Wild Atlantic Way 3/8 Surf Coast: Bundoran → Mulranny

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Cholera plague of 1832 at Bundoran and Ballyshannon

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As you pass through Bundoran, this is where the cholera plague of 1832 first broke out. It was summer. The disease was supposed to have been carried here by a smack from Liverpool, which had called to take in salmon. From Bundoran it spread through Ballyshannon and the neighbourhood. Ballyshannon lost 93 people, with 152 recoveries. The mortality was small compared with many neighbouring towns, but the panic that prevailed gave a serious check to the trade of the town. By 1835 the exports were 10,704 quarters of oats, valued at 11,130, and imports amounted to 9,524.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Ballyshannon Its History & Antiquities (1879), Joseph McGarrity Collection at Villanova University Digital Archives, Internet Archive BallyshannonItsHistoryAntiquitiesOpt, Chapter 39 · source

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Bundoran's summer seaside crowds

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You're coming through Bundoran, the seaside town in Donegal that the poet William Allingham called home. In his poem he bids farewell to the place and its summer crowds, people who come from inland homes to see the Atlantic sun go down. They come to breathe the salt air and sport among the waves, gather shells on the sand and tempt the gloomy caves along the coast. He writes of young men and maids meeting and smiling, and of the sick and old in search of health, before he must quit his native shore and the winding banks of the Erne.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; (1903), Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950, Internet Archive highwaysbywaysin00gwyn_0, Chapter 27 · source

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Fairy Bridge natural arch at Bundoran

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As you come through Bundoran, you are passing a sheltered part of Donegal Bay with very fine views inland and along the coast. To the south and east the Sligo Mountains are piled up, and on either hand there are heather-topped cliffs, sandy shores, and numerous interesting rocks and caves. Among them is the Fairy Bridge, which is by no means the least striking of the several similar natural arches met with on the Donegal coast. Right out in front, the Atlantic extends to the very coast line of America. Near by, young and old alike can disport themselves on the magnificent strand, and for this and other reasons it is an ideal holiday resort for families. The paddler will find pools in plenty, and the expert swimmer will find depths where a plunge can be made in forty feet of water. The hotel of the Great Northern Railway Ireland Company stands in its own grounds and is a prominent feature on the shore. It is lighted by electricity, well furnished and equipped. The drawing-room, private sitting-rooms, and lounge command fascinating views, and the bedrooms are lofty and furnished after the most approved methods. The smoking rooms and billiard rooms are luxuriously arranged. No expense or trouble has been spared in making the establishment an ideal touring hotel. The wine cellar is beyond reproach, and the dinners emanate from an A1 chef. The fine suite of sea and fresh-water baths is worthy of special note.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland (1908), Shrubsole, Edgar S, Internet Archive picturesquedoneg00shru, Chapter 69 · source

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Bundoran as a health resort and holiday destination

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As you pass through Bundoran, you are in a town that was promoted as a holiday resort with remarkable variety. The Atlantic breezes here are warmed by the Gulf Stream, while inland winds bring mountain air, and a guidebook of the time claimed it would be hard to beat as a health resort. It offered golf on fine links, lawn-tennis, croquet, boating, bathing, and walks ranging from rugged mountain passes to the golden strand.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland (1908), Shrubsole, Edgar S, Internet Archive picturesquedoneg00shru, Chapter 69 · source

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Megalithic tomb - passage tomb, Magheracar

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Right here at Magheracar in Donegal is a passage tomb, standing toward the eastern side of a kerbed mound at the edge of a sea cliff. The mound was originally round in outline, measuring 20 metres in diameter east to west, but the approximate northern half has been lost to the sea. The kerb turns inward in front of the entrance to the tomb. There is a gap between the kerb and the front of the tomb, which faces south-east and is 4.5 metres long and about 1 metre wide. According to Wood-Martin, bones, ashes and a cinerary urn were found here, in his words, 'many years ago'. Wakeman noted that this site appears to be one of those referred to as occurring on the coast at Bundoran. Wakeman also made two sketches of the site. Wood-Martin and Lockwood each made plans and sketches. Excavation in 1986 and 1987 revealed a division of the tomb by sills into four compartments. A considerable quantity of bone was recovered from the site. Among the objects found were a miniature stone axehead, flint scrapers, and fragments of a single stone bead. This description was published in the Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland, Volume Six, County Donegal.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), DG106-011---- · source

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Sarsfield camps at Tullaghan to threaten Ballyshannon

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At that disturbed period there were no high-roads in tho district, and the Jacobites held the only "pass" which existed. This was bounded on the mn' sUe I v t he lake, awl on the other by a bog. Nothwltlistniidiiig all this, Lloyd, being better acquainted with the country, siu-reeded in Hanking the enemy, who turned anil Bed without firing a shot. The Jacobite losses were 19 0 horse, slain in pursuit. Most of the foot soldiers escaped through a bog in the May, and made good their retreat to Sligo. Some, however, of Sarsfield's men fled to Ballyshannon, where they took refuge on the inland of Inis-samor, Thaie refugees, to the number of sixty, were soon made prisoners, und thus ended the engagement, the Inniskillmexs baring only one man wounded. The siege was then raised, but in July, Sarsfield and his men once more took up their position at Tullagluui, with the view of gaining possession of Ballyshanuon. Tho town was, however, too well prepared to afford them an opportunity for attack, and the sharp repulse they had received a couple of months hi fore, taught. them that "discretion was the better part of valour.'' On the ' ■veiling of the day (28th July, 1689) on which Derry was relieved, a message was sent to Ballyshanuon, asking for help at Crom, which was besieged by Lord Monnteashel. The gallant officers in command at Baliyshannon, remembering how receutly they had received valuable aid from the Imiiskilliners, at once complied with tho request, and notwithstanding the presence of the enemy v miles off, between 400 and 500 men were despatched. Having arrived at Enniskilleu, after their loug march from i'allyshaimon, I hey declared themselves ready to go on without resting that same night,* The battle of Netvtoimibutler on the 31st July, which resulted in the total rout of the Jacobites, having reached the ears of Sarsfield as he lay at TnUaghan, induced him to give np Ins design of attacking Ballyshanuon, and he consequently withdrew his men to Sligo.

Read from Ballyshannon Its History & Antiquities (1879), Joseph McGarrity Collection at Villanova University Digital Archives, Internet Archive BallyshannonItsHistoryAntiquitiesOpt, Chapter 22 · source

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Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Wardhouse

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Right here at Wardhouse in Leitrim is a court tomb, sitting in an undulating landscape with rock outcrop. A low cairn holds a single chamber with a roofstone at the south-west end, and the remains of a two-chambered gallery at the north-east end. Two subsidiary chambers are also built into the cairn.

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Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, Wardhouse

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Right here at Wardhouse is a portal tomb, sitting on a rock outcrop in rolling country. What survives is a rectangular megalithic chamber inside a low cairn, with one portal stone still standing at the east end on the south side.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), LE001-020---- · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Bunduff

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Here at Bunduff in Leitrim, there's a holy well right beside the road. It sits at the bottom of a gentle south-facing slope, with a small stream about 30 metres to the west. An oval cairn has a small rectangular drystone well on its west side, which is still verved, and there's a modern shrine here too.

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Ritual site - holy well, Bunduff

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Right here at Bunduff is a holy well, marked on maps from 1835 and 1907, the latter calling it Shavers Well. It is a rectangular drystone well covered by a limestone slab, open to the north where it meets a stream, built into the side of a cairn with a modern shrine beside it.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), LE001-061---- · source

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Father Owen O'Connor of Castlegal

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Somewhere around here was the birthplace of Father Owen O'Connor, whose grave lies in Drumcliff. He belonged to a family that traced its descent back to the O'Connors, who were for centuries Lords of Carbury and Sligo. After his ordination he served as curate in Magherow and then in Killglass, where he became so ill he had to return to Castlegal. He died in 1850, aged 31.

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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Mass-rock, Tawly

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Right here at Tawly in Leitrim is a mass-rock, known as Carraig an Aifrinn. It's an oval flat-topped stone in a slight fold of gently undulating ground, with a cross on its south side. The stone had cracked and is now repaired with cement, and it sits surrounded by a concrete apron.

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Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Creevykeel

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Right here is a court tomb at Creevykeel in Sligo. It is a national monument, number 338, in state care. The site was recorded in Seán Ó Nualláin's survey of the megalithic tombs of County Sligo, published in 1989.

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Creevykeel Court Tomb

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Somewhere around here is Creevykeel Court Tomb, one of the finest court tombs left in Ireland. Its original name was Caiseal an Bhaoisgin, the Fort of Bhaoisgin, after a well near the cairn. A second megalithic monument stood 300 metres to the north, but it was demolished around 1890.

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

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Mullaghmore developed as exclusive seaside resort

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Up ahead is Mullaghmore, a seaside place that Lord Palmerston tried to turn into a watering place for the wealthy. He built a terrace of fine houses renting at 10 or 20 pounds a month, but made no provision at all for humbler people to stay. The author of the history of Sligo thought it was hardly fair, since the rich already had so many of the good things of Ireland, to give them what amounted to a monopoly of the finest sea bathing on the western coast. He notes though that Palmerston acted from what he believed was the interest of his tenants, judging by his letters from Cliffoney and his conduct on his Sligo estates. The later owner, the Honourable Evelyn Ashley, lived here much of the year, and when the author asked the inhabitants what they thought of him, they all spoke with admiration and gratitude for his neighbourly kindness.

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 13 · source

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Sand drift checked at Streedagh to Mullaghmore by bent planting

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Coming up near Mullaghmore in Sligo, where the sandhills running from Streedagh were once in motion, and the devastation was nearly as great as anywhere. The drift was finally checked here. Lord Palmerston introduced the planting of bent grass, which effectually prevented the movement of the sand. He also sowed seeds of the Pinus maritima, and fine plantations now grow on the very verge of the ocean. His example was followed by the other proprietors. The surface gradually coated over and is now valuable for feeding sheep and young stock, and for the rearing of rabbits. Were the sward again broken up, a recurrence of the same calamity would inevitably follow. One other instance of the efficacy of planting bent may be cited. In the neighbourhood of Raughly on the south-west shore, about a mile of shingle formed a barrier against the Atlantic waves. It was gradually driven back at the rate of a foot each year. On one very stormy night the ocean broke through, and the tide ran inland amongst the sandhills for a considerable distance, scattering the shingle rampart right and left. The remedy tried was planting bent along the beach.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time (1892), Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917, Internet Archive historyofsligoco00wood, Chapter 140 · source

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Assassination of Lord Mountbatten

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Somewhere around here, on 27 August 1979, Lord Mountbatten was killed by a bomb on his boat off the coast of Mullaghmore. He was a retired British statesman and cousin to Queen Elizabeth II, spending his annual summer trip at Classiebawn Castle on the Mullaghmore Peninsula. Thomas McMahon, a volunteer for the Provisional IRA, had planted a device containing fifty pounds of gelignite on Mountbatten's cabin cruiser, Shadow V, on the night of 26 August. McMahon and his accomplice, Francis McGirl, drove away and were arrested during a routine stop eighty miles from Mullaghmore because McGirl could not prove his identity or ownership of the car. The bomb went off less than two hours later, killing Mountbatten, his grandson Nicholas, Nicholas's grandmother Doreen, and Paul Maxwell, a boy who was crewing the boat. Three other passengers were severely injured. Five hours after the bomb went off, the IRA ambushed a British Army patrol with two roadside bombs, killing eighteen soldiers. The attacks were condemned by world leaders and by the media in both the United Kingdom and Ireland. Forensic tests found traces of nitroglycerine and ammonium nitrate on the clothing of both men, and flakes of green and white paint matching Shadow V on McMahon's boots and jacket, along with sand from Mullaghmore in his boots' treads. McMahon was sentenced to life imprisonment in November 1979; McGirl was acquitted. The bombing led the British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, to change the UK's strategy towards Northern Ireland, giving the intelligence services a more active role. Donations to NORAID, the American organisation that raised funds for the IRA, declined, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation set up a specialist unit to combat weapons smuggling to Ireland.

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

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Palmerston's schools and conflict with priest at Cliffony

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Up ahead is Cliffony in Sligo, a small town with a story from the days of landlord rule. Lord Palmerston took an interest in this estate, and after examining it he set down what he called the "first objects" he must attend to: to put the parish church in repair and make it fit for service, and to establish schools. He seems to have given little thought to the Catholic clergy whose flocks lived here. He got two schools running for his tenantry, but the local priest forbade the people from sending their children. Palmerston wrote that he was "at war with my priest." He believed that if he were resident he would beat him in a moment, and he hoped to do so even as an absentee landlord, trying to win the contest from afar.

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 13 · source

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Bog reclamation on Palmerston estate

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Up ahead, the road takes you through Cliffony in Sligo. In 1826 this was Lord Palmerston country, and the bogland around here was the site of one of the most ambitious reclamation schemes in the county. Palmerston brought in Mr. Nimmo, the distinguished engineer, and together they studied the ground and committed serious money to it. Their first idea was to build an iron railroad, six miles long, running from the beach to the bog, carrying shelly sand one way and peat the other. They thought better of it and built macadamized roads instead. The method was methodical. First they drained the ground slightly, beginning in April. Then they dug up the surface, piled it in heaps, and burned it. They levelled the ground, formed it into ridges, planted it with potatoes or sowed it with turnips and rape, threw the ashes on as manure, and added a top dressing of sea sand and clay. The results came fast. In March the land, in Palmerston's own words, was wet unwalkable bog. By October 1826, thirty acres of what he called the worst bog and most troublesome to cultivate were producing crops. He pressed on at sixty acres a year, and before long he was able to enlarge the small holdings of his tenants.

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 12 · source

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Burial, Dernish Island

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Right here on Dernish Island in Sligo, a burial was found in 1992. A woman was laid in a grave lined with stone slabs, dating to the early 1st millennium AD. Eight roughly circular flat stones were arranged in a mandola-like ring around her skull.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), SL002-037002- · source

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Ahamlish receives religion from Inismurray

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You are coming through the parish of Ahamlish in Sligo. Ahamlish is indebted for its religion to Inismurray. The island received the Gospel from Aughris, and then evangelized this district, just as Iona evangelized the north of Scotland. When Muredach or Molaise had settled the insular establishment, his zeal carried him to the neighbouring shore, where he set up the cross of which Columba's hymn speaks. About the same time he founded a church there, and, as an endowment, secured a tract of land called the Benan, from a little hill apparently the one now called Dunan. The Annals of the Four Masters name a similar hill Benan Breachmagh, now called Dunan Breaffy. At that time the entire seaboard, from the Stags of Broadhaven to the river Erne, belonged to Tireragh chiefs, and also to the diocese of Killala, the boundaries of ecclesiastical jurisdiction following the boundaries of civil rule. The rectories of Aughris and Ahamlish were always conjoined and disposed of together in public instruments, including King Charles II's grant of 1666. The inhabitants of Inismurray had high notions of their island. They believed a handful of its earth would banish all the rats and mice in Ireland. They said the water of a well at the north end of the island, when poured into the sea in a storm, would calm the waves. If the fires of the island were extinguished, a bit of turf laid on a flag in one of the ruined churches would ignite, to relight the fires. If a priest was needed from the mainland during a tempest, the waves would settle the moment the messenger's boat touched the water, and stay settled until the priest arrived, performed his ministry, and returned. There were separate cemeteries for men and women.

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 18 · source

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Children's burial ground, Ardnaglass Lower

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Right beside the road here is a children's burial ground called Cill Rouderaun, set within a ringfort. Local accounts collected in the 1930s say unbaptised babies were buried in the space between the rath and its outer bank, and that the ground was used for that purpose roughly 80 years before then. The same folklore tells of a flax mill in this field where workmen saw the tracks of little feet each morning and believed they belonged to the children buried in and around the fort. A holy well called Tobar Pádruig stood about 200 yards to the north. No formal grave plots can be seen now, only low moss-covered stones and a single upright stone at the east edge, with three fallen slabs at the base of a sycamore tree.

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Hanging of O'Harts of Grange at Sligo Sessions

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You're coming through Grange now. Back in the 1580s, two of the O'Harts from this town were hanged at a Sessions held in Sligo, under the presidency of George Bingham. His brother Sir Richard Bingham carried out the hanging, along with several others. The Bingham regime was crushing local families across County Sligo, and the O'Harts of Grange were among those who paid with their lives.

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 153 · source

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Grange castle and cottages built by Hugh O'Hart, 1604

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You are coming through Grange, a town on the old thoroughfare between Donegal and Sligo. In 1604 an inquisition recorded that Hugh O'Hart built a new castle and seven cottages here, in O'Connor Sligo's country. The survey of 1633 spoke of "an old castle built upon it," and there is nothing to show the place ever had any other castle except the one Hugh O'Hart built. The town had belonged to the abbey of Boyle down to the dissolution of the monasteries, but long before that the O'Harts had got into possession as assigns of the O'Connors. It took its name from them: Grange Muinter Hart. It throve under the O'Harts, and at the census of 1659 it was the most populous spot in the district except Bradcullen. Later, Thomas Soden obtained the place. He was the Titulado of the district under the Commonwealth, and he kept so firm a grip that the Restoration did not loosen his hold. He transmitted the town and the island of Dernish, which means oak island, to his descendants. They remained prominent in the county, some as magistrates, some as high sheriffs, and one, Thomas Soden, as provost of Sligo for several years. The O'Harts, who now call themselves the Harts, were still numerous in and near the area, no longer lords of the district but shopkeepers and farmers.

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 27 · source

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Grange: places belonging to Boyle abbey

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Coming up near Grange in Sligo. Several places of this name in the county all belonged to Boyle abbey. The name's meaning is discussed in the source, and O'Donovan and others made mistakes about these Granges.

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 339 · source

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O'Daly slays tribute collector in Carbury and flees

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As the road takes you through the barony of Carbury, there is a story from the old annals attached to this ground. Carbury used to pay tribute to the Tirconnell chiefs, and one day a man named O'Daly was asked for his quota. He flew into a passion, snatched up a battle axe, and slew the collector on the spot. The chief of Tirconnell at the time was Donnell More O'Donnell, and O'Daly feared his vengeance. He ran first to Richard De Burgo, the great Lord of Connaught. But De Burgo did not want to offend O'Donnell, who was already in pursuit, so he sent the trembling poet on to O'Brien, Lord of Thomond. O'Brien in turn passed the frightened fugitive to Dublin. The northern chief would not be baulked. He went home, collected additional forces, marched on Dublin, and compelled its inhabitants to banish O'Daly. The Dubliners shipped him off to Scotland. O'Donnell would no doubt have followed even there, but the bard, finding all his powerful friends had failed him, fell back on his own resources. He composed a glowing panegyric on Donnell More, and it so mollified and gratified the chieftain that, to use the words of the Annalists, "he received the poet into his friendship, and gave him lands and possessions, as was pleasing to him."

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 7 · source

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Rev. John Yeates and the Milltown Protestant school incident

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Coming up through Milltown now. The Milltown Protestant school here was at the centre of a story from 1811, when Rev. John Yeates had just become Vicar of Drumcliff. He was remembered as a straightforward, high-principled man. He went out with Sir Robert Gore Booth's agent, Mr. Dodwell, and a bailiff named Barber, among Sir Robert's tenants, asking them to send their children to the school. One tenant, James O'Hara, told them a child of his would never darken the door of that school-house. Yeates commended him for his spirit and said he was the honestest man they had come across that day. Rev. Mr. Crawford later succeeded Yeates, and died in 1871, buried in Drumcliff.

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 23 · source

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Battle of Cooldruman (Cul Dreimhne)

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As the road carries you through Drumcliff parish, it passes near the ground where the Battle of Cooldruman was fought in 561. King Diarmaid had ruled against Columbkille in a dispute over a copied manuscript. Columbkille threatened the King with the hostility of the northern Hy Neills, then left the royal presence, secretly according to one account, openly on horseback according to another. Before he could be stopped he reached his kindred, the Cinel Owen and Cinel Connell, and called on them to rise and to avenge him for two wrongs. Diarmaid had violated his right of sanctuary in the case of the Connaught prince, and pronounced an outrageous judgment in the dispute between him and Finian. At his word the clanna Neill of the North flew to arms. Including a Connaught contingent, a force of 2,300 men — horse, foot, and charioteers — took position at Cooldruman and awaited the royal army, already approaching. The field was well chosen, with the river of Drumcliff in front, Benbulben on one flank, the sea on the other. They stood on high ground and could bear down irresistibly on the enemy struggling up the hill. The two saints, Columbkille and Finian of Moville, accompanied their respective friends. On the morning of the battle they won a great victory, leaving 8,000 of the royal army dead.

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 5 · source

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Illicit distillation in Drumcliffe and Ahamlish

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As you pass through Drumcliffe, you are moving through country that was once the heart of illicit distillation in County Sligo. In the first decades of the 1800s, poitín was made now and then all over the county, but the manufacture was so common and so constant in the parishes of Drumcliffe and Ahamlish that nine-tenths of all the Still Cases, as they were called, at the Connaught Circuit assizes came from those two parishes alone. Hardly an assizes passed without numerous convictions. The ordinary charges were things like having a still, using a still, making pot ale, having singlings, or malting grain. The penalty was a week in prison and a fine of £10. If the fine went unpaid, the offender was kept in gaol for six months. The great object of the authorities, apparently, was to secure the fine money. If someone resisted the revenue officers or tried to rescue objects seized, the punishment was much heavier, varying with the circumstances of each case.

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 266 · source

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Father Pat Moraghan buried at Rathcormac church

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As you pass through Rathcormack, the church here holds the remains of Father Pat Moraghan, who died in 1879. He had resigned his parish of Aughrim in 1871 on account of ill health and withdrawn to the home of his brother, Father Andrew, who cared for him tenderly for the eight years he still lived. Father Andrew raised a cut-stone monument over his remains and installed a stained-glass window on the Gospel side of the high altar as a memorial.

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 22 · source

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Rathcormac church built and improved by clergy

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Coming through Rathcormack in Sligo, you pass the church built in 1833 by Father O'Callaghan, on the site of an old place of worship. Father O'Gara greatly improved the building, and Father Moraghan added a sacristy, widened the sanctuary, seated the whole ground floor, and erected a beautiful altar of marble and Caen stone. Father Moraghan himself is buried here. He resigned his parish of Aughrim in 1871 on account of ill health and withdrew to the home of his brother, Father Andrew, who cared for him tenderly for the eight years he still lived. Father Andrew celebrated his obsequies and raised a cut stone monument over his remains.

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 22 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Drumcliff South

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There is a holy well here in Drumcliff South, in pasture on a gentle south-facing slope. It does not appear on the 1836 OS map but was shown and named on a later edition. The well has been filled in and nothing is visible at ground level now.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), SL008-087---- · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Kintogher

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Right here at Kintogher in Sligo is a holy well associated with St. Columcille. According to local information, people visit it each year on the saint's feast day, the 9th of June. The well is a natural spring enclosed by a rectangular surround of concrete and stones, sitting in a fenced square enclosure with a wooden gate on the west side. Willow scrub and brambles grow thickly around it, with an ash tree and a hawthorn bush near the well. A stream flows north from it for a few metres before turning west, and there is a concrete pump house just to the south.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), SL008-202002- · source

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Burial ground, Ballyweelin

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Right beside the road here at Ballyweelin in Sligo is a walled field that was used as a burial ground, known as a cillín. It sits on the south shoreline of the Rosses Point peninsula. The field is about 40 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west, but dense overgrowth engulfs it now and no graves are visible. The exact extent of the burial ground is uncertain. It never appeared on any edition of the Ordnance Survey maps. A plaque was put up in 1997 on the north wall by the Rosses Point Heritage Association. It reads: "The cillín at this place was a burial ground for unbaptised infants, Famine and cholera victims and unidentified sailors who died in the vicinity." It was traditionally known as Cillath or Cill an Áit, and unbaptised babies were buried here as late as the 1930s.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), SL008-212---- · source

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The Metal Man beacon on Perch Rock erected 1822

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Coming up near Rosses Point in Sligo, there's a stone beacon on Perch Rock between here and Oyster Island, put up in 1822. The Commissioners for improving the Town and Harbour of Sligo sought plans for a pillar not less than ten feet over high water mark, topped with the Metal Man, a gigantic metal figure of a sailor. Fenders were to be fixed on the northern side to protect vessels coming in contact with it. A legend says the Metal Man leaves his pedestal at certain times of year and goes ashore to the Rosses.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time (1892), Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917, Internet Archive historyofsligoco00wood, Chapter 112 · source

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Rosses Point: battle of O'Donnell and Fitzgerald

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Coming through Rosses Point in Sligo, you're passing a place the ancients knew as Ros Ceide. In the thirteenth century a terrible battle was fought here between Godfrey O'Donnell of Tirconnell and Maurice Fitzgerald, the founder of Sligo Abbey. The passage I have calls it simply a terrible battle. These were two of the most powerful men in the northwest, and their meeting at this spot on the coast was violent enough to be remembered for centuries. The same record notes that this was a favourite resort of sea-bathers. To the southward from the hilltop where this view is set lie Oyster and Coney Islands. Away to the north is the lonely island of Innishmurray, which the book says was the first part of Ireland to witness the descent of the Danish hordes. The plain the book calls Machaire Eabha stretches out to the sea, studded with historic sites. The principal of these is Cuildreimne, where what the book calls the bloody battle of the book was fought, resulting in the exile of Columbkille. Benbulbin rises to the northeast, and the book says that mountain witnessed for centuries the clashing blades of the contending tribes of Connacht and Tirconnell. This place belongs to that same landscape of conflict, where O'Donnell and Fitzgerald met in the thirteenth century.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from KILGANNON’ S ALMANAC FOR NORTH CONNAUGHT 1906 Vol. 2 Parishes And Townlands Of County Sligo (1906), Tadgh Kilgannon of Sligo, Internet Archive kilgannon-s-almanac-for-north-connaught-1906-vol.-2-parishes-and-townlands-of-county-sligo, Chapter 40 · source

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Oyster Island channel deepening project

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Close to Oyster Island, the Harbour Commissioners wanted to deepen the channel from here to the deep-water berths at Sligo port. About ten years ago, a considerable loan was obtained from the Board of Works for constructing deep-water berths, but the sum proved inadequate to finish the work. The Commissioners needed a further advance to dredge the full extent of the deep-water berth, about 800 feet in length, and to provide sixteen feet of water at the lowest state of the tide, as well as to deepen the channel from Oyster Island to these berths. They pressed their case upon the Government to grant a further advance and place Sligo in fair competition with Derry and other neighbouring ports. If carried out, the improvement would increase revenue to the port and add to the prosperity of the district. The saving of lighterage alone would enable merchants to extend their district 20 or 30 miles further and increase imports in a corresponding ratio. Sligo had steadily progressed while other western seaports in Ireland declined, and during the last 25 years the import dues alone increased about 60 per cent. The total revenue from this source in 1864 was £3019, and in 1889 it was £4890. Sligo had never received a free grant of any description from Government for improvement of the port. It was hoped the Royal Commission which visited Sligo a few years ago would have recommended a grant to enable the fisheries to be developed. They reported, however, that the interest of the port might be left in the hands of its energetic inhabitants.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time (1892), Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917, Internet Archive historyofsligoco00wood, Chapter 117 · source

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Roads blockaded around Sligo during cholera epidemic

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Somewhere close to Ballincar, during the cholera epidemic, the country people around Sligo turned on the town. They cut the ropes of carriers, stopped provisions on the road, and insulted anyone who rode, walked, or drove out for exercise or business. The people left in the town were threatened with blockade and famine on top of the disease itself. It was near here that gentlemen on horseback were insulted, and a wall was built across the road to stop anyone from the town passing into the country. In other directions trenches were cut across the highways. A carrier from Enniskillen was forced to turn back. The daily coach between Dublin and Sligo, though, seems to have been allowed through. Handbills were dropped from it along the route, giving details of the ravages of the epidemic. The newspapers of the time called all this the work of neighbours, the same people who lived around the stricken town, now sealing it off.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time (1892), Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917, Internet Archive historyofsligoco00wood, Chapter 35 · source

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Burial ground, Lisnalurg, Shannon Eighter

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Right here beside the road is the site of a burial ground at Lisnalurg in Shannon Eighter, County Sligo. There is nothing to see now. No surface trace remains. But in 1969, human bones were found when the Sligo to Bundoran road was being widened. A member of the National Museum of Ireland came to inspect the site. He recorded that an old road, already marked on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map, was being removed to make way for the new wider road. The old road ran north to south and had been cut away slightly along part of its length. Bones appeared in the uppermost portion of the cutting face, which was about 3.5 centimetres deep. They lay immediately below the old road surface, resting on undisturbed boulder clay. The bones extended down to 60 centimetres below the road surface and ran for a distance of approximately 20 metres along the cutting face. They protruded haphazardly, as if earlier burials had been disturbed by later ones. The skeletons were apparently unprotected, and their orientation could not be judged. No finds were made among them. A local woman who lived nearby told the inspector she remembered a tradition that the parts of the gardens of Lisnalurg House nearest the road were never dug, as she put it, because of the bones. If that tradition holds, the cemetery might extend inwards from the cutting face for at least 8 metres. About 12 metres beyond the apparent edge of the cemetery, there was a saucer-shaped deposit of burnt clay and stones with flecks of charcoal, at roughly the same level. The visible portion measured 4 metres across. It was made up of layers of burnt stones, patches of charcoal, and ash, and was either a hearth or an ash pit. No artifacts were found there either.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), SL014-016001- · source

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Execution for Ash-lane murder

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Along here at Ash Lane in Sligo, a murder took place that led to the latest execution in the town, on the 20th of March, 1875. An old man was killed here, and robbery was the object of the murder. The previous execution in Sligo had been in 1861, also for a brutal murder where robbery was the motive.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time (1892), Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917, Internet Archive historyofsligoco00wood, Chapter 76 · source

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Murder of George Bingham at Sligo Castle

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Sligo town is coming up. In 1595, George Bingham was butchered in the castle here by Lieutenant Ulick Burke, who was second in command at Sligo. Burke hated the Binghams for their treatment of himself and the wholesale massacre of his relations. He organised a conspiracy, brought over enough of the garrison, and fell on Bingham in the castle. He and his associates despatched him and put to the sword, or removed from the castle, all who took his part. What led to this began earlier that year. Hugh Roe O'Donnell invaded Connaught twice within a few weeks and carried off great preys of cattle in spite of Sir Richard Bingham's efforts to prevent him. The Binghams felt the indignity deeply. George Bingham equipped two ships in Sligo harbour and sailed along the coast of Carbury, round Teelin Head, into Lough Swilly. He disembarked and ravaged the Carmelite monastery of Rathmullen, carrying away sacred vessels, altar ornaments, priests' vestments, and every article of value. He passed to Tory Island and rifled the chief church there, dedicated to Saint Columba, patron saint of the O'Donnells. Having outraged O'Donnell's religion and territory, they returned well pleased. But their triumph was short. There is nothing to show O'Donnell was privy to Burke's plot, though he derived the greatest benefit from it, for Burke had no sooner become master of the place.

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 153 · source

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Grand Jury street widening in Sligo town

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Along here on Wine Street, you are passing through one of the streets the Grand Jury of County Sligo widened in the years before 1869. The County Surveyor, Mr. Noblett St. Leger, told a Committee of the House of Lords that the Grand Jury had spent £10,000 in the twenty years prior to 1869 widening the streets of the town, including Wine Street and Quay Street. The Grand Jury also paid for Victoria Bridge and its approaches, which were not publicly opened until the 26th of June, 1852. The bridge itself cost £2,017, the approaches £2,226, and that included £1,626 granted to the owners of nine houses built on or near the old bridge. After the Sligo Improvement Bill of 1869, responsibility for such works moved away from the Grand Jury. The bridges of Annagh over the river Moy, Carrowcullen on the road from the Ladies' Brae to Skreen, Aclare, Curry, and many others remain as monuments of Mr. St. Leger's skill as an engineer.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time (1892), Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917, Internet Archive historyofsligoco00wood, Chapter 101 · source

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Cholera devastates riverside houses on Stephen Street

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Along here on Stephen Street in 1832, cholera struck with terrible force. The houses nearest the river suffered the most. In one house on this street, four generations lay dead at the same time, with only one survivor left among its inmates.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time (1892), Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917, Internet Archive historyofsligoco00wood, Chapter 35 · source

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Ballina identified as headquarters of the Threshers

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Sligo town is ahead on the road. In 1806, Lady Morgan, then Miss Owenson, had an interview here with a Sligo peasant about tithes. He was going to Sligo for grains for a sick cow, not able to find any at Ballina, where he had just come from. She asked about the Threshers, since Ballina had been their head-quarters. He said they were busy enough with the tithe proctors, and had barred a priest out of his chapel to force him to lower his dues, threatening to go to the Protestant church if he did not. They could not pay both priest and minister, since the proctors had raised the tithes and the priest his dues. He told her, in his own words, that church or mass was all one to him. The clergy of the Irish Church drew their income from tithes taken in kind — wheat, barley, oats, flax, wool, hay. A proctor estimated the crop before harvest, charged the market price, and fixed what the owner owed. Sometimes the incumbent let the tithe like a farm, and the lessee re-let it to another, called a middle proctor. In Sligo it was customary before harvest to hold a sale, where the tithe went to whoever would buy it. It would sell for little, but a promissory note at six months tempted people to bid. There were 146 actions about tithes tried in 1807 at the Quarter Sessions in County Sligo.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time (1892), Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917, Internet Archive historyofsligoco00wood, Chapter 163 · source

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Spanish Armada shipwrecks on the Sligo coast

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As you come through Sligo, this is the coast where three ships of the Spanish Armada were wrecked in 1588. A count reckoned eleven hundred corpses at one time. According to a return signed by Geoffry Fenton, the three ships contained 1,500 men. The greater number of those who escaped the sea by swimming were either executed by the authorities or knocked on the head by ungrateful and unnatural natives, as happened to luckless Spaniards in other places. These coasts have always been a favourite resort of the whale, owing probably to their roughness and wildness. Sir Thomas Molyneux, in his Discourse concerning the Danish Mounts, Forts, and Towers in Ireland, mentions the capture not far from Ballyshannon of a whale seventy-one feet long, which yielded a large quantity of true spermaceti. In 1740 another whale was killed about the same spot, measuring fifty feet in length and forty-four in girth, yielding five and a half hogsheads of oil. In 1779 Messrs. Beranger and Bigari, during their tour in Connaught, saw one of these monsters in the offing. And an article in the Irish Monthly of November 1883 records that the writer saw, that year, in these waters, a whale.

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 25 · source

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Murder of Catherine Conaghan at Sligo Abbey

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As you pass through Sligo, you are near the old abbey where a death in 1731 kept the county talking for years. William Ormsby, the son of a gentleman of station, fell in love with Catherine Conaghan, a Catholic girl of humble parentage. He married her privately, according to the rites of the Catholic Church. After some time a child was born to them, and he regretted what he had done. He set about dissolving the marriage, but before he had made any progress, his wife was found dead at the foot of the tower in the abbey. Some said she had thrown herself down from the tower. But the corpse presented all the appearance of a struggle, says Mr. Burke, and a coroner's jury found a verdict of wilful murder against William Ormsby. The authorities went in search of him, but searched long in vain. He had disappeared from the neighbourhood and kept out of the way. The tragedy engrossed the thoughts of everybody. They talked of the incomparable beauty of the deceased, which had attracted and fixed the affections of one so much above her in station. They talked of her virtues, which by common consent were as rare as her beauty. And they talked of the unnatural scene of the occurrence, consecrated by the continual ministrations of religion, and guarded, as it were, by the thousands of good men who were awaiting there their resurrection. Ormsby was later tried at Sligo in 1731 and acquitted.

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 260 · source

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Sweeny execution at Albert Street gaol — rope snapped

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Sligo town holds a grim story from the old gaol on Albert Street. A man named Sweeny was hanged there, though many believed him innocent. He faced it with great firmness, his only regret being that he could not receive Extreme Unction, which was given only to the dangerously ill. When the rope was adjusted and the black cap pulled down, the rope snapped under the sudden strain. Sweeny fell on his feet and took great injuries. His first words on recovering were, "Thank God, my life is my own." The Sub-Sheriff, Mr. Abraham Fenton, replied at once, "Not so, if a rope can be found in Sligo strong enough to hang you." He was as good as his word and soon procured a stronger rope. Sweeny, now grievously ill in body, received the one thing his heart was set on, Extreme Unction, after which he met his fate a second time.

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 264 · source

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Duel involving Somers and Fawcett

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Somewhere around here, a duel was fought between Somers and Fawcett. A large crowd of peasantry had gathered, contrary to an agreement that the affair would be private. Somers fell at the first discharge. Though wounded and disabled, he used such severe language that Fawcett's second refused to withdraw him from the ground until Somers' own second requested it. Fawcett and his party narrowly escaped. The slightest false step might have led to a murderous attack on them by the surrounding mob.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time (1892), Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917, Internet Archive historyofsligoco00wood, Chapter 161 · source

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Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Cummeen

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Right here at Cummeen is a court tomb, a National Monument in state ownership, number 433. It is recorded in Seán Ó Nualláin's survey of the megalithic tombs of County Sligo.

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Ritual site - holy well, Scardan Beg

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Right beside the road here in Scardan Beg, County Sligo, there's a holy well in poor, low-lying ground. Two other holy wells sit close by, and the maps disagree on which saint belongs to which. The 1940 map calls this one St. Brigid's Well, but the 1837 map named it St. Patrick's Well, placing St. Brigid's Well about 110 metres east-south-east. The well itself is a square area enclosed on three sides by drystone walls, with an entrance at the south-east and no steps.

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Ritual site - holy well, Scardan Beg

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Right here at Scardan Beg is a holy well site on poorly draining low-lying land. Three holy wells sit close together, and the maps disagree on which is which. The 1837 map called this one St. Brigid's Well, while the 1940 map named it Lady Well. The ground to the north-east was raised with hardcore in recent times and no surviving remains were identified.

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Ritual site - holy well, Scardan Beg

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Here in Scardan Beg is a holy well, sitting in poorly draining low-lying ground beside two other holy wells. The maps couldn't agree on what to call it. The 1837 map called it Lady Well, but by 1940 it was marked as St. Patrick's Well. The ground to the north-east has been raised with hardcore in recent times, and no surviving remains were identified at the well itself.

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Burning of Mr. Henry's house at Knocknarea, 1797

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As you come near Knocknarea, that mountain above Sligo, you are passing a place where the campaign of arson that swept this county in 1797 left its mark. A few nights after agitators burned the haggards of Mr. Thomas Jones at Mount Edward, they came here and burned the house of Mr. Henry. It did not stop there. A few nights later they stripped Mr. Wynne's gatehouse of its lead, taking it for bullets, and then set fire to the haggard of Mr. A. Irwin of Willowbrook. The writer of the time said it was thought they would

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time (1892), Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917, Internet Archive historyofsligoco00wood, Chapter 162 · source

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Strandhill village overwhelmed by sand drift

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As you come through Strandhill in Sligo, you are passing a place that was once nearer the seashore than it is now. Between 1816 and 1835 a great inundation of moving sand overwhelmed the village, and the inhabitants were forced to remove in a body up the slopes of Knocknarea. The sand had been threatening for a long time. People had broken up the sandy lands along the coast for potatoes, oats, and other crops, and the catastrophe that followed might have been foreseen by any intelligent observer. But no note of warning was raised. It was not until 1816 that the real inundation commenced in full force. From that year up to 1835, thousands of fertile acres were overwhelmed. No efforts succeeded in checking the devastation. The planting of bent grass as a remedy was then unknown. The unfortunate cottiers retreated before the deluge, clinging to their wretched hovels as long as the roofs could sustain the mass of sand above them. The same fate fell on the land near Haughly, on the properties of Sir Robert Gore-Booth and Mr. John Grethin. Year after year the wind turned several townlands into a miniature Sahara. The inhabitants abandoned the struggle one by one until only one or two houses were left. An eye-witness described the once fertile plains of Raughly. The remains of many houses could still be traced. At least a hundred huts were still inhabited but nearly overwhelmed, resembling more the dens of wild animals than the habitations of human beings. Fragments of the ancient church and some of the rude tombs were still seen, peering over the accumulating sand. This wilderness was bounded on two sides by the Atlantic.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time (1892), Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917, Internet Archive historyofsligoco00wood, Chapter 140 · source

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Mrs. Irwin imprisoned at Strandhill fort during the war

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As you pass through Strandhill, this is where Mrs. Irwin was held during the war of 1688 to 1691. She was captured by Sir Teigue O'Regan as she tried to flee the county. He said, "Though the Fox has escaped I have got the cubs." She was detained prisoner in a fort here at Strandhill, and found herself obliged to part with everything belonging to her, even to her wedding ring, in order to procure bread for her children. At the close of the struggle many Protestants found themselves ruined, their money exhausted from the pressure on their own resources while the war was being carried on. Each side seemed to understand the art of carrying on the struggle at the cost of their adversaries.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time (1892), Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917, Internet Archive historyofsligoco00wood, Chapter 2 · source

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Burial, Breeoge

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Right here is a burial site at Breeoge in Sligo, on a rise with views over Ballysadare Bay and Knocknarea. Wood-Martin recorded that a tenant digging to repair a fallen fence on the northern edge of the inner vallum found human bones close to the surface, all unburned, along with animal teeth and shells, oyster shells most of all. The record notes no clear sign of a burial or midden now.

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Hillas–Fenton duel at Kilmacowen

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Somewhere close to Kilmacowen, in 1816, a duel was fought that ended in a man's death and a courtroom controversy. Major Hillas faced Thomas Fenton, with John Fenton acting as second to his cousin. Hillas had Captain Ferrall, Loftus Jones, and Jack Taaffe on his side, but Ferrall was between 70 and 80 years of age and lame, so Loftus Jones took on most of the second's duties. John Fenton placed his cousin on the ground, put the pistol in his hand, and squared him, moving his arm to protect his own person and cover his adversary. Hillas was left very much to shift for himself. Fenton fired first, Hillas fired nearly at the same moment, and then dropped down dead. Thomas and John Fenton were indicted on 21 March 1816 in the Crown Court of Sligo, before Judge Fletcher, for the murder of John Hillas. The court was crowded to its utmost capacity. The witnesses examined were James Moffatt, Loftus Jones, Doctor Armstrong, Robert Ormsby, Mr. Wynne, and Doctor Carter. Judge Fletcher was so one-sided and so hard on Hillas that he felt the need to apologise, saying he had perhaps entangled himself on the subject more than he ought. He pronounced the duel to be "as fair a one as ever was fought." The jury retired and came back in a minute or two.

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 272 · source

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Rack-renting landlord A.B. on reclaimed bog land in Ballysadare

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Somewhere around here, in Ballysadare, a member of the Phibbs family owned 499 acres and charged rents roughly double the valuation on land that tenants had reclaimed from bog. When the parents of Pat and James McK. came into possession, there was not a perch of arable land in their holdings. It was all wet, unwalkable bog, still in its primeval state. Day after day, year after year, these men and their children delved and drained and manured, up to the knee in water or sludge, working the desolate waste. A patch of land was no sooner made ready to give crops than the landlord stepped in and set on it a rack rent. It was, as the book puts it, "inflicting a penalty on the tenant, instead of dealing out a reward to him for reclamation and improvements." The author of the history writes that he makes these references with great reluctance, but says history, to be useful, must notice the good and the bad of men and things.

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 107 · source

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Burial ground, Ballysadare

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Right here in Ballysadare is a burial ground on a gravel ridge. Half of a roughly oval burial mound was excavated in 1996 before the Ballysadare to Collooney bypass road was built. The rest of it is still undisturbed. The dig uncovered the remains of at least 83 burials and 28 bone scatters. They were all inhumations, laid flat on their backs and aligned roughly east to west with the head to the west, except for one individual, possibly a priest, whose head lay to the east. Most of the graves were shallow, cut into the gravel, but two were stone-lined and lintelled. A bullaun stone was found in the field where the unexcavated half of the burial ground sits. The east to west orientation of the burials suggests this was a Christian burial ground. A second burial ground lies about 15 metres to the east.

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Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Corhawnagh

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Right here at Corhawnagh in Sligo is a court tomb, sitting in an oval mound on sloping pasture with a view across Ballysadare Bay. The gallery faces north-east and is divided by jambs into two chambers. Only one entrance jamb survives, and no trace of the court remains. Four sidestones stand on the northern side of the gallery, three on the opposite side, and a large backstone closes it off.

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Ritual site - holy well, Cooney

What it said · 109 of 109 words

There is a well here, right beside the road on the slopes of the Ox mountains. The structure is a rectangular drystone surround with an opening and two lintel slabs, one half now partly collapsed. O'Rorke in 1878 thought this might be the well he called Tubbermurro, meaning Mary's Well, where people of the neighbourhood once performed stations. Devotees knelt and made a circuit round two bushes, then tied a small strip of cloth to one of them, 'in token, probably, of willingness to make a more valuable offering.' The water was cut off about thirty years before O'Rorke wrote, by quarrying near the well, and it dried up.

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Kildalough church identified as Kil-easpuig-Rodain

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Somewhere around here is the old church of Kildalough, which has been identified as the long-forgotten Kil-easpuig-Rodain. The patron was Bishop Rodain, who was Saint Patrick's armentarius, or herd. A local old man had called it Kil-edspuig-O'Daly, but that seems to have been a confusion of names, since the names Rodain and O'Daly were easy to mix up.

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 181 · source

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Megalithic tomb - passage tomb, Glen (Leyny By.)

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Right here beside the road is a passage tomb on the narrow summit of Croaghaun Mountain, about 2km south of Ballysadare Bay. A rectangular chamber faces south-east inside a circular cairn, and it commands an extensive outlook in all directions. The site was excavated in 1985. Cremated human bone was found in the chamber, along with a fragment of a poppy-headed antler or bone pin, a piece of chert with wear-marks, and fragments of coarse ware pottery. Five small deposits of cremated bone were found in the cairn itself, one with sherds of a food vessel, and a hollow scraper made of chert came out of the cairn as well. Radiocarbon dating of charcoal from one cremation gave a date of 5640 to 5490 BC, far earlier than expected for a passage tomb, so the charcoal may already have been centuries old when it was deposited. Another sample from the chamber dated to 4675 to 4460 BC, which the excavator said presents problems of interpretation. A prehistoric wall of large boulders lies about 130 metres to the south, curving around the base of the mountain and possibly associated with the tomb.

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Ritual site - holy well, Crockacullion

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Right here in this pasture is where a holy well once stood. In 1836 it was recorded as Cuilltilinead Holy Well, meaning the woods of Liney. The priests prohibited stations at the well because of some vice or misconduct committed by those who visited. There are no visible remains of it now.

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Riot at Beltra fair by the regiment of cudgelers, 1782

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You're coming up on Beltra, a small place in Sligo with a story from August 1782. A gang calling themselves the regiment of cudgelers, about two hundred strong and active across the baronies of Leyny and Tireragh, showed up at the fair here. Over a hundred of them came armed with cudgels and oak boughs, striking people as they passed along. They attacked a party of the Independent Tyreril Volunteers who were recruiting for the navy, pelting them so severely with stones that the Volunteers had to take shelter in the Strand-house. Lewis Francis Irwin heard what was happening and came immediately to their assistance. Four men, Michael Kenny, Owen Kenny, Maurice Marley, and Francis M'Cowen, were committed to the county gaol for the riot.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time (1892), Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917, Internet Archive historyofsligoco00wood, Chapter 161 · source

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Megalithic tomb - passage tomb, Barnabrack

What it said · 136 of 136 words

Coming up here at Barnabrack in Sligo, there's a passage tomb marked on the old OS map as a stone circle. Wood-Martin, in the 1880s, described it as a slightly raised mound, about 57 feet north to south by 45 feet east to west, formerly encircled with boulders. He records that the site was traditionally called Coolcrave and was said to be the burial place of those who died in a battle which took place nearby. What survives today is a semi-circular level area about 18 metres north to south. The western half has been obliterated, and a rough track borders it on that side, with the ground falling away sharply. On the north-west to east-south, remnants of a ring of close-set boulders survive, incorporated into a curving field wall. The stones survive best in the north-west to north, where 6 to 7 boulders stand in a curving line. In the south, 5 close-set boulders appear to be in situ, and a few isolated stones protrude from the overgrowth on the east. The boulders are small, half a metre to 0.70 metres across, standing between 0.40 metres and 0.80 metres high.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), SL019-132---- · source

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Church of Skreen founded by St. Adamnan

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Up ahead you're coming into the parish of Skreen, where a church was founded in the seventh century by St. Adamnan, who died in 704. The name comes from the Latin word Scriniuni, meaning a shrine, because Adamnan's shrine was deposited there. Old writings mention two shrines of Adamnan, one holding his own bones and the other containing relics of various saints he had collected, and the church seems to have been built to receive and preserve them. The site itself had earlier been granted to St. Columba. The Life of St. Farannan relates that when Columba visited Tireragh after the convention of Drumceat, Tipraid, the chief of Tireragh, granted him three places, and the third, Cnoc-na-maoile, became Serin-Adamnan after a church was built on the spot, now called Skreen.

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 217 · source

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Burial, Skreen More

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Right here at Skreen More, in November 1989, a farmer digging a slurry pit struck human remains. The digger had already extensively damaged the skeletons, which lay about half a metre below the original ground level, oriented east to west and spaced ten centimetres to a metre and a half apart. There were no grave goods and no trace of any burial structure, and the trench was backfilled. A ruined medieval parish church stands about 110 metres to the west, and a holy well dedicated to St Adamnáin about 65 metres to the north.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), SL019-257---- · source

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Droiched-Awnan, the Bridge of Adamnan over Dunmoran stream

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Somewhere close to Dunmoran, over the Dunmoran stream, there's a flag stone, nine feet long and nine inches broad, known as Droiched-Awnan, the Bridge of Awnan or Adamnan. It's thought to be the Leo Adamnan mentioned in the Book of Fenagh, tying the saint's name to this stretch of the landscape. Adamnan left his mark on other spots here too. Near the church, on the north side of the road, there's a well called Tubber Awnan, with a stone monument standing over it. The Book of Fenagh and other records keep his memory alive across this corner of Sligo. Dr. Reeves, in his edition of Adamnan's Life of Saint Columba, notes that the shrine of Adamnan held 26 articles, among them manuscripts of the Gospels, hymns and poems, apparel belonging to the saints of Ireland, and a few relics of St. Paul and the Virgin Mary. A large box, and what Reeves calls "a rather heavy load to carry about."

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 217 · source

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Templeboy church and St. Baithin dedication

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As you pass through the parish of Templeboy in Sligo, there was once a substantial church here, sixty-two feet long and twenty-four feet wide. The interior was occasionally used as a place of burial, and some tombstones still stand with inscriptions so worn they are nearly illegible. The dates 1733, 1741, 1761, and 1765 are almost the only parts that can still be made out. A well dedicated to St. Molaisse stands near the church. St. Molaisse is credited with spreading religion across this part of Tireragh, and Templeboy was one of the parishes he is said to have influenced. He is also linked to the priory of Aughris, on a bold headland to the west, where tradition holds he founded the original establishment, though no trace of that structure now remains. Donnell O'Dowd, who died in 1380, may have repaired or rebuilt the priory, but the original foundation is attributed to St. Molaisse himself.

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 220 · source

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Parish Priest of Templeboy and Kilmacshalgan, 1704

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As you pass through Templeboy, this was the parish of John Hely in 1704. He was ordained in 1683 by Bishop Whelan of Ossory and served as parish priest of Templeboy and Kilmacshalgan. His sureties were Edward Braxton of Ballysadare and Robert Hilloe of Dunehohy.

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 222 · source

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Castle - tower house, Cashelboy

What it said · 100 of 100 words

Right here is the site of Cashelboy tower house in Sligo. It was built in the late 16th century, a square two-storey limestone tower with a barrel-vaulted ground floor and a loft above. The entrance is in the east wall, with a spiral stairway just inside leading up to the first floor. Up there, passages built into the walls lead to a garderobe in the south-west corner and an oubliette hidden in the centre of the east wall. There is no trace of a second floor or of battlements. A medieval church stood just over five metres to the east.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), SL018-029001- · source

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Pit-burial, Ballyeeskeen

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Right here in Ballyeeskeen, Sligo, a pit-burial came to light in 1963 when an unclassified barrow was excavated ahead of road-widening works on the N59 Sligo to Ballina road. The pit had been inserted into the east side of the barrow as a secondary phase of activity. It held the cremated remains of an adult human of unknown gender, along with cremated animal bones. Five decorated pottery sherds of Food Vessel type were recovered, and twelve fragments of chert were found nearby.

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Castle - unclassified, Dunneill

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Right here is the site of Dunneill Castle, on a low rise overlooking a bend in the River Dunneill. It was an O'Dowd castle, taking its name from Neill, a chieftain of the family, before it later fell into the hands of the MacSweeneys. In 1641, according to some depositions, the castle was in the charge of "Gullne duff O'Hart of Carbury." The Down Survey map shows a castle called Dooniell Castle at this spot, and the 1837 Ordnance Survey map marks it simply as a site. Today there is no masonry visible, only a subcircular mound of earth and stone showing considerable evidence of past quarrying and disturbance.

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New Sligo–Ballina road via Tanrego and Dromore West

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You're passing through Dromore West on this road. The most important road built in later times led from Sligo to Ballina. The new portion left the old line at Tanrego and took a direct course to Dromore West, then through the bogs to Ballina. It was about 27 miles long, made around 1810 to 1815.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time (1892), Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917, Internet Archive historyofsligoco00wood, Chapter 100 · source

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Dromore West Poor Law Union headquarters

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As you pass through Dromore West, this was the headquarters of one of Sligo's Poor Law unions, part of the administrative infrastructure for famine-era poverty relief. The union covered 96,985 acres, contained 3,129 houses, and had a population of 17,849. That is all the record holds for this place.

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 223 · source

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Carrownrush Tower

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Right here beside the road is Carrownrush Tower, a two-storey stone signal tower built around 1805, with later work at parapet level around 1850. It is square on plan with a slightly V-shaped south elevation and corbelled bartizans on the south-east and south-west corners. The windows are missing, the entrance is missing, and both internal floor structures are gone. It stood on this promontory overlooking Sligo Bay to the east as part of a series of such structures built around the coast of Ireland at the time of the Napoleonic wars. Its resemblance to the medieval tower house is striking.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 32401201 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Doonaltan

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Right here at Doonaltan in Sligo, a holy well sits on the Ballymeeny River beneath a small waterfall, in the base of a steep-sided wooded ravine. It is a natural river pool known as Dabhach Fharannain, the vat or keeve of Farannan, said to have been used by St Farannan for baptising pilgrims and for personal mortification. A bedrock slab beside the pool served as an altar. A second holy well lies on the steep west slope about 40 metres north-west, and on the ridge top about 20 metres south-east there is a cairn traditionally said to be the saint's grave.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), SL011-058002- · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Alternan Park

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Right here in Alternan Park in Sligo is St Ernan's Well, a spring flowing through a small triangular opening in the bedrock on a rocky ledge on the west slope of a steep-sided wooded ravine. Tradition links it to St Farannan. A rough path leads from the river up the steep slope and along a natural ledge to the well. About 12 metres to the south is a rocky shelf known as the Saint's Bed, where the hermit saint is said to have slept. The traditional pattern or pilgrimage was held on Garland Sunday, the last Sunday in July. A natural rock outcrop at the base of the east wall of the ravine served as an altar. Pilgrims crossed the river, climbed the west slope to visit the holy well, then crossed back and picked up a stone from a river pool called Dabhach Fharannain, which was also used as a holy well. They then climbed to the ridge top on the east side and deposited the stone on a cairn known as the Saint's Grave.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), SL011-057---- · source

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Children's burial ground, Killeenduff (Tireragh By.)

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Right beside the road here is a children's burial ground in Killeenduff, in Tireragh. The 1913 map called it the Black Grave Yard and marked it as a rough rectangle about 70 metres by 40 metres. There's nothing to see now, no wall or ditch, just pasture on a gentle slope. Locals know it as a place where children were buried.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), SL011-049---- · source

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Michael Fenton of Easky confronts Thady Connellan

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Coming up now is Easky in Sligo. This is where Michael Fenton, who had the name of being no great friend of "the boys," once met Thady Connellan in company with some neighbours and said to him: "So, Thady, you are transporting the boys?" The imperturbable Thady replied: "Yes, sir, just to save you the trouble of hanging them." Thady had received large sums for the work of the Elementaries and a considerable amount for emigration purposes. With the emigration fund he dispatched several young fellows of Tireragh to America on O'Connor's vessel, the Cadmus. It was suspected at the time that he was anxious to have them out of the country, as they knew more than he wished of his relations with the Thrashers, some years before, when for lack of other employment he used to hawk felt hats at fairs and markets. Self-denial was not Connellan's characteristic virtue. He made a good thing of his connection with the Hibernian Society. But in an evil hour he was tempted by the prospect of high interest to bank most of his savings with Baron Foster, who was about as pious a man as Thady himself, and closed on the money. Those who knew Thady gave him no credit for sincerity, but rather regarded him as a charlatan and a sham. Lady Morgan, young as she was when she met him, gauged correctly his assurance, his cunning, his affected dignity, his rich brogue that beggared all description, and his simulated learning.

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 222 · source

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Easky Discussion: public religious debate, 1824

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You're passing through Easky, in Sligo. In late 1824 this was the scene of a two-day public debate at the chapel, after the parish priest challenged two former Catholic Scripture-readers then travelling through his district. Dr. Urwick took part for the Protestant side. The chapel was filled with a large crowd, the chairman sat before the altar, and reporters took down verbatim all that was said. The shorthand notes were published afterwards.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time (1892), Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917, Internet Archive historyofsligoco00wood, Chapter 70 · source

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Castle - tower house, Bunowna

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Right beside the road here at Bunowna in Sligo, there's a tower house standing over the sea to the north and the estuary of the River Easky to the west. The Ordnance Survey Letters of 1836 recorded that the castle was built by Oliver McDonnell in 1207 and stayed with that family until 1549. In 1603, the first year of the reign of King James the first, it was granted to Daniel O'Dowd. A description from the time recorded "2 castles, a kitchen and bakehouse within the bawn of Roslee." A late 18th-century plan and drawing showed a rectangular keep with an adjoining building aligned east to west, longer and narrower than the keep. A length of bawn wall extended north from the north-west angle of the keep. Only the keep now survives. It is a three-storey rectangular structure, 12.05 metres east to west and 9 metres north to south, with walls 2.05 metres thick and a slight base batter. The original entrance, now blocked, was at the north end of the east wall. The present entrance was formerly a window embrasure in the centre of the south wall. The eastern third of the barrel vault covering the ground floor is gone. A mural stairway starts at the north end of the east wall and returns south to the first floor. A large blocked-up window sits in the centre of the east wall at first-floor level, with single-light windows in the south, west and north walls. A garderobe is in the north-west angle. A mural stair in the south wall rises to battlement level, so the second floor must have been reached by a wooden stairway. The second floor is lit only by windows in the south and west walls. Casey in 1999 suggested this might be a promontory fort, but inspection found no evidence for it beyond some bumps and hollows inland of the tower house.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), SL011-020---- · source

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Castletown as the cradle of the O'Connors Sligo

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Somewhere around here lies Castletown, in the parish of Drumcliff, described as the cradle of the O'Connors Sligo. Its original name was Caislen Conor. The book calls this the starting place of the family, though it offers little more than that about the settlement itself. What it does give is a long catalogue of the O'Connor Sligo line: Cathal becoming king of Connaught, Cathal Oge's exploits and death, Donnell murdering his cousin Teige and then enlarging the territory and improving the town of Sligo. Later came Sir Donnell O'Connor, described as a match for Queen Elizabeth and her ministers. Sir Donogh, nephew of Sir Donnell, married Lady Eleanor Butler, widow of the Earl of Desmond. The name of O'Connor Sligo eventually drops out of view, with Mr. Peter O'Connor and his nephews named as the genuine descendants of the line. The book notes a serious mistake by O'Donovan and others regarding the O'Connors Sligo, and speaks of the character of the Castletown O'Connors, though the passage before us does not give the substance of either.

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 345 · source

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Castle - ringwork, Oldgrange

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Right here at Oldgrange in Sligo are the remains of a castle ringwork, sitting on a north-facing slope overlooking the Atlantic. It's a raised circular area enclosed by two low banks of earth and stone with a shallow ditch between them, the outer bank faced with stone, some of it quite large. The banks have been levelled from north-west to north-north-east, and the original entrance lies at east-north-east, where a stone-lined break crosses the ditch by causeway. There may be a house site inside.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), SL011-009001- · source

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MacDonnells establish castles at Rathlee and Rosslee in Easky

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Somewhere close to Rathlee, the MacDonnells put down roots in the fifteenth century. They were galloglass constables from the Hebrides, where their family were Lords of the Isles. They fixed themselves here at Rathlee and at Rosslee in the parish of Easky, building castles and acquiring considerable landed possessions. By 1603, under James the First's General Pardon, their descendants were recorded as knights and gentlemen of this place. Henry Albanagh of Rathlee was named a gentleman, Edward Oge Albanagh and Phillippo Albanagh were named knights. At Rosslee, Moelmory McDonnell was a gentleman, and Dowell M'Donnell and Randal McDonnell were knights. A Chancery Inquisition taken at Sligo on the 20th of April 1617 names Hubert Albinagh and Allen among them.

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 211 · source

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Kilglass church etymology and 1307 valuation

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Somewhere around here is Kilglass. There is doubt as to the meaning of the word. It might signify the Church of the Stream, the Church of the Green Spot, or the Green Church, but it is extremely probable, if not certain, that it means the Church of St. Molaisse. In a letter written by Thomas O'Connor to Thomas A. Larcom, given in the Ordnance Survey Letter Book of the county Sligo, the writer observes, "Kilglass is a corruption, the people say, of Kil Molaisse." What would show the people to have been right is that in the Commonwealth Rental of Bishop Lands, Kilglass appears with the alias of Kilmolasse. The church must have been a comparatively rich one in early times. While Dromard, Skreen, Templeboy, and Easky are valued in the Taxation of 1307 for 2 marks, 4 marks, 4 and a half marks, and 5 marks respectively, the value of Killoglassa is 100 shillings. The parish of Castleconor, divided from Kilglass by the Belawaddy river, stretches along the east side of the bay of Killalla until it joins Kilmoremoy on the south. It takes its name from the castle, sometimes called Caislean mic Conor and sometimes Dun mic Conor, the castle or the dun of the son of Conor. Want of attention to that meaning led even O'Donovan and Hennessy to confound the Castleconor of Tireragh with the Castleconor of Carbury.

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 227 · source

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Iniscrone castle, seat of O'Keevaines

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As you come through Inishcrone, there are considerable remains of a castle. The town was a fashionable seaside resort, frequented by the traders and shopkeepers of Ballina and the better-off people of upper Sligo. The parish of Kilglass, like most of the other districts of Tireragh, had its quota of castles, three of which are marked on the Ordnance Survey map. This castle was the chief seat of Caomhain's descendants. Old English writers called them O'Keevaines, John O'Donovan called them O'Keevans, and in recent times they called themselves Kavanaghs. The Burkes of Lower Connaught took the castle from them. Then in 1512, O'Donnell recovered it after a spirited contest, which the Four Masters describe well. He forthwith demolished it, "lest it should fall again into the hands of his enemies."

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 226 · source

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Rebels desecrate churches at Lackan, Easky, Killraghtige and Enniscrone

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As you come through Inishcrone, you are near ground where the 1798 insurgents attacked several Protestant churches. They pulled the carpenter work from the churches at Lackan, Easky, Killraghtige, and Enniscrone, and tore the books they found. The Enniscrone church suffered worst. They tore up the flooring, demolished the pews and communion table, rifled the tombs, and desecrated the remains of the dead. The Sligo insurgents were aided by those of Mayo. All the houses of the gentry were plundered, and some demolished. The principal sufferers were Mr. Nesbitt of Scurmore, Mr. Fenton of Easky, Mr. Brown of Fortland, Mr. Grove rector of Kilmacshalgan, Mr. Charles and Mr. Robert Jones, the Messrs. Wood, and several others.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time (1892), Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917, Internet Archive historyofsligoco00wood, Chapter 12 · source

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Tomb of Rev. Mr Valentine desecrated at Enniscrone church

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Coming up near Inishcrone in Sligo. In 1798, rebels damaged several churches in this county, and Enniscrone was among the worst hit. They tore up the floors, demolished the pews and communion table, and rifled the tombs with what the record calls "great indecency." They singled out the remains of the Reverend Mr Valentine, who had been vicar here for 53 years. He died in 1765, aged 90, and was remembered as humane and universally revered. He left 600 pounds for the widows of the clergy of the diocese, and 400 pounds to maintain a charity school in the parish and apprentice the children taught in it.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Memoirs of the different rebellions in Ireland, from the arrival of the English : also, a particular detail of that which broke out the XXIIId of May, MDCCXCVIII : with the history of the conspiracy which preceded it (vol. 2) (1802), Musgrave, Richard, 1745 or 1746-1818, Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere02musg, Chapter 77 · source

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Scurmore 'Children of the Mermaid' boulders and tumulus

What it said · 136 of 136 words

Somewhere close to Scurmore there's a place locals call the Children of the Mermaid. The name belongs to seven large boulders sitting on the edge of a circular rampart that surrounds a fine tumulus. The thinking behind the name was that these megalithic stones had once been living creatures, changed into rock by magic. That belief ran deep among country people. Sligo had its own mermaid lore, called the Merrow, and the old annals fed it. In 887 a dead mermaid was said to have washed ashore, and her dimensions were recorded in detail. The Annals of Loch Ce tell how fishermen caught two mermaids in 1118. Some fishermen still believed. One man swore he saw a mermaid sitting on the rocks combing her hair, and when he came near she dove straight into the deep.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time (1892), Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917, Internet Archive historyofsligoco00wood, Chapter 179 · source

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Castletown House

What it said · 141 of 141 words

Right here in Cottlestown, Sligo stands Castletown House, a fortified house built about 1600. It is a detached four-bay three-storey rubble stone structure on a rectangular plan, known as O'Dowd's Castle. The roof is missing, but the masonry walls are remarkably intact, with substantial sections of original lime render still showing. The south elevation has a slightly projecting parapet, a bartizan at the south-east corner, cut-stone dressings, and a battered base. A second bartizan sits at the north-west corner. The ground floor has several defensive slit openings with dressed stone chamfered surrounds and hood moulds, and segmental-arched entrance openings are in the east gable. The interior retains what may be original timber work. A rubble stone wall links the south-west corner to the north wall of a corn mill to the south. The inventory rates the building as of considerable importance.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 32402204 · source

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Castle - unclassified, Ballina (Tirawley By.)

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Right beside the road here, on the west bank of the Moy at the north edge of Ballina, stood the Castle of Belleck-Moy. It sat at a slight bend and narrowing of the river, opposite where the Brusna joins the Moy. The Ordnance Survey Letters of 1838 record that old natives remembered the ruins, but by then no part of it was traceable. Ballina House was built in the 1830s by Edward Howley, a Catholic magistrate, on the castle's grounds. The castle was built in the 13th century and held by the Barretts. In the 15th century the Burkes were in dispute with the Barretts over this castle and other properties. A resolution in 1584 gave possession to Walter Kittage Bourke. Knox records that Bourke did not hold Belleek for long. The English gained possession and it became a garrison. In 1595 Bourke regained it, but by 1630 it was owned by Sir William Fenton, and ownership kept changing. A possible remnant was identified in 2012: a three-storey stone-built tower, built into the east end of a 19th-century stable block about 30 metres from Ballina House. It measures 6.10 metres north to south and at least 4 metres east to west, against the slope overlooking the Moy. Its east wall stands 4 to 5 metres back from the river, now separated by a trackway. The walls are rendered, but at the base of the east wall the original mortared limestone blocks are visible. No original windows remain. Square brick-lined windows and a doorway were inserted later. A small vaulted chamber lined with red brick sits on the ground floor. The 19th-century additions make the building hard to read. Below the slope, a dilapidated stone facing extends about 14 metres south to meet the stable courtyard wall.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), MA030-055---- · source

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Castle - unclassified, Carrowcushlaun West

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Right here in Carrowcushlaun West is where a castle known as Ardnaree castle may have stood, likely a tower house on a hill overlooking the River Moy. The hill itself may have been the site of an ancient fort before the castle was built, called Ard na Riagh in the old Irish writings. O'Donovan recorded in the 1830s that fragments of the walls were still standing, but noted that within a few years the ruins were totally removed along with the fort beneath them. The Annals of the Four Masters mention the castle several times. In 1266 Donall O'Hara was killed by the English while he was in the act of burning Ard-na-riagh. In 1371 Donall O'Dowd ravaged the country along the Moy, took the castle of Ardnariagh and Castleconor, and drove out the English. In 1532 the sons of O'Dowd took the castle at night from the sons of John Burke, and the next year, 1533, the sons of Thomas Burke took it back from them, also at night. In 1586 the MacDonalds came from Scotland to help the Burkes rebel against Sir Richard Bingham, the Provincial President of Connacht, and were pursued and totally defeated here in a bloody engagement known as the Battle of Ardnaree. There are no upstanding remains today.

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Eviction by civil bill process in County Mayo

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Somewhere around here, in the autumn of 1847, a Ballina solicitor described how Mayo landlords were clearing their land. Instead of formal ejectment, they used civil bill processes, suing tenants for the use and occupation of the land. A summons was served on the tenant at least six days before the court sat, stating the amount claimed to be due and requiring the defendant to appear. The court would then grant a decree under which either the person of the defendant or his chattels could be taken in execution. In practice, the landlords issued these decrees against the persons of the tenants, for the obvious purpose of clearing the land. For two and a half years, the tenants had been unable to pay their rents with their former punctuality, and in the northern part of this county the landlords almost universally proceeded against all tenants in arrear, in most cases up to the last gale day. Many of the poor tenants, upon being served, fled the country and saved the landlord further trouble. They knew that if they stayed they must either pay the rent in full, surrender their land and home, or submit to imprisonment under an Assistant-Barrister's decree. Many who had no means to leave or pay gave up their holdings willingly and sought admission into the workhouses to escape arrest. A few who were obstinate were arrested and cast into gaol, and found they could procure release only upon giving up possession of their land. Some were even detained in custody until they surrendered their holdings.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Visit to Connaught in the Autumn of 1847: A Letter Addressed to the ... (1848), James Hack Tuke , Society of Friends Dublin Monthly Meeting . Central Relief Committee, Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends (Dublin, Ireland), Internet Archive avisittoconnaug00irelgoog, Chapter 3 · source

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Burial ground, Ballina (Tirawley By.)

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You're right beside a burial ground here in Ballina, in what's now the public green known as Mercy Park. Local tradition says this was a Famine-era burial ground for the Union workhouse and fever hospital that stood to the south, where Ballina Hospital is now. The original boundaries are gone, and the uninscribed stone grave-markers that were still visible in the early to mid-1900s no longer survive. Human burials have turned up during ground works over the years, mostly unrecorded. In January 2009 two adult burials were partly exposed during exploratory trenching for sewage pipes in the northeast part of the park. The bones included finger, pelvis, and leg bones of one adult, and the leg bones of a second, both aligned east to west, with no traces of coffins or grave cuts. An archaeologist recorded the bones, they were reburied, and the pipeline was re-routed.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), MA030-094---- · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Ballina (Tirawley By.)

What it said · 92 of 92 words

Right here is a holy well, St. Patrick's Well, named on the 1837 and 1930 OS maps. The 1838 OS Letters record it as the place where, according to the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, the saint baptised a local chief called Eochodius. The original form of the well is unknown. In the 1960s it was built into a concrete surround within a walled enclosure that also contains the Stations of the Cross. Local information says a bush once grew beside the well, and pilgrims tied rags on it as votive offerings.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), MA030-052003- · source

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Burial, Laghtadawannagh

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Right here beside the road is the burial site of Laghtadawannagh, up on a ridge in this pasture in Mayo. The 1837 ordnance survey marked it as a small oblong feature called Friar's Grave, and it seems to be where the townland got its name. It was a low heap of stones, about 2.4 metres by 1.2 metres and less than a metre high, with no formal structure. It was removed during land clearance in the 1970s or 1980s. A single stone lies partly embedded in the ground below the summit of the ridge, but nobody can say for sure whether it is what remains of the monument.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), MA030-035---- · source

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Pike Destroy the Trout of Derreens Lake

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Somewhere around here is a small bog-lake called Derreens, not far from Castlebar. Ten years ago it was celebrated for its numerous and well-sized trout. You could kill half a dozen in an evening, with a collective weight often amounting to twenty pounds. Then pike accidentally found a passage into the lough from the Minola river, and now the trout are extinct, or at least none are caught or seen. The author calls it a convincing proof of the rapid destruction that introducing pike into a trout lake will cause. Few of the Mayo waters are secure from the encroachments of the pike. The lakes of Castlebar still retain their ancient character, but pike have been latterly taken in the Turlogh river, and they will soon appear in any lake that communicates with that stream.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Wild Sports of the West; Interspersed with Legendary Tales and Local Sketches (1832), William Hamilton Maxwell, Internet Archive wildsportsofwest00maxwrich, Chapter 40 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Meelick (Tirawley By.)

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Right beside the road here is a holy well at the base of a wooded east-facing slope. It is a rectangular spring, dug into the hillside and faced with drystone walling, about 2 metres across and 1 metre deep. An outflow drain runs east but is largely silted up. The Ordnance Survey Letters of 1838 recorded this well in Meelick, not far from the old church of Crosspatrick, called Tobar Phadruig.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), MA022-042001- · source

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French landing at Killala, August 1798

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Up ahead is the town of Killala in Mayo, where a French force of about 1500 soldiers came ashore on the 22nd of August 1798. This was the vanguard of a much larger French army that Sir J. Warren intercepted at sea, so it never reached Ireland. The soldiers who did land at Killala believed the whole of Ireland would meet them with open arms and rush to their standard. Instead the French general found the people indifferent to his movements, and they would not even help unless paid for their services. A few of the natives allowed themselves to be drilled, for the sake of the clothes and rations the French offered. Major-General Hutchinson, who commanded at Galway, heard the French had landed in Mayo and called out the yeomanry of Clare, Galway, and other Connaught regiments. They marched towards Mayo, and he reported that along the whole of his route the country was perfectly quiet and the people were hard at work on their harvest. By the 9th of the following month Lord Cornwallis was in command of the English.

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 130 · source

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Humbert lands at Killala and surrenders at Ballinamuck

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Up ahead is the town of Killala in County Mayo. In 1798, too late to assist the rebellion, General Humbert landed here with a French force of rather more than a thousand men. After dispersing a force of militia, he was surrounded and surrendered at Ballinamuck in County Longford. Soon afterwards a larger French expedition under Admiral Bompart, with nine ships and three thousand men, was engaged and defeated off Lough Swilly. Humbert's was the last French expedition which landed in Ireland, but it was not the last which contemplated such a landing. Robert Emmet, when he arrived in Ireland in 1802 to organise the insurrection of the following year, had just returned from France and had hopes of aid from Napoleon. It was the accidental explosion of one of his ammunition depots which precipitated the rising in July 1803 instead of in August, by which time he expected invasion from France. In that August Nelson wrote to Addington, "My station to the westward of Toulon, an unusual one, has been taken upon the idea that the French fleet is bound out of the Straits, and probably to Ireland." In October he wrote, "Their destination, is it Ireland, or the Levant? That is what I want to know." Collingwood was equally convinced that Napoleon's ultimate objective for Villeneuve's fleet was Ireland. As late as January 1805, Nelson fully believed that if the enemy left the Mediterranean, they would proceed to Ireland.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the Irish Rebellion of 1916 (1916), Wells, Warre Bradley, 1892-, Internet Archive historyofirishre00welluoft, Chapter 5 · source

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French landing at Killala draws western volunteer response

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laid down their arms which they had voluntarily taken up, and resumed their station with honour and applause amongst their feDo* men."* Much has been written of the Irish Volunteers, but they hav received no higher praise than that contained in the few words quoted from the pen of the historian of Galway; the men concerning whom he wrote were known to him, and they were all bred and bom west of the Shannon, many of them grandsons of gentlemen whose lands had been confiscated by the English Government. Here in Clare and Galway the Roman Catholic Celts were, by Cromwell's directions, to be confined and separated from the rest of the world lest their influence should con taminate the Scotch and English, located over Ulster and Leinster. The descendants of these Scotchmen and Englishmen were at the end Of the last century in open rebellion against England, but the Celt was true to his character, and when Ireland was invaded by England s enemies they loyally pressed forward to resist domestic traitors, and foreign foes. When the time arrived for the English to resume her functions, and replace the self-elected and organised volunteers of the West of Ireland by constituted authorities, the volunteers betook themselves, as was their ancient custom, without a thought of self or their own importance to their farms and agricultural pursuits; and there they remained until in 1798, when the French attempted to land in Bantry Bay, and subsequently effected a landing in Killala; on both these occasions the volunteers of Clare and Galway again sprang into existence, and the country was alive with them and the yeomanry, bent, as before, on trying to do their duty.f

Read 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 127 · source

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Battle of Killala

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Somewhere around here, on Sunday, 23 September 1798, the Battle of Killala was fought during the Irish Rebellion. British Crown forces faced a combined force of Irish rebels and a small number of French troops at Killala, County Mayo.

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

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Bishop Maccaille's church ruins at Croghan

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Somewhere close to Croghan, the ruins of Bishop Maccaille's church can still be seen on the eastern side of the hill. He was said to be a nephew of St. Patrick, and he died in 489. His festival was kept on the 25th of April, at 'Cruach-an-Bri-Eile, in Ifalgia.' The ruins stand near Tyrrell's Pass, on the border between the King's County and the county of Westmeath.

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 45 · source

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Castle - unclassified, Carrickanass

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Right here at Carrickanass in Mayo is the site of a castle that once stood on the north bank of the Carn River. The castle and bawn of Carricknassy were listed in the 17th-century Stafford Inquisition. Built by the Burke family, it was a square tower about 9 metres across and 14 metres high, surrounded by a bawn wall nearly 3 metres high. In 1802 McParlan described it as still standing, with a strong bawn. By 1838 it had been demolished. O'Donovan found only a single wall, which he took to be the last remnant of the bawn. Nothing is visible at ground level now.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), MA014-057---- · source

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Children's burial ground, Carn (Tirawley By., Lackan Par.)

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Right here is a children's burial ground at Carn in Lackan parish, Mayo. It sits close to the summit of a prominent hill, a poorly-defined, grass-covered wedge-shaped cairn of small and medium stones, about 28 metres long and 11 metres wide. A considerable portion of the broad north end has been quarried away. There is an enclosure 10 metres to the north.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), MA014-062001- · source

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Children's burial ground, Rathoonagh

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Right here at Rathoonagh in Mayo there's a children's burial ground. The survey record for this site hasn't been filled in yet, so there's no detail on what's here or when it dates from. These small burial grounds were set aside for children who couldn't be laid to rest in the main graveyard.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), MA014-003---- · source

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Céide Fields

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Somewhere around here lies the Céide Fields, a prehistoric landscape on the north coast of County Mayo, buried beneath blanket bog. It holds stone-walled field systems, habitation sites, enclosures, and megalithic monuments, and has been dated to the fourth millennium BCE as a Neolithic farming landscape. There are estimated to be more than 100 km of field enclosure walls hidden under the peat. An alternative reading by Andrew Whitefield suggests parts of it may be closer to later Bronze Age or Iron Age field systems found elsewhere in Europe. The Behy court tomb stands within the complex, and the site sits on UNESCO's tentative list for World Heritage status.

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

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Behy court tomb

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Somewhere around here is Behy, a megalithic court tomb near Belderrig in the north of County Mayo, sitting within the Céide Fields complex on the slope of Maumakeogh hill. It's the most westerly of the thirty or so tombs in the Killala group, with wide views across the sea to the Stags of Broadhaven. The chamber lies buried beneath peat, long known to local turf cutters by the folk name 'Roomeens,' and that sunken chamber had once been used as a still house for making poteen. The site is on private property. The monument first came to archaeological attention in 1952, when Rúaidhrí de Valéra and Sean Ó Nualláin of the Ordnance Survey surveyed it, initially classing it as a passage grave because of its cruciform chamber, before that assessment was revised after a second survey in 1959.

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

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Belmullet: fever described as a plague

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Somewhere around here, in the autumn of 1847, fever was so severe that one visitor called it a plague. He was warned against entering the town, told that every other house was more or less infected by its deadly presence. The fever struck the respectable classes and the poor alike. Hardly a family among the better off escaped it; several members had been attacked or were mourning the loss of nearest friends. But among the poor, crowded together on filthy straw on the mud floors of their cabins, without suitable nourishment or care, it was worse. In one family seven were lying prostrate, in another five, in another three. The poor themselves were so fearful of the infection that they frequently warned the visitor against entering their cabins. Infection once in these hovels was almost certain to remain. The great mortality of the past year was confirmed by all he spoke with. The belief was general that unless immediate steps were taken to relieve the people, deaths would be even more numerous, and the famine far more terrible in the coming winter. Instead of twenty thousand inhabitants, ten thousand only would be left. He called this place upon the inner Mullet the ultima Thule of human misery. At Bangor, at Rossport, at Pullatomas, everywhere he saw the same waste land, the same neglect, crowds of wretched beings imploring for food or work. "Feed us or we die" seemed written on the countenances of every one. He had visited the wasted remnants of the Red Man on his reservation grounds in North America, and explored the negro quarter of the enslaved African, but never had he seen misery so intense.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Visit to Connaught in the Autumn of 1847: A Letter Addressed to the ... (1848), James Hack Tuke , Society of Friends Dublin Monthly Meeting . Central Relief Committee, Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends (Dublin, Ireland), Internet Archive avisittoconnaug00irelgoog, Chapter 1 · source

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Burial ground, An Carn (Fowler)

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This burial ground is right here at An Carn, beside the road near the north end of Blacksod Bay. It is a trapezoidal plot enclosed by a mortared stone wall, with a dense concentration of 19th- and 20th-century headstones and grave plots, interspersed with rows of low, uninscribed stone gravemarkers. It is not shown on the 1838 OS map but appears marked as Grave Yd on the 1921 edition. According to local tradition, it was used for famine burials and was associated with the Belmullet Workhouse, which opened in 1851. The earliest inscribed headstone is dated 1896, recorded by the Mayo County Council Graveyard Survey. Clay pipes found here fall into the date range 1850 to 1910, indicating that the tradition of smoking beside the grave following burial was a common practice at this site.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), MA009-027---- · source

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Temporary workhouse at Binghamstown overwhelmed by evicted poor

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Somewhere around here in Binghamstown, in the autumn of 1847, a temporary auxiliary workhouse was still under construction but had already taken in destitute applicants. Able-bodied men were given tasks for daily meal allowances. The place could shelter only a small fraction of the evicted poor in the district, and families who could not get in were found lying in the ditches nearby, too weak to crawl any further. One family of five was found in a ditch about a fortnight before and carried inside on the orders of the Inspecting Officer, who thought they had come there to die. One child had died, but the mother and the other children, little more than skeletons, were just recovering. Another family was found the same way, and the doctor attending said the mother could not weigh more than three stone. Despite everything, the inmates expressed gratitude to the Inspecting Officer for his kindness. The writer left here for Belmulet and closed what he called scenes it would be difficult to find equalled, even amidst the terrible wretchedness of Ireland.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Visit to Connaught in the Autumn of 1847: A Letter Addressed to the ... (1848), James Hack Tuke , Society of Friends Dublin Monthly Meeting . Central Relief Committee, Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends (Dublin, Ireland), Internet Archive avisittoconnaug00irelgoog, Chapter 2 · source

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Castle - unclassified, Bearanach Thoir

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Right here at Bearanach Thoir, on a storm beach at the north-west side of Ely Harbour, there was once a castle. The 1838 map shows a rectangular building annotated 'Barranagh Castle in ruins', but by the 1921 edition only a single wall was shown bordering the shore, and today there are no upstanding remains at all. What you can see is a slight sod-covered rise with large angular stones spilling over the beach cobbles, and two blocks of displaced rubble masonry coated in rough lime mortar with shell and animal bone inclusions. A limekiln was built within the castle ruins, according to local information, and later destroyed by storms. A fragment of a rotary quern was found among the rubble.

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Unknown wreck, Elly Bay

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There's a wreck here in Elly Bay. Tommy Walker of Aughleam, Belmullet reported it to the Underwater Archaeology Unit, and the National Monuments Service located it during a dive on 1 September 2011. What remains is one side of a vessel, ten metal frames standing upright in a line about 10 metres long, rising no more than 0.70 metres from the seabed. A concreted mound of metal debris stands about 1 metre high at the centre, with a metal pole rising 2 metres off the bottom. The wreck also holds the remains of a winch, chain, and a steel hawser.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Wreck Inventory of Ireland Database (CC-BY 4.0), WIID W11714 · source

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Recent house demolitions at Tiraun

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Close to Tiraun, a village on the property of J. Walshe stood with about twenty houses before the demolitions. In 1848, the author counted eight or ten roofless houses very recently thrown down, leaving thirteen heads of families receiving relief under the Poor-Law. The houses had been unroofed and the village largely reduced to ruins.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Visit to Connaught in the Autumn of 1847: A Letter Addressed to the ... (1848), James Hack Tuke , Society of Friends Dublin Monthly Meeting . Central Relief Committee, Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends (Dublin, Ireland), Internet Archive avisittoconnaug00irelgoog, Chapter 2 · source

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Bangor Erris: waste land and crowds imploring for food

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Coming up now is Bangor, in Mayo, a town the road passes through. In the autumn of 1847 an author came through here and what he saw stayed with him. He had been making a circuit of the Erris district, through Belmullet on the inner Mullet, through Bangor, through Rossport, through Pullatomas. Everywhere he went he saw the same thing: waste land stretching out, cultivated land left neglected, and crowds of wretched people imploring vociferously for food or for work. The mortality of the past year in this district was confirmed by everyone he spoke with, and the belief was general that unless immediate steps were taken, deaths would be even more numerous and the effects of famine far more terrible in the coming winter. They said that instead of 20,000 inhabitants, 10,000 only would be left. He wrote that it was a state of things that makes one unhappy to write about, how much more to witness. On the countenance of every person he met, the words seemed written: "Feed us or we die." He had visited the wasted remnants of the once noble Red Man on his reservation grounds in North America, and explored the negro quarter of the degraded and enslaved African, but never had he seen misery so intense. The Temporary Relief Act had expired, and whatever could be said of it, it had doubtless saved multitudes of lives. The Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends had directed its particular attention to this suffering district, and even at that time numbers were relieved by its grants. But the very small number of persons to whom funds for distribution in this and similar districts could be entrusted made it absolutely impossible to do all that could be desired.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Visit to Connaught in the Autumn of 1847: A Letter Addressed to the ... (1848), James Hack Tuke , Society of Friends Dublin Monthly Meeting . Central Relief Committee, Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends (Dublin, Ireland), Internet Archive avisittoconnaug00irelgoog, Chapter 1 · source

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Fisheries and food relief on the Erris coast

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As you pass through Bangor in Mayo, you are near a coast where, in 1847, at least 3,000 people scattered along the rugged shore could have found support through the fisheries. At the time of the author's visit that autumn, many were being kept alive by food grants from a relief committee. An efficient and trustworthy agent based here in Bangor was engaged to encourage both the fisheries and native manufactures as a more lasting way of supporting the population. The small curraghs in use were not suited to deep-sea work, and it was said that a few hundred pounds spent on larger boats for the cod and ling banks would have created a profitable trade, as the fishermen of this coast were expert and courageous under good leadership.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A Visit to Connaught in the Autumn of 1847: A Letter Addressed to the ... (1848), James Hack Tuke , Society of Friends Dublin Monthly Meeting . Central Relief Committee, Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends (Dublin, Ireland), Internet Archive avisittoconnaug00irelgoog, Chapter 1 · source

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Croaghaun panorama praised by explorers

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Somewhere close to Croaghaun, travellers have long stopped to admire what they saw. Sir Harry Johnston, the African explorer, stayed at the Slievemore Hotel in 1902 and wrote in the visitors' book that the side view of Croaghaun cliffs he included among the thousand bits of choice scenery he had met in all his travels. Sir John Franklin said, just before setting out on his last fatal voyage, that the view from the summit of Croaghaun was the grandest panorama he had encountered in all his travels.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Guide to Galway, Connemara and the West of Ireland (1912), Lang, Robert Turnbull, 1870-, Internet Archive guidetogalwaycon00lang, Chapter 40 · source

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Funeral procession by boat across the estuary to the burying-ground

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As you pass through Ballycroy, you are near the waters where an otter-killer was once carried to his burying-ground in a funeral flotilla of more than a hundred boats. The lodge where he had lived stood cut off from the burying-ground by the estuary, so the body had to be taken across by water. When evening came, boats gathered from every creek and harbour, and the master and his foster-brother carried the coffin ashore on their own shoulders. It was said this was the highest honour a master could bestow on the dead, surpassing even the magnificence of the otter-killer's wake.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Wild Sports of the West; Interspersed with Legendary Tales and Local Sketches (1832), William Hamilton Maxwell, Internet Archive wildsportsofwest00maxwrich, Chapter 154 · source

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The master-otter legend and the Montgomery brothers

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As you pass through Ballycroy in Mayo, you're travelling through country where the master-otter was once seen. According to local tradition, a portion of the master-otter's skin will stop a house from burning, keep a ship from wrecking, and make the man who carries it safe from bullets. Antony, an otter-hunter, said one was killed far down in the north by three brothers called Montgomery, who went from poverty to great wealth, and whose descendants remained rich. He said the master-otter appeared twice in this neighbourhood. At Dhu-hill, about 60 years ago, it showed up attended by about 100 common otters, waiting on their master like loyal beasts. An O'Donnel also encountered one while crossing Clew Bay in a sailing boat. He landed on an island for fresh water and found the spring occupied by a strange animal. He went back to the boat for a gun, loaded it with five fingers and a half of powder, and fired three times within a dozen yards. The gun missed fire every time. The otter left the well for the ocean, wisely declining a fourth chance. O'Donnel then shot at a passing gull and the gun fired perfectly, proving the fault lay not with the weapon but with the animal's powers. As Antony put it, if an inch of skin can save house, ship, and man, what virtue there must be in a whole hide.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Wild Sports of the West; Interspersed with Legendary Tales and Local Sketches (1832), William Hamilton Maxwell, Internet Archive wildsportsofwest00maxwrich, Chapter 104 · source

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Castle - unclassified, Castlehill (Erris By.)

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There's a castle site right here at Castlehill, in Erris, Mayo. Nothing stands now, but in 1838 John O'Donovan recorded that the foundations were still visible and that older men in the area remembered seeing considerable portions of it standing. He could find no tradition of who built it or who last occupied it. The 1838 map marks it as a rectangular area annotated 'site of Castle', with a small farmstead of three houses just to the north-west. By the 1920 map edition the farmstead is gone and only 'Castle (site of)' remains. Moran, writing in 1942, reports the tradition that the castle was destroyed by fire, and notes that the Composition of 1585 and the Grant of 1612 suggest Castlehill was an early Butler property. There's a cross-inscribed pillar about 70 metres to the south.

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Wild Atlantic Way 3/8 Surf Coast: Bundoran → Mulranny

The drive in numbers

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Cholera plague of 1832 at Bundoran and Ballyshannon

Bundoran's summer seaside crowds

Fairy Bridge natural arch at Bundoran

Bundoran as a health resort and holiday destination

Megalithic tomb - passage tomb, Magheracar

Sarsfield camps at Tullaghan to threaten Ballyshannon

Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Wardhouse

Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, Wardhouse

Ritual site - holy well, Bunduff

Ritual site - holy well, Bunduff

Father Owen O'Connor of Castlegal

Mass-rock, Tawly

Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Creevykeel

Creevykeel Court Tomb

Mullaghmore developed as exclusive seaside resort

Sand drift checked at Streedagh to Mullaghmore by bent planting

Assassination of Lord Mountbatten

Palmerston's schools and conflict with priest at Cliffony

Bog reclamation on Palmerston estate

Burial, Dernish Island

Ahamlish receives religion from Inismurray

Children's burial ground, Ardnaglass Lower

Hanging of O'Harts of Grange at Sligo Sessions

Grange castle and cottages built by Hugh O'Hart, 1604

Grange: places belonging to Boyle abbey

O'Daly slays tribute collector in Carbury and flees

Rev. John Yeates and the Milltown Protestant school incident

Battle of Cooldruman (Cul Dreimhne)

Illicit distillation in Drumcliffe and Ahamlish

Father Pat Moraghan buried at Rathcormac church

Rathcormac church built and improved by clergy

Ritual site - holy well, Drumcliff South

Ritual site - holy well, Kintogher

Burial ground, Ballyweelin

The Metal Man beacon on Perch Rock erected 1822

Rosses Point: battle of O'Donnell and Fitzgerald

Oyster Island channel deepening project

Roads blockaded around Sligo during cholera epidemic

Burial ground, Lisnalurg, Shannon Eighter

Execution for Ash-lane murder

Murder of George Bingham at Sligo Castle

Grand Jury street widening in Sligo town

Cholera devastates riverside houses on Stephen Street

Ballina identified as headquarters of the Threshers

Spanish Armada shipwrecks on the Sligo coast

Murder of Catherine Conaghan at Sligo Abbey

Sweeny execution at Albert Street gaol — rope snapped

Duel involving Somers and Fawcett

Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Cummeen

Ritual site - holy well, Scardan Beg

Ritual site - holy well, Scardan Beg

Ritual site - holy well, Scardan Beg

Burning of Mr. Henry's house at Knocknarea, 1797

Strandhill village overwhelmed by sand drift

Mrs. Irwin imprisoned at Strandhill fort during the war

Burial, Breeoge

Hillas–Fenton duel at Kilmacowen

Rack-renting landlord A.B. on reclaimed bog land in Ballysadare

Burial ground, Ballysadare

Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Corhawnagh

Ritual site - holy well, Cooney

Kildalough church identified as Kil-easpuig-Rodain

Megalithic tomb - passage tomb, Glen (Leyny By.)

Ritual site - holy well, Crockacullion

Riot at Beltra fair by the regiment of cudgelers, 1782

Megalithic tomb - passage tomb, Barnabrack

Church of Skreen founded by St. Adamnan

Burial, Skreen More

Droiched-Awnan, the Bridge of Adamnan over Dunmoran stream

Templeboy church and St. Baithin dedication

Parish Priest of Templeboy and Kilmacshalgan, 1704

Castle - tower house, Cashelboy

Pit-burial, Ballyeeskeen

Castle - unclassified, Dunneill

New Sligo–Ballina road via Tanrego and Dromore West

Dromore West Poor Law Union headquarters