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Province of Leinster is in Ireland.
County Carlow, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
Mount Brown aka Bronshill aka Kernanstown Dolmen, County Carlow, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles [Map]
Mount Brown aka Bronshill aka Kernanstown Dolmen is also in Prehistoric Ireland.
Mount Brown aka Bronshill aka Kernanstown Dolmen [Map] is situated 3 km east of Carlow, in County Carlow, Ireland. Its capstone weighs an estimated 150 metric tons, and is reputed to be the heaviest in Europe. This dolmen has three large uprights and two recumbent stones at the other end.
Handbook of Irish Antiquities by Wakeman Chapter 1. Kernanstown Cromlech, Carlow [Map]. Kernanstown Cromlech is about two miles north-east of Carlow, and is the largest in Ireland. This magnificent granite block is securely supported on three uprights at the east side, standing at a height of 6 feet. At the west end this cap is raised 2 feet. The block is 23½ feet long, 18¾ feet broad, 4½ feet thick, and measures 65 feet round. This is estimated to weigh 100 tons. It makes an angle of 35° with the horizon.
Journal of the Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland 1868 Pages 40-46. The third example of this class of cromleacs is that at Mount Brown [Mount Brown aka Bronshill aka Kernanstown Dolmen [Map]], within one mile and a half of Carlow (see Plate, facing p. 40, fig. 3). This magnificent block of granite measures 22’ 10” +18’ 9” 4-4" 6” and is inclined at an angle of about 35° to the horizon, being supported most securely on three upright blocks of granite of unequal height, whereby the top stone is made to incline in such a way as to rest on the ground at only one angle.
County Fingal, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
Lusk, County Fingal, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
County Kilkenny, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
Gowran, County Kilkenny, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
On 14th February 1696 Charles Agar died in Gowran.
Kilmogue Portal Tomb, County Kilkenny, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles [Map]
Kilmogue Portal Tomb is also in Prehistoric Ireland.
Archaeologia Volume 16 Section XXVIII. Description of a Crom-Leach [Kilmogue Portal Tomb [Map]], in the County of Kilkenny, By Mr. Joseph Thomas Finegan. Communicated by The Marquess Townshend (age 33), and Earl of Leicester, President. Read 30th April, J SOJ.
County Longford, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
Ballymahon, County Longford, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
Creevagh Beg, Ballymahon, County Longford, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
Around 1680 Thomas Marlay was born to Captain Anthony Marlay (age 30) and Elizabeth Morgan (age 30) at Creevagh Beg.
Around 1691 Bishop George Marlay was born to Captain Anthony Marlay (age 41) and Elizabeth Morgan (age 41) at Creevagh Beg.
County Louth, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
Ballymascanlan, County Louth, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
Proleek Stone aka The Giant's Load aka Ballymascanlan Dolmen, County Louth, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles [Map]
Proleek Stone aka The Giant's Load aka Ballymascanlan Dolmen is also in Prehistoric Ireland.
Proleek Stone aka The Giant's Load aka Ballymascanlan Dolmen [Map] is composed of two portal stones, a lower backstone and a massive capstone, which weighs about 40 tonnes. The portal faces northwest.
Photographs of the Proleek Stone aka The Giant's Load aka Ballymascanlan Dolmen [Map] by Wilfrid Alfred Green.
Handbook of Irish Antiquities by Wakeman Chapter 1. Ballymascanlan Cromlech [Map]. This fine cromlech is about 4 miles north-east of Dundalk, and is known as the 'Proleek Stone,' and the 'Giant's Load.' There is nothing to indicate that it was ever a chambered tumulus. The cap-stone is an erratic block of basalt, measuring 15 feet by 13 feet, and about 6 feet thick, and is variously estimated at 30 to 60 tons in weight.32 It is supported by three upright stones of slender63 shape, and the total height is about 12 feet. Adjoining is another cromlech of the extended form, and generally known as 'Giants' Graves.'
Note 32. The Rev. Maxwell Close makes the dimensions 12¼ feet by 9¼ feet, and 5¾ feet thick.
Louth, County Louth, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
County Offaly, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
Clonlisk, County Offaly, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
Around 1675 Charles Jervas was born in Clonlisk.
Durrow, County Offaly, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
Durrow Abbey, County Offaly, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
Bede. 565. AD. Columba (age 43) came into Britain in the ninth year of the reign of Bridius, who was the son of Meilochon304, and the powerful king of the Pictish nation, and he converted that nation to the faith of Christ, by his preaching and example. Wherefore he also received of them the gift of the aforesaid island [Map] whereon to found a monastery. It is not a large island, but contains about five families, according to the English computation; his successors hold it to this day; he was also buried therein, having died at the age of seventy-seven, about thirty-two years after he came into Britain to preach305. Before he crossed over into Britain, he had built a famous monastery in Ireland, which, from the great number of oaks, is in the Scottish tongue called Dearmach-The Field of Oaks306. From both these monasteries, many others had their beginning through his disciples, both in Britain and Ireland; but the island monastery where his body lies, has the pre-eminence among them all.
Note 304. Bruide Mac Maelchon had defeated the Dalriadic Scots in 560 a.d. and driven them back to Cantyre. Northwards his dominion extended as far as the Orkneys and it is probable that it included the eastern lowlands north of the Forth (cf. Rhŷs, "Celtic Britain"). Another tradition (Irish) represents Conall, King of the Dalriadic Scots, as the donor of Iona, but the earliest Irish authority (ninth or tenth century) agrees with Bede.
Note 305. The year in which he died, as well as the ultimate resting-place of his relics, is uncertain. Dr. Reeves places his death in 597, the year of St. Augustine's landing.
Note 306. i.e., in Irish. The place is Durrow in Leinster.
County Westmeath, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
On 27th December 1390 Anne Mortimer was born to Roger Mortimer 4th Earl March 3rd Earl of Ulster (age 16) and Eleanor Holland Countess March and Ulster (age 20) at County Westmeath. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
On 6th November 1391 Edmund Mortimer 5th Earl March 7th Earl of Ulster was born to Roger Mortimer 4th Earl March 3rd Earl of Ulster (age 17) and Eleanor Holland Countess March and Ulster (age 21) at County Westmeath. He a great x 2 grandson of King Edward III of England.
Kilbeggan, County Westmeath, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
On 20th August 1794 Bishop Joseph Bourke 3rd Earl of Mayo (age 58) died at Kilbeggan.
County Wexford, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
Dunmaine, County Wexford, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
On 15th April 1715 James Annesley was born to Arthur Annesley 4th Baron Altham (age 26) and Mary Sheffield Baroness Altham (age 23) at Dunmaine. At some time after his birth his father threw his mother out of the house apparently for infidelity. His father also rejected James who, thereafter, was homeless.
Hook Peninsula, County Wexford, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
Tintern Abbey, County Wexford, Hook Peninsula, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles [Map]
Tintern Abbey: History. Tintern Abbey, County Wexford [Map] was founded around 1200 by William Marshal 1st Earl Pembroke (age 54), as the result of a vow he had made when his boat was caught in a storm nearby. Once established, the abbey was colonised by monks from the Cistercian abbey at Tintern in Monmouthshire, Wales, of which Marshal was also patron. To distinguish the two, the mother house in Wales was sometimes known as "Tintern Major" and the abbey in Ireland as "Tintern de Voto" (Tintern of the vow).
Tintern Abbey: History. Tintern played no part in founding the other Cistercian houses in Wales—these largely sprang from Whitland [Map]. In 1139 monks from Tintern colonised a daughter house at Kingswood [Map], in Gloucestershire, and in 1200 sent out their only other colony to Tintern Minor [Map], in Co. Wexford, which was founded by William Marshall, who had acquired the lordship of Striguil by his marriage to the Clare heiress, to fulfil a vow he made for his deliverance from shipwreck on the Irish crossing. Tintern Abbey was evidently involved in the minor war of 1233 between Richard Marshall and the king, for the following year the latter granted the abbot 40 mares and their foals of three years from the Forest of Dean in consideration of his losses. But apart from this, Monmouthshire lay outside the area in which the struggle between the English and Welsh was carried on, and was not troubled by fighting.
Murrintown, County Wexford, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
New Ross, County Wexford, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
On 5th June 1798 the Battle of New Ross was fought at New Ross between the Irish Republican insurgents called the United Irishmen and British Crown forces composed of regular soldiers, militia and yeomanry. The attack on the town of New Ross on the River Barrow, was an attempt by the recently victorious rebels to break out of county Wexford across the river Barrow and to spread the rebellion into county Kilkenny and the outlying province of Munster.
Luke Gardiner 1st Viscount Mountjoy (age 53) was killed.
County Wicklow, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
On 4th February 1206 Theobald Walter (age 41) died at County Wicklow. His son Theobald (age 6) succeeded 2nd Chief Butler Ireland.
Arklow, County Wicklow, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
Delgany, County Wicklow, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
Delgany Church, County Wicklow, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
On 11th October 1929 Reginald Brabazon 12th Earl of Meath (age 88) died. He was buried at Delgany Church, County Wicklow. His son Reginald (age 59) succeeded 13th Earl Meath, 14th Baron Ardee, 4th Baron Chaworth of Eaton Hall in Herefordshire.
Wicklow, County Wicklow, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
Calendar of the State Papers of William and Mary 1693 January. 23rd January 1693. Dublin Castle. Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. I herewith send you a list of such popish officers and the number of priests that were by a late general Order in Council taken within the provinces of Leinster and Ulster, whereby you can compare them one with another. The returns are not yet made for the other two provinces of Munster and Connaught, but as soon as they are will send you alike list of them. This late general seizure was occasioned upon some apprehensions we had of a French descent upon this kingdom, but as those apprehensions are now blown over, or in a great manner lessened, the persons who were imprisoned are now set at liberty upon giving security for their good behaviour and promising to come forth when required, only excepting the regular clergy, who are still imprisoned till his Majesty's pleasure be known in telation to them, and' for this purpose I send your lordships copies of a report from a Committee of the Council appointed to consider what may be fit to be done with the regular priests and of the Board's concurrence with the said report, which I desire you will lay before the King and let me know how he will have the regular clergy dealt with. The state of this matter and the methods formerly used to drive them out of this kingdom are fully set forth in the said report. [S.P. Ireland855, No.7.] Enclosing:—
'A list of such Roman Catholic Officers as have been taken up by virtue of the late General Order, dated the 17th day of December, 1692." Dublin:
Captain Arthur French, Captain Harvey Morris, Lieut. Lepland, Captain James Nettervill, Captain Patrick Everard, Captain Edmund Sally, Major Brien Kelly, Captain James Clarke, Captain John Moore, Cornet John Walsh, Captain Edmund Kelly, Captain William Condron, Colonel Francis Nangle, Colonel Eustace, Captain Patrick Mandevil, Capt. Butler, Inreut. Silvester Bores, Major Hugh Ryley, Lieut. Patrick Lynch, Captain Roath, Captain Foulk Comerford, Captain Simon Archbold, Lieut. Terence Farrell, Colonel Bellew, Colonel Henry Oxbrough, Major Walter Delamere, Lieut. Colonel John Talbot, Colonel Walter Butler, Colonel Walsh, Captain Darby Ryan, Captain D'Arcy, Lieut. John Croghan, Ensign Thomas Floodgate, Captain Multher Levallin, Lieut. Francis Matthews, Captain Richard Purcell, Captain Theobald Butler, Quartermaster Richard Lock, Lieut. John Byrn, Colonel Maurice Fitz Gerald, Captain Fitz Gerald ..... Kiaght o7 Kerry; Captain Edward Fitz Harris, Captain Thomas Russell, Capt. Walter Nugent, Lieut. Walter Smyth, Lieut. Peter Bay, Captain Michael Fleminge, Captain Thomas Reade, Colonel Talbot of Belgard, Ineut. Colonel James Butler, Captain John Fury, Captain Pallas, Captain George Dowdall, Captain Barnewall, Lieut. Colonel Tutt, Captain Luke Dowdall, Captain William Russell, Captain Christopher Prppard, Captain Mark Baggot, Captain John Carberry, Lieut. George Walsh, Captain Daniel Woods, Lieut. Andrew Phelan, Lieut. Ryley, Captain Patrick Bellew, Lieut. Bellew, Ensign John Dowdall, Captain Patrick Usher, 68 officers, 35 priests.
Lord Meath's Liberty.
Captain Patrick McMahon, Captain Tiurlan, Captain Courtney; total, three.
Queen's County.
Colonel Lawrence Byrne, Lieut. Thomas Haring, Captain Sir Gregory Byrne; total, 3 officers and 2 priests.
Roscommon
Colonel Lord Dillon, Lieut. Colonel Thomas Dillon, Lieut. Colonel Theobald Dillon, Lieut. Christopher Dillon, Captain Andrew O' Connor, Captain Brian O'Connor, Captain James Plunket; total, 7 officers, 5 priests.
King's County.
Captain Edward Gernon, Captain Paul Briscoe, Captain Hanagan, Ensign Arthur Hanagan, Quarter-Master Roger O'Connor, Captain Marcus Geoghegan, Cornet Garret Burne, Quarter Master William Fitz Gerald, Captain John Dowdall, Captain Edward O'Donnelan, Ensign Charles Dempsy, Ensign Brian O'Connor, Captain Morgan O'Connor, Cornet Michael Gibbon, Lieut. Barnaby Laffin, Captain Morrice Birmingham, Captain Charles Geoghegan, Captain Owen win, Captain Morgan Bryan, Captain Toby Birmingham, Captain Pierce Nugent, Captain Patrick Kennedy, Captain John Connor, Lieut. Barnewall, Lieut. Lawrence Lynan, Lieut. Peter Sheile; total, 26 Officers, 4 priests.
Colonel Toby Matthew, Captain James Brian, Captain John Rowlan, Lieut. James Shee, Lieut. Robert Murphey, Ensign St. Leger, Captain Gaffney; total, 7 officers, 18 priests.
Tyrone
Captain McClenahan, Ensign O'Neile, Ensign O' Hagarty, Major Edward McCommy, Captain O'Neile, Captain Coremick McCromay, Captain Dugon, Captain Con O'Neile; and 9 more officers; total, seventeen officers, five priests.
Mayo
Captain Garret Moore, Colonel John Brown, Lieut. Colonel Terence McDonogh, Captain Josias Browne, Captain Thomas Browne, Captain John Garvey, Captain Anthony Garvey, Captain Jos. Lynch, Captain Walter Brown, Captain William Brabazon, Captain Miles FitzMorris, Captain John Moore, Captain Owen Gallagher, Captain Terence McDonnell, Captain James McDonnell, Captain John Browne, Captain Farragh McDonnell, Captain Charles Molloy, Captain Miles Bourk, Captain Owen O'Malley, Captain Dominick Browne, Captan P. Lynch, Captain Francis Darey, Captain Jeffry French, Ineut. Edmund FitzMorris, Lieut. Francis Garvey, Lieut. O'Hara, Cornet John Swiney, Cornet Henry Dillon, Ensign John FitzMorris; total, 30 officers, 4 priests.
Tipperary
Absconded:—Captain Edmund Butler, Major Anthony Morris, Lieut. Edmund Morris, Ensign Tho. Cleary, Captain Constaine (sic) Connor, Lieut. William Meagher, Philip Fogarty, Captain John Meagher, Captain O' Meagher, Ensign Teege Hogan, Ensign John Ryan, Laeut. Edmund Hegan, Captain Philip Dwyer, Ensign Michael Ryan, Captain John Magrath, Ensign John Egan, Captaanm John Carroll, Lieut. Fergus Deane, Lieut. Hogan of Killodargung, Lieut. Wiliam Hogan, Ensign Andrew Kennedy, Major James Carrell, Captain Guire, Lieut. Matthew Kennedy, Lieut. John Grady, Ensign William Moyley, Lreut. John Ryan, Lieut. John Creagh, Captain Butler of Banshea, Captain Butler of Doracloghin, Captain Butler of Kulmatohir.
Taken up:—Captain John Kennedy, Captain Edmund Dalton, Captain William Bourke, Lieut. Robert Vriel, Lieut. John Ryan, Lieut. John Creagh, Ensign Wiliam Moylan, Lieut. David Lavallin, Captain Bryan O'Bryan, Captain Mortogh O'Brien, Lieut. Brien Meagher; total, 43 officers, besides several names not known; priests absconded, 7; and all the priests of Upper Ormond; 4 priests taken up.
Captain John Dillon, Lieut. Edward Enons, Ensign James FitzGerald, Captain Cornels Coonan, Captain Pierce Archbold, Lieut. James Archbold, Captain Richard Archbold, Captain Lawrence FitzGerald, Lieut. Gerald FitzGerald, Ensign James FitzGerald, Lieut. Michael Wyer, Cornet Ferdinand Hickey, Captain James Wall, Ineut. Pierce Caulfeild, Captain Alexander Eustace; 15 officers, 2 priests.
Dublin County
Lord Kingsland, Lieut.-Colonel John Talbot, Captain Christopher Barnwall, Captain Nicholas Birmingham, Captain John Cowan, Lieut. Gilbert Berryes, Captain Kelly, Lieut. William Fitz Williams, Ensign Thomas Wade, Ensign Thomas St. Lawrence, Captain Richard Eustace, Captain William Nottingham, Captain Thomas Down, Laeut. George Foster, Quartermaster Patrick Lawless, Captain Nicholas Harrold, Lieut. John Pureell, Lieut. Thos. Chamberlin, Captain Hdmund FitzGerald, Lieut. Robert Lutterrell; total, 20. officers, 8 priests.
Wicklow
Five priests. [S.P Ireland 355, No. 71.]
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Wicklow Castle, County Wicklow, Province of Leinster, Ireland, British Isles
In 1486 George Stanley 9th Baron Strange Knockin 5th Baron Mohun Dunster (age 26) was appointed Constable of Wicklow Castle and Chief Justice for the Duchy of Lancaster.