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Via Trove, Father O'Sullivan speaking out about Landlordism in 1850 (possibly 1849) -
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In August 1849 there was "The Battle of The Priests", which featured "the Rev. Mr. Sullivan, P.P.". I'm not sure if he was the same fellow as in the photo, or what on earth was going on.
Neverthelessless -
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I wasn't expecting this, reported widely in December 1850.

The Rev. John O'Sullivan, P.P., tenant on the Marquis of Lansdowne's property in the union of Kenmare, has been awarded fur the best three acres of Swedes £2.

I assume it meant swedes.

John Spooner Are you reviving an old argument? 😀

Pomeranian

"THE COURTHOUSE.
Todays Court House and Heritage Centre now stands where an original building was built in 1735 as a barracks to accommodate a half company of soldiers but was also used also as a Court House from these early days. In the early part of the 19th century a Revenue Office was opened here and then during the famine an overflow of 120 people from the Work House were housed in the upper third story of the building.
During the same era General Sessions of the Peace were held in June and December and Petty Sessions the first Monday in every fortnight. A special court was also held every three weeks for the recovery of debts not exceeding ten pounds.
The building was burned down during 1920 and rebuilt and opened again in 1927. ..."

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So photo before 1920.

Patrick Comerford is interesting about the three-arched Market House (and cottages out of sight behind).
www.patrickcomerford.com/2020/10/town-planning-bridges-an...
Can anyone read the clock ?

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I see two dogs, but the white animal in the right foreground is a chicken, pecking.

Love the title of this. A good laugh for Monday morning :) Wonderful historic photo.

That is Cloghvorra. See "The Cause of an Ice Age" by Sir Robert Stawell Ball

Mike | MP-P Thanks :)

Seuss. Thank you! So, this is the Cloghvorra Stone written of by Irish scientist, mathematician and astronomer, Robert Stawell Ball. The quote that keeps appearing is: "The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side." (p. 3, The Cause of an Ice Age, 1891) But the "problem that [also] demands solution" still is where is it? Have Google Mapped, but in vain...

There is a limestone boulder, 2,000 tons, at Roughty, two miles south-east of Kenmare (vide Explanation of Sheet, 184, p. 36). This boulder, called ' Cloghvorra,' 26 feet x 16 feet X 15 feet, of limestone lies on old red sandstone, 260 feet above the sea, on the side of a hill half a mile south of Roughty Bridge, having been moved southward. www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/henry-carvill-lewis/papers...