From Cork, after a day of heavy driving, it was time to stop at the town of Listowel. A bustling market-town of 4,000, Listowel is located on the north bank of the River Feale. According to tradition, ...
Interestingly, this palace, which was originally built to help people during a famine, has now become a world-famous venue for luxury weddings, where people spend lakhs to celebrate. Spread across ...
Gallows Hill: 39 ejected (May 1848). No townland in the parish escaped the terror of Lucan’s ‘crowbar brigade’ in April and May in 1848. Famine, death and evictions continued into 1849. The ‘crowbar ...