberg planned to encamp in 1690. He had just gotten his cannon over the bridge at Fermoy and resolved to camp in this town that night. A messenger met him at Fermoy, delivered his message, and received the Duke's answer: he would be up with the forces at Cork the next night without fail. The messenger returned immediately to Cork. At the camp there, he found Scravenmore had gone to wait on the Earl of Marlborough. He crossed the river too, but not daring in the night to go to the camp where he was a stranger, though he saw it from the hill, he quartered at Carrigrohan.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the county and city of Cork (vol. 2) (1861), Gibson, Charles Bernard, Internet Archive historyofcountyc02gibsiala, Chapter 80 · source

A pit-burial at Skahanagh North in Cork. Archaeological excavation during the construction of the N8 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass uncovered an isolated, roughly circular pit containing cremated bone.

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Watergrasshill in Cork saw an organized act of resistance in 1775. On September 26, a great number of armed villains burned a large quantity of blankets intended for troops then about to go to America. The troops were preparing to depart for the American Revolutionary War, and the destruction of their supplies was a direct strike against British military logistics.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The county and city of Cork remembrancer; or, Annals of the county and city of Cork (1837), Tuckey, Francis H, Internet Archive countycityofcork00tuck, Chapter 117 · source

You're coming through Watergrasshill, a little village eight miles from Cork. It stands on what may be the highest cultivated ground in the kingdom. The climb from Cork is so gradual you may not notice how high you have risen, until the vales of Castle-Lyons and Fermoy open suddenly to view.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Statistical survey of the county of Cork : with observations on the means of improvement ; drawn up for the consideration, and by the direction of the Dublin Society (1810), Townsend, Horatio, 1750-1837, author, Internet Archive statisticalsurv11socigoog, Chapter 203 · source

This town you are passing through, Watergrasshill in Cork, is celebrated from the writings of the Reverend Francis Mahony, entitled the Prout Papers. The Reverend Mr. Prout had been parish priest of the place. Near it stands Mitchellsfort, a good house and lawn, the seat of Brazier Mitchell, Esquire.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The Blackwater in Munster; (1844), O'Flanagan, J[ames] R[oderick], 1814- [from old catalog], Internet Archive blackwaterinmuns00ofla, Chapter 58 · source

Trantstown holy well stands on the western slopes of a glen in Cork. Only the spring survives. Power noted in 1923 that 'Stations were made here; but they have been discontinued now for nearly a century.'

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Somewhere close to Killalough are the ruins of a castle that once defended Knockadoon at the south. It is in a very ruinous state now. The hill here joins the mainland by a narrow neck, and on it a causeway fifteen feet broad was raised, defended at the hill side by a fortified gate. Fitzgerald describes a tower fifteen feet high and eight thick, built of immense blocks of stone. These stones, he says, are the largest you can see in any building of this kind in the country. Within the ruins the walls are blackened with smoke, as if the castle had been the dwelling of some persons in more recent years.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Limerick, its history and antiquities; ecclesiastical, civil, and military,from the earliest ages, with copious historical, archaeological, topographical, and genealogical notes (1884), Lenihan, Maurice, 1811-1895, Internet Archive limerickitshisto00leni, Chapter 426 · source

This is a pit-burial at Killydonoghoe in Cork. A burial was uncovered during archaeological monitoring on the N8 Glanmire-Watergrasshill Bypass. It sat on a south-facing slope in undulating hilly terrain. The burial had been heavily truncated by agricultural activity. The remains of one adult were contained within a large inverted urn, apparently accompanied by a smaller, finely decorated vase. Two pieces of flint were found within the burial deposit. A similar burial lies 260 metres to the north, and a possible Bronze Age house 210 metres to the north as well.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO064-166---- · source

Somewhere close to Riverstown, a miller named John Fenton died on January 12, 1782. The day before, he seemed to be in good health, but he went among his kindred and friends, inviting them to his funeral on the Sunday following. He was so certain his death was near that he sent his brother for a clergyman to prepare him for eternity. The priest attended and gave him the rites of the church that day. After that, Fenton went to bed, and in a little time expired, as the record says, without the least emotion whatsoever.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The county and city of Cork remembrancer; or, Annals of the county and city of Cork (1837), Tuckey, Francis H, Internet Archive countycityofcork00tuck, Chapter 123 · source

This is a holy well at Brooklodge, on high ground east of the Glenmore river. It has been infilled, and a whitethorn bush now marks the site. Power, in 1923, recorded that the well was covered by a flagstone lintel five feet in length, and that rounds were still made on Saint John's Eve and through to the end of June.

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Brooklodge castle, in Cork, is an unclassified castle site, possibly a castle of the Barrys. It appears on the 1842 OS map. By 1904, a new road had gone through the area of the site. The 1842 map also shows an old fish pond just to the east, probably destroyed when the road was built.

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Glanmire, in Cork, is the town the road takes you through or near. In 1787, a sub-constable of Barrymore and a corporal of the 47th regiment were conducting a man called Kelly to the county gaol. At Dixon's Glen, near Upper Glanmire, a mob of 60 or 70 armed men attacked them, trying to rescue Kelly. The rioters carried muskets, blunderbusses, and pistols, well supplied with ammunition. They kept up a running fire for about 3 miles. The corporal's party returned fire but spent all their ammunition except one round. They could not do much execution, as the day was very wet, and the rioters hid inside the hedges and ditches on each side of the road. One of Kelly's sons leaped into the road, fired at the party, and wounded a man.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The county and city of Cork remembrancer; or, Annals of the county and city of Cork (1837), Tuckey, Francis H, Internet Archive countycityofcork00tuck, Chapter 127 · source

You are nearing Blackrock, on the Lee. In 1848 Queen Victoria's yacht passed this way, clustered about by all her starry fays, as the author puts it, foozling and fair, past Blackrock and on to the jetties of the grand old rebel city. The riggings throbbed with shouting sailors and the quaysides rang with rebel cheers. But the author calls up another scene from this same spot: Sarsfield and his hunted Irish, wailing out to exile. Louder, louder, Cork, with your cheers to drown that cry, he writes. Till she smiles upon us all, and knows us not, how we can huzza for anything, being prone to all hysterias that enter through the eye. So farewell Victoria, the queen of our raree show. Farewell, and may the Lord have mercy upon us and all living fools.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The glamour of Cork (1919), Kelleher, D. L. (Daniel Lawrence), Internet Archive glamourofcork00kelliala, Chapter 37 · source

As you come through Blackrock, outside Cork, the Ursuline Convent preserves a relic whose story begins at Holycross Abbey. The legend tells of monks and robbers. One robber ordered the holiest monk to show his power by causing a huge tree, as the old account says, "to touch the earth with its bowed top." The hermit argued he should not tempt God, but the robber threatened death. The tree bowed its crest to the earth. The robbers seized it to stop it rising, but it rose and lifted them up. King Donald appeared and ordered the robber's hands cut off. A monk of the abbey wrote of this in the seventeenth century, and the book is preserved in the college in Thurles. The legend gave such sanctity that King Donald granted the site to the Cistercians and gave the monks a piece of the true cross, said to have been given by the Pope to his granduncle King Murtogh. That relic was very small and soon disappeared. It was replaced by a large double cross of rough wood, the cross now kept in the convent at Blackrock. It is enshrined in a decorated reliquary showing the symbols of the four evangelists, the crucified Redeemer, the Virgin and Child, and what may be the arms of Butler and Burke. Pilgrims came from all parts to Holy Cross. The reformers called it "that idol whom the Irish nation more superstitiously reverence than all the other idolatries in Ireland." After the abbey lands were granted to the Earl of Ormonde at a rent of 15 pounds, 10 shillings and 4 pence, the monks were still maintained by the alms of the people for more than a century.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (1892), Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 150 · source

Blackrock, near Cork, was once a fishing ground for foreign fleets. In 1576, a tract by John Dee records that three or four hundred ships of Spaniards and Frenchmen fished these waters. Dee condemned the practice of strangers fishing at Kinsale, Cork, and other places in Ireland. He noted that King Edward VI's privy council had been of a mind to plant a strong bulwark there, for weighty reasons as well as for the benefit of milwin and cod.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The county and city of Cork remembrancer; or, Annals of the county and city of Cork (1837), Tuckey, Francis H, Internet Archive countycityofcork00tuck, Chapter 65 · source

Through Blackrock here, in 1777, a great number of precious stones were dug up in a limestone quarry on the road. Some amethysts were found too. People flocked there in such numbers to profit from the discovery that the proprietor had to bring in a military guard to stop them from plundering the place.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The county and city of Cork remembrancer; or, Annals of the county and city of Cork (1837), Tuckey, Francis H, Internet Archive countycityofcork00tuck, Chapter 119 · source

Blackrock sits along the road where the River Lee reaches it. On the 26th of December 1739 the Lee froze solid in one of the hardest frosts in living memory. People fixed tents on the river from the North Strand to Blackrock and held amusements on the ice, which carried on even after the thaw began. One day a Quaker ventured too far down the channel. The ice broke and he fell in. A wag ran to the nearest tent and asked the owner if he had any smuggled goods in the cellar, and if so to secure them, because an exciseman had just gone down there to search. He meant the Quaker in the water.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The county and city of Cork remembrancer; or, Annals of the county and city of Cork (1837), Tuckey, Francis H, Internet Archive countycityofcork00tuck, Chapter 98 · source

Up ahead the road passes through Tivoli. An eastern traveller once said of it that a few minarets placed in its hanging gardens would realise the Bosphorus. Sir Walter Raleigh lived here for a time, and trees he planted are said to still exist. Miss Curran, the betrothed of poor Robert Emmett, lived at a house called Woodhill. Her story gave Thomas Moore the words: "She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps."

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork (1906), , Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00unse_1, Chapter 13 · source

The road runs through Tivoli, on the River Lee below Cork. The river here runs at the base of a chain of hills that stretch for four miles below the city and six miles above it. There is but one natural pass through these mountains, at Blackpool, and the railway is tunnelled through solid rock beneath the Cork Barracks. The downs rest on old red sandstone, parts of it as hard as granite and capable of a fine polish. The sides of the river are clothed with rich foliage and adorned with a number of beautiful mansions. You are pointed to cedars here, said to have been planted by the hand of Sir Walter Raleigh. It was from this part of the river that he sailed on his last unfortunate expedition.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the county and city of Cork (vol. 2) (1861), Gibson, Charles Bernard, Internet Archive historyofcountyc02gibsiala, Chapter 209 · source

Thackeray's lodgings at Grattan's Hill housed William Makepeace Thackeray during his time in Cork. The writer describes him as a tall, open-faced, English, public-school looking youngish fellow with "the gift" — one could not easily tell, listening to him, where the irony began and the sincerity ended. Though, like Charlotte Bronte, that little honest Mercury, one might grow irritated and take a violent dislike to the man. He would come down from his lodgings at Grattan's Hill ostensibly to look in the Patrick Street shop windows, but he really overheard what the flaneurs there were saying, and so wrote "Pana" down. His long training in free-lance journalism had put the trick of copy into his blood. When he went to the Ursuline Convent at Blackrock, he noted the charm of the place and the "sweet nun-like odour," a phrase cut to the flippancy he affects. When he later gave a hundred years of vogue in his Irish Sketch Book, there were at least three justifiable boasts to make: he called the people the "greatest book-lovers he ever had met," and he found in them, as in the rest of Ireland, the matter out of which he made his work.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The glamour of Cork (1919), Kelleher, D. L. (Daniel Lawrence), Internet Archive glamourofcork00kelliala · source

Somewhere about Dunboy, in 1602, one of the grim chapters of this coast played out. Fifty-eight of those who surrendered at Dunboy were hanged that day in the English camp. A few were kept back for special and cruel torture. On the 22nd of June, 1602, Carew blew up the ruins of Dunboy itself. O'Sullivan escaped into Kerry with Captain Tirell. For long and weary months he and his followers encamped in the mountains of Glengarriff, waiting for help from Spain, which never came. When news did come, it was fatal to his hopes. He at once took the brave determination to fight his way step by step to the north, with the women and children, the sick and infirm of his camp. What he dared and did, and what this forlorn company suffered, is a story told elsewhere. In eight months O'Sullivan returned once more to his desolate country. He had left his wife and his youngest child in the safe and faithful company of his foster-brother, Mac Sweeny. During his absence they remained concealed in a place known as the Eagle's nest, in the Glengarriff mountains.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the city and county of Cork (1875), Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899, Internet Archive historyofcitycou0000cusa, Chapter 257 · source

Somewhere around here, on the night of 11 December 1920, British forces burned much of Cork city during the Irish War of Independence. It began after an IRA ambush wounded twelve British Auxiliaries, one fatally. In retaliation, Auxiliaries, Black and Tans and British soldiers burned homes near the ambush site, then looted and burned numerous buildings in the city centre. Civilians reported being beaten, shot at and robbed. Firefighters said British forces cut their hoses and shot at them to stop them fighting the blazes. Two unarmed IRA volunteers were shot dead at their home in the north of the city. More than 40 business premises, 300 residential properties, City Hall and the Carnegie Library were destroyed, many by incendiary bombs. The damage was estimated at over £3 million, and 2,000 people were left jobless. British forces carried out similar reprisals during the war, including the Sack of Balbriggan three months earlier and the burning of Knockcroghery six months later, but the burning of Cork was one of the most substantial. The British government at first denied its forces started the fires, then held a military inquiry that concluded a company of Auxiliaries were responsible. The government refused to publish the report, and no one was held accountable.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), en.wikipedia.org: Burning of Cork · source

In 1644, the city of Cork was the stage for a piece of deception. Captain Muschamp was governor of the king's fort there. He devised a stratagem to pacify the Irish inhabitants and secure the English. A martial court was called, and the council of war sat upon his trial. The business was examined, witnesses produced, the words proved against him. He was found guilty of treason and condemned to be hanged the next day. At the appointed time, the sheriffs and the greatest part of the city came to see the execution. The prisoner was brought out of the city, well guarded, with a considerable company of musketeers. When the chiefest and most dangerous men of the city had come out of the gates, the word was given. The prisoner, Captain Muschamp, was set at liberty. He commanded his officers to lay hold on all the chiefest of the citizens and carry them prisoners to the fort, whereof he was captain and governor. As soon as they were taken, the chiefest aldermen and others in the city were taken too, and kept prisoners as hostages to secure the English both within and without the gates. The gates were shut at that instant, and the drawbridge taken up, so none could come in nor go out till all matters were pacified. A proclamation was made: if the Irish resisted the English, the soldiers should shoot them. And if any English were killed in that broil, the chiefest of their city should be hanged over their walls. The proclamation so terrified the Irish that they were all glad to be quiet, and no great hurt was done. The writer of the account calls it a stratagem of mercy, in a time of troubles and rebellion, to prevent the shedding of guiltless blood.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The county and city of Cork remembrancer; or, Annals of the county and city of Cork (1837), Tuckey, Francis H, Internet Archive countycityofcork00tuck, Chapter 81 · source