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Richard Kirwan dies at Cavendish Row, Dublin

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Along this street, at his house on Cavendish Row, the scientist Richard Kirwan died on 1 June 1812, in the 78th year of his age. He was a Galway-born man who served for many years as president of the Royal Irish Academy and of the Dublin Library Society, and was a fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh. He held memberships in academies across Stockholm, Upsal, Berlin, Manchester, Philadelphia, and the Mineralogical Society at Jena, and served as 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 entertained curious notions, believing 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 “Ferme Catholique,” notwithstanding his having lived “Preux Chevalier.”

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the town and county of the town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time (vol. n/a) (1926), Hardiman, James, Internet Archive historyoftowncouhard, Chapter 257 · source

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Garden of Remembrance (Dublin)

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Somewhere around here is the Garden of Remembrance, a memorial garden in Dublin dedicated to the memory of all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom. It stands in the northern fifth of the former Rotunda Gardens in Parnell Square, a Georgian square at the northern end of O'Connell Street. President Eamon de Valera opened the garden in 1966, during the semicentennial of the Easter Rising.

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

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Noyeks fire

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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.

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

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Williams acquitted at Green Street courthouse

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Along here on Green Street once stood the courthouse where Williams was tried in 1848. Before the trial, Count Dalton assured him of acquittal, saying the Crown Solicitor Kemmis was a friend who would see that the incriminating manuscript could not be identified. The trial followed and ended as Dalton had foreseen. Williams' domestic servant testified he had been confined at home by illness for the fortnight before his arrest, and people from his printing office corroborated this. A clergyman and a doctor spoke of his religious and benevolent character. The indictment never charged that any articles were in his handwriting, and no witness was asked to identify his manuscript. His leading counsel, Mr. Ferguson, gave a persuasive speech, but the Crown Solicitor had already made the task easy. The jury wanted to return a verdict of publishing, but not with the intent the indictment claimed. The court refused to accept that, and after a brief delay they found him not guilty. Afterwards Williams went to Edinburgh, took a medical diploma, practised briefly in Dublin, then in the summer of 1851 left for America, where he became Professor of Belles Lettres at Spring College in Mobile, Alabama.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Collections relating to the dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin (1883), Comerford, M. (Michael), 1830 or 1831-1895, author, Internet Archive collectionsrelat01come, Chapter 206 · source

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Reynolds Meets Lord Edward Fitzgerald at the Four Courts

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Right here at the Four Courts in Dublin is where a meeting took place in November 1797 that pulled a man deeper into a dangerous movement. Thomas Reynolds had bought the lease of Kilkea Castle and estate and retired into the country with his family that summer, breaking off his attendance at the society's meetings. But being in Dublin that November, he met Lord Edward Fitzgerald on these very steps. At Fitzgerald's solicitation, backed by the advice of Oliver Bond, Reynolds consented to be elected colonel for the barony of Kilkea and Moone in County Kildare, where his estate lay. Reynolds later said that the societies' ostensible objects were only reform in parliament and Catholic emancipation, and that hundreds joined with no other views. It was only upon reaching the higher grades that their real objects were fully developed. Lord Edward Fitzgerald told Reynolds that everything relative to his appointment as colonel should be arranged by one Matthew Kenna.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The life of Thomas Reynolds, Esq. : formerly of Kilkea Castle, in the county of Kildare (1839), Reynolds, Thomas, -1848, author, Internet Archive lifeofthomasreyn01reyn_0, Chapter 345 · source

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Fitzgerald wounds Swann and Ryan before being shot by Sirr

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Along here on Thomas Street, in 1798, Lord Edward Fitzgerald was taken after a violent struggle. He had stabbed Mr. Swann through the side of his breast, the blade running along the ribs and coming 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 cried out, "Ryan, you villain!" He pulled the dagger, which he had never let go of, from Swann's body, and struck Ryan at the pit of the stomach. Drawing it back, he ripped his belly open down to the navel. Both Swann and Ryan had grasped Lord Edward round the body. Lord Edward, still unhurt, made for the door. Ryan let go and fell to the floor with his bowels hanging out, but Swann held on. There was a ladder in the lobby leading to the loft, which opened to the roof, all prepared as a means of escape. Lord Edward was rushing to it, but Swann's weight impeded him so he could not mount the ladder. He lifted his arm to strike Swann again. All this took perhaps less than a minute. The military had arrived from the barracks. Major Sirr, having completed his arrangements, entered the hall and began to ascend the stairs. Hearing firing above, he rushed up with a pistol in hand, just as Lord Edward had lifted his arm to despatch Swann. Sirr fired without hesitation and hit Lord Edward on the arm near the shoulder. The arm fell powerless, and Lord Edward became a prisoner.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The life of Thomas Reynolds, Esq. : formerly of Kilkea Castle, in the county of Kildare (1839), Reynolds, Thomas, -1848, author, Internet Archive lifeofthomasreyn02reyn_0, Chapter 216 · source

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Executions and blood-clogged sewers at Bridgefoot Street

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Along here in 1798, mass executions of rebels took place at the corner of Bridgefoot 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. Arriving home, she wrote to her brother, who was high in the Government, to stop the wholesale massacre of the defenceless. Her appeal had the desired effect. An order came to end all further executions; enough blood had been shed. The remaining prisoners were ordered to be transported, and vessels were sent over for that purpose.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from "The sham squire" and the informers of 1798 : with jottings about Ireland a century ago (1869), Fitzpatrick, William John, 1830-1895, Internet Archive cu31924028122152, Chapter 58 · source

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Saint Patrick's Hospital

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Right here in Dublin 8 stands Saint Patrick's Hospital, endowed by Jonathan Swift, Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, who declared his desire for an asylum to be built in 1745. The inscription on the granite front reads "St Patrick's Hospital founded by Jonathan Swift D.D. Dean of Saint Patricks A.D. 1745." The architect George Semple based his design on London's Bethlem Asylum, with patient cells laid out side by side to facilitate supervision, and the façade was meant to resemble a Palladian villa. The land was acquired from the trustees of Dr Steevens's Hospital, and Thomas Cooley added the front wings and extended the rear ranges later in the eighteenth century.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 50080086 · source

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House of Industry (Dublin)

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Somewhere around here was the House of Industry, a Dublin workhouse set up by an act of Parliament in 1703, "for the employment and maintaining the poor thereof." From 1729 it also took in the foundling hospital.

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

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Kilmainham Gaol

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Right beside the road here is Kilmainham Gaol, on the south side of Inchicore Road. It opened as the county gaol in 1796, built to a design by John Trail around 1795 to 1801. The prison boundary wall was built in two stages, the first about 1795, the second about 1860. Originally it stood on a rectangular plan with bastions to the four corners, and later the enclosure was extended east for the new east wing and north to the road for the infirmary, the governor's apartments, and the stone breakers' yard. It was closed by the Prison Board in 1910 but reopened in 1916. Though built for ordinary offenders, its history coincided with every major struggle for national independence from 1798 to the end of the Civil War, and the people who fought in those struggles were imprisoned here. It was the place of execution of the 1916 leaders, which makes it one of the key sites in the national story. After the release of Éamon De Valera, its last prisoner, it was closed and fell into ruin. A voluntary association restored it in the 1960s, and the Office of Public Works now manages it.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 50080057 · source

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Burial

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Right here at Islandbridge Memorial Park, Norse burials from the late 9th century came to light during the middle of the 19th century and again in the 1930s. The grave goods included sword fragments, a spear, beads, and a skeleton. These finds point to one burial and possibly two, one of them female.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DU018-020272- · source

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German bandsmen caught stealing onions at Inchicore garden

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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

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Macklin's childhood near Drogheda and Dublin's Island Bridge Academy

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Around Islandbridge here, the young Macklin studied at the Island Bridge Academy. He had passed his childhood near Drogheda, possibly on the estate of his uncle, Captain O'Flanagan of the German army, who promised him a military commission. Instead, Macklin fled to England, then was brought back to Dublin and enrolled here, where his mischievous tendencies earned him the nickname "wicked Charley."

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Being some account of antiquities and writers of the county of Donegal: (1895), Doherty, William James, Internet Archive inisowentirconne00doheiala, Chapter 76 · source

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Burial Ground

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Right beside the road here is a burial ground that has served the Sisters of Mercy since 1884. It forms part of a religious complex linked to Saint Vincent's Church and convent, and the Sisters opened a convict rehabilitation centre for women at Goldenbridge in 1856 to the north-east. They also established a church, convent, national school and commercial laundry in the area. The cemetery has been used exclusively for the burial of members of the Sisters of Mercy community from 1884 and continues to serve that function. The early graveyard is rectangular in plan, with a later rectangular addition to the north opened in 1985. About 300 identical limestone headstones hold roughly 450 burials, giving the place an ordered appearance. A carved limestone high cross on a stepped plinth stands at the centre of the early section, and a single-bay chapel sits at its east end with a pitched slate roof, granite cross finial and carved granite detailing. A life-size Calvary group stands at the west end of the later graveyard. The chapel entrance with its wrought-iron double-leaf gates was blocked around 1990 when the Emmet Court apartment complex was built to the immediate east. The 1907 Ordnance Survey map marks the site as a burial ground, and the 1935 edition shows two paths entering from the former industrial schools to the north and east.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 50080400 · source

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O'Hely family of Ballyhely (Hollybrook)

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

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of Sligo : town and county (1900), O'Rorke, Terence, Internet Archive historyofsligoto00oror, Chapter 165 · source

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Legend of regicide officer retiring to Drimnagh Castle

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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.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society. (1891), County Kildare :County Kildare Archaeological Society,, Internet Archive journalofcountyk06coun, Chapter 118 · source

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Ballyfermot Lodge identified as Le Fanu's 'Tiled House'

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As the road takes you through Ballyfermot parish, there is an old church and churchyard, and near where a castle once stood, the site is now occupied by Ballyfermot House. Between the house and the road stands a curious brick wall built in a series of curves, said to have once formed part of the enclosure of an orchard belonging to that old castle. A quarter of a mile further along, between the railway and the canal, there is an old house that a hundred years ago was known as Ballyfermot Lodge. Its garden walls are dilapidated and overhung with immense growths of ivy, testifying to the antiquity of the place. An outhouse adjoining has a tiled roof of an old pattern, which suggests the main building's original roof was tiled too. If that surmise is correct, then from the position and appearance of this old establishment, it would seem probable that it is the weird Tiled House referred to by J. S. Le Fanu in his story of The House by the Churchyard. Crossing the bridge from here brings you into Chapelizod, once a favourite residence for Dublin citizens, and still possessing traces of the old world respectability that characterised it in the period Le Fanu wrote about. Between the two approaches from the main street to the Protestant Parish Church stands an old-fashioned house, which is evidently the actual House by the Churchyard that plays so prominent a part in the story.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The neighborhood of Dublin : its topography, antiquities and historical associations (1921), Joyce, Weston St. John, Internet Archive neighborhoodofdu00joyc, Chapter 150 · source

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Murder of Lord Kilwarden near Newlands during Emmet's rebellion

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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.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The neighborhood of Dublin : its topography, antiquities and historical associations (1921), Joyce, Weston St. John, Internet Archive neighborhoodofdu00joyc, Chapter 105 · source

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O'Connell-D'Esterre duel at Clondalkin

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As you come through Clondalkin, you are passing the scene of a famous duel between Daniel O'Connell and D'Esterre. D'Esterre was shot dead. The moral shock stayed with O'Connell for the rest of his life and gave him a lasting horror of bloodshed.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A pictorial and descriptive guide to Dublin and the Wicklow tours .. (1919), Ward, Lock and Company, ltd, Internet Archive pictorialdescrip19ward, Chapter 45 · source

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Belgard Castle and the Talbot family's centuries of conflict

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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.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The neighborhood of Dublin : its topography, antiquities and historical associations (1921), Joyce, Weston St. John, Internet Archive neighborhoodofdu00joyc, Chapter 104 · source

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The 1787 Corkagh Powder Mills explosion

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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.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The neighborhood of Dublin : its topography, antiquities and historical associations (1921), Joyce, Weston St. John, Internet Archive neighborhoodofdu00joyc, Chapter 105 · source

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Castle - tower house, Saggart

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Right here in Saggart, the remains of a tower house stand built into the outbuildings of Tassaggart, a 19th-century mansion north of the village. What survives is the remodelled ground floor and first floor of an oblong rubble-stone structure, with a wattle-centred barrel vault running north to south. An oven and fireplace recorded on the ground floor in 1986 have since been filled in. Traces of an internal stairway remain in the north-east corner, and a vaulted passage was added to the north-west. It was one of three castles in Saggart mentioned in the Civil Survey of Dublin. The Down Survey map shows the settlement clustered around two tower houses and a third ruinous castle annotated as a stump. The survey terrier recorded that in Saggart there were 'two Castles in repaire and one Stump of a Castle with some Thatcht Houses and Cabbins.'

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DU021-034011- · source

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Saggart burned by Baltinglass and Feagh mac Hugh O'Byrne, 1580

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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.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society. (1891), County Kildare :County Kildare Archaeological Society,, Internet Archive journalofcountyk05coun, Chapter 49 · source

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Felix Rourke hanged on rafters of burned priest's house

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As you come through Rathcoole, a hanging in 1803 left its mark on the town. Felix Rourke had been a great favourite of Lord Edward, who made him a present of his favourite mare. At the outbreak of hostilities he was made a Colonel of the Kildare insurgents and fought at Clonard, Johnstown, and Hacketstown. He availed of Lord Cornwallis's amnesty and surrendered to Colonel Hunter, and was lodged in Naas Jail, where he remained a prisoner until 1800. In 1803 he took part in Emmet's abortive rising and was arrested by Alderman Blonham in the Liberty. He was tried in Dublin on 6 September 1803. The chief witness against him was Mahaffy, a pedlar then in the Kildare Militia, who swore he saw 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 somewhat. He was hanged on 10 September 1803 from one of the rafters of the recently burned house of the parish priest of Rathcoole, Father James Harold. Father Harold himself had been arrested shortly before this, tried by court-martial on the evidence of the informer Walsh, and was transported to Botany Bay.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society. (1891), County Kildare :County Kildare Archaeological Society,, Internet Archive journalofcountyk05coun, Chapter 47 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Crockshane

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Right here is the site of St. Catherine's Well, in the parish of Rathcoole. A field ditch was widened and deepened over it, removing all trace of the well. It was originally reached by steps. It was dedicated to St. Catherine.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DU021-040---- · source

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The glen of Glenn Mama located between Lyons and Athgoe Hill

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Somewhere around here is the glen of Glenn Mama, the battlefield identified as the dale enclosed between the Hill of Lyons and Athgoe Hill on one side, and Castlewarden Hill, Busty Hill, and Windmill Hill on the other. The author examined the ground carefully and concluded this is the only glen near Lyons that fits. Athgoe Castle and Colmanstown Castle, both in ruins, stand within it. A small piece of land in the glen is known as Parkaree.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society. (1891), County Kildare :County Kildare Archaeological Society,, Internet Archive journalofcountyk07coun, Chapter 218 · source

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Battle of Glenmama

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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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Castlewarden occupied by Confederate forces, 1647

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Somewhere around here, Confederate forces moved through in the summer of 1647. Preston's army crossed the Curragh of Kildare toward Naas in early July, and by the 11th they had crossed the Liffey and encamped about a mile west of Jigginstown. Naas surrendered and was garrisoned. In Dublin there were grave fears after Jones was beaten off with some loss. On 17th July 1647 Sir Patrick Wemys wrote to Sir Philip Perceval with alarm: "They have taken all our garrisons towards the Naas, have put men into your house"—this house being Castlewarden—"are now before Maynooth, and will undoubtedly this week spoil all our quarters and coop us up in this city." Maynooth yielded next, and before the end of July Preston had laid siege to Trim, the only inland town in Leinster still held for Parliament.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society. (1891), County Kildare :County Kildare Archaeological Society,, Internet Archive journalofcountyk06coun, Chapter 292 · source

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Castle - motte and bailey, Castlewarden North

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Right here at Castlewarden North in Kildare is a motte and bailey, now sitting in the middle of a golf course. Adam de Hereford built it, according to a 1967 survey. The mound was D-shaped with a straight east side, girdled by a broad fosse and a high outer bank, with a second shallow fosse beyond that. A shallow channel ran from the northeast base to a nearby stream. A possible bailey sat to the east, a lower almost square area defined by a low bank on a scarp. The whole complex was registered as a Historic Monument in 1976. The motte is now the 13th green on the north and the 12th green on the south, while the bailey serves as the 10th green.

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Aged Parish Priest of Kill shares income with curate

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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.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Collections relating to the dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin (1883), Comerford, M. (Michael), 1830 or 1831-1895, author, Internet Archive collectionsrelat01come, Chapter 272 · source

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Dispute over chapel patronage settled by Rome, 1224-5

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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.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society. (1891), County Kildare :County Kildare Archaeological Society,, Internet Archive journalofcountyk02coun, Chapter 123 · source

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Dindshenchas legend of Fornocht slain at Forenaghts

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As you pass through the parish of Forenaghts, you are travelling through a place whose name comes down from a legend in the ancient Dindshenchas tract. The story tells of four daughters of Dubthach Dubthaire, a Meath hero, who eloped while their father was away with four sons of Acher Cerr, a Munster king. The sons were called Fordub, Fornocht, Romper, and Formu. On his return, Dubthach pursued the couples and overtook them in different localities, slaying them one by one. Fornocht was killed here, at Forenaghts, and the place took its name from him. His brothers fell elsewhere: Fordub at the Blackford of Maistin on the river Greese below Mullaghmast, Romper at Glas Romper, and Formu at Fomu. One of the daughters was killed at a ford on the Greese not far from Ballitore, called after her Ath Truisten, or Truistins's Ford. The same place appears in another ancient tract, the Boromean Tribute, translated in O'Grady's Silva Gadelica. St. Moling, of Timolin in this county and of St. Mullin's in County Carlow, obtained from Finnachta the Festive, King of Ireland in the 7th century, a remission of the onerous tribute paid by Leinster. The tribute was vast: thrice fifty times a hundred cows, thrice fifty hundred swine, mantles as many, chains of silver, copper cauldrons, and a great copper reservoir for Tara's house itself. The men of Erin were not satisfied and set out to pursue Moling. They found him at Fornocht, "laying out the site of a mill."

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society. (1891), County Kildare :County Kildare Archaeological Society,, Internet Archive journalofcountyk03coun, Chapter 37 · source

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Burial ground, Maudlings

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Right beside the road here is the burial ground at Maudlings. It shows up on Taylor's 1783 map of County Kildare as a burying ground, though not on the earlier 1752 map. It is a large, roughly rectangular roadside cemetery with a fine entrance archway, and its legible burial markers run from the 18th century to modern times.

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Burial, Sherlockstown

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Here at Sherlockstown in Kildare, in 1983, human remains were found about 0.3 metres down during bulldozing of a raised area, possibly a mound on esker-like sand and gravel, before two houses went up. The National Museum's investigation identified cremated remains of a neonate, and unburnt remains of a juvenile aged 5-7, a teenager aged 13-16, and a late-middle-aged or older adult male.

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Opening of the Grand Canal extension at Sallins, 1786

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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.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society. (1891), County Kildare :County Kildare Archaeological Society,, Internet Archive journalofcountyk03coun, Chapter 246 · source

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Burial, Ploopluck

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Right here at Ploopluck in Kildare, a cemetery of pit burials came to light in 1935 during gravel extraction from an esker. Four burials were recorded, three of them accompanied by bowl food vessels and one unaccompanied. A fifth burial held the remains of four individuals with a bowl food vessel and an urn sherd, but it may not belong to the cemetery itself.

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Drowning of two Englishmen by Rapparees at Sigenstowne

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Somewhere close to Jigginstown, in February 1690, two strangers, both Englishmen, were taken from John Lawler's house by the Rapparees. They were, in the parish register's words, "cuppled together like dogs" and drowned in the mill-pond at Sigenstowne. The two were buried afterward.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society. (1891), County Kildare :County Kildare Archaeological Society,, Internet Archive journalofcountyk01coun, Chapter 12 · source

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Castle - tower house, Jigginstown

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Right beside the road here at Jigginstown, this is a small almost square tower house that may have been one of two castles held by Roland FitzEustace in 1486. It is two storeys high, built of rough rubble limestone with well-dressed quoins, with a barrel-vaulted ground floor and a narrow spiral stair tucked into the north corner. The first floor had two large windows with window seats and a fireplace with red brick mantle-supports, though much has been robbed out over the centuries.

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Castle - unclassified, Herbertstown

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Right here at Herbertstown, the field next to the church and graveyard was always known locally as the Castle Field. A large square enclosure, roughly 107 by 110 metres, shows up clearly on aerial imagery from 2018. A Crown inquisition in 1584/5 found that the prior of Great Connell Abbey had an annual rent of 10 shillings from lands held by Edmond Goulding, late of Herbertstown. His estate included a castle, 6 messuages, 6 gardens, 120 acres of arable land, 4 of meadow, 100 of pasture and moor, and a great warren, valued at 8 pounds. In 1623, an inquisition into the estate of John Goulding recorded a castle in Herbertstown with 100 acres of arable. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Kildare noted that there was "upon the lands of Herbertstowne one Castle wch. is valued to be worth thirty pounds sterl." That survey listed Jeofry Fay of Herbertstown, described as an Irish Papist, as owner of the lands.

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Burial, Oldtown (Newbridge Rural Ed)

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Right beside the road here, three burials were found in 1955 while sand was being extracted. They lay on the summit of a ridge, about 7 metres apart. One held a crouched inhumation with a bowl food vessel. Another had a crouched inhumation, a bowl food vessel and some cremated bones. The third held an inhumation with a vase food vessel and a vase urn. By 1982 the whole area had been quarried away.

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Ritual site - holy well, Greatconnell

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Right here at Greatconnell is St. Austin's Holy Well, named after St. Augustine. People left tokens at it, though no pattern was ever held. It had been dry for 30 years and was surrounded by half a dozen trees when it was, as the record puts it, "restored to use and blessed" in 1968.

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Blacksmith Martin Murphy's encounter with the ghostly knights near Kildare

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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.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society. (1891), County Kildare :County Kildare Archaeological Society,, Internet Archive journalofcountyk03coun, Chapter 12 · source

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Obelisk erected in Donnelly's Hollow, 1888

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Somewhere about Donnelly's Hollow stands a limestone obelisk, put up in 1888 by public subscription to commemorate Donnelly's 1815 victory over Cooper. Sadly, it was being maliciously damaged by stones thrown at it by George Cooper's disappointed countrymen in the camp.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society. (1891), County Kildare :County Kildare Archaeological Society,, Internet Archive journalofcountyk03coun · source

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Old bridge over the Rye Water built by John le Decer, 1308

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As you pass through Droichead Nua, the name Newbridge sits oddly on the oldest bridge over the Rye Water. John le Decer, Provost of Dublin, built it at his own expense in 1308, one of many public works carried out by this eminent citizen of old Dublin. Beside the bridge stands the entrance to St. Wolstan's, named for the ruins of an ecclesiastical establishment founded in 1202 in honour of St. Wolstan, Bishop of Worcester, for the Canons of the Order of St. Victor. What survives now are two arched gateways, a square tower with a spiral staircase, an arched way with adjoining apartments, and ivy-clad fragments of gable walls, all carefully preserved.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The neighborhood of Dublin : its topography, antiquities and historical associations (1921), Joyce, Weston St. John, Internet Archive neighborhoodofdu00joyc, Chapter 155 · source

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Gibbet Rath massacre

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Right here on the Curragh in May 1798, United Irishmen who had surrendered were fired on by government forces. Around 350 of the disarmed crowd were killed. Local tradition in Kildare long held that the dead of Gibbet Rath were buried where they fell on the plain.

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Gibbet Rath executions

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Somewhere around here is the site of the Gibbet Rath executions. On 29 May 1798, during the Irish Rebellion, government forces executed several hundred surrendering rebels on the Curragh of Kildare.

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

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Patrick Sarsfield, Jacobite General, born and bred at Tully, Kildare

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As you pass through the parish of Tully, it is worth knowing that this is where the famous Jacobite General Patrick Sarsfield was born and bred. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather all belonged to Tully. Lord Walter FitzGerald noted that biographers wrongly claim him as a native of County Dublin, because he succeeded to the Lucan estates there. Both the Sarsfields of Lucan and of Tully came from the same stock, the Sarsfields of Sarsfieldstown in County Meath. Their common ancestor was John, second son of Roger Sarsfield, a Dublin merchant who served as mayor in 1531.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society. (1891), County Kildare :County Kildare Archaeological Society,, Internet Archive journalofcountyk04coun, Chapter 76 · source

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Dermot Mac Murrogh's massacre at Kildare abbey

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Coming up now is the town of Kildare. In 1135, this was the scene of one of the darkest acts of Dermot Mac Murrogh, king of Leinster. He was a man of great size and strength, stern in manner, brave and fierce in war, and his voice was loud and hoarse from constant shouting in battle. He was cruel, tyrannical, and treacherous, hated in his own day as much as his memory has been hated ever since. His whole life was a record of violence and villainy. That year, 1135, he took the abbess of Kildare from her convent and forced her to marry one of his followers. When the townspeople attempted to prevent the sacrilege, he killed 170 of them, including some of the nuns. The only good features of his character known to us were that he made himself in a degree popular with the lower classes, and that he was very liberal in founding and endowing churches and monasteries in his own province of Leinster. In later times he was often called Dermot-na-Gall, of the English. In 1152, a few months after the battle of Moanmore, he carried off Dervorgilla, the wife of Ternan O'Ruarc, prince of Brefney, while O'Ruarc himself was absent from home. This was done with the consent, not only of the lady herself, but of her brother O'Melaghlin, prince of Meath, and she took away with her all the cattle, furniture, and jewels she had brought to her husband as dowry.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A short history of Ireland from the earliest times to 1608 (1893), Joyce, P. W. (Patrick Weston), 1827-1914, Internet Archive shorthistoryofir00joycrich, Chapter 30 · source

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Execution of Rev. James Porter at Greyabbey

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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.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Being some account of antiquities and writers of the county of Donegal: (1895), Doherty, William James, Internet Archive inisowentirconne00doheiala, Chapter 206 · source

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Burial, Knockshough Glebe

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A burial was found here in Knockshough Glebe, right beside the road. A skeleton was uncovered during road widening in October 1953, lying east to west about 0.6 metres below the surface in hard yellow clay. No grave-cut or goods were recorded, and a similar burial had been found nearby some months before.

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Burial, Kilnagornan

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Here at Kilnagornan in Kildare, a burial was found in 1984. A skeleton lay in a shallow grave right under the topsoil, in the face of an old quarry. The body was aligned north to south, and a shallow ditch showed in the quarry face just north-west of the grave.

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Grangebeg old church dilapidated by Captain King

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Somewhere around here in Grangebeg, the old church is mostly gone. A Captain King, now late, is said to have taken the building apart for its stone and used the materials for fencing. An old map held in the State Paper Office also shows a castle or large house once standing here. Before any of that, there was a megalithic structure in the ground, what they called a giant's grave, walled with large stones and measuring 21 feet by 10 inside, with a rough doorway at one end made from two upright stones set as jambs around a 2-foot gap. Nobody round here remembered how old it was or what it was for.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of Sligo : town and county (1900), O'Rorke, Terence, Internet Archive historyofsligoto00oror, Chapter 219 · source

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Castle - hall-house, Lackagh More

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Right here at Lackagh More in Kildare are the poorly preserved remains of what may have been a late 13th or 14th century hall-keep and bawn. The south corner survives as an L-shaped mass of thin coursed flags with a gentle base-batter, and traces of a north corner stand about 13.5 metres away. A short narrow stone-built passageway with a wicker-centred pointed vault lies just south of it, a later feature mislabelled as a souterrain on the 1939 OS map. A fosse noted in 1986 is no longer visible. A motte sits about 150 metres to the west and a church and graveyard lie roughly 35 metres to the east-north-east.

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Ritual site - holy well, Tobercocka

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Right here at Tobercocka is a holy well, now a fenced-off oval pond in a roadside garden with some stone lining still visible. Fitzgerald in 1919 called it a Blessed Well, though not then resorted to for cures. Jackson later recorded that people came here for a cure for mental illness, and a patron was held on March 8th.

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Ballagh Bridge crossed by Essex and Cromwell's army

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Monasterevin is a town of bridges — twenty-six within a quarter mile. The oldest and most interesting is Ballagh, or Pass Bridge, very narrow, with recesses on one side so pedestrians could step aside from traffic. It spans the River Barrow where the Earl of Essex crossed in 1599 on his march northwards, after escaping destruction by the O'Moores in the Pass of Plumes. Tradition says that for the help the locals gave him that day, he granted them a right of way ten yards wide along either bank for a considerable distance, presumably for fishing. Cromwell's army also crossed this bridge before battering down the fine old castle of Lea, the principal stronghold of Silken Thomas. Later, some of Cromwell's admirers had the bridge photographed, believing he had built it, when there was question of removing it for the Barrow drainage scheme. An old man named Whelan, who lived close by and died aged 98, was told by his father that he often saw as many as 30 members of the old Irish Houses of Commons and Lords stop at a hotel beside the bridge, all riding together to or from a parliamentary session. The hotel was kept by an ancestor of the late Dr. Dudley White, city coroner.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society. (1891), County Kildare :County Kildare Archaeological Society,, Internet Archive journalofcountyk02coun, Chapter 101 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Riverstown

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Right here is a holy well in Riverstown, enclosed by a stone wall in a farmyard. Jackson recorded six upright stone posts at its centre with a wooden cross on top. A stone beside the well bears indentations said to be the imprints of a saint's knees. The well is still visited for cures, though there is no record of a Pattern day being held here.

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Burial ground, Lughil

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Right here at Lughil in Kildare is a burial ground on a low ridge, now set in tillage. It's an unenclosed overgrown rectangle, 20 metres by 10 metres, covered in hazel and thorn bushes with dead vegetation underfoot. A plain headstone noted in 1986 can no longer be seen, probably hidden by the dense growth.

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Children's burial ground, Rathronshin

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Right here at Rathronin Laois is a children's burial ground. It doesn't appear on the 1841 or 1888 maps, but by 1909 it was already marked as disused. There's nothing to see now, just scrub land with no wall or ditch around it.

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Elizabeth Fitzgerald defends Moret Castle against O'Cahils

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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.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The story of an Irish sept : their character & struggle to maintain their lands in Clare (1896), Macnamara, Nottidge Charles, 1832-1918, Internet Archive storyofirishsept00macn, Chapter 121 · source

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Burial, Morett

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The burial is right here. During excavation for the M7 motorway scheme, a skeleton was uncovered, a young, probably female, adult buried in a linear grave. The body was laid north to south in an extended supine position, in a grave measuring 1.6 metres by 0.55 metres and 0.16 metres deep.

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Burial, Morett

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Right here beside the road, a burial was found during excavation for the Heath-Mayfield motorway scheme. Jonathan Dempsey uncovered the remains of a possible adult female, laid out on her back in a shallow irregular grave, her skull facing west. No objects were buried with her. A horse had been placed in a separate grave just 0.7 metres to the east.

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Burial, Ballydavis

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Here is the site of a burial mound at Ballydavis, near Portlaoise. The mound was levelled. In March 1953, human remains were discovered during bulldozing operations at a gravel pit here, which was being levelled and cleared of overgrowth under a land reclamation scheme. According to the workmen at the site, six to eight skeletons had been discovered and removed. The site was investigated by Ellen Prendergast. As far as could be ascertained, the remains had been found at various points on the top of the gravel mound under about 0.3 metres of soil, and darker patches of soil visible in the section may indicate the original location of the burials. No objects of any description were found. The burials appear to have been extended, but the orientation was not recorded. A number of other in situ remains were noted, and these appeared to be aligned west to east. There was no evidence for any stone protection around any of the burials. The remains were not acquired but were handed over to the local parish priest, who was to arrange for reburial. The files suggest possible famine burials. Archaeological testing in the vicinity was carried out by John Purcell in 2004. More recently, excavations in this townland produced evidence for a prehistoric complex including four ring-ditches, seven furnaces and a number of pits and post-holes.

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Slaying of Owny O'More's son at Ballydavis in 1477

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Somewhere close to Ballydavis, in 1477, the son of Owny O'More was slain by MacPierce Butler and Art O'Conor. The Four Masters recorded the killing at Baile-Daithi, the old name for this place, meaning the town of Dathi or David. There is a remarkable natural phenomenon in this locality called the Sluggera, a large opening in the earth into which a considerable stream rushes and is lost. The old district chapel once stood on the Ballydavis side of the Great Heath, and the building still exists, having been converted into a National School. The burial ground adjoining is still occasionally used.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Collections relating to the dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin (1883), Comerford, M. (Michael), 1830 or 1831-1895, author, Internet Archive collectionsrelat03come, Chapter 264 · source

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Capture of Ruaidhri at Rath-Brenainn despite sureties

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Somewhere around here, in 1143, Ruaidhri son of Ua Dubhda was seized by Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair, king of Connaught. This was done in violation of protections given by the clergy and laity of Connaught. The clergy, including the bishop of Connaught and successors of Patrick and Feichin, fasted at Rath-Brenainn to secure his release. But he was not handed over.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Annala Rioghachta Eireann : Annals of the kingdom of Ireland (1856), O'Clery, Michael, 1575-1643, Internet Archive annalarioghachta01ocleuoft, Chapter 145 · source

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Burial, Cappoley

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Right here at Cappoley, near Portlaoise in County Laois, a human skull came to light in November 1951. Quarrying operations were under way at a sandpit, and the skull fell from the top of the quarry and broke into small pieces. The Gardaí were called, and the site was reported to the Coroner. The Gardaí in turn informed the National Museum of Ireland. A site investigation was carried out 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 by the time Hartnett looked, because the section had been cut back since the discovery. But according to a local, the remains were found at a depth of around half a metre below the surface, and other bones had apparently turned up in the same sandpit some years before. The remains were not acquired by the Museum. No exact location for the burial has been identified in the files, but there is only one sandpit in Cappoley visible on aerial photographs of the area, and it matches the description of the wooded ground. The Garda report gives the quarry a name: Norton's quarry, at Sheffield House. The Battle of Plumes, fought in 1599, apparently took place in the vicinity.

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Ritual site - holy well, Meelick (Maryborough East By.)

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There's a holy well right here at Meelick, though you won't see anything now. It was marked on the 1841 and 1907 ordnance survey maps, but no visible surface remains survive today.

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Massacre of Ossorian prisoners at Bannow

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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.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A short history of Ireland from the earliest times to 1608 (1893), Joyce, P. W. (Patrick Weston), 1827-1914, Internet Archive shorthistoryofir00joycrich, Chapter 31 · source

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Burial ground, Killeany

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There is a burial ground right here at Killeany in Laois, though nothing is visible now. It lay in low ground beside the river. Human bones turned up in this field in 1958, about 100 yards south of the castle. An OPW report said these were not proper burials but remains scattered from the old graveyard, which the Grand Jury partly destroyed by putting a road straight through it before 1839.

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Castle - tower house, Killeany

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Here at Killeany in Laois, right beside the road, are the remains of a tower house. It was marked on the 1563 map of Leix and Offaly, and people lived in it until about the middle of the eighteenth century. One wall still stood to a considerable height until roughly twenty-three years before a 1958 report, when it was blown up as being dangerous. Now only featureless fragments of masonry remain in this low-lying spot beside the river. Land project works uncovered some cobbing, presumably the old yard.

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Naming of Gorthnaclea from wounded warriors' last stand

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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

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Burial ground, Kilminfoyle

What it said · 90 of 90 words

Right beside the road here at Kilminfoyle in Laois is a burial ground, a low earthen mound about 1.5 metres high and 28 metres across, with the northern section destroyed. No grave markers are visible. Dowling described it as the graveyard of Kilmuilfoyle, about half a mile from Dairy Hill Church site, noting the headstones were all rude and uninscribed and no interments had been made since 1835. He said the name is a corruption of Kyle Maol Foyle, from the original Cill Maol Foil, the Church of St. Maolpoil.

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Penal Mass station, Tinnaragh

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Right here at Tinnaragh in Laois is a penal mass station, inside the ringfort. A whitethorn bush marks the spot, known as the Monument or the Priest's Bush. It does not appear on the 1839 or 1908 ordnance maps, and there are numerous bushes in this area.

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Ritual site - holy well, Ballygowdan

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Right here is a holy well known as Bishop's Well. There's a shallow pool of water, about 1.3 metres deep. That's all that remains, and all the record tells us.

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Castle - tower house, Grantstown

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Right here at Grantstown in Laois stands a circular tower house, one of the few round castles in this part of the country. It was originally owned by the Lords of Upper Ossory, then belonged to Gilbert Rawson in 1653 and Edmond Morris in 1691, before being granted to Richard and Edward Fitzpatrick in 1696 by William of Orange. Built from well-coursed limestone rubble, it had five storeys and an attic, with a barrel vault over the third floor, and a spiral stair climbing through the upper levels. The walls are fully 11 feet thick, and the inside measures 19 feet across. About a third of the wall has collapsed between north-east and south-south-east, the rubble forming a large cairn that almost hides the ground floor. Carrigan wrote that it was 'in good preservation, though roofless for a considerable time.' Gun loops cover the approach from several floors, and there is a machicolation over the entrance. A rectangular chimney rises above where the wall walk once ran. Much of the original render still clings to the stonework. A walled garden once lay 130 metres to the south-west, and the tower looks out over Grantstown Lake to the north-east. Pre-development testing in November 1995 turned up no further archaeological deposits nearby.

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Castle - unclassified, Aghmacart

What it said · 143 of 143 words

Right here at Aghmacart in Laois, there was once a castle belonging to the Fitzpatrick family. Nothing of it is visible now. Francis Grose depicted a tower in his illustration of the priory, and it may have been a residential tower at the west end or possibly a belfry. Grose noted that the belfry, though far short of its original height, gave some sense of how considerable that height once was. Carrigan later wrote that the castle was most likely the residence of the Canons, and that people who remembered it said it was as high and almost as large as the castle at Cullahill. It collapsed from the foundations around 1850. A building attached to it on the east side was the Priory Church, which people called the Friars Chapel. About 30 ft of the east end of that chapel still remains.

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Castle - tower house, Galesquarter

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Right beside the road here at Galesquarter in Laois, there's a tower house. The MacGillapatricks erected it about 1425. The Cromwellians damaged it in the mid seventeenth century and left it uninhabitable. It's built of roughly coursed limestone, five storeys high with a wall-walk. Most of the north portion is missing, as is the doorway. There's a mural stairwell in the north-east angle, and a barrel vault runs north to south over the ground floor, with evidence of a loft accessed from an opening in the north wall. Mural passages run on the first and second floors of the south wall, with chambers in the south-east and south-west angles. A large cut-limestone fireplace sits on the second floor of the east wall. There's an intramural wall-walk and a pitched gable on the south wall, a chimney stack on the east wall. Carrigan referred to a sheela-na-gig on the east wall and a draw-well in the centre of the courtyard, but no trace of either is visible now. A large well-preserved seven-sided bawn wall survives, with gun loops at north and east, and an inner defensive wall with angle towers stands close to the tower house. It appears to have been destroyed at north and east.

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Castle - tower house, Glashare

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Right here at Glashare is the site of a tower house, standing on a slight rise above the Rathlogan river flood plain. It belonged to the Butlers of Ormond in the 16th and 17th centuries. By 1839 it was noted as in good preservation and still inhabited. It is a rectangular four-storied tower house with a base-batter, but it was much modified in the 18th and 19th centuries. Two brick-vaulted chambers were inserted at ground-floor level, the fourth floor was largely rebuilt, and a bow-fronted perron was added to the south face to give access to a large first-floor doorway. 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 an original guardroom to the south. The spiral stair was accessed via a pointed doorway in the north-west angle. The second and third floors had wooden floors resting on corbels, but these floors do not survive. A pointed vault covers the third floor. The third floor has ogee-headed windows with expanded circular bases for a gun, and an original polished limestone fireplace. The fourth floor appears largely or entirely rebuilt, with crenellations that partially survive and mimic those of an early 17th-century castle.

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Castle - ringwork, Rathoscar

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Right beside the road is a castle ringwork at Rathoscar. It sits on the end of a small ridge, with good views over the Goul and Rathlogan river valleys. What remains is a roughly circular area enclosed by an earthen bank, with no trace of an external fosse. The Ordnance Survey Letters of 1839 noted the remains of a stone building within the interior. The field has been reclaimed up to the foot of the bank.

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Settlement deserted - medieval, Grangefertagh

What it said · 49 of 49 words

The lost town of Fertagh is said to have stood right here, in the field between Steepleview House and the churchyard. Earthworks linked to the settlement have been identified on aerial photographs to the north, south and west of the Augustinian abbey. The source is Carrigan, writing in 1905.

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Castle - motte and bailey, Grangefertagh

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Here, right beside the road, is a motte and bailey at Grangefertagh. It sits on a natural hillock in flat marshy ground, on what is nearly an island where the River Goul splits, the main flow running east to west to the north and a lesser channel to the south. In 1839 the Ordnance Survey letters record the local name as Mota na Fearta. The motte top measures about 36 metres north to south and 25 metres east to west, standing 5 metres high on the north side. A kidney-shaped bailey lies to the west, and a fosse runs between the two. Both are heavily overgrown with dense scrub now. A berm and a well-preserved outer bank enclose the whole site, incorporating the natural scarp on the north. Views from here are extensive to the north, south and west, with Cullahill hill dominating the east and the Grangefertagh round tower visible to the east-south-east. A gap to the north-west may mark an entrance, and three depressions there could be old quarrying, shown on the 1839 map. Banks running through scrub to the south-west suggest a trackway, but a 19th-century farmhouse and its field boundaries shown on the same map are probably not connected to the motte and bailey.

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Castle - tower house, Foulkscourt

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Right here on the flat flood plain of the River Goul is Foulkscourt, a five-storey tower house built of roughly coursed limestone rubble. The castle and estate belonged to the Butlers of Ormond from at least 1560 to 1698, when they disposed of both, by a fee-farm grant, to a Scotchman named Mr. Hely. Beyond that, this is a builder's record rather than a tale. The tower stands on the north portion of a bawn on a raised platform, with a vault over the third floor that has now collapsed, a pointed doorway in the east wall now blocked with masonry and concrete, and a murder-hole and guardroom protecting the entrance lobby. A spiral stair in the south-east angle gave access to all floors, and a high chimney stack rises from the parapet at the west end of the south wall. Traces of an external building remain on the north wall, with two later doorways broken through, both now blocked. The parapet has largely gone, surviving best on the south face.

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Castle - tower house, Urlingford

What it said · 126 of 126 words

Here at Urlingford in Kilkenny, right beside the road, stand the remains of a five-storey tower house on a limestone outcrop above the River Goul. The Down Survey parish map depicts a castle here, and the terrier lists Lord Mountgarrett, an Irish papist, as the proprietor in 1640. According to Carrigan, the castle was occupied in the middle of the 17th century by Captain Edward Butler, son of Richard, third Viscount Mountgarret, and grandson of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, whom the Cromwellians executed in 1653. The OS Letters of 1839 describe it as a "square tower" with narrow pointed windows, but by 1905 the northern portion had collapsed, and today the north wall and the north ends of the east and west walls are gone.

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Ritual site - holy well, Fennor

What it said · 44 of 44 words

Right here is the site of a holy well, St Patrick's well. It sits on wet flat marshy ground inside a modern coniferous plantation, and a pump house now stands where the well was. Fennor church and castle lie 600 metres to the west.

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Castle - unclassified, Fennor

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Right here at Fennor is where a castle once stood, on high ground in pasture with views in all directions. The Civil Survey called it 'a good castle' with a bawn, inhabited, and listed Pierce Butler as proprietor of the lands in 1640. Nothing is visible at ground level now. The OS Letters described 'a high but slender fragment' with part of the north and west walls remaining, about 1.8 metres thick and 12 metres high. A church and graveyard sit 130 metres to the south-west. The Turvin family built a house at the foot of the castle, which appears to have been abandoned in the early 1700s.

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Castle - unclassified, Inchirourke

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Here at Inchirourke in south Tipperary, the remains of a castle stand on a low rise of ground. Around 1300 this land belonged to John de Fresingfeld, and in 1312 Edmond Butler secured the manor from him. By the 17th century the Civil Survey made no mention of a castle here, suggesting it was already in ruins by then. What survives is a portion of the ground floor, standing no higher than 3 metres. You can see short sections of the north and south walls of a ground-floor chamber, with a barrel vault still over it. The walls are roughly coursed limestone rubble, and the underside of the vault still shows the marks of wicker centring. There may have been two barrel-vaulted chambers running east to west, but only the south one survives, with just a springer left of the north chamber. A gap in the centre of the south wall might be a broken-out window or doorway, and a chamfered limestone jamb lies inside. The south wall was built in two phases, visible in its exposed west face. The remains are too scant to tell whether this was an early medieval castle or a late medieval tower house.

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Settlement deserted - medieval, Leigh

What it said · 91 of 91 words

Right here at Leigh in Tipperary, archaeologists found the remains of a deserted settlement on a low ridge. Macalister excavated the earth and stone banks and uncovered two house sites from the 1600s, lying north and north-east of the larger church here. Glasscock dug the earthworks south-east of the church in 1971 and dated them to the late 1600s, while a raised platform turned out to be a burial ground. One house was rectangular and single-roomed. A second house, also rectangular but with rounded corners, sat immediately north of the church.

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Castle - tower house, Borris (Twomileborris Par.)

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Situated on the south side of the road at the west end of Twomileborris village, incorporated in a farmyard. A church and graveyard lie close by to the south-east and possible ringwork lies to the E. A number of references mention the Black Castle of 'Burgesleagh' in Eliogarty and it is clear that Two Mile Borris in the barony of Eliogarty, which comprises the townland of Blackcastle and is on the Black River, is the site of the castle. The Civil Survey of 1654-6 refers to it as 'one castle in repair'. The land at Borris is divided between several landowners including 'James Earle of Ormon[,]Piers Butler of Callin in the County of Kilkeny Esqr.[,]Robnett Purcell of Borresleagh and Richard Lawles of Kilkeny gent (ibid.). A four-storey tower house with battlements composed of roughly coursed limestone rubble with cut-stone quoins and external base-batter. A stone outbuilding has been built up against the south end of the west side, obscuring the original entrance. This doorway is 1 metres above the external ground level, though the base-batter beneath the doorway has subsequently been broken through. On entering the tower house, one is confronted with an elaborate defence system. There is an entrance hall, divided by doorways into three smaller lobbies, and directly facing the entrance there is a cruciform loop through which the defenders could attack. The most unusual feature however is the ceiling of this lobby. Though now gone, it was essentially a large wooden trapdoor which functioned as a enormous murder-hole. Modern openings have been broken through each of the walls on the ground-floor, which at the time of the survey was full of hay. The first and second floors are accessed from mural stairs which rise along the west and N walls. In the north-east corner the stairs become spiral just above second-floor level. The first floor has three window embrasures, each containing a flat-headed single-light. In the south wall there is a large off-centre fireplace, the hood of which is missing and the skewback and supporting corbel only survive on east side. Behind the west wall is a mural chamber which contains the murder-hole described above. The second floor has a vaulted roof. There is an embrasure in the east and south wall - both contain blocked lights. There is also a fireplace in the south wall. A doorway in the west wall leads to a mural chamber. Between the second and third floor there is a garderobe chamber entered from the spiral stairs. It runs along the east wall and doglegs to the S, the chute itself being in the south wall. The third floor is the most elaborate. There is a large window embrasure in each wall, two in the north wall. There is a door on either side of the W embrasures. That on the N leads to the battlements while the S opening gives access to a mural chamber. On the west side of the S embrasure there is a door which opens onto steps descending to a mural passage in the west wall. On the east side of the N embrasure there is an ornate cupboard, the base of which, now gone, covered a small hiding-hole. At battlement level only part of the wall-walk remains intact. The base of this feature is indicated externally by a string course. There are well-preserved bartizans at the north-east and south-west corners.

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Castle - tower house, Coolcroo

What it said · 149 of 149 words

Right here at Coolcroo in North Tipperary are the poorly preserved remains of what may be a T-plan tower house. Only the north half survives, standing to first-floor level, built of roughly coursed limestone rubble with a noticeable base-batter. A small tower projecting from the north wall rises to second-floor level and holds a garderobe, its outlet still visible at the base of the 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. There is a secret chamber over that recess at mezzanine level, reached from the first-floor chamber 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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Settlement deserted - medieval, Galbooly

What it said · 68 of 68 words

Galbooly is right here, a deserted medieval settlement on a west-facing slope in pastureland. There's a church and graveyard immediately to the west, and the field beyond holds low earthworks visible from the air but not forming any clear pattern. On the ground, what may be an old roadway and a house platform were found near the east boundary. Extensive earthworks surround the church and graveyard as well.

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Castle - unclassified, Ballymurreen

What it said · 93 of 93 words

Situated on flat pasture in undulating countryside with a nearby church to the W. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as an 'old castle and Bawne out of repaire'. Described in the OS Letters as a small two-storey gabled building x 14ft (4.26 metres); wall T 5.5ft (1.67 metres)) with a large fireplace and a chimney in the north wall which according to local tradition was the kitchen of the castle. No visible remains of the castle and bawn at ground level. They were probably replaced by the nineteenth-century house and modern outhouses.

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Moycarkey Castle

What it said · 125 of 125 words

Somewhere around here stands Moycarkey Castle, a tower-house inside a large rectangular bawn with round flanking towers at its corners. Its entrance is protected by a double murder-hole. The castle was the central stronghold of the Cantwell family, underlords of the Butlers of Ormond. An Edmund Cantwell of Moycarkey Castle had a daughter, Catherine, who married the Hon. John Butler, a son of the second Viscount Mountgarret. A William Cantwell was listed as the proprietor of the castle in 1640. In 1889, Bassett's directory noted that the castle had a large square tower with a high surrounding wall, and that a fissure in the tower was caused by lightning over a hundred years earlier. The ruins were then on the estate of a John Max.

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Castle - ringwork, Moycarky

What it said · 87 of 87 words

Right beside the road here is the ringwork castle at Moycarky. It is a roughly D-shaped enclosure on a gentle north-east-facing slope, defined by a substantial bank and an external fosse. Inside, there is a small square platform, slightly raised in the centre, which may mark the foundations of a medieval building. The outer enclosure has been levelled at the north-east to make room for a concrete floor and slatted shed. A sunken trackway runs immediately east of the site and appears to be associated with it.

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Castle - tower house, Forgestown

What it said · 111 of 111 words

Right here at Forgestown in north Tipperary, there was a possible tower house, but it was knocked about 15 years ago and all the stone buried in an old limekiln. A landowner said it stood at least two storeys high. A barn and concrete yard occupy the site now. The Ordnance Survey Letters described it as the ruins of a square castle, limestone, with only the east side and 13 feet of the north and south walls remaining. The doorway on the east end was destroyed by about 1840. The first floor rested on a stone arch, of which only a fragment survived, with two flat-headed windows on the east side.

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Castle - tower house, Aughnagomaun, Ballytarsna (Hackett)

What it said · 183 of 1425 words

In low-lying, gently undulating terrain, on break of south-west-facing slope, in pasture. The place name Ballytarsna means the town of the cross or cross roads. According to Lewis the castle was reputedly built by a person named Hacket who, according to tradition, was hanged by one of Cromwell's generals. Piers Hacket of Ballytarsne is in possession in 1546 (COD IV, 295). Patrick Hackett is listed as proprietor of the lands in 1640 and it is described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'one good Bawne & a Castle wanting repaire, with severall small Cottages'(ibid.). The five-storey tower house with bawn is composed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed, with quoins of cut limestone and a base-batter which terminates on either side of the main entrance. It is entered through a pointed doorway at the north end of the west wall which leads into a wide lobby protected by a murder-hole and a cross-loop in the wall opposite the doorway. There is a small guard room to the north of the lobby, in a poor state of repair and with no evidence of a doorway. The internal north wall has been built up and a reconstructed loop built into the wall. The murder-hole rises to second-floor level. A second pointed doorway leads S from the entrance lobby to a second lobby area, with holes at the apex and on the W jamb showing evidence of a yett protecting this internal doorway. The ground floor chamber is entered through a pointed doorway, off the second lobby to E, and is lit by three partially reconstructed, simple flat-headed lights in single, splayed embrasures, except in the east wall where the inner embrasure, newly built, is straight-sided and continues to floor level. A concrete floor has been poured in. There is a wall cupboard at the south end of the west wall which continues, at a lower level, into the thickness of the south wall. The first floor, of wood, was carried on wall-plates supported by corbels on the east and W walls. The first-floor chamber, with a pointed vaulted roof, was entered from the mural stairs in the west wall through a flat-headed doorway. It is lit by two lights, a flat-headed single light centrally placed in the north wall and a flat-headed loop in the east wall, on either side of which are openings to mural chambers, not accessible. In the south wall there is a flat-headed doorway at the west end which gives access to a garderobe chamber, lit by a simple single light. The mural stairs from the ground to the first floor are lit by a reconstructed single light between ground and first-floor level. Opposite the doorway to the first floor there is a flat-headed single light, with slop-stone beneath the sill, in a splayed embrasure. The stairs rise as a spiral in the south-west angle up to second-floor level. The second floor is entered through a flat-headed doorway from the spiral stairs and is lit by three windows, in the N, east and W walls, all with cut limestone window seats. At the north end of the west wall there is a narrow wall cupboard which doubles as a murder-hole chute. The sill-stone is still in situ, together with slots for the base, presumably wooden, of a cupboard. There is a wall cupboard at both north-east and north-west angles. At the south end of the east wall there is a broken-out fireplace but the lintel, apparently flat, has been robbed. There is a flat-headed doorway at the west end of the south wall leading into a garderobe chamber which is lit by a flat-headed single-light window. Between the second and third floors the stairs are lit by a flat-headed single light with a slightly concave sill, while almost opposite the doorway to the third floor, just north of centre in the west wall, is a simple ogee-headed single light in a splayed embrasure with a slop-stone beneath sill. The doorway is cut through the vault but the head is now missing. The third floor was wooden and carried on wall-plates supported on corbels on the east and W walls. It is lit by two single-light ogee-headed windows, in the north and S walls, and is roofed by a pointed stone vault. The north wall has a cupboard west of centre and a small fireplace, with its lintel missing, east of centre. The fourth floor is also accessed via the mural stairs in the west wall which turn at the north-west angle which is lit by two flat-headed loops, that at the north end of the west wall being shorter than that at the west end of the north wall. The doorway at the top of the stairs has a threshold, rebate and spud-socket on the west side, with a small lobby area in the angle. A portion of the stair lintel overlooking the external face of this doorway has been cut away and appears to have acted as a defensive feature. The stairs continue to rise in the north wall up to fourth-floor level. The internal north wall has collapsed and the doorway is completely gone. There is a passageway at fourth-floor level past the main chamber. This passageway was lit by a broken-out window near the east end of the north wall. The main chamber was entered from the passageway in the north wall. It is lit by three two-light windows, in the E, south and W walls. There are two small openings beneath the sill of the E window, possible gun-loops, and a wall cupboard at the west end of the south wall. The west wall has a double segmental-headed recess, supported in the centre by a triple corbel, each face of which has a straight cut and chamfer. Within the most southerly recess is a two -light, internally rebated, cusped ogee-headed window within a small straight-sided inner embrasure with small window seat and slightly splayed outer embrasure. north of this, beneath the triple corbel there is a slop-sink. In the north end of the west wall is a wall cupboard and at the west end of the north wall is a slight recess, below the level of the wall cupboard which continues to floor level. The north wall of the chamber is destroyed, but at the east end there is a recess in the wall which continues onto the east wall, the top being at a slightly higher level. A temporary roof was installed recently. On the south side of the inner embrasure of the window in the east wall are the remains of a doorway, only a portion of the head, probably pointed, surviving. This gave access to a narrow mural passage, lintelled, and lit by a flat-headed loop at the south end of the east wall with a slop-stone sill. The passage is L-shaped and turns into the south wall which is lit by a flat-headed loop with curved sill stone. The passage terminates with a narrow chimney flue, presumably originally sealed off, rising from the third floor to roof level. There is a small wall cupboard almost directly opposite the window. To the north of the main E window embrasure is a small doorway, internally rebated, which leads to a mural passage lit by a simple loop within a splayed embrasure. A hole in the floor at the end of the passage, with rebates to carry a trapdoor, leads into an oubliette, or hiding-hole, directly below this mural passage. The mural stairs continues to rise steeply at the east end of the west wall before turning onto the parapet. The top of the stair is lit by a flat-headed loop with sill-stone beneath. Access to the roof was not possible, being blocked by a modern doorway. A carved figure on horseback and sun-burst on the W jamb of the flat-headed doorway leading onto parapet appear to be graffitti. The parapet survives with crow-step crenellations and gutter-stones, similar bartizans at the north-west and south-east angles with pyramidal-chamfered corbel at the angle and double corbel supports on either side, and a turret at the north-east angle. Externally visible on the west face at inter-floor level between first and second floor there is a recently inserted flat-headed window with ext. chamfer and the shadow of a steeply-pitched roofed building, the apex of which almost reaches to second-floor level. This building was attached to the west end of the wall, covering the doorway and inserted window. In the external face of the N, east and S walls at ground-floor level there are

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Castle - unclassified, Erry

What it said · 97 of 97 words

Right here at Erry, in south Tipperary, there was a castle. Not much remains now, just grass-covered wall-footings of what may have been a small rectangular tower, about 6.3 metres north to south and 7.4 metres east to west, sitting in the centre of what looks like a bawn. The footings are attached to the south end of the graveyard wall. The size and shape suggest a tower house with its associated bawn. A stream runs just west, and there are earthworks of a possible deserted settlement to the west, north and south of the castle site.

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St. Leger's reprisals against cattle raiders in Ormond baronies

What it said · 138 of 138 words

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.

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Castle - tower house, Gortmakellis

What it said · 147 of 179 words

Right here at Gortmakellis in south Tipperary are the remains of a late 16th or early 17th century tower house. The Civil Survey described it as "a castle tentable," and in 1640 the proprietor was Edmond Stapleton of Gortmakellis, listed as an Irish Papist. It's a four-storey tower house with an attic, built of roughly coursed rubble with well-cut limestone quoins. There's a vault over the first floor and a base-batter resting on a basal plinth. The entrance was through a pointed doorway at the south end of the west wall, leading into a lobby with a murder-hole, a guardroom with two gun-loops, and a spiral stair in the north-west angle. Windows range from single to double-light, with flat, round, elliptical and ogee-headed styles. There are fireplaces on the second and third floors, two garderobe chambers in the north wall, and the gables survive in good condition. Two angle machicolations at the north-east and south-west corners survive only as supporting corbels. A fallow area about 20 metres north of the building may mark the former site of a bawn.

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Pit-burial, Monadreela

What it said · 102 of 102 words

Right here beside the road, archaeologists excavated this ground before the Cashel Bypass was built and found a pit-burial on the western edge of their dig. The pit was round with a flat base, filled with charcoal-rich soil, cremated bone, and a single small chert flake at the bottom. A second pit-burial lay 8 metres to the north-north-east, and elsewhere on the site they uncovered a kiln near the small lake and the trough of a fulacht fia. These were the remains of people who lived and worked this slope long ago, though the record gives no dates for any of it.

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Executions at Gallows Hill and in front of the gaol

What it said · 149 of 149 words

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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Lord Inchiquin's Massacre at Cashel Cathedral

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Somewhere close to Cashel, in the 1640s, Lord Inchiquin's forces carried out what one account calls his memorable service here. During the civil war, his soldiers put 3000 people to the sword, regarding neither sex nor age. The priests were, in the words of the source, literally torn from the altars of God, and butchered before them in the cathedral. Ludlow, a contemporary, said Inchiquin did not spare his own kindred, but hanged them up without distinction if he found them in arms for the cause he had abandoned. He was personally brave and frequently victorious, but he seems to have studiously corrupted the well-inclined and elevated himself by undermining others. The parliament of England voted him a traitor on the 14th of April, 1649, feeling no dependence could be placed on such a man. Charles the Second then appointed him President of Munster by letters from the Hague, hoping to create a revolution in his favour. But his own soldiers, disgusted by the inconsistency of his conduct, revolted. Inchiquin fled to France for safety, and was soon after raised by Charles to the dignity of an earl. On the Restoration, 8000 pounds was bestowed on him, as a mark of his majesty's favourable and gracious consideration of his losses and sufferings.

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Castle - tower house, Shanballyduff (Dangandargan Par.)

What it said · 89 of 89 words

Right beside the road here are the remains of a four-storey tower house at Shanballyduff. The Civil Survey called it "a good Castle with a slate house within a Bawne thereof alsoe an oarchard," in the proprietorship of Pierce Butler in 1640. It was built on a rock outcrop with limestone rubble and a base-batter, protected by a bawn, a murder-hole, a guardroom, and gun-loops. The armorial plaque above the doorway is gone, and the parapet does not survive, but the bawn walls on three sides are largely intact.

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William Roe of Rockwell shot by evicted tenant

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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."

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clonmel (1907), Burke, William P., 1864-1941, Internet Archive historyclonmel00burkgoog, Chapter 13 · source

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Castle - unclassified, Garranlea

What it said · 136 of 215 words

Right here at Garranlea is the site of a castle that once stood on top of this hill. The Civil Survey records that in 1640 there was a castle and bawn here, with a big thatched house, all held by Thomas Butler, described as an Irish Papist. A century earlier, an artillerist named Cornelius MacShane O'Meagher of what may be this place was pardoned in 1560. What you can see in the pastureland now is a roughly rectangular earthwork, with mounds of earth at three of its corners and stone at two of them where masonry has collapsed. The earthwork appears to be the remains of the bawn, the enclosing wall. At the south-east angle part of an external wall face survives, and there may be the trace of a corner turret running north-west to south-east. Inside the bawn, in the south-west corner, are the foundations of a rectangular building built against the south and west walls. That building could be the remains of a tower house or the thatched house mentioned in the Civil Survey. There is a rectangular annexe adjoining the west side of the earthwork, and to the south and east of the castle the field holds numerous undulations, including a roughly triangular enclosure defined by banks running off the south side.

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Murder of Moll McCarthy

What it said · 53 of 53 words

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.

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

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The Fairies of Knockgraffon and Jack Madden's Curse

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Somewhere around here, at the old moat of Knockgraffon, a piper called Lusmore once had his hump taken off by the fairies after he perfected their song. But Jack Madden spoiled the tune, and twenty of the strongest fairies brought Lusmore's hump and put it on Jack's back, over his own. It fixed on as firmly as if it was nailed on with twelvepenny nails by the best carpenter that ever drove one. They kicked him out of their castle, and in the morning his mother and her gossip found him half dead at the foot of the moat with the second hump on his back. They were afraid to say anything, lest a hump be put on their own shoulders. They brought him home, and what through the weight of that other hump and the long journey, he died soon after. He left his curse, they say, on anyone who would go to listen to fairy tunes again.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825), T. Crofton Croker, Project Gutenberg #39752, Chapter 3 · source

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Castle - tower house, Cloghabreedy

What it said · 88 of 88 words

Right here is the site of Cloghabreedy tower house, on a south-facing slope below the crest of a limestone ridge. The Butlers held this land. Theobald Butler appears in the Ormond Deeds of 1561 in connection with the place, and by 1640 the Civil Survey records John Butler of Cloghabreedy, described as an Irish Papist, owning the land with a bawn, a thatched house, and several cottages. Interestingly, the Civil Survey makes no mention of the tower house itself, only the bawn and the thatched house within it.

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Burial ground, Caherabbey Lower

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Right here in Caherabbey Lower, there was once a burial ground on a high gravel ridge overlooking the River Suir. The ridge itself is gone now, quarried away by Roadstone, but in 1988 human bones turned up in a section of the quarry and brought the burials to light. Thirty individuals were excavated and examined, men, women and children, buried in simple shallow pits with no coffins, no grave goods, and no markers. They were laid out extended, aligned east to west with their heads to the west. A roughly circular field boundary shown on the 1840 and 1906 maps may have been a stone wall enclosing the summit, and traces of a mortared stone wall were found during excavation. Radiocarbon dating of the remains gives a calibrated range of roughly 693 to 1019 AD, placing these burials in the early medieval period. Whatever community laid their dead here chose a commanding spot above the river, and the graves went unnoticed for over a thousand years until the quarry cut into them.

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Carrigeen Castle

What it said · 147 of 407 words

Detached irregular-plan former bridewell, built 1812-16 and enlarged 1849-50. Closed 1878 and used as military officers' residence until 1919, private dwelling until 1976 and private dwelling and guest house since. Comprises three-storey south-west block having four-bay ground floor and two-bay ends with four-stage round tower projecting from south corner, two-storey over basement north-east block at right angles to south-east block, projecting by one bay and having two-bay south-east gable and three-bay long sides, and lower north-west block. Curtain walling to north and west forming former bridewell exercise yards, polygonal towers at north and south-west angles and possibly earlier round tower to north-west angle. Two-storey accommodation formed at north-west stretch of north yard, having inserted openings. Pitched slate roof to north-east block, roof of other blocks not visible, with cast-iron rainwater goods. Crenellations to towers, parapets and curtain walls. Cut limestone copings and eaves course to north-east block. South-west block has moulded corbel tabling, and machicolation and roughly dressed chimneystack to south-east elevation. South-west block and its tower have snecked roughly dressed rubble limestone walls with cut-stone string courses and battered rock-faced limestone base. North-east block has rubble limestone walls to north-east elevation and rendered to south-east, with dressed limestone quoins to corners having panel detail to projecting cut limestone tops, and carved limestone plaque with shield to upper south-east gable with label moulding. Curtain walls are rubble limestone. Square-headed window openings to south-east and north-east blocks, with chamfered surrounds except for top floor of south-east block, with label-mouldings, render to latter and cut limestone to first floor. Replacement aluminium and uPVC windows. Round-headed narrow lights to top stage of tower of south-east block, arrow slits and some blind windows with label-mouldings to other towers. Pointed arch main entrance opening to south-east elevation of south-east block, with cut limestone hood-moulding, chamfered surround, replacement aluminium door and stone steps. D-shaped random rubble stone-walled enclosure surrounding complex, having crenellated Tudor-arch gateway at south angle, with dressed limestone voussoirs and recent decorative wrought-iron gates. Set in landscaped surroundings on height overlooking town. This former bridewell is dramatically sited on an elevated site over the town of Cahir, accentuating its formidable appearance. It is a complex building set at the centre of a stone enclosure and in its details of towers and turrets, crenellations and corbels, it echoes the Cahir Castle. Its grim function is suggested by its defensive appearance. Fine craftsmanship is apparent in the stone masonry, hood-mouldings and roof details.

Read from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 22111025 · source

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Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, Lissava

What it said · 73 of 73 words

Right here at Lissava is a possible portal tomb, standing on the southern slope below the Galtees. A large sandstone conglomerate slab rests on a triangular side-stone and slopes down to the ground. There is quartz loose nearby and rubble scattered around the chamber. Deciduous scrub and ferns are reclaiming the slope after earlier burning. The record notes a possible alignment running north-west to south-east, with a distinct linear depression across the capstone.

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Edmund Sheehy's dying declaration before execution

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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

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Castle - unclassified, Rehill (Shanrahan Par.)

What it said · 105 of 105 words

Rehill Castle stood right here on the south-west edge of a ridge in pasture, with the Glennyrea River about 60 metres downslope. The Civil Survey described it as "a castle and some thatcht houses with a Bawne about them" and noted the castle had been "lately repayred." The survey also recorded that the castle, bawn, and lands of Rehill, being a manor, had a Court-leet and a Court-Baron attached. The 1840 map showed a roughly square area at the site, possibly the bawn, but by 1904 only a short length of hachuring remained, and there is no visible trace of the castle above ground now.

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Bridge seen alive at a forge in Burncourt shortly before alleged murder

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Somewhere close to Burncourt, a forge stood where a man named John Bridge was seen alive on the 24th of October, 1764. A dancing-master from Shanbally, who knew Bridge, swore he met him there that day. Bridge called for the sledge and turned some shoes, then called the dancing-master aside and told him to keep secret what he was about to say: he was going out of the kingdom, and if he returned he would return his favour. The dancing-master never saw him after.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clonmel (1907), Burke, William P., 1864-1941, Internet Archive historyclonmel00burkgoog, Chapter 38 · source

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Burial ground, Skeheenaranky

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Right here in Skeheenaranky is a burial ground in rolling pasture sloping to the south-east. It's a D-shaped enclosure, known to the landowner as the Lios. Power in 1908 noted this field was called the field of the early church, but no trace of that church remains above ground. Locally it's remembered as a burial ground.

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Ritual site - holy well, Churchquarter

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Here at Churchquarter in Limerick is Our Lady's Well, a strong flowing spring not marked on maps. Rounds were formerly made here on Saturdays and on 15th August, and the water cured sore eyes and other ailments. There are no devotions now. Legends say the well moved when profaned, the water will not boil, and a fish living in the well was taken away by a priest for reasons unknown.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), LI060-003---- · source

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Burial ground, Castlequarter (Coshlea By.)

What it said · 41 of 41 words

This is the burial ground here at Castlequarter. The 1840 map marks it as a burial ground on the crest of a hill, shown as an oval earthwork, though only a short section of the south-east side now survives above ground.

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Workhouse, Kilshanny

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You're right at the site of the Union Workhouse here in Kilshanny. It opened in 1851 on a walled plot of about 7.5 acres, a typical workhouse complex with a hospital, chapel, mortuary and a separate fever hospital. It closed in 1916, was burnt in the 1920s and demolished in the 1940s. A high limestone perimeter wall still stands, and you can still pick out the outlines of buildings in the ground and the parch marks. There's an arched cut-limestone entrance with a pediment in the south wall, flanked by two smaller arched doorways, with a blank shield-shaped plaque above. A circular iron horse-driven pump drive-shaft survives in the north-west corner, and there's a graveyard outside the north wall at the east end.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO019-113001- · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Ballynamona (Condons And Clongibbon By., Brigown Par.)

What it said · 143 of 143 words

Right here, in this wooded spot along the stream, there is a holy well dedicated to Saint Fanahan. It is an open U-shaped well lined with brick, with a statue of the saint housed in a shrine behind it. For nine days before and nine days after the feast of Saint Fanahan on November 25th, large numbers of people come to pray at the well and to do the rounds. The statue was replaced and a cross slab erected during repairs in 1989. Local information says that another holy well, Saint Finnchu's, about 880 metres to the south-west in Brigown, was abandoned in favour of this one. A single-arched foot-bridge crosses the stream to the south, and a stone head was inserted into the bridge wall during those 1989 repairs, said to have come from the Roman Catholic church in Thomas Street, Mitchelstown.

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Ritual site - holy well, Brigown

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There's a well here at Brigown, in the pasture west of the old church and graveyard. It's an unenclosed spring beside a bush, and the maps from 1842 and 1905 never marked it. Local tradition says a woman washed her clothes in this well one evening. The next morning the monks found it had gone dry, and a new well had appeared about 880 metres north-east in Ballynamona.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CO019-030001- · source

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Davy Roche Dances with the Dead in Kilcrumper Churchyard

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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

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Castle - tower house, Moorepark

What it said · 155 of 155 words

Right here beside the road are the remains of a tower house belonging to the Condons. It stands on a limestone outcrop overlooking the Funshion River to the south-west, a rectangular five-storey tower with battered walls and fragments of a bawn wall along the cliff edge. The Condons held it until the late 16th century, when it was granted to Fleetwood as part of the Munster Plantation. They temporarily repossessed it during the wars of the mid-17th century but lost it again, and it finally passed to the Moores, later Earls of Mount-Cashel, in 1781. Mount-Cashel repaired the tower in the late 19th century, which is when the ceiling joists you can still see were added. The tower had a mural chamber with a murder hole on the first floor, gun loops in a circular tower at the base of the cliff, and a small central turret rising two storeys above the main wall walks.

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Burial ground, Grange East (Condons And Clongibbon By.)

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Here is a burial ground at the north-west side of the military barracks in Fermoy. It is a walled subrectangular enclosure, not shown on the 1842 map but marked as a military cemetery by 1905. A former railway line seems to have cut through its north-east corner. You enter through a wide gateway with cut limestone piers and an arch at the east end of the south wall. Inside it is well kept, with a scatter of 19th- and early-20th-century military headstones. An adjacent famine burial ground lies through an archway to the south, and a second disused military cemetery enclosure stands to the east.

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Castle - tower house, Carrigabrick

What it said · 117 of 117 words

Right here at Carrigabrick in Cork, on a cliff above the Blackwater River, stands what's left of a five-storey circular tower house. Almost a third of it has collapsed on the west side, taking the doorway and staircase with it. What survives shows a building built for defence: musket loops in the window embrasures, three machicolations at wall-walk level over the ground-floor windows, and twin garderobe chutes. The castle belonged to the Condons. Richard Condon of Carrigabrick, sheriff of County Cork, received a pardon in 1567. The lands were granted to Arthur Hyde in 1588. According to Power, writing in 1932, the tower stands on the site of an earlier fortification, of which no trace now survives.

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Sheela-na-Skean's Murder and Haunting near Fermoy

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Somewhere close to Fermoy, a rich farmer was found murdered in his bed years ago. He was reputed to have hoards of gold hidden in his sleeping room, and some said he never slept without the sack of gold under his pillow. One night he was found cruelly murdered, and all the gold in the house was missing except a few blood-stained pieces dropped by the killers in their flight. The old man had been living alone, his wife dead and his only son away in a distant part of the country. The son returned on news of the murder, and suspicion fell on the housekeeper and a lover she used to bring to the house. She was called Sheela-na-Skean, Sheela of the Knife, a dark, fierce, powerful woman noted for her violent and vindictive temper. Her lover was a weak, cowardly fellow who turned evidence to save his life. He said he took no part in the actual murder, though he had helped Sheela remove and bury the gold. According to him, she entered the old man's room at night, took the sharp short sword that always hung at the head of his bed, and stabbed him over and over till not a breath of life was left. They ransacked the room, found quantities of golden guineas, put them in a bag, and buried them in a field in a spot known only to themselves. Neither Sheela nor the lover would reveal the place unless they received a pardon.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland (1887), Lady Wilde, Project Gutenberg #61436, Chapter 114 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Corrin

What it said · 59 of 59 words

Right here is a holy well at Corrin, in Cork. Today it's an overgrown, stagnant depression in a pasture, but in 1849 Windele called it a beautiful limpid fountain, open and uncovered, save by three large old whitethorns, one thickly hung with votive rags. It was known as Sunday's Well, and rounds were performed at it every Sunday morning.

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Ritual site - holy well, Corrin

What it said · 42 of 42 words

The holy well at Corrin is right here. It was known locally as the blessed well, and written about by Windele in 1898. There is nothing to see now. Local information says it was destroyed around 1975, and no surface trace remains.

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Fever hospital, Rathcormack

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Right here at Rathcormack stood a fever hospital, marked as such on the 1842 map, though later maps called it a dispensary. It's an abandoned two-storey gable-ended structure now, roofless at the back, still carrying its sash windows with original glazing bars.

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Priest burials at Rathcormac church

What it said · 50 of 50 words

As you pass through Rathcormac, the church here holds the remains of two parish priests. Reverend Michael O'Callaghan served from 1832 until his death in 1842, and Reverend Patrick O'Gara followed, holding the parish until his own death in 1860. Both men lie buried in uninscribed graves within the church.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of Sligo : town and county (1900), O'Rorke, Terence, Internet Archive historyofsligoto00oror, Chapter 21 · source

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Pit-burial, Skahanagh North

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Right beside the road here in Skahanagh North is a pit burial. Archaeologists found it during construction of the N8 bypass, a rough circular pit holding cremated bone.

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Ritual site - holy well, Trantstown

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Right here in Trantstown is a holy well, and only the spring survives now. Power noted in 1923 that stations were made here, but they had already been discontinued for nearly a century.

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Pit-burial, Killydonoghoe

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Right here at Killydonoghoe in Cork, a pit-burial turned up during archaeological monitoring on the N8 Glanmire-Watergrasshill Bypass. The burial had been heavily truncated by farming over the years. The remains of one adult were contained in a large inverted urn, apparently accompanied by a smaller, finely decorated vase. Two pieces of flint were found in the burial deposit. A similar burial lies 260 metres to the north, and a possible Bronze Age house 210 metres to the north.

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Castle - unclassified, Sarsfieldscourt

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Here at Sarsfieldscourt there was once a castle, though nothing remains visible now. The Sarsfield family built it in the middle of the 1600s as what was described as "a semi-fortified house" with a high tower and a bell tower. It was demolished in the 1950s after a collapse. Some cut stone survives in a nearby garden.

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Saint Stephen's Hospital

What it said · 143 of 143 words

Right here is Saint Stephen's Hospital in Glanmire, built in 1954. It went up as a tuberculosis sanatorium under Doctor Noel Browne, then Minister for Health. The building is frankly modern in style, with flat roofs, strip windows, and cantilevered porches, plainly informed by Le Corbusier's work. It's a large, complex group of structures, but the consistent use of materials and finishes holds it all together. The front block runs three storeys with a five-storey tower to the east and a two-storey extension to the west, all roughcast rendered with steel casement windows. Outbuildings form a full-width open-ended courtyard to the rear. The whole scheme survives remarkably complete and well preserved, set in mature grounds that enhance and contextualise what was built. It's a strong example of mid-twentieth-century institutional architecture in Ireland, from a period when tackling tuberculosis was a pressing national concern.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20906331 · source

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Castle - unclassified, Brooklodge (Barrymore By.)

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Right beside the road here is the site of a castle at Brooklodge in Cork. The 1842 map shows it, with an old fish pond just east of it. By the 1904 map a new road had gone through the area, and both were probably destroyed. It may have been a castle of the Barrys.

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Mutineers' Last Stand at Glenmire Bridge

What it said · 146 of 146 words

Somewhere around here, near Glanmire, a severe skirmish took place at the bridge on the 16th of January 1716. Mutineers from the Cork garrison had left their barracks and encamped on the north side of the city for a few days before proceeding to Glenmire and taking up a position there. Troops attacked them with two field-pieces that had arrived in the harbour that same morning. The mutineers were headed by a Dutchman named Garvy, and they made a desperate stand near the bridge. When their supply of ball cartridge failed, they made use of their coat buttons as a substitute for bullets, but they were obliged at last to give way and retreated in disorder. Garvy was afterwards tried and shot, along with two others of the ringleaders. Numerous relics of this action were ploughed up in 1807, including a rusty halberd and several grapeshot.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Researches in the South of Ireland (1824), T. Crofton Croker, Project Gutenberg #researchesinsout00crokuoft, Chapter 40 · source

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Castle - tower house, Mahon

What it said · 145 of 515 words

At tip of low limestone projection, on south shore of river Lee; circular tower, now surviving to two storeys; built directly on rock outcrop and now at north end of complex built 1828-9. Exterior face not visible east-north-east->west-south-west where later building abuts tower. round floor entered from base of spiral stairs through intelled doorway to S; now used as store. Evenly spaced, double-splayed embrasures to north-east, N, north-west, west and south-west; latter ope smaller than other four which appear similar; all now blocked up at narrowest point (about 0.85 from outsid eedge; about 1.5 metres from inside edge; wth about 0.6 metres). Inside of embrasures (wth1.75 metres) covered by plank-centred segmental arch, base at floor level; outside covered by upward inclined lintels with downward inclined sill and splayed sides. Recent roof now covers ground floor, but stone corbels indicate lower level of original wooden roof. First floor chamber now part of bar/restraunt. Door from spiral stairs blocked and room now entered through recent doorway to S. Five evenly-spaced embrasures, off-set with ground floor opes, covered by segmental arches. Three central embrasures adopted to take window frames; embrasure to E has outer half blocked; embrasure to W has front part ivided by horizontal slab, below is splayed ope similar to those at ground level, now blocked; above is squat round-headed light. Stone corbels indicate level of original wooden roof. Ground floor embrasures purpose-built gun ports; opes at first floor probably had similar function. Original tower ends at this height with plain cornice course but 18th century paintings show it standing at least two stories higher; these show 'handsome octagon room' atop tower and abutting tower to south gable-ended two-storey house, both of 18th century appearance. Present complex entered through embatteled gateway to S, with stone plaque recording 1828-9 rebuilding of entire complex to design of James and G.R. Pain, in neo-Gothic style; courtyard flanked by further embatteled buildings to west and S with stone wall to E; to S original circular tower, now surmounted by slimmer tower rising a further three storeys with slender turret attached containing spiral stairs (presumably rebuilt upwards from first floor level in 19th century); on east side of tower elaborate water-gate leading to slipway. Built about 1582 by citizens of Cork 'with artillery to resist pirates and other invaders'; sometimes mistakenly ascribed to Mountjoy (Smith 1750, vol 1, 358; Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 208; Coleman 1914, 169). Rare Irish example of circular tower built for cannon. Used throughout 18th and 19th centuries by Cork Corporation for entertaining and functions. Built into external 1st floor wall of circular tower, in foyer of bar/restraunt, is fireplace removed here from Ronayn's Court; large lintel with shallow elliptical arch cut on underside and edge roll moulding carried down jambs, topped by projecting cornice. Lintel bears the inscription "Morris Ronayn and Margaret Gould builded this house in the yeare of oure lorde 1627 and in the 3 yeare of Kinge Charles. Love god and neighbors"; centrally placed monogram "IHS", flanked by family armorial shields; also fleurs-de-lis and tudor rose (rubbing of inscription JCHAS 1912, facing 81).

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The Blackrock Banshee's Double Warning

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Somewhere around here, a Cork family of English descent had two encounters with the Banshee, both recorded in a book of true Irish ghost stories. When the mother of the family was a young girl, she was standing at the window of their house at Blackrock when she saw a white figure on a bridge, waving its arms toward the house. She heard the bitter wailing of the Banshee lasting some seconds before the figure disappeared. The next morning her grandfather was walking into the city of Cork as usual, fell, hit his head against the curbstone, and never recovered consciousness. Years later, in March 1900, the same mother was very ill. One evening the nurse and the daughter were arranging her bed when they heard extraordinary wailing coming in waves round and under the bed. They searched everywhere but found nothing. The mother did not seem to hear it. Downstairs the sister heard it too and rushed upstairs fearing something had happened to her little boy, but he was sleeping quietly. The father heard nothing. In the house next door they heard it as well and ran downstairs thinking something had happened to the servant. The servant said to them, "Did you hear the Banshee? Mrs. P---- must be dying."

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from True Irish Ghost Stories (1914), St John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan, Project Gutenberg #14099, Chapter VII · source

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Castle - tower house, Dundanion

What it said · 263 of 263 words

Right here, on level ground above the Lee river floodplain, stood Dundanion Castle, a three-storey tower house. The Galway family built it, probably shortly before 1564, as inferred from a rent roll of that date. It's a compact building, about 6.6 metres north to south and 5.5 metres east to west, with an annexe built against its north end. Inside, a ground-floor door near the east end of the north wall opens into a lobby, and straight mural stairs rise on the west side before continuing as a spiral stair to the first and second floors and finally to a wall walk. Most of the window openings are broken and modified now, but those in the west wall survive, including a twin-light embrasure on the top floor whose mullion is missing. Stone corbels that once held wooden floors survive at all levels. There are fireplaces on the first and second floors, one with a large limestone lintel and another with a brick stack rising from the south-east corner. The annexe is largely gone except for its gabled two-storey end wall, which has a large fireplace with a brick-lined bread oven on the east side. The tower may have been lived in up to 1832, when Dundanion House was built on the grounds. That house has a five-bay, two-storey front over a basement, with a porch on four slender columns and a three-bay bow projection at the rear. An inscription reading '1860 DK' is moulded in plaster on the barrel vault in the basement. The building now serves as well-maintained offices of Telecom Eireann.

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hospital/infirmary, Cork

What it said · 150 of 150 words

Right here is St Patrick's Hospital, built in 1870. It stands as part of a larger complex with a former convent, nursing home and hospice, set on an elevated position over the city. The hospital was constructed thanks to the benefaction of Dr Patrick Murphy, and the builders were the O'Flynn brothers, chosen for reasons of economy. That frugality shows in the materials. The coursed rubble stone and yellow brick were cheaper than the ashlar sandstone used elsewhere in the complex, but they suited the principles of the founder and the Sisters of Charity, who continue to run the hospital. The date 1870 is carved on the sandstone keystone above the round-headed doorway, which you reach by a flight of limestone steps with cast-iron handrails. It's an eleven-bay, three-storey building over a basement, now disused, with a four-bay extension added around 1980. The complex remains an important landmark over Cork.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20863041 · source

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Departure of the Wild Geese from Cork

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As you pass through Cork, you're following the route taken in 1691 by thousands of Irish soldiers who embarked here for France after the Treaty of Limerick. At a review on October 6th, out of 14,000 men, 11,000 volunteered for France, 1,000 chose service under King William, and 2,000 returned home. When the transports were ready, there was not room for all the families. Macaulay describes how, after the soldiers embarked, "there still remained at the water-side a great multitude clamouring piteously to be taken on board; as the last boats put off there was a rush into the surf; some of the women caught hold of the ropes, were dragged out of their depth, clung till their fingers were cut through, and perished in the waves." A wild wail rose from the shore as the ships moved. These exiles formed the nucleus of the Irish Brigade, which distinguished itself in the service of France, particularly in the defence of Cremona and at the battle of Fontenoy in May 1745, when they turned the tide against the English and Dutch. On hearing of that victory, George the Second exclaimed, "Cursed be the laws which deprive me of such subjects." The Brigade's strength was kept up with men secretly enlisted in Ireland, known as "The Wild Geese." It is reckoned that 450,000 died in the service of France between 1691 and 1745.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society. (1891), County Kildare :County Kildare Archaeological Society,, Internet Archive journalofcountyk04coun, Chapter 98 · source

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Burning of Cork

What it said · 135 of 208 words

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

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Burning and sacking of Cork after surrender

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You're coming through Cork, a city once among the most thriving in Europe. In 1690, after the siege, Governor Mac Gillicuddy burned it despite having been paid to spare it. Property was pillaged and hundreds of Protestants were reduced to beggary, Catholics were disarmed and shut up in places used as prisons, and soldiers were stripped and marched to marshy wet ground where they were kept for five days, reduced to eating dead horses. Seven Irish regiments laid down their arms, and principal officers and some men were sent to England as prisoners. About 4,500 of the defenders of Limerick embarked here for France under General Sarsfield, and on the 12th of October 1691, the Breada man-of-war in the harbour was blown up.

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 ahistorycityand00cusagoog, Chapter 159 · source

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The drive in numbers

How the narrator kept up

What it said, in order

Richard Kirwan dies at Cavendish Row, Dublin

Garden of Remembrance (Dublin)

Noyeks fire

Williams acquitted at Green Street courthouse

Reynolds Meets Lord Edward Fitzgerald at the Four Courts

Fitzgerald wounds Swann and Ryan before being shot by Sirr

Executions and blood-clogged sewers at Bridgefoot Street

Saint Patrick's Hospital

House of Industry (Dublin)

Kilmainham Gaol

Burial

German bandsmen caught stealing onions at Inchicore garden

Macklin's childhood near Drogheda and Dublin's Island Bridge Academy

Burial Ground

O'Hely family of Ballyhely (Hollybrook)

Legend of regicide officer retiring to Drimnagh Castle

Ballyfermot Lodge identified as Le Fanu's 'Tiled House'

Murder of Lord Kilwarden near Newlands during Emmet's rebellion

O'Connell-D'Esterre duel at Clondalkin

Belgard Castle and the Talbot family's centuries of conflict

The 1787 Corkagh Powder Mills explosion

Castle - tower house, Saggart

Saggart burned by Baltinglass and Feagh mac Hugh O'Byrne, 1580

Felix Rourke hanged on rafters of burned priest's house

Ritual site - holy well, Crockshane

The glen of Glenn Mama located between Lyons and Athgoe Hill

Battle of Glenmama

Castlewarden occupied by Confederate forces, 1647

Castle - motte and bailey, Castlewarden North

Aged Parish Priest of Kill shares income with curate

Dispute over chapel patronage settled by Rome, 1224-5

Dindshenchas legend of Fornocht slain at Forenaghts

Burial ground, Maudlings

Burial, Sherlockstown

Opening of the Grand Canal extension at Sallins, 1786

Burial, Ploopluck

Drowning of two Englishmen by Rapparees at Sigenstowne

Castle - tower house, Jigginstown

Castle - unclassified, Herbertstown

Burial, Oldtown (Newbridge Rural Ed)

Ritual site - holy well, Greatconnell

Blacksmith Martin Murphy's encounter with the ghostly knights near Kildare

Obelisk erected in Donnelly's Hollow, 1888

Old bridge over the Rye Water built by John le Decer, 1308

Gibbet Rath massacre

Gibbet Rath executions

Patrick Sarsfield, Jacobite General, born and bred at Tully, Kildare

Dermot Mac Murrogh's massacre at Kildare abbey

Execution of Rev. James Porter at Greyabbey

Burial, Knockshough Glebe

Burial, Kilnagornan

Grangebeg old church dilapidated by Captain King

Castle - hall-house, Lackagh More

Ritual site - holy well, Tobercocka

Ballagh Bridge crossed by Essex and Cromwell's army

Ritual site - holy well, Riverstown

Burial ground, Lughil

Children's burial ground, Rathronshin

Elizabeth Fitzgerald defends Moret Castle against O'Cahils

Burial, Morett

Burial, Morett

Burial, Ballydavis

Slaying of Owny O'More's son at Ballydavis in 1477

Capture of Ruaidhri at Rath-Brenainn despite sureties

Burial, Cappoley

Ritual site - holy well, Meelick (Maryborough East By.)

Massacre of Ossorian prisoners at Bannow

Burial ground, Killeany

Castle - tower house, Killeany

Naming of Gorthnaclea from wounded warriors' last stand

Burial ground, Kilminfoyle

Penal Mass station, Tinnaragh

Ritual site - holy well, Ballygowdan

Castle - tower house, Grantstown

Castle - unclassified, Aghmacart

Castle - tower house, Galesquarter