templemore

O Mac DannyM8 Poor old Morning Mary is unwell, it seems she was struck with some sort of digestive disorder over the weekend. She is confident that she will be back in harness in good time to post tomorrows offering. In the mean time I will deputise. Evening Mary.

At thepeerage.com, Arthur Henry Chichester, 3rd Baron Templemore.

Dunbrody on the 25" map.

I believe the Baron was not at home for the 1911 census. Not too many houses with 21 windows to the front in Ballyhack. Likewise in 1901.

Niall McAuley I see from following your peerage.com link that his second son Dermot Richard Claud Chichester, is noted as the 7th Marquess of Donegall, that looks like a big promotion for him?

Hogan was in Templemore on 22nd August to photograph the "bleeding statues", so this may have been taken at the same time. There's a history of the "Templemore Miracles" at History Ireland. Including the following: According to an eye-witness, [Michael] Collins ‘. . . took hold of the statue and banged it off the side of the desk, and of course out fell the works of the alarm clock. “I knew it”, he says. So that was the end of the bleeding statue.’ Also here: www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/6068653601/in/photolist-a...

Sharon Corbet Sharon, a fascinating read.

OSI down for maintenance!? How will I find this house?

derangedlemur It's working for me. (But isn't really helping me to identify the house...)

"On the night of 16 August 1920 ‘wild scenes were witnessed’ in Temple-more as the North-amptonshire Regiment carried out reprisals following the killing of RIC District Inspector Wilson by the IRA. According to a local press report, ‘soldiers joined in the outbreak . . . volleys were fired, houses attacked, shops looted, the town hall was burned down, and three creameries destroyed’. (Ironically, two members of the regiment, Captain S. H. Beattie MC and Lance Corporal H. J. Fuggle, were to lose their lives in the fire.)" Templemore was a hotbed of insurrection around that time and there were several killings, numerous burnings and raids by RIC, Black and Tans and the military aplenty! This could have been after one of those but I agree with Sharon, Hogan was virtually embedded with Collins and Co. and probably went there with him. Templemore has changed dramatically in the meantime and this house is unlikely to still be there. I love the line "Child with a small ball" What would whoever wrote the title call a sliothar then???

My mother told me about this long before I became familiar with Templemore and its environs! Her mother and some local ladies in Limerick hired a "Charabanc" for the day to take them there to witness the "miracle". It was all a hoax of course, the nice Mr. Walsh had pigs blood in a puffer connected to the face of the statue and he would send a pulse of blood from the eyes of the statue when the praying was going full swing, the hysteria was massive. The moving statue of Ballinspittle of more recent times was a lot more innocent than this fraud! This is the first time I ever saw a photograph of though so nice one NLI, this is brilliant!

A very nice photo of those people long ago. I agree with swordscookie pro - not everyone falls for everything under the sun - - -

Amazing!!!

Great History Ireland article on the whole incident here, including the mechanics of making the statues bleed: www.historyireland.com/volumes/volume17/issue1/features/?...

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Thank for the link. Read that and what a clever rouse it was! Bleeding eyes on statues can occur during hot weather when the adhesive behind them melts and seeps out.