Province of Munster is in Ireland.
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Creevagh Burial Chamber [Map]. The tomb is wedge-shaped in ground plan, with the widest part facing south west towards the setting sun. It has not been excavated. In the 19th Century it was used as a shelter.
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Parknabinnia Burial Chamber [Map]. The tomb is wedge-shaped in ground plan, with the widest part facing south west towards the setting sun. It has not been excavated.
Poulnabrone Burial Chamber [Map] is a large single-chamber portal tomb located in the Burren, County Clare, Ireland. Situated on one of the region's most desolate and highest points, it comprises three standing portal stones supporting a heavy horizontal capstone and dates to the early Neolithic period, with estimates from 3800 and 3200 BC.
In September 1602 Charles Wilmot 1st Viscount Wilmot [aged 30] was appointed Governor of County Kerry.
On 8th June 1529 James Fitzgerald 10th Earl Desmond [aged 34] died at Dingle. He was buried at Tralee. His uncle Thomas [aged 75] succeeded 11th Earl Desmond.
On 5th March 1602 Charles Wilmot 1st Viscount Wilmot [aged 30] captured Rahinnane Castle.
In November 1580 Edward Denny [aged 33] led a company at Smerwick, County Kerry during the Siege of Smerwick. Walter Raleigh [aged 26] was present at Smerwick. Arthur Grey 14th Baron Grey of Wilton [aged 44] laid siege to the Smerwick garrison at Smerwick, County Kerry during the Siege of Smerwick.
The Papal commander parleyed and was bribed, and the defenders surrendered within a few days. The officers were spared, but the other ranks were then summarily executed on the orders of the English commander, Arthur Grey 14th Baron Grey of Wilton.
On 8th June 1529 James Fitzgerald 10th Earl Desmond [aged 34] died at Dingle. He was buried at Tralee. His uncle Thomas [aged 75] succeeded 11th Earl Desmond.
On 21st October 1994 Colin Campbell 7th Earl Cawdor [aged 32] and Isabella Rachel Stanhope Countess Cawdor [aged 28] were married at St Nicholas' Church, Adare. She by marriage Countess Cawdor of Castlemartin in Pembrokeshire. She the daughter of William Stanhope 11th Earl of Harrington [aged 72] and Priscilla Margaret Cubitt Countess Harrington [aged 53]. He the son of Hugh Campbell 6th Earl Cawdor.
On 26th June 1558 Donald McCarthy 1st Earl of Clancare was knighted by Thomas Radclyffe 3rd Earl of Sussex [aged 33] in Limerick.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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On 8th April 1719 Edmund Pery 1st Viscount Pery was born to Reverend Stackpole Pery at Limerick. He married 1756 Patricia Martin.
On 1st February 1732 Philip Howard [aged 28] and Margaret Skreen [aged 17] were married at Limerick.
In 1843 Joanna Hiffernan was born at Limerick.
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Llewellynn Jewitt 1870. Other excellent examples of Irish cromlechs and chambers are those at Monasterboise ("Calliagh Dirras House") [Map]; Drumloghan (full of Oghams) [Map]; Kells; Knockeen [Map] (figs. 47 and 48); where the right supporting stones are six in number, and arranged rectangularly, so as to form a distinct chamber at the S.E. end, the large covering stone being 12 feet inches by 8 feet, and weighing about four tons, and the smaller one about half that size; Gaulstown [Map] (figs. 49 and 50, the inner chamber of which measures 7 feet by 6 feet 4 inches, and is seven feet in height); Ballynageerah [Map] (figs. 51, 52, and 53), the capstone of which is cleverly and curiously poised on two only of the upright stones, as will be seen by the engravings1; Howth, Shandanagh, Brennanstown, Glencullen, Kilternan, Mount Brown, Rath-kenny, Mount Venus, and Knock Mary, Phoenix Park, as well as at many omer places.
Note 1. For the loan of these seven engravings I am indebted to the Council of the "Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland," (formerly the "Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland Archaeo'ogical Society,") in whose journal one of the most valuable of antiquarian publications they have appeared. This Association is one of the most useful that has ever been established, and deserves the best support, not only of Irish, but of English antiquaries.
