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Showing posts with label Glin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Glin. Show all posts
16 December 2021

The Crosbies of Ardfert and
illustrating stories of deceit
and complex allegiances

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The gate at Ardfert Abbey showing the family crests of the Talbots and the Crosbies … a photograph on p 145 in Chris Keane’s new book (Photo...
13 May 2021

Kilteery Pier failed as
a Victorian enterprise
but is a visitors’ delight

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Blue skies and clear waters on the Shannon Estuary at Kilteery Pier, near Foynes, Co Limerick (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2021) Patri...
16 November 2020

Shanid Castle, a hill-top
ruin near Shanagolden, was
a Desmond stronghold

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Shanid Castle, perched on a hilltop near Shanagolden, Co Limerick (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2020) Patrick Comerford The ruins of...
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21 July 2020

A sunny, summer Sunday
afternoon by the yachts
in the marina in Kilrush

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Kilrush Marina on Sunday afternoon … home to the Royal Western Yacht Club of Ireland (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2020) Patrick Comer...
22 February 2020

How one man managed
to cross the Shannon
Estuary on a bicycle

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Tom Mangan cycled across the Shannon Estuary from the pier at Glin, Co Limerick, in July 1902 (Photograph: Patrick Comerford) Patrick C...
06 February 2020

A 200-year-old church
in Loughill, Co Limerick,
with a tower and shrine

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The Tower of Church of the Assumption in Loughill, Co Limerick (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2020) Patrick Comerford The village of ...
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26 November 2018

Finding the Precentor’s
link with Ballycahane
and the strange story
of the Colleen Bawn

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Ballycahane Church, near Croom, Co Limerick, seen from the south-east (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2018) Patrick Comerford Two new ...
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26 October 2018

Finding three Irish governors at
an English outpost in Tangier

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The former Portuguese and English walls at Tangier … the short-lived English colony had three Irish governors in the 17th century (Photogra...
14 October 2017

The Revd Sir William Augustus
Wolseley (1865-1950), an
exceptional curate in
Kilnaughtin and Aughavallin

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The Rectory, Tarbert … was this the home of the Revd William Augustus Wolseley while he was the curate in Kilnaughtin parish? (Photograph: P...
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