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www.thememorytrail.com/content/some-things-see-mitchelsto... indicates that the statue of John Mandeville in New Square was erected in 1906. (S. also www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&...)

The statue was unveiled on 9/9/1906 (to be slightly more exact!) - more information here - jskean.incolor.com/Mandeville.htm

Is that a drone above the power pole or maybe a distant helicopter, or maybe a near dragonfly?

Ryans, Whelan and Fitzgerald are all there in the 1911 census.

It looks as if it was inhabited at that stage, whenever that might have been!

Cloghleigh is a large tower house, generally typical of those in Munster, and it probably dates to the sixteenth century. It has distinctive rounded corners and a number of interesting horizontal loops. It is on the Teagasc farm at Moorepark and the interior was not accessible when last I visited it. Originally a castle of the Condons, it eventually passed to the Moores, who made repairs to it in the nineteenth century.

It has a bloody history, according to www.abandonedireland.com/Cloghleagh.html

maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,582644,601740,11,9

Quite good - youtu.be/sZPAGY5OotE?t=14m47s (from 14:48)