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There's a Ball at the Castle, now where's the Key?

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  • 7 older comments, and then…
  • John Spooner said:
    In the Ashbourne News Telegraph - Friday 06 May 1904 (where else would it be?) is a feature entitled "Kilkenny Castle", which includes:
    In the drawing-room two mascots of the family are_preserved—a crystal ball and an old key. The crystal ball is of extreme age, and its origin is entirely legendary. In Pagan times such halls were used for divination, even as they are now by Bond-street soothsayers, but in Ireland and Scotland they became • valued possession of the early Christian saints. They were always associated with the working of miracles, and were believed to possess healing properties of supernatural power. The 'Osiden Key" was the chief butler's symbol of office, and hung at his girdle when he attended the King. The rise of the Ormondee is, indeed, marked by this little key. The founder of the great family which for seven centuries has borne the surname of Butler was an Anglo-Norman, by name Theobald Walter, eon of Herveius Walter by his wife Maude de Valois, and brother of .Archbishop Hubert Walter. who occupied the See of Canterbury in the reigns of Richard I. and John. Theobag Walter came to Ireland with Henry 11., and, for services rendered in the King's cause, had conferred upon him the title of "Chief Butler of Ireland." This Theobald Walter's only son was the first to assume the surname of Le Botiler, or Butler.


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    Ashbourne News Telegraph - Friday 06 May 1904
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Symbol of office
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Yes, a similar story in 1912 via Trove -
    "... One relic preserved within its walls is the "Golden Key," which is a symbol of the office of Butler granted to the head
    of the family more than seven centuries ago. ..."
    See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/170952979?searchTerm=%...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The key doesn't look very C13th. More like C18th.
    O Mac will unlock the mystery ...
  • CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
    My wife's maiden name is Butler and she was the 2001 representative from South Australia for the Rose of Tralee quest. Her name resides on a glass wall in Tralee.

Against the grain...

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  • Niall McAuley said:
    Another Gaffney headstone, we have seen their work before
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Is it in Mr Gaffney's yard, hence the higgledy-piggledy-ness ?

    5 August 1912 was a Monday ...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Mr Gaffney and the seven dwarfs stonemasons in his yard at Beresford street, Waterford in 1910 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000592393
  • Niall McAuley said:
    beachcomber australia yes, I see the same corrugated shed at left, mossy roof at right, roof with two skylights behind
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq Niall McAuley Well, this Mary is off to the opticians to get new pince-nez. You're dead right. It's Gaffney's yard, not a graveyard.