Wild Atlantic Way 5/8 Cliff Coast: Galway → Kilrush

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Freed Galway slave purchased Rahoon estate from Cromwell officer

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Somewhere about Rahoon lies an estate with a remarkable story behind it. A young Galway man named Joyes was captured by an Algerine corsair on his passage to the West Indies and spent 14 years as a slave in Algiers. His owner, a wealthy Turk who worked as a goldsmith, saw that Joyes was tractable and ingenious, and taught him the trade. When William III came to the throne, he sent an ambassador to Algiers demanding the release of all British subjects held in slavery, and the dey reluctantly complied. Joyes's master then offered him his only daughter in marriage and half his property if he would stay, but Joyes resolutely declined. He returned to Galway, married, followed the goldsmith's trade with considerable success, and having acquired what the record calls a handsome independence, he purchased the estate of Rahoon from Colonel Whaley, one of Cromwell's officers.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the town and county of the town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time (vol. n/a) (1926), Hardiman, James, Internet Archive historyoftowncouhard, Chapter 21 · source

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Address to Galway townspeople on poverty and decay

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As you pass through Galway, this is a town whose people were once told that their misery was made by their own representatives. The census of 1812 counted only 24,484 inhabitants in the town and liberties, but the men trusted with the counting were later accused by each other of gross neglect. The general opinion was that the true population stood at about 40,000, and within that number a vast and daily growing crowd of poor lived without trade, without manufactures, without adequate employment. The principal inhabitants came to lay the whole of this at the feet of their parliamentary representatives. If the town had been served by members who knew its situation or cared for its welfare, they said, these evils would have been prevented and useful measures adopted. A vacancy then occurred in the representation. The sheriffs, expecting no resistance, returned the Honourable Frederick Ponsonby, the nominee of Mr. Daly. But Colonel Richard Martin, John French Madden, and Richard Maunsell formally protested, calling the proceeding illegal for lack of due notice. Their objections were over-ruled, and Ponsonby was declared duly returned. Those three gentlemen then turned to the townspeople, who had gathered merely from curiosity, and told them that the repetition of what they had that day witnessed had occasioned all the wretchedness of poverty, all the immorality and vice, by which they were surrounded on every side. Though the people seemed unconscious of it, this was the real and sole cause of their distress. Hence their prisons were crowded with debtors and malefactors, their quays left without shipping, their store-houses empty, their poor without employment.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the town and county of the town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time (vol. n/a) (1926), Hardiman, James, Internet Archive historyoftowncouhard, Chapter 158 · source

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Bodkin ear-cutting incident tried at Galway Assizes

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As you pass through Galway, this is the city where the Assizes once tried one of the strangest cases on record. Sir J. Barrington tells of his grandfather, a Mr. French of County Galway, married to one of the Clare O'Briens. A certain Mr. D. Bodkin had been annoying French, and one night before a large company Mrs. French said she wished the fellow's ears were cut off, that might quiet him. At supper the old butler, Regan, presented her with a huge snuff box, and on opening it, out fell a pair of human ears. He told her he had passed the word to Gahagan the gamekeeper, who took a few boys with him, and here were Dennis Bodkin's ears. Mr. French and his wife were tried at the Galway Assizes along with the servants, but all were acquitted on the plea that it was all a mistake from beginning to end.

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 storyanirishsep00macngoog, Chapter 120 · source

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The Lynch Stone and the mayor's execution of his own son

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As you pass through Galway, Market Street behind St. Nicholas's Church holds the Lynch Stone. In 1493, Mayor James Lynch Fitzstephen condemned his own guilty son Walter and executed him on that spot, for murdering a Spanish guest out of jealousy. Below the memorial is a stone carved with a skull and cross-bones.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from On an Irish jaunting-car through Donegal and Connemara (1902), Bayne, Samuel G. (Samuel Gamble), 1844-1924, Internet Archive onirishjauntingc00bayn, Chapter 1 · source

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Emigration passage from Galway to Liverpool

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You are coming through Galway now. In 1847 this city was a departure point for people leaving Ireland, but for one family it was a place they could not afford to leave from directly. A man who had emigrated to Baltimore wrote a letter home to his wife Judy in that year. He told her he was in good health and asked about her and the children. He said he was doing for them as well as he could. He sent home ten pounds. He could not make up enough to bring them from Galway. He told her he expected to bring them all from Liverpool instead, because he would rather keep them together than separate them from each other. He asked her to let him know how the passage was in Galway, and how much it would take to get them to Liverpool, for he reckoned that was where he must bring them from. He told her the steamer leaves Liverpool every Saturday and not to delay. He asked her to send all particulars about the children, for he was very uneasy until he heard from them. If any of them were dead, he asked her not to deny him that knowledge. He said the uneasiness for her and the children was wearing him, and that there was no comparing it to anything. He asked after his mother, and after friends named James McDonough, Mr. Fary, Margaret Conner, Mary Bird, Thomas McDonough, and Mr. Curtin. He asked whether Edward Burke had written home since he went, or where he was in America. He told William to be a good boy, that he was doing his best to get them all there. He said everyone in that country washes their faces and combs their hair three times a day.

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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Discovery of Cinerary Urn at Gurteen near Castledermot

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Along here at Gurteen near Castledermot, a farmer named Nolan struck a large flat stone while ploughing, and later broke it open with wedges and a neighbour's help. Underneath was a stone chamber. At one end lay an urn, and the neighbour drove his spade straight into it, saying they had found the gold at last. That urn was completely destroyed. At the other end of the cavity was a second urn, which was preserved, and it held burned bones and ashes.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society. (1891), County Kildare :County Kildare Archaeological Society,, Internet Archive journalofcountyk05coun, Chapter 77 · source

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Batteries at Rinmore and Rintinane block naval relief

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Somewhere close to Rinmore, on these points overlooking Galway Bay, Confederate batteries stood in 1643, blocking the sea. Rear-admiral Brooke arrived in the ship Providence in the beginning of June, carrying provisions and arms for the fort. But the batteries on the points of Rinmore and Rintinane hindered him from approaching. He tried in the night to throw in supplies by long boats, but the town's boats met his and forced them to retire. Captain Willoughby, thus disappointed of succour, asked Colonel Burke for permission to deliver the fort to Lord Clanricarde. Burke refused, in the moment of success. He would agree only on condition that Lord Clanricarde take the oath of union or association, and not dispose of the place without the consent of several named persons, among them the titular archbishop of Tuam, Lord Mayo, Colonel Bermingham, Colonel Burke, and others. Lord Clanricarde, with the consistency and loyalty that always marked his character, totally rejected these terms. Willoughby was then forced to treat for a surrender to the Confederates. Articles were agreed upon and signed, and he surrendered that important fortress on the 20th of June.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the town and county of the town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time (vol. n/a) (1926), Hardiman, James, Internet Archive historyoftowncouhard, Chapter 98 · source

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Castle - tower house, Merlinpark

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Here at Merlinpark in Galway, right beside the road, stands a tower house known today as a National Monument. Until the mid-1700s people called it Doughiske Castle. It was standing in 1574, when it belonged to Stephan Lynch. It is a well-preserved rectangular tower, four storeys over a basement, built on a short rise in what was the demesne of Merlin Park House. The doorway sits in the centre of the east wall, opening through a lobby to the ground floor, to a spiral stair in the south-east corner, and to basement stairs in the north-east. Stone vaults run between the basement and ground floor, and again between the second and third floors. Fireplaces are set in the north wall of the basement, the second floor, and the third. The gabled roof held a garret and had wall-walks with machicolations at parapet level on the north, south, and west walls. Most windows are single or double lights with ogival heads, though the ground floor has horizontal gun slits. On the second floor of the south wall, a sheela-na-gig figure is carved onto the spandrel of a single-light ogee-headed window. Traces of a later extension on the east side, with a high pitched roofline, an inserted doorway off the spiral stairs, and a raised platform, suggest a two-storeyed building, possibly from the 1600s.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), GA094-023---- · source

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Castle - unclassified, Roscam

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Here at Roscam is where a castle once stood on the north shore of Oranmore Bay. Walter Burke held it in 1574. It was still standing in the late 1700s but was demolished in the early 1800s to build a small quay, which marks the spot today. Nothing of the castle survives above ground.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), GA094-075---- · source

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Old castle near Oranmore where underground river reappears

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As you pass through Oranmore, there is an old castle here where something curious happens with the water. A river runs through the bog north of Galway, then sinks underground at the foot of a large hill. It travels beneath the earth and emerges again at this old castle by Oranmore, where it flows into the utmost creek of the bay. The account dates from 1691 to 1693. The same source notes that the ridge of land between the bog and the bay toward the east is very narrow, and an army could approach under cover of that ridge to within less than a hundred yards of the town wall.

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

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Clanricarde provisions fort via Oranmore Castle

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As you pass through Oranmore, this was where the earl of Clanricarde staged a relief effort for the besieged fort at Galway. The town had declared its intention to invest the fort, blocking every passage to starve it into submission, and Captain Willoughby burned the east suburbs on the 13th of March to deny the besiegers shelter. Clanricarde's first thought was provisions. He sent about 140 carriages of wheat, malt, and other necessaries to his castle here at Oranmore, and from there they were safely conveyed to the fort by water. He then raised what forces he could muster in the country, some 700 foot and near 200 horse, and on the 2nd of April arrived at Oranmore himself. Finding the two narrow land passages to the fort occupied by the enemy's cannon, he judged a direct attack dangerous, since his horse, his principal strength, would be useless in the craggy ground. Instead he resolved to cut off the besiegers' supplies. He placed garrisons in his castles of Oranmore, Clare-Galway, and Tirellan, and scoured the plains with his horse, hindering all resort to the market. The effects were soon felt, and meetings were held to propose terms of pacification.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the town and county of the town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time (vol. n/a) (1926), Hardiman, James, Internet Archive historyoftowncouhard, Chapter 94 · source

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Castles of Tirellan, Oranmore and Clare-Galway taken

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You are coming through Oranmore now, a town in County Galway. In 1651 this was one of three castles seized by parliamentary forces as they closed in on Galway. The Irish commander Preston had fallen back into Galway with a few troops and was entrusted with the chief command there. Sir Charles Coote and commissary-general Reynolds invested the town and quickly reduced it to a state of blockade. The castles of Tirellan, Oranmore and Clare-Galway were all taken. On the 12th of August 1651 the enemy pitched their camp between Lough-a-thalia and Suckeen, within a few hundred yards of the walls. After Limerick surrendered on the 27th of October, Ireton held a council of war to decide whether to march on Galway. Some officers argued their men were worn down by sickness and severe service and that winter was near, so it was resolved instead to summon the town to accept the conditions originally tendered to Limerick. On the morning of the 9th of November, dispatches arrived from the lord deputy for the governor. He told him that if he freely communicated the proposals to the town's people and was himself, "waving the frivolous impertinencies of a soldier's honor or humor rather," inclined to capitulate, he might share in the benefit of those conditions. But if he suppressed them, his head would pay for the trouble that followed.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the town and county of the town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time (vol. n/a) (1926), Hardiman, James, Internet Archive historyoftowncouhard, Chapter 105 · source

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Union of Oranmore rectory to collegiate church

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Up ahead is Oranmore, a town in Galway with a church story going back to 1487. In that year the archbishop, by his letters dated the feast of the Conception, united the rectory and vicarage of the parochial church of Furanmore, as Oranmore was then called, to the collegiate church. The diocese was Annaghdown. He reserved twenty-one ounces of silver annually out of Furanmore, and also united the vicarage of Meary in the same diocese, reserving seven ounces from it. The following year brought more unions. On the 12th of April 1488, the archbishop united the vicarage of the parish church of St. Mary of Rathuna, now Rahoon, which had become vacant by the death of Donat Y Donaill, its last possessor. Then on the 8th of June, Theobald de Burgo, described as chief of his nation, granted all his right of patronage over the rectories of Moycullen and Rahoon to the collegiate church in free and perpetual alms. The deed recited apostolical letters from the holy see directed to John de Burgo, canon of Annaghdown, concerning the union of those parish churches in Gnobeg. The condition was that the warden and vicars and their successors should continually pray for him and for the souls of his predecessors and successors. On the vigil of All Saints that same year, Cornelius O Hallurayn, perpetual vicar of Moycullen, resigned his living to the archbishop of Tuam to complete its union. On the 8th of February 1491, the archbishop united the vicarage of the parish church of Skryne to the collegiate church, following the free resignation of John de Burgo as perpetual vicar.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the town and county of the town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time (vol. n/a) (1926), Hardiman, James, Internet Archive historyoftowncouhard, Chapter 193 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Parkroe (Clarinbridge Ed)

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You're right beside a well called Toberroe, marked on the 1838 and 1920 maps. It's a rectangular drystone chamber built of rounded limestone, roofed with three stone lintels, reached by steps. The water inside is about 1 metre deep. There's no sign of any religious use here. Locals say it was only ever a domestic water source. Today it's disused and choked with thorns and brambles.

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Castle - tower house, Cregganna More

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Right here at Cregganna More in Galway stands a tower house. It was already standing in 1574, when a record names it Kragane castle, held by Walter Mcffregha. People lived in it until the 18th century, by which time it had been much altered and modernised. After that it fell out of use and lost its roof. Around 1911 a man named Holt visited and found it three storeys high but unroofed. The west gable was intact, the top half of the east gable had fallen. He described a pointed arched doorway in the east wall leading to a small lobby, with a spiral staircase in the south corner and a main ground-floor room to the west. There was a vault between the first and second floors, and fireplaces on both those floors. By 1944 the spiral stairs had nearly gone. A 1956 report noted decorated window spandrels and plaster on the second-floor walls, and recorded that the ground floor was being used as a store or byre. By February 1983 the Galway Survey found the tower house fully restored and occupied.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), GA095-021001- · source

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Partholanus division boundary at Clarinbridge near Galway

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Coming up through Clarinbridge here in Galway. The old annals say the western coast of Ireland was peopled as early as any other part of the island, and that the district now comprehending the town of Galway and its vicinity was one of the first positions chosen for habitation by the original settlers. Galway, or the place on or near which it stands, was frequently made a chief point of division in the most ancient and celebrated partitions of Ireland. The reason given is that it lay almost due west of Dublin, so a line drawn from one to the other would nearly divide the kingdom into two equal parts. The first division of Ireland is attributed to Partholanus, a Scythian, who is said to have effected a settlement here some centuries after the flood, and to have divided the kingdom into four equal parts among his four sons. Fearon, the third son, received the territory extending from a place in Munster, afterwards called the Island of Barymore, to Athcliath na mearuidhe, now Clarinbridge, near Galway. So this town marks the boundary of Fearon's share. From here to Oileachneid in the north was assigned to the fourth son, Feargna. The second, the Firbolgian partition, is stated to have taken place in the year 2500 before the common era, when Ireland was divided into five provinces. Connaught fell to Geanann, one of their five principal commanders, and extended from Limerick to the bay of Donegal, including the place where Galway stands.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from The history of the town and county of the town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time (vol. n/a) (1926), Hardiman, James, Internet Archive historyoftowncouhard, Chapter 35 · source

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Eiscar Riada: The Gravel-Hill Boundary from Dublin to Clarinbridge

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Coming up through Clarinbridge, in County Galway, you're reaching the western end of an ancient boundary line called Eiscar Riada, a chain of gravel hills that once ran all the way from Dublin to here. Around the year 150, a bitter struggle for the supreme rule of Ireland was fought between Con of the Hundred Battles, the recognised King of Ireland, and Mogha Xuadhat, King of Munster, of the Silver Hand. Con claimed as representative of the line of Eremon, and Mogha insisted on his right as head of the line of Eber. After much waste of life and destruction of property, the two reached a compromise and partitioned the island. Con took the northern half, called Leathcuin, or Con's half, and Mogha ruled the southern half, called Leathmogha, or Mogha's half. The Eiscar Riada gravel hills formed the boundary between them. The treaty must have made a profound impression on the Irish mind, because the recollection of it is well and universally preserved, even though the arrangement itself lasted for little over a year. The blessing of peace was only just beginning to be felt when the old rivalry flamed out again.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clare and the Dalcassian clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway ... with an ancient and a modern map (1893), White, P. (Patrick), Internet Archive historyofclareda00whit, Chapter 8 · source

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Petition for Kylcolgan castle and manor

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Somewhere around here stood the castle and manor of Kylcolgan, the centre of a bitter dispute in 1547. Pierce Martin of Galway and Dame Mary Lynch petitioned the Duke of Somerset that year, claiming that articles drawn up at the time of her marriage had settled the manor and castle on her for her natural life. But the Earl of Clanrickard, her husband, had failed to carry out any of his covenants. The petition described her at the time of marriage as "a woman of great substance," and said she was entitled to the third part of all his real and personal property. Despite the Duke's order to the lord deputy and council of Ireland to hear their complaint, the petitioners could get no final resolution. All they received was an order for the return of certain goods: a gold chain with a cross hanging from it, of fourteen ounces, valued at 36 pounds and 10 shillings; a silver cup called a nutte with a gilt cover, of sixty-eight ounces, valued at 17 pounds; and another standing gilt cup of forty-three ounces, valued at 10 pounds, 16 shillings and 4 pence. These were meant as part payment of 100 marks received with her in marriage, 50 marks bequeathed to her, and 25 pounds and 13 shillings belonging to the children of her first husband, which she had delivered to the earl. They begged the Duke, for the love of God, to have the cause examined. An order was then sent from England to Sir Thomas Luttrell, chief justice of the common pleas, Walter Cardiff, second justice, and Patrick Barnewall, serjeant at law.

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

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Ritual site - holy well, Drumacoo

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Right here at Drumacoo in Galway is a holy well dedicated to St Sorney. It's a roughly circular stone-lined spring, sunk into the ground and enclosed by a circular stone wall, with seven steps leading down at the north side. People still leave votive offerings, and there's a local tradition of a pattern held on two consecutive Mondays and the intervening Thursday, where cures are sought for injuries, bleeding and minor disabilities. A cross-inscribed water-rolled limestone pebble was recorded here in 1987. The well is a National Monument, number 254, and sits about 35 metres south-west of the church at Drumacoo.

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Children's burial ground, Tooreen West

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Right here in Tooreen West is a children's burial ground, at the north end of the field where the cross stands. Local man Mr. G. Darcy gave that information to the recordkeepers. Human bones came up during deep ploughing in what was called the field below the cross, and when the road was widened, more bones turned up in the field opposite. A graveslab about 140 metres north-east is said to have stood originally in the field across the road, opposite the cross.

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Burial ground, Ballyclery

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Right here in Ballyclery is a burial ground, shown on the 1922 OS map as a rectangular plot, about 50 metres east to west and 36 metres north to south. Modern graves fill the eastern half. In the western half a deep linear fosse runs north to south, known locally as 'the famine grave.' East of it stand a number of small headstones, only 0.2 metres high, similar to those found in a children's burial ground.

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Ritual site - holy well, Ballyclery

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Right here is a holy well called Tobermacduagh. It's a rectangular drystone chamber, now overgrown and filled with stones, with no relics or votive offerings noted. The OS maps gave it that name. When Fahey recorded it in 1893, the 'Turas' associated with the well was still being observed. About 5 metres to the south-east stands a small cairn, 6.5 metres east to west, 5 metres north to south, and about 1 metre high, surmounted by a cross dated 1820. Two more covered spring wells lie nearby, one about 15 metres west and another about 22 metres south-west.

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Dunguaire Castle

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Somewhere around here stands Dunguaire Castle, a 16th-century tower house on the southeastern shore of Galway Bay, near Kinvara. Its name comes from the fort of King Guaire, the legendary king of Connacht. The 75-foot tower and its defensive wall were restored in the 1980s, but the castle has been closed since 2023. Its owner, Shannon Airport Group, offered it for sale to Galway County Council, who declined due to lack of funds. So the gates stay shut, and frustration grows in Galway over the funding dispute.

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Kinvara

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Somewhere around here is Kinvara, a sea port village in the southwest of County Galway. Its Irish name, Cinn Mhara, means head of the sea. It sits in the civil parish of Kinvarradoorus, in the north of the barony of Kiltartan.

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Children's burial ground, Carrownamaddra

What it said · 41 of 41 words

Right here at Carrownamaddra in Galway, there's a children's burial ground in the reclaimed field. Local information places it here, though only loose stones are visible now, with no proper setting remaining. A cross-inscribed slab is built into the field wall.

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Children's burial ground, Shanclogh

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Right here at Shanclogh is a children's burial ground, sitting just south of a church that may date from medieval times. According to a 1985 study, the graveyard associated with that church was used in more recent times as a children's burial ground. The many graves are marked with small plain limestone boulders.

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Children's burial ground, Rossalia

What it said · 133 of 133 words

Right beside the road here is a children's burial ground at Rossalia, on a north-facing slope overlooking Aughinish Bay. It's a largely unenclosed rectangular area marked out by small headstones, fieldstones and flags, some set in north-south lines. The 1842 Ordnance Survey map named it Gardeenrossalia, and by 1915 it was marked as a disused burial ground. A small village of about 20 houses stood in the fields to the east in 1842 but was gone by 1915. At the south end of the ground there's a thick rubble wall faced with unworked mortared stone, partially collapsed and ivy covered. A perpendicular wall runs north from it, perhaps the remains of an enclosure that was destroyed or never finished. A holy well dedicated to St Patrick lies about 300 metres to the south-south-east.

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Ritual site - holy well, Rossalia

What it said · 142 of 142 words

Right here at Rossalia in Clare is a holy well, a natural spring on a terrace on the north-east face of Abbey Hill. It's enclosed by a mortored stone wall with a blocked entrance and an alcove holding votive offerings. The stones inside bear carvings and graffiti, including a carved human figure in folk art. One slab has a harp with the words "God save Ireland" and the year 1867, along with the name W. Williamson, Curranrue, August 3rd 1867. Another bears the Latin inscription "Libertas et natale solum" with berries and leaves, and a third reads M. Byrne RIC AD 1916 Kinvara. About 30 metres to the north-north-west stands a leacht cuimhne, a memorial to the Comyn family, carrying a similar carved human face. According to Coffey in 1995, the rock scribing at the well was originally part of that memorial.

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Burial ground, Mortyclogh

What it said · 131 of 131 words

The burial ground here at Mortyclogh sits on a low ridge with views in every direction, overlooking a ringfort to the south-west and the site of another to the north-east. It's called Killeen Grave Yard on the old maps from 1842 and 1915. The walled enclosure has a gate in the west wall and a concrete path running through it, with headstones scattered across the ground, some fallen, some upright. The earliest grave you can still read is from 1856, a young girl aged two years and three months. There's also a small plaque on the outside base of the west wall dated 1813, though it's nearly illegible now. The graveyard is still in use. When it was surveyed in 1997, locals had recently cleaned it up as a community project.

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Corcomroe Abbey foundation and royal burial

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Somewhere about Corcomroe Abbey, near here, stands a foundation of the O'Brien kings. The abbey was founded in 1191 by Donald, King of Limerick, or in 1200 by his son Donagh Carbrae. The O'Briens played a distinguished part in the history of Ireland for centuries, though one might not always admire the means they employed to conquer their foes or curb the rebellion of their own kinsmen and clansmen. In this abbey, King Conor O'Brien was interred after being slain in a battle not far from its site. The monks buried the King on the north side of the chancel, and put over him his effigy carved in black marble, with his flowing hair and tunic, pointed shoes and a reliquary round his neck, his sceptre and crown adorned with fleur-de-lis. Visitors saw the effigy just as described, in a good state of preservation after a lapse of six centuries, although no effort was ever made to protect it from ravages. The abbey is now preserved as a national monument.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Holiday haunts on the west coast of Clare, Ireland (1891), Harris, H. B, Internet Archive holidayhauntsonw00harr, Chapter 1 · source

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Castle - tower house, Muckinish East

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Right here at Muckinish East in Clare stand the ruins of a tower house on the shore of Pouldoody Bay. Locals call it Muckinish nua, from a legend that it was built three years after another castle called Seanmuckinish. Westropp tentatively placed its construction in the 15th century, and it was already in ruins by 1837. For most of the 16th century it belonged to the O'Loughlins. In the 17th century it passed through several hands, including the Neylons. Daniel Neylon was the first husband of Máire Rua, and later their son William held it, as did Máire Rua herself with her third husband, John Cooper. In 1659 a tenant named John Tully was here, probably under lease from Cooper or the Blakes, and by 1705 one of the Blakes was farming the land. What remains is a four-storey tower house. The north wall and parts of the east and west walls stand almost to full height, built of limestone rubble with some finely carved features. There are remnants of vaulted ceilings, a garderobe shaft running the full height of the building, narrow loops for light, and ogee-headed windows in the solar. A lintelled opening on the second floor leads to a chamber in the west wall that may have served as an oubliette. To the south, large rubble fragments lie scattered, and among them parts of a chimney flue and stairwell can be made out. It has been suggested they were brought down using gunpowder.

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Castle - tower house, Muckinish West

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Right here, on this narrow strip of land, are the remains of a tower house called Shanmuckinish Castle. It likely dates to the 15th century, built to distinguish it from another local castle, Muckinishnua, said to have gone up three years later. In 1574 it belonged to the O'Loughlins, but ten years after that, Turlough O'Loughlin was taken prisoner by Donal O'Brien of Ennistymon and executed in Ennis. The lands were granted to Valentine Blake by James I in 1622, and over the 17th century the castle passed between the O'Loughlins, the Blakes, the Neylons, the MacNamaras, and perhaps a John Tully. When the MacNamaras held it, they called it Ballinacragga Castle, after their former home in South Clare. In 1836 a Captain Kirwan bought it from the Blakes and carried out extensive refurbishments. The north side collapsed in 1890, and that wall has fallen into the sea. What remains is a four-storey rectangular tower, built of mortared rubble limestone with cut stone at the corners, standing to almost full height on the south side. A bawn wall once ran along its north side. You can still see narrow gun-loop windows, partial vaulting over the first and second floors, the jamb of a 17th-century fireplace, and a later three-light window on the top floor. Two machicolations survive in the parapet, one on the south wall and one running along the east. The south-east foundation is shifting.

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Vision at Loch Rask before battle

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Donough Brian Roe and his force in the meantime had assembled on the hills to the west of Corcomroe; he told his men to remember that the purpose with which they had come on this perilous expedition was to gain the battle, and so make an end once and for all of the long discussions (of our tribe), either by your antagonists' destruction or your own death one and all. Magrath repeats that Donough explained to his men that their opponents were children of Cas as they were, of the same blood, '' with whom your close embrace of kinship will be that of steel to steeL" Then he ordered the advance stead&stly therefore: " children of Cas, now steady be " — and so they came to the shore of Loch Rask, and while all were looking at the shining mere ** they saw the monstrous and distorted form of a lone, ancient, hideous hag, that stooped over the bright loch's shore. The loathly creature's semblance was this: she was thatched with elf locks, foxy-grey and rough as heather, long as sea wrack, inextricably tangled; that had a bossy, wrinkled, foully ulcerated forehead, every hair of her eyebrows was like a strong fishhook, and from under them, bleary dripping eyes peered with malignant fire between lids all rawly crimson-edged..... Thecronehadacaimof heads, a pile of arms and legs, a load of spoil, all of which she rinsed and diligently washed, so that by her labour the water of the lake was covered with hair and

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 storyanirishsep00macngoog, Chapter 57 · source

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Donough Brian Roe assembles forces at Ballyvaughan

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Coming up now is Ballyvaghan in Clare. It was on the hills of Burren above this town that Donough Brian Roe gathered his supporters, after he failed to win recognition as King of Thomond. De Clare had tried to persuade the government in Dublin to grant him that title, but the attempt failed. Donough Brian Roe, who had already brought trouble on Thomond, resolved to appeal to arms. He threw himself on his former supporters and the chiefs west of the River Fergus, and most of those chiefs rallied round him and assembled on those hills above Ballyvaughan. While this was happening, Dermot O'Brien, in the absence of his brother Mortough in Dublin, summoned the chief landholders of his territory to meet in council. They gathered to discuss how best to assail their enemies. Magrath reports that Mac-con-Macnamara was a member of that council, and he said, if the sept of Clancuilein alone were called upon to meet the enemy it would be impossible to keep them from doing so. The Clan Mahons, ClanTeigue, a branch of Clancuilein, the O'Conors, O'Deas, and many other septs were full of enthusiasm to join their chief. The council drew up its plans and broke up, without a shadow of misgiving. Its members returned to their homes to prepare for that formidable encounter, towards the recovery of their patrimonial rights, on which they were resolved. The place they appointed for the last muster before the march was Ruane, of the grass-clad caves.

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 storyanirishsep00macngoog, Chapter 57 · source

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Castle - unclassified, Ballyvaghan

What it said · 171 of 171 words

Right here, where a low promontory pushes out into the south neck of Ballyvaghan Bay, a castle once stood. There is nothing to see now. The 1842 map already called it a site, and by 1837 only some old vestiges survived. It first appears in the O'Brien rental of 1380 as an O'Loughlin possession. A dispute over cattle in 1540 saw it pass to the O'Briens. In 1569 the Queen's Deputy, Sir Henry Sidney, reduced it, and after that it passed between the O'Loughlins, O'Connors, O'Briens and Nugents. It was still standing in 1646, when it was granted to Christopher O'Brien. Several large quay stones in the water six metres west of the promontory may be the remains of a pier or may be part of seaward fortifications. Westropp in 1901 described the site of a peel tower that once adjoined a great caher. There are remains of a large cashel that fits his description, but they lie about 150 metres north-north-east, and it was already entirely perished by his time.

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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Gleninagh North

What it said · 111 of 111 words

Right here at Gleninagh North in Clare, there's a small and largely buried wedge tomb sitting on a narrow rock shelf that extends out into Galway Bay, northwest of Ballyvaghan. The locals call it An Rinn, and they also call it the Spanish Graves, believing it's the burial place of sailors from a wreck out in the harbour. Liam Moore of Ballyvaghan reported the site to the National Monuments Service in 2007. What you can see are three capstones aligned east-south-east to west-north-west, rising slightly at one end, and the tops of two sidestones with dressed edges, like many Burren wedge tombs. Two transverse stones are partly visible beneath the capstones.

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Ritual site - holy well, Gleninagh North

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Right here in Gleninagh North is a holy well known as Tobercornan, marked on maps as far back as 1842. It's a natural spring feeding a rock pool, enclosed in a 19th-century Gothic Revival wellhouse built from dressed limestone with corner buttresses and pinnacles. You enter through a pointed-arched doorway and descend three steps to the water. The name may come from the Irish word for Pennywort, a plant, or from a person called Cornan.

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Castle - tower house, Gleninagh North

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Right here at Gleninagh North in Clare stands a 16th-century tower house, four storeys high, with a stair tower at its south-east corner giving it an L-shape. King Henry VIII granted Gleninagh to Richard Harding in 1544, the earliest reference to the place. By 1574 it was an O'Loughlin stronghold. In the early 17th century the lands belonged to the see of Kilfenora, and in 1650 Murrough O'Brien sailed into exile from here during the Cromwellian campaign. The O'Loughlins then regained possession and held it until the 19th century. The castle is built of limestone with rounded bartizans at three corners and a stair tower at the fourth. Most original windows are simple slits, with one two-light ogee-head on the third floor. A 17th-century attic was added with hood-moulded windows, and the castle was occupied until the mid-19th century. The Office of Public Works has since conserved it. The entrance is through a pointed doorway in the west wall of the stair tower, up a ramp from the south, protected by a box machicolation at fourth-floor level. The ground floor is barrel-vaulted. Salter described a subterranean pit-prison, and Ua Cróinín described a window-less vaulted cellar with a trapdoor, but inspection in 1999 found no evidence of it. The second floor could only be reached by an internal wooden ladder and trap-door. Westropp noted that a stone can be raised in the top landing, disclosing a slit for the defence of the staircase. The attic walls were built on the outer face of the tower walls, leaving no parapet, and each corner bartizan has five circular pistol loops. The Ordnance Survey Letters recorded the castle as "in good repair and thatched with straw which gives it rather a homely appearance." It is a National Monument in State care, number 509.

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Aran islanders' extraordinary eyesight at Black Head

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Somewhere about Black Head, a story is told about the sight of the Aran islanders. Dr. Kean reported that on a clear day, any of them could make out a small black sailing boat here, twenty miles distant, with the naked eye, before he himself could see it through his binoculars. Their hearing was just as sharp. They were honest and straightforward people. Illegitimacy was almost unknown among them. Mr. P. Lyster, a magistrate of the islands, said they were, as a body, "extremely well-behaved and industrious people." Disputes among them were about land. Drunkenness was rare. He could recall two months passing without a single case brought before him. In four years he had not sent more than six or seven persons to gaol without the option of a fine. There was no gaol on the island. Theft was very rare. He remembered only one case of positive stealing sent for trial. They were singularly unmusical. No piper, fiddler, or musician of any sort lived on the islands. Irish was their language, but they could understand and speak English with strangers. Most weddings took place just before Lent. There was no courtship. A young man went straight to the house of an eligible girl and asked her to marry him. If refused, he went elsewhere, and a man was known to ask three girls the same evening before he was accepted. Wakes were held even for those who died abroad. A corpse was always let out through the back door, for the Aranites believed in fairies, banshees, and ghosts. If at a marriage anyone repeated the benediction after the priest and tied a knot on a string at each sacred name, the marriage would be childless for fifteen years, unless the string was burned.

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 10 · source

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Children's burial ground, Murrooghkilly

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Right here at Murrooghkilly is a children's burial ground. It's marked as Killamurroogh Graveyard on the 1840 and 1915 ordnance survey maps, and is known locally as a children's burial ground. The ground is overgrown and uneven, with no visible grave markers and no church. A 1977 map marks it as a children's burial ground, and it's listed as a church site and burial ground in a 1991 study.

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Burial, Murrooghtoohy South

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Right here on a low sandy rise by the dunes at Fanore beach, there may be a burial. In the winter of 2019, twelve human teeth were found lying in a loose cluster on hard-packed sand. A few seashells were scattered nearby, and a midden lay about 7 metres to the south-south-west. The teeth were incisors, premolars and molars, all showing considerable wear. They were collected and sent to the National Museum. Osteological analysis found they came from the lower jaw of an adult aged between 25 and 35 at death, with a pathological defect called dental enamel hypoplasia. Radiocarbon dating of one tooth returned a date of Cal AD 1491 to 1637, with a median probability of AD 1565. In the week after the discovery, a storm stripped away the entire sandy layer where the teeth had been found. By 2021, no archaeological material was visible at all. Whatever else lay here has been taken by the wind and sea.

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Ritual site - holy well, Oughtdarra

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Right here at Oughtdarra in Clare there's a holy well, known through local tradition. It sits in a narrow valley on an upland limestone plateau, enclosed by a drystone wall of large slabs built four or five courses high. A limestone block rests on the wall at the north-east corner, and a hollow in its upper surface holds coins left as offerings. The well itself was dry and grassed over when it was visited.

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Children's burial ground, Oughtdarra

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Here at Oughtdarra in Clare, there's a children's burial ground in a sheltered hollow. Low rough stone markers lie south of the old church. In 1905 Westropol noted that only children under seven years of age are buried in the little graveyard. Cunningham later described it as in use until recently for unbaptised children and those under seven.

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Castle - tower house, Ballynalackan (Cloghaun Ed)

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Right beside the road here is the tower house of Ballynalackan, standing in the south-west corner of a bawn on top of a limestone outcrop. It may have been built in the 15th century, perhaps by one Lochlainn MacCon of the O'Connor family, who had long held this district. Even then, though, the O'Connors were paying dues on this land to the O'Briens. By the 1570s and 1580s the castle belonged mainly to different branches of the O'Brien family. It may have been dilapidated by 1654, but it was repaired and occupied until the late 18th century. In 1938 it was sold to the O'Callaghans. The 1842 and 1920 Ordnance Survey maps show it as a rectangular structure labelled Ballynalackan Castle in ruins. Robinson's 1977 map labels it castle O'Brien. It is a well-preserved tower house, 13 metres east to west, 8 metres north to south, and 19 metres high, built of large mortared limestone blocks. The narrow east section held the stairwell and bedrooms and rose to six storeys. The wider west section held the halls and had four. The walls have ogee-headed windows and defensive loops. There are machicoulis on the north wall and over the main entrance in the east wall. A fireplace on the third floor bears the date 1641 on its keystone. A 1998 inspection found the tower unaltered, though the upper floors could not be reached.

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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Cahermacrusheen

What it said · 184 of 184 words

Right here at Cahermacrusheen is a wedge tomb that the old maps called Dermot and Grania's Bed. The 1840 Ordnance Survey Name Book described it as a stone altar, but by the late 19th century it had collapsed. Two antiquarians, Borlase in 1897 and Westropp in 1905, both recorded the remains oriented east to west and embedded in a cairn that had already been removed. The north and south sidestones lay flat, side by side, each broken in the centre, with the roof-slab overlying the north sidestone. The original chamber stood about 1.22 metres high. Under the prone slabs were two smaller slabs thought to be endstones, and because the west endstone was longer than the east, Westropp concluded there was the usual eastward taper. By 1952, de Valera and Ó Nualláin found no trace of the monument at all. A field inspection in 1998 identified a trapezoidal area, roughly 9 metres long, that may mark its site, bounded by a field wall and grass-covered banks, with the interior piled with overgrown field-clearance rubble. What you would have seen standing here is long gone.

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Castle - unclassified, Ballyvoe (Corcomroe By.)

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Right here, in the grounds of a modern farmhouse, is one of the traditional suggested locations of Knockfin Castle. There's nothing left to see now, but the castle was first recorded in 1570, when it belonged to the MacClanchy family, the hereditary brehons, or lawyers, of the O'Briens of Thomond. After the Irish Rebellion of 1641 it was taken and given to Patrick Sarsfield, then soon passed to the Purdon family. After the Cromwellian invasion of 1649 to 1653 it changed hands several more times, and in 1752 it was rented to the William McNamaras. By some point before 1787 the castle had fallen into disrepair. Local people believe a high mound across the road was the site of the MacClancy law school. The last trace of the building surfaced around 1980, when the farmhouse owner demolished a very wide south gable that had two narrow loops in splayed embrasures. He reused the stone to rebuild the farmyard entrance. Two researchers, Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, examined that stone in 1997 and found it was typical 15th-century dressed masonry, including three rounded corbels and the base of a late 16th-century square-mullioned window with holes for glazing bars.

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Ritual site - holy well, Toomullin

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Right here at Toomullin in Clare was a holy well called St Brecan's Well, shown on maps from 1842 and 1920. It stood on the north bank of the Aille River, lined with flagstones and backed by a low sod. The well was destroyed in 1982 and nothing visible remains. Toomullin church sits about 45 metres to the west-north-west.

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Doolin as smuggling and Irish Brigade recruitment base

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Somewhere around here in 1746, Antony McDonogh lived at Doolin. His son had obtained a commission in the Irish Brigade through an introduction to Lord Clare, who was then living in Paris. The young McDonogh was sent back to Burren to gather recruits for the French army. He collected the men he needed, though he was, in the words of the source, "obliged to collect by stealth." Ships arrived off this coast carrying smuggled claret, and departed loaded with wool and the new recruits bound for France.

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 storyanirishsep00macngoog, Chapter 122 · source

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Castle - tower house, Doonmacfelim

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Right here beside the road are the ruins of Doonmacfelim tower house, on a natural mound on the west bank of the Aille River. It was probably built by the O'Connors, but by 1570 it belonged to Turlough O'Brien. In 1577 one of the O'Briens' probable tenants — Owen, son of Richard McGillereogh, gentleman, of Doonmacfelim — was pardoned but fined one cow and ordered to keep the peace. After the 1641 Irish rebellion the tower house was taken from Donough O'Brien and given to John Fitzgerald, then passed through several owners until William MacNamara held it in 1752. By 1900 the antiquarian Westropp found it "a mere fragment, quite defaced, and with a vaulted lower room." It was a rectangular tower, about 10 metres by 9, built of dressed limestone, at least three storeys high. What made it unusual was a secret chamber hidden in the thickness of the south wall, with a circular spy-hole looking out through the back of a cupboard and a water conduit fed through a carved stone. The only way in was through a trapdoor on the second floor, a drop of almost 4 metres.

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Castle - tower house, Doonnagore

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Right here beside the road is Doonnagore, a tower house standing on a natural rise in hilly pastureland. It was probably built by the O'Connors in the 14th or 15th century. By 1570 it belonged to Sir Donnel O'Brien. Ten years later, in 1582, Brian MacCahill O'Connor was recorded as the owner, which suggests the O'Connors may still have been living there under the O'Briens. Toward the end of that century the castle became a possession and residence of the MacClancy family, who were brehons to the O'Briens of Thomond. Local tradition holds that Boetius MacClancy tried and sentenced to death many survivors of the Spanish Armada at the castle. In 1601 the O'Connors were recorded in connection with Doonnagore again, but it appears the MacClancys held the castle until the 1641 rebellion, after which it was taken from them. The castle then passed to John Sarsfield. By 1719 Francis Gore owned Doonnagore and granted it to John Vandeleur of Kilrush. The OS Letters of 1839 recorded that the castle had been, in their words, 'lately repaired by Counsellor Gore'. It is a well-preserved but restored four-floored cylindrical tower house, built of random-coursed local flagstones. The entrance doorway is at the north-east, with a machicoulis above it supported by two corbels. Inside, stairs ascend within the thickness of the tower wall. The ground floor had a small round cellar, later filled and covered. The first-floor room has a stone-vaulted dome ceiling with four embrasures. The second floor has an oak ceiling, a small fireplace, and a lock-up chamber that could be bolted from within in case of attack. A similar chamber bolted from the outside may have been a prison cell. The third-floor room has an elaborate conical oak roof with a central king-post, and a steep intramural staircase leading up to a wallwalk ringed with high crenellations.

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Doonnagore Castle

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Doonnagore Castle is right here. It's a circular tower house built about 1500, ruined in 1916 and extensively reconstructed around 1970. It has a slate conical roof, machicolation, gun loops, and a rubble stone bawn enclosure. It's now a private residence.

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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Ballycotteen North

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Right here is a wedge tomb in Ballycotteen North, on a south-facing slope in bog overlooking Luogh Lough and the sea beyond. Two sidestones remain, forming a chamber that opened to the west. The north sidestone leans slightly south, and the longer south stone also leans south. No other stones survived. A very large boulder lies 40 metres to the north, but it may not be associated with the tomb. Ó Nualláin listed the site in 1989, and the ground was verified on inspection in 2023.

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Ritual site - holy well, Ballysteen

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Right here beside the road is St Bridget's holy well, set just inside the entrance of a burial ground at Ballysteen in Clare. The well sits inside a small rectangular stone structure. You reach it through a round-arched entrance on the east side, leading down a passageway to a rectangular opening in the floor filled with fresh water. A stream running south-east through the western half of the burial ground feeds the well and flows past the wellhouse in a channel lined with Liscannor flags. Both the 1842 and 1920 Ordnance Survey maps drew it as a rectangular building and named it St Bridget's Well. The Ordnance Survey Letters of 1839 recorded an inscription on a stone over the well, in modern characters, reading: 'Saint Bridget V. Abbess and Patroness of Ireland, lived in a cell which she built under an oak, thence called Kill-Dara or Cell of the Oak. Her Festival is celebrated on the 1st day of February every year.' The Letters noted that the well was then much frequented by worshippers and the sick, and was commonly known as Dabhach-Bhrighde, meaning Bridget's keeve or vat. The well is still much venerated. Relics, coins, statues, rosary beads, notes and mass cards line the passageway walls and lie about the well opening. The popular feast days at the well are the 1st of February and the 15th of August. To the south-west of the well stands a small locked lean-to building with a mono-pitch Liscannor-flagged roof. To the north-east, a series of steps leads up to the centre of the burial ground. Just east of the holy well is a small hedged circular enclosure containing two statues, one of Mary and one of St Bridget.

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Children's burial ground, Derreen (Ballysteen Ed)

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Right here beside the road is a children's burial ground in Derreen, on a south-east-facing slope in pasture with wide views. It was marked on the 1842 Ordnance Survey map as Ardkill Children's Burial Ground, and again on the 1920 Cassini edition. Eight graves lie inside the stone-walled enclosure, marked by horizontal slabs in the grass. Near the centre stands a cut-stone cross on a circular plinth with steps, said to mark the grave of a 12 year-old daughter of local landlord Cornelius O'Brien, who lived from 1782 to 1857. Two modern headstones date from 1965 and 1976. The east side holds four roughly parallel collapsed grass-covered walls running east to west. The south-west quadrant has been levelled and cleared.

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Liscannor castle, harbour and flag quarry industry

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Coming up now is Liscannor, a fishing station on the bay. An ancient castle and a coast-guard station of modern build stand near each other on a prominent cliff, visible for miles around. Liscannor has its little harbour, where vessels load and discharge their cargoes. Extensive flag quarries in the neighbourhood ship stone to other parts of Ireland and to England, a traffic that has grown into a large industry of late years. Coal is imported here, and seaweed is burned and converted into kelp, then shipped from Liscannor in large quantities. A number of men work in deep water fishing, but they have only frail canoes to face the dangers of the sea and follow their perilous occupation. The result is that their earnings are precarious. A local gentleman has been endeavouring to improve their position, but so far has not been very successful in his efforts to ameliorate their condition or to provide larger boats.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Holiday haunts on the west coast of Clare, Ireland (1891), Harris, H. B, Internet Archive holidayhauntsonw00harr, Chapter 1 · source

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Silver chalice commemorates Admiral O'Kuoney's gift to Liscannor parish

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As you pass through Liscannor, there is a silver chalice in the parish that carries a Latin inscription. It records that Lord Daniel O'Kuoney, Governor of Ferrol under the Spanish Catholic King, who commanded his navy on many occasions, bestowed the chalice on his native parish of Killanaspuglenane in 1756. The parish lies in the diocese of Kilfenora and was dedicated to the patron saint of Killaloe.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clare and the Dalcassian clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway ... with an ancient and a modern map (1893), White, P. (Patrick), Internet Archive historyofclareda00whit, Chapter 167 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Liscannor

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Right here beside the road is a holy well called Tobermacrehy, on flat ground close to the north shore of Liscannor Bay. It's a small dry well with a drystone-lined rectangular shaft, covered by a single large Liscannur flagstone. The well appears on the 1840 and 1916 maps, and it sits about 460 metres west of the medieval church of Kilmacreehy. In 1839 a man named Curry noted that the well was, in his words, "now neglected and unfrequented, though formerly in great repute for curing diseases of the eyes and other diseases." So in his time the memory of its healing purpose remained, even though people had stopped coming.

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Castle - tower house, Dough (Corcomroe By.)

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Right here, on a slight rise above Liscannor Bay, stands the ruin of Dough Castle, a six-storey tower house built by the O'Conors of Corcomroe by at least the 1420s. Only the north-west wall survives to full height now, built of limestone flags with large late-17th or 18th-century windows, but it was once a strong position with clear views in all directions. In 1422, Rory, son of Conor O'Conor, Lord of Corcomroe, was slain by a relative, in the words of the record, "in his own town of Caislean Dumhcha." By the mid-16th century the O'Briens held it, and in 1582 the O'Conors formally handed Dough and other castles over to them. The O'Briens of Dough converted to Protestantism, and during the 1641 Rebellion, Sir Daniel O'Brien came to the aid of English settlers. He petitioned in 1652 that the castle might not be demolished, and it was spared by the Cromwellians. He recovered his lands after the Restoration and continued to reside here. The family moved to Ennistymon at the end of the 17th or early 18th century, and the castle fell into ruin. The east wall collapsed before 1839, and further portions, including a chimney, came down about 1878.

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Lehinch golf links on Liscannor Bay

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Coming up through Lehinch, the place is known for its golf links, 18 holes laid out on the sandhills by Liscannor Bay. There is a large hotel of Norwegian style of architecture that aims at exclusiveness, delightful for those who can afford it. Kerin's Aberdeen Arms is the comfortable alternative. The place itself calls for little remark, but the golf has made its name.

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 27 · source

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O'Connor of Corcomroe slain at Lahinch by nephews

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As you pass through Lehinch, you are travelling a place marked by a violent family killing. O'Connor of Corcomroe was slain here in 1471, killed by his own nephews in a bitter episode of internal clan conflict. His death came two years after his son fell at a place called Glanog, in the barony of Clare-Galway, during a failed cavalry attack on a retreating northern army that had plundered the territory of MacWilliam Oughther. That earlier battle was part of a wider web of Dalcassian alliances and feuds. O'Connor had joined MacWilliam of Clanrickard in war against the O'Kellys of Hy Many, whose supporters included the rival MacWilliam Eighther and the O'Donnells. The opposing forces met at Cros-magh-croin, near the city of Galway, where many fell on both sides, including two sons of O'Kelly and leading O'Donnells. Victory went to the Dalcassians, but it only brought more strife. The O'Donnells returned with MacWilliam Eighther, plundering and raiding, which led to the fight at Glanog and, in turn, to O'Connor's murder at Lahinch at the hands of his own kin.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clare and the Dalcassian clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway ... with an ancient and a modern map (1893), White, P. (Patrick), Internet Archive historyofclareda00whit, Chapter 79 · source

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Rival O'Brien Forces Camp at Knocachip near Moy and Lahinch

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You're passing through Lahinch now, and this coast saw its share of O'Brien bloodshed. After Sir John Perrot and his escort left Clare, the Dalcassians went straight back to making war at their own will, O'Briens plundering and slaying O'Briens over a petty quarrel between two chiefs. The O'Briens of South Clare called in disbanded gallowglasses of the Geraldines, along with Butlers and MacSwineys, soldiers of fortune fighting for pay. They swept through the whole northwest of the county, taking people by surprise, seizing everything they could, even plundering the church of Kilnaboy. They did not stop until they reached the hill of Knocachip at Moy, near Lahinch, late at night. A rapid muster was already underway against them. Teigue, son of Morogh of Inchiquin, and Donal of Ennistymon gathered their own people, with some Burkes, MacSheehys, and even MacSwineys among them. They kept their opponents in view and encamped for the night about three miles east, at Carn-Mic-Tail. So on this ground two O'Brien forces stood within sight of each other in the dark, the raiders laden with plunder and the men of the north gathering to answer them.

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

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Ritual site - holy well, Carrowntedaun

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Right here at Carrowntedaun in Clare, on a cliff edge just south of a small beach, is St Senan's holy well. A cross standing over it bears the inscription 'St. Senan's Holy Well, 2003'. The well is enclosed by a wall of mortared sea-rolled stones, and beside it a canopy of the same material shelters statues and candles. A record from 1937 in the Schools Collection says the well was known to cure sore eyes and pains in the legs, and that rounds had been performed there about 20 years before that.

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Rineen ambush

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Somewhere around here, on 22 September 1920, the Mid Clare Brigade of the IRA carried out an ambush during the Irish War of Independence. They attacked a Royal Irish Constabulary lorry at Drummin Hill and killed six officers. Shortly after, ten lorry-loads of British soldiers who had been searching for a missing magistrate came upon them, but the IRA held them off long enough to retreat in good order, with only two wounded. In reprisal, RIC Auxiliaries and British forces raided three local villages, killed five civilians, and burnt 16 houses and shops in the surrounding area.

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

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Legendary earthquake and sunken town at Malbay

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You are coming through Milltown Malbay, on the coast of Clare, where the land meets the Atlantic. The Spaniards gave this stretch its name, Malbay, after the Armada disaster. It sits between the precipitate Moher cliffs to the north and Baltard cliffs to the south, a low, broken, rocky coastline dotted with rough islets. The Annals of the Four Masters record that more than a thousand years ago, an earthquake struck here. It buried the land that then stood here, with over a thousand inhabitants, in the depths of the sea. The sunken aspect of the coast, pressed between those high cliffs on either side and scattered with islets, is said to corroborate that old account. At very low tides, a reef sometimes becomes visible outside the bay. The fishermen call it the Monastery, or St. Stephen's Church. Some now living will tell you that in the clear water you can see a submerged church tower and the roofs of houses beneath the surface. Whatever truth lies in it, the Atlantic itself seems to keep stirring over the place, tossing and fretting and moaning as if some great trouble stirred its inmost depths. The broad water stretches huge and vast, sometimes placid as a lake, but nearly always restless along this shore, where the old annals say the ground opened and the sea came in.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clare and the Dalcassian clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway ... with an ancient and a modern map (1893), White, P. (Patrick), Internet Archive historyofclareda00whit, Chapter 2 · source

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Society of Friends witness extreme poverty in West Clare

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As you travel through West Clare, you are passing through country where, in January 1847, two members of the Society of Friends came and witnessed scenes of extreme misery. The potatoes had failed, and the people's scanty stock of oats was all consumed, leaving families solely dependent on wages from road works. So many applied for work that in most cases only one person in a family could get it, and sometimes only a boy, woman, or girl. A man earned tenpence a day, a woman eightpence, a boy sixpence. Families here averaged about seven individuals. The Friends noted that a week's wage, exchanged for food, was not more than sufficient for three or four days' consumption. They wrote: "The scenes which we witnessed and the stories which we heard in these abodes of human misery will not be easily effaced from our memory." It was no uncommon thing for families to be without food for twenty-four or thirty-six hours before the next pay-day, except for the man or boy at work. The others would further reduce their own scanty share to keep his strength up, since all their living depended on him. The book notes that the making of useless roads was the device of English officials to stay the progress of the famine. This was a true picture of all Clare in that year, when the worst had not yet been reached.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clare and the Dalcassian clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway ... with an ancient and a modern map (1893), White, P. (Patrick), Internet Archive historyofclareda00whit, Chapter 185 · source

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Parnell addresses great meeting and turns first sod of railway at Miltown Malbay

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As you pass through Milltown Malbay, this is where Parnell came in January 1884, the only county meeting he addressed after his release from prison. The town itself could not hold the crowds that gathered, so the meeting was held on the lawn before the Parochial House, with every parish in the county represented. He turned the first sod of the railway, only just secured after a long struggle, before he spoke. The day was fine for the time of year, and the gathering was full of bands and banners swaying in the Atlantic breeze. The crowd agreed to keep order themselves if the police stayed away, and they did, so neither hitch nor disturbance marred the proceedings. People felt it was one of the old county's red-letter days. The writer called the spectacle second only to Ballycoree in O'Connell's time, and said this day had much to do with the dogged spirit with which so many clung to Parnell afterward.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clare and the Dalcassian clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway ... with an ancient and a modern map (1893), White, P. (Patrick), Internet Archive historyofclareda00whit, Chapter 195 · source

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Prolonged eviction struggle at Miltown Malbay over Carroll property

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As the road brings you through Milltown Malbay in Clare, this town was one of the two places most harried under the coercion regime, the other being Bodyke. Evictions were carried out here for the non-payment of rents that the Land Courts later declared to be grossly unfair. A fierce conflict followed. At Bodyke, after an interchange of shots between the police and the people, and a series of evictions from barricaded and well-defended houses, a fair settlement was reached in the end. Here at Milltown Malbay the struggle was kept up all along. It lasted owing to the obstinacy of one individual, backed up as a matter of course by the authorities. That obstinacy led to the imprisonment at various periods of many of the most inoffensive and respectable people of the parish. When the strife was in some degree dying out, the agent on the Carroll property renewed it by letting part of an evicted and highly rack-rented farm. That brought on more excitement, more prosecutions, and more imprisonments. The writer says the elements of the long-continued strife, though somewhat subdued, are there still. He closes his history of Clare without dealing with the division in the National ranks caused by the fall of Mr. Parnell, reserving that for wider ground. While the last lines were being written, Mr. Gladstone was for the second time pressing a Home Rule Bill through Parliament. The writer fondly hopes that whoever takes up the thread of Clare narrative in the future will find a subject more encouraging than fell to his lot.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clare and the Dalcassian clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway ... with an ancient and a modern map (1893), White, P. (Patrick), Internet Archive historyofclareda00whit, Chapter 196 · source

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Relief Committee distributes charity during renewed famine distress in Clare

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As you pass through Milltown Malbay in Clare, this was a place of renewed hunger in 1880. The Relief Committee book records that on February 13, ticket orders for bread-stuffs were filled for 316 applicants, numbering 1261 individuals, at a cost of 42 pounds, 12 shillings and 6 pence, averaging 8 pence per head per week, in a population under 5000. Local landowners gave little. Mrs. Morony of Miltown House offered 10 pounds from a rental of over 2000 pounds, but only on condition of getting 10 pounds worth of broken stones, while Major George Studdert and Captain Ellis represented the best side of the landowners' class through their contributions and exertions.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clare and the Dalcassian clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway ... with an ancient and a modern map (1893), White, P. (Patrick), Internet Archive historyofclareda00whit, Chapter 195 · source

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Fishing the rivers near Miltown Malbay, County Clare

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You're passing through Milltown Malbay in Clare. Back in 1822, a young sportsman came here to visit a friend, a popular landlord who lived on his property and was much loved by his tenants. He had promised the wild native sports, and he did not exaggerate. The coast was magnificent, with the Atlantic thundering against the cliffs, and inland there was mountain, lake, and trackless bog. The summer passed delightfully. They fished all the lakes within reach, and many fine salmon and white-trout graced their bags from the Anna, Annagieragh, Cri, and Dunbeg rivers, all within seven miles south of this town. The narrator, being young and hardy, grew used to the fatigues of the bogs and could cross the most dangerous ground with confidence. He also learned a smattering of Irish, and would venture out alone to collect curiosities, plants, and stuffed birds. He spoke warmly of the devoted affection the peasantry showed a kind landlord, calling him a little monarch among them, though he feared that fine spirit was already passing away.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Rheban Castle, County Kildare (1835), Enna, Internet Archive jstor-30003532, Chapter 2 · source

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graveyard/cemetery, Milltown Malbay

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This graveyard is right here in Milltown Malbay. Burials began in 1802. Two limestone mausolea stand in it, each a single room under a gable, with cross finials on top. The Church of Ireland church they served was demolished around 1985, but the cut-stone grave markers and the rendered screen walls remain.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 20300609 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Quilty West

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Right here at Quilty West is a holy well called Tobernahallia, marked on the old OS maps in Gothic script. It sat at the north edge of a low sea cliff that the sea has eroded. There is no sign of it at ground level now, and nothing to say it was ever venerated.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CL038-008---- · source

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Children's burial ground, Tromra West

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Right here is a children's burial ground, marked on the first Ordnance Survey map as Killone Graveyard. It's an oval, grass-covered mound, 18 metres by 10, with upright uninscribed stones set into it, 30 metres east of a holy well.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CL038-007002- · source

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Donogh O'Brien created Baron of Ibrickan

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After receiving the submission of Morrogh O'Brien, Henry VIII. wrote as follows to the Lord Deputy: " We think it mete in case he shall repayer to our Parliament, as reason is he shude, that he shuld make humble sute to us to receive some estate and honour at our handes, mete to be placed in our Parliament; for he can neither stand with our honour, nor with state of our Parliament, to have any man placed there as a Pere, but he have indede the state of a Pere, by the right cours and ordre of our lawes." The Lord Deputy therefore recommended that Morrogh O'Brien should be created " Erie of Thomond," and Donogh O'Brien Baron of Ibrickan during Morrogh's lifetime, after which he was :o succeed to his uncle's titles and estates. The O'Briens, Clanricardes, md others, went over to England, and on the 1st of July, a.d. 1543, received their titles from Henry VIII. at Greenwich. To cover O'Brien's expenses to England the Lord Deputy had to lend him " an hundred rounds sterling in harp grotes, in default of other money, for there ys no iterling money to be had within this your realme." The day previous to recommending Henry to create Morrogh O'Brien in " Erie," the Lord Deputy addressed a letter to the king, in which, eferring to Sidoa Macnamara's submission, he observes, " and that the >aid M'Nemarro ys a man whose anncestors have in those partes alwayes 3orne a grete swynge, and one that for himself is of honest conformities, whose landes lye holy on the farsyde the Shanan, we most humbly beseech your Majestie to regarde him according to your princly bounty ;o advance him to the honour of a baron by the name of Clancuilein, md that he may holde such landes and possessions as he now hathe." ro this communication Henry VIII. replied, probably at the instigation }f O'Brien, who was at the time at Greenwich, that " we have made the ord of Upper Ossery Macnamarrow a knight." * This title was never issumed by Sioda Macnamara. The Rev. D. White suggests it may have seen lost or sent to some one else, for Sioda Macnamara died as he had ived, simply a landlord of Clare and chief of his sept.

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 83 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Kilclehaun

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Right here in Kilclehaun, in Clare, there's a holy well sitting on a gentle slope in the middle of a burial ground. It's circular, ringed by a drystone wall with an entrance and six steps at the north-west. Triangular alcoves line the inside walls, holding offerings. The well has been conserved.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CL038-026002- · source

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Burial ground, Kilclehaun

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Kilclehaun burial ground is right beside the road in Kilclehaun, Clare. It is a walled graveyard on a south-east-facing slope, listed in 1992 and again in 1996. About twenty recumbent headstones lie inside, some uninscribed and some with 20th-century dates. A holy well stands at the centre.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CL038-026001- · source

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The Soul Cages of Dunbeg Bay

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Somewhere close to Doonbeg, fishermen told of Jack Dogherty, who befriended Coomara the Merrow and dined with him beneath the sea. There Jack found lobster-pot soul cages holding "the souls of drowned sailors." He made Coomara drunk twice, so he could slip down and set the imprisoned souls free.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888), ed. W. B. Yeats, Project Gutenberg #33887, Chapter 18 · source

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Murdered Prisoners in the Vaults of Dunmore Castle

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Somewhere close to Doonmore stands the gloomy tower of Dunmore. Connor Crowe, a man of this west Clare country, kept vigil one night over a black coffin resting on the white strand. He told of prisoners murdered long ago in the vaults under the castle, none of them buried decently, not one among them with a coffin. He said it was often he heard lamentations and great mourning coming from those vaults, but blamed the dismal waves working through the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, fretting themselves to foam. He called it a gloomy-looking tower on a gloomy day, with gloomy hills behind it. When one had gloomy thoughts on their heart and saw it like a ghost rising out of the smoke made by the kelp burners on the strand, there was as fearful a look about it as about the Blue Man's Lake at midnight. It was a moonlight night. Nothing around but dark rocks and the white pebbly beach, where the sea broke with a hoarse and melancholy murmur. Connor, for all his draughts from the whiskey bottle, felt queerish and almost repented his curiosity. It was a solemn sight, the black coffin on the white strand. His imagination turned the deep moaning of old ocean into a mournful wail for the dead, and from the shadowy recesses of the rocks he saw strange and visionary forms. He called on St. Senan to stand between him and all kinds of harm.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888), ed. W. B. Yeats, Project Gutenberg #33887, Chapter 19 · source

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Shipwreck of the Intrivsk near Kilkee

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Coming up through Kilkee now. In 1835 a ship called the Intrivsk perished near here amid scenes of great distress. As the ship sank and women drowned, people on the cliff watched a seagull hover above the wreck. Then the bird turned shoreward and dropped a lady's glove among the watchers. The story has stayed with the town ever since.

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 17 · source

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Dr. Cahill preaches from the Ark and rallies opposition

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Coming up through Kilkee now. After the famine, the people were still in poverty and despondency, and a large-scale attempt at proselytism was made in the parish of Carrigaholt. The peninsula was almost an island and badly provided with schools, so it was regarded as a suitable field by those who sought to tempt the starving poor. An agent, supported by the Kildare Street Society and by his father-in-law the landlord, set himself to Protestantising the peninsula. Schools were rapidly built, a staff of parsons, Scripture readers and teachers provided, and his own brother planted down as resident superintendent at a good salary. Some progress was made among the very poor and the small farmers, tenants-at-will at the mercy of landlord and agent. The new parish priest, Father Meehan, who succeeded the cholera-stricken Father Duggan, devoted all his great energy to counteracting the proselytisers. The struggle went on with great vigour and bitterness on both sides for about ten years. When Father Meehan could not get a site for a chapel in the most remote and populous part of the parish, he got possession of a house from an emigrant and called it St. Patrick's Church. He was evicted from it. In his extremity he built a timber movable hut, fixed an altar in it, and placed it on the sea-shore. He called it The Ark, and the people flocked round it in all weather to hear mass. Dr. Cahill, the eminent preacher, while staying at Kilkee, heard of this. He went to the Ark, preached from it, and called public attention through the press to the conduct of the proselytisers in West Clare. The agent was compelled by the strong feeling aroused to give a site.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clare and the Dalcassian clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway ... with an ancient and a modern map (1893), White, P. (Patrick), Internet Archive historyofclareda00whit, Chapter 191 · source

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Kilkee as a seaside resort in a horseshoe bay

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As you come into Kilkee in Clare, you find a watering place sheltered in a horse-shoe bay on the Atlantic shore, a recess in the coast. The shores here are meant to be free of the rigid etiquette that governs life at home, though too often people carry those conventions with them to the sea, which only detracts from their enjoyment. Kilkee itself is a maritime town without shipping or manufacturing, free of the bustle that follows industry. It has its fashionable quarter, an Esplanade and a West End, like any other resort. For those drawn to natural curiosities, there is the Puffing Hole, the Amphitheatre rock formation, and extensive caves under the cliffs. The Arch Cliff, George's Head, and Look-out Hill are all accessible to visitors who want to walk and see them.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Holiday haunts on the west coast of Clare, Ireland (1891), Harris, H. B, Internet Archive holidayhauntsonw00harr, Chapter 1 · source

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Cave of Kilkee and its mineral formations

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As you pass through Kilkee, the famous cave here lies about 2 miles from the town, best reached by boat from the harbour. The arched entrance stands about 60 feet high, and you are drawn straight away to the stalactites hanging from the roof and the rich metallic tinges from copper, iron, and other minerals held in the water. The cave gradually narrows as you go deeper inside. The coastal walks are well worth it too, especially heading south, where dark rocks broken into fantastic shapes by the Atlantic form a grand setting for the luminous blues, greens, and snowy foam of the breakers.

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 17 · source

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Ruined castle site let at Kilkee to MacSweeney

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Other lettings, and for mere trifles, are noted at Kilkee to MacSweeney, " whereon stood a castle; " and at Moyarta, Kilfeera, Killenagallagh, Kilcashel, and Lisdeen, all to Sir D. O'Brien. The same practice in regard to Church property prevailed all over the country, so that the bequests of Catholics in past times for religious and charitable purposes, fell, under English rule, like the clan lands, into the hands of the chiefs who made submission and forwarded English interests. Nor did the good bishop forget himself. Thirteen hundred acres were set for £55 per annum to members of his own family for long periods.

Read from History of Clare and the Dalcassian clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway ... with an ancient and a modern map (1893), White, P. (Patrick), Internet Archive historyofclareda00whit, Chapter 141 · source

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Bishop's Island famine legend near Kilkee

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Somewhere around here is Bishop's Island, near Kilkee, with an early oratory on it. The legend tells of a bishop who fled the famine-stricken mainland to feast on his private island store. When the famine ended and he sought to return, the raging sea had widened the chasm and chained him to his solitary fate.

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 16 · source

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Castle - tower house, Rinemackaderrig

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Right here at Rinemackaderrig in Clare, on a rocky headland on the north bank of the Shannon Estuary, stands a 15th century tower house. It was the principal residence of the MacMahon chiefs of West Corkavaskin. Turlough MacMahon and his son Tadhg Caech, meaning the Short-sighted, signed Sir John Perrot's tripartite deed in 1585. Tadhg was unsuccessfully besieged in the tower by Sir Conyers Clifford in 1598, but shortly afterwards the Earl of Thomond wrested the castle from him. Daniel O'Brien then took it over and built the 5th-floor fireplace dated 1603. In 1651 Cromwell's General Ludlow took it and kept a garrison there until 1652. Charles II restored it to the O'Briens in 1666. In 1691 William of Orange gave it to Keppel, Earl of Albemarle, who sold it to the Burton family, who held it until the 19th century. The tower is five storeys, 18.8 metres high, built of roughly coursed local flagstone with limestone doors and windows. It sits in the south-west corner of a small bawn. The east wall has a pointed doorway with a murder-hole overhead and a gun loop. A 4-storey building was formerly attached to the south wall. Excavation in 2004 by Laurence Dunne, when a sea wall was built to stop marine erosion reaching within 3.5 metres of the castle, revealed likely foundations of that late 17th-century mansion, along with 17th-century tin-glazed earthenware. On the fourth floor the limestone fireplace carries the inscription D.B. 1603. Carrigaholt castle is a National Monument in State care, number 427.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), CL065-100001- · source

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Carrigaholt Castle and Lord Clare's Yellow Dragoons

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Somewhere around here stands Carrigaholt Castle, once the stronghold of the MacMahons. It later became famous as the place where Lord Clare trained his Yellow Dragoons, whose exploits in the wars of Europe gave, as the old history puts it, some of the brightest pages to history. Thomas Davis made them the subject of one of his most spirited ballads. The castle is still in good condition, thanks to the care of the Burton family, into whose possession it fell.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clare and the Dalcassian clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway ... with an ancient and a modern map (1893), White, P. (Patrick), Internet Archive historyofclareda00whit, Chapter 3 · source

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Fenian rising collision at Kilbaha coastguard station

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As the road takes you through Kilbaha, out in the remote west of Clare, this is where the Fenian rising of March 5, 1867, left its only mark in the county. The Fenians were out that night across all of Clare, but the single clash came at the coastguard station near here. It was not much of a fight. One Fenian and one coastguard were wounded rather badly. The Fenian could not escape. He was arrested, tried by Judge Keogh, and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. The others known to be in the attack, after many hair-breadth escapes and much harassing of the district, were got out of the country. So ended what was regarded as a very formidable organisation. After the rising broke apart, the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended and the jails filled fast. Clare stayed remarkably steadfast. Only two persons, both of indifferent character, could be got to turn on their comrades. In the western district, where the trouble was greatest, not even one could be induced to give information. Poor people who could have secured money by telling where fugitives were sheltered scorned to do so, and helped them escape at no small risk to themselves. They had been warned from the bench at Kilrush that anyone giving aid or countenance would be as guilty in the eye of the law as those who rose up in arms.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clare and the Dalcassian clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway ... with an ancient and a modern map (1893), White, P. (Patrick), Internet Archive historyofclareda00whit, Chapter 194 · source

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Loop Head and Cuchullin's Leap tradition

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Somewhere about Loop Head, you are at a promontory properly called Leap Head, or Cuchullin's Leap. The tradition is that Cuchullin, a knight of Ulster, was pursued by a termagant woman called Mal. Reaching the extremity of Clare and finding her still close behind, he leapt onto a small rock about 25 feet from the mainland. Mal succeeded in reaching the rock too, so Cuchullin leapt straight back. She failed her second attempt to follow him, fell into the waves, and perished.

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 17 · source

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West Clare Railway

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Somewhere around here ran the West Clare Railway, a narrow-gauge line that operated from 1887 to 1961, stretching from Ennis along the West Clare coast to two termini at Kilrush and Kilkee, with the routes splitting at Moyasta Junction. It stopped at places like Ennistymon, Lahinch, and Milltown Malbay, and was the last narrow-gauge passenger system running in Ireland. It was notorious for poor timekeeping, which led to litigation and a celebrated comic song. A preservation society now keeps a railway museum at Moyasta Junction station, and re-opened a section as a heritage line with diesel traction in the 1990s, adding steam from 2009.

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

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Wild Geese sail from the Shannon, one ship founders near Kilrush

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As you come near Kilrush, this is the town where one of the saddest departures in Irish history met the sea. On the 16th of October 1691, nearly 20,000 Irish soldiers sailed down the Shannon into exile. Wives and sisters and daughters clung to the men, tried to force their way into the boats that conveyed them to the ships, and yielded only when they were forcibly driven back. The story is told that hands were slashed with swords to make them loose their hold of the boats, though it is to be hoped that is not true. It was a sad sail down the Shannon. Many were looking with fond gaze on the hills and valleys of Clare, where they had spent the merry days of youth. Near here, one of the ships foundered, with the loss of about 100 men. All the others weathered the gale, and passing under the frowning cliffs of Clare, turned their prows southward round the majestic Brandon mountains, and joined the fleet that had sailed from Cork, all laden with a living cargo of stout though sorrowing hearts for the battlefields of Europe. An Irish song written soon afterwards described the spirit in which they went. Maugan rendered the first verse into English: "Farewell, O Patrick Sarsfield, may luck be on your path. Your camp is broken up, your work is marred for years. But you go to kindle into flames the King of France's wrath, though you leave sick Eire in tears."

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clare and the Dalcassian clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway ... with an ancient and a modern map (1893), White, P. (Patrick), Internet Archive historyofclareda00whit, Chapter 151 · source

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Horrific mortality statistics at Kilrush workhouse exposed by Rev. Osborne

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Coming up through Kilrush now. In 1850, the Reverend S. Godolphin Osborne, with help from Captain Kennedy, exposed conditions at the workhouse in the pages of the Times. It was built for 4654 paupers but held 5005 in March of that year. Two hundred and three died in three weeks that month. The published total for the half-year, signed by chairman C. M. Vandeleur, stood at 1014. The Board of Guardians spent eleven pence a week per head on food and two pence on clothing. Osborne blamed them for the improper diet of the indoor paupers and the insufficiency of outdoor relief given to the destitute. He wrote that when he looked on the Crystal Palace and thought of Kilrush workhouse as he had seen it and now knew it to be, he felt, as a Christian and the subject of a Christian Government,

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clare and the Dalcassian clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway ... with an ancient and a modern map (1893), White, P. (Patrick), Internet Archive historyofclareda00whit, Chapter 184 · source

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Vandeleur evictions and Land League agitation at Kilrush

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Coming up on Kilrush in Clare. This town was the scene of one of the greatest efforts made by the government to sustain the rights of the owner of the soil during Land League agitation. Tenants were evicted on the Vandeleur property and their homesteads demolished. Men of influence, believed to be unconnected with the Land League, proposed arbitration. The landlord accepted it, and peace now reigns where intense excitement and agitation once prevailed. The mansion and demesne of the Vandeleurs adjoin the town. Former owners always occupied the house until the present member of the family succeeded his father. Now the house is not inhabited by him or any member of the family. Kilrush is not so prosperous as it should be, judging from its position occupying the best site in the river Shannon for commercial purposes. At Cappa is a substantial pier where steamers trading with Limerick

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Holiday haunts on the west coast of Clare, Ireland (1891), Harris, H. B, Internet Archive holidayhauntsonw00harr, Chapter 1 · source

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Wild Atlantic Way 5/8 Cliff Coast: Galway → Kilrush

The drive in numbers

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Freed Galway slave purchased Rahoon estate from Cromwell officer

Address to Galway townspeople on poverty and decay

Bodkin ear-cutting incident tried at Galway Assizes

The Lynch Stone and the mayor's execution of his own son

Emigration passage from Galway to Liverpool

Discovery of Cinerary Urn at Gurteen near Castledermot

Batteries at Rinmore and Rintinane block naval relief

Castle - tower house, Merlinpark

Castle - unclassified, Roscam

Old castle near Oranmore where underground river reappears

Clanricarde provisions fort via Oranmore Castle

Castles of Tirellan, Oranmore and Clare-Galway taken

Union of Oranmore rectory to collegiate church

Ritual site - holy well, Parkroe (Clarinbridge Ed)

Castle - tower house, Cregganna More

Partholanus division boundary at Clarinbridge near Galway

Eiscar Riada: The Gravel-Hill Boundary from Dublin to Clarinbridge

Petition for Kylcolgan castle and manor

Ritual site - holy well, Drumacoo

Children's burial ground, Tooreen West

Burial ground, Ballyclery

Ritual site - holy well, Ballyclery

Dunguaire Castle

Kinvara

Children's burial ground, Carrownamaddra

Children's burial ground, Shanclogh

Children's burial ground, Rossalia

Ritual site - holy well, Rossalia

Burial ground, Mortyclogh

Corcomroe Abbey foundation and royal burial

Castle - tower house, Muckinish East

Castle - tower house, Muckinish West

Vision at Loch Rask before battle

Donough Brian Roe assembles forces at Ballyvaughan

Castle - unclassified, Ballyvaghan

Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Gleninagh North

Ritual site - holy well, Gleninagh North

Castle - tower house, Gleninagh North

Aran islanders' extraordinary eyesight at Black Head

Children's burial ground, Murrooghkilly

Burial, Murrooghtoohy South

Ritual site - holy well, Oughtdarra

Children's burial ground, Oughtdarra

Castle - tower house, Ballynalackan (Cloghaun Ed)

Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Cahermacrusheen

Castle - unclassified, Ballyvoe (Corcomroe By.)

Ritual site - holy well, Toomullin

Doolin as smuggling and Irish Brigade recruitment base

Castle - tower house, Doonmacfelim

Castle - tower house, Doonnagore

Doonnagore Castle

Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Ballycotteen North

Ritual site - holy well, Ballysteen

Children's burial ground, Derreen (Ballysteen Ed)

Liscannor castle, harbour and flag quarry industry

Silver chalice commemorates Admiral O'Kuoney's gift to Liscannor parish

Ritual site - holy well, Liscannor

Castle - tower house, Dough (Corcomroe By.)

Lehinch golf links on Liscannor Bay

O'Connor of Corcomroe slain at Lahinch by nephews

Rival O'Brien Forces Camp at Knocachip near Moy and Lahinch

Ritual site - holy well, Carrowntedaun

Rineen ambush

Legendary earthquake and sunken town at Malbay

Society of Friends witness extreme poverty in West Clare

Parnell addresses great meeting and turns first sod of railway at Miltown Malbay

Prolonged eviction struggle at Miltown Malbay over Carroll property

Relief Committee distributes charity during renewed famine distress in Clare

Fishing the rivers near Miltown Malbay, County Clare

graveyard/cemetery, Milltown Malbay

Ritual site - holy well, Quilty West

Children's burial ground, Tromra West

Donogh O'Brien created Baron of Ibrickan

Ritual site - holy well, Kilclehaun

Burial ground, Kilclehaun

The Soul Cages of Dunbeg Bay