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Kicking the bucket in Mullagh

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 4 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    🎶 There's a hole in the bucket ...
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVAvMIhvqfk
  • Niall McAuley said:
    At least some of the people in the background look to be in costume, dressed up like the 1890s. One couple in a horse-drawn car at left are holding up a sign between them.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    An IrishCentral article says:
    The fair day is held annually on the second Sunday in September. It is an attempt to recreate the traditional fair day that was held here from 1828. In 1837, Mullagh had a market and fair for the sale of cattle and pigs, oats, butter and flax several times a year. By 1870 the fair was held on the last Friday of every month. The traditional fair was one of the best and biggest in the north east
    ...
    The Mullagh Development Committee re-established the Fair Day in 1997
     but not when the original fair ended.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    duchas confirms the last Friday of the month, and suggests it was originally held at the Gates of Mullagh, a crossroads west of the town.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    On facebook, I see images of The Mullagh Carnival, in Co. Clare, a different spot altogether from the Gates of Mullagh. The countryside in Mullagh, County Clare looks like a better fit.

Have you seen that "Whatsit" in Lixnaw?

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    2020 plans to rebuild - www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40015436.html#:~
    " ... A 50ft high mausoleum made of black limestone was erected in 1690 by the 20th Lord of Kerry, William Fitzmaurice, at a burial site for the Fitzmaurice clan members.

    It stood on top of Killbinane Hill, near Lixnaw, until 1958 when it was dynamited to smithereens by Kerry County Council, who wanted to use the stone for road building. ... "
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Flickr is sometimes amazing! Via Knockanure Site
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Looks like the little hill has been quarried to buggagery.
    Streetview - maps.app.goo.gl/FxDzSQh1NBGB8vuPA
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Boooo, Kerry County Council! Sadly adding to No Longer Standing album... :(
  • beachcomber australia said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons There seems to be something, maybe foundations, still there via the Google satellite. Field Trip required, with a picnic and appropriate refreshment.
    maps.app.goo.gl/Vo261mPrKUozKnUz7

Get thee to a Nunnery

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 6 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Read All About It, via 'The Irish Sod' - theirishsod.blogspot.com/2012/12/irelands-bethlehem.html
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Google Satellite - maps.app.goo.gl/a84JpjT8F4ysgCGz9
    53.540924, -7.871162
  • Niall McAuley said:
    There is a record at the NIAH which agrees with the beachcombers source: occupied for just 10 years until burnt in 1642, after which the nuns moved to Athlone.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    A Madonna statue of bog oak from the convent survives in Galway: poorclares.ie/our-lady-of-bethlehem-athlone-madonna
  • John Spooner said:
    The building was featured in a full-page article in the Evening Herald (Dublin) Thursday 24 December 1992.

    Last year. Poor Clare nuns from around the world visited the ivy -clad ruins in Co Westmeath when the order celebrated the 350th anniversary of the flight of the nuns who escaped to Galway by taking to boats on Lough Ree.
    It also mentions the Streven family, on whose farm it stands, who had cleared the ivy and received many letters from nuns who had visited.