Tradition suggests that Colm Cille founded the Church at Mevagh in Clontallagh townland. He is also credited with erecting the High Cross there. It is said that he left the track of his fingers in the stone. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosguill) As the earliest of the High Crosses ...
An excavation in the Ashleypark townland of County Tipperary revealed a neolithic burial mound with a tomb that contained the bones of an adult male and a child. The radio-carbon date for the femur of the adult dates to between 3350 and 3650 BCE. (Manning, et. al., p 61) The Bronze...
Very interesting; thanks, Dalgan. I don’t suppose you have any of your great great grandfather’s files: he might have been involved in mortgaging the Royal Canal to a [retired] lady of ill-repute. On Liffey Junction, see the 25″ Ordnance Survey maphereIndustrial...
from as close to the waterside as we could get. It has been remarked that the Blackwater is an invisible gem: unless you like exploring boreens, and (preferably) have a 4WD car,it is very difficult to see the river from the land. In March ...
The map to the right is cropped from the Historical Environment Viewer. Resources Consulted Harbison, Peter; "The High Crosses of Ireland: An Iconographical and Photographic Survey", Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH, Bonn, 1992. Volume 1: Text, Volume 2: Photographic Survey; Volume 3: Illustrations of...