Here Lies: A Guide to Irish Graves"Maeve Friel takes her readers down remote country lanes and up windswept hills to visit the graves of more than 500 of Ireland's famous, infamous, heroic, tragic and eccentric dead." --Back cover. |
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Page 81
... Rebellion . A Protestant who farmed in Wicklow , he had taken the oath of allegiance and had gone on to command 1,200 men at the battle of Ballyellis , near Carnew , where they routed the government forces . Holt evaded capture for many ...
... Rebellion . A Protestant who farmed in Wicklow , he had taken the oath of allegiance and had gone on to command 1,200 men at the battle of Ballyellis , near Carnew , where they routed the government forces . Holt evaded capture for many ...
Page 89
... rebellion in the summer of 1798. One afternoon , as her husband and herself were having tea at home in Ballitore , an alleged informer , Richard Yeates , son of Squire Yeates of Moone , was " brought in a prisoner , his yeomanry coat ...
... rebellion in the summer of 1798. One afternoon , as her husband and herself were having tea at home in Ballitore , an alleged informer , Richard Yeates , son of Squire Yeates of Moone , was " brought in a prisoner , his yeomanry coat ...
Page 122
... rebellion into the province of Munster . In the graveyard of the Church of Ireland on the other side of the road is the grave of Moira O'Neill , ( b.1870 ) the pseudonym of Agnes Nesta Shakespeare Higginson , the poetess of the Glens of ...
... rebellion into the province of Munster . In the graveyard of the Church of Ireland on the other side of the road is the grave of Moira O'Neill , ( b.1870 ) the pseudonym of Agnes Nesta Shakespeare Higginson , the poetess of the Glens of ...
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1798 rebellion Abbey Achill ancient Armagh Ballitore battle became Bishop body British burial place buried in St Captain captured carved Castle cathedral Catholic Celtic cemetery century Church of Ireland churchyard coffin commemorates Connacht Cork County Creggan cross dead Deansgrange death Dermot Derry died Dublin emigrants Emmet's English epitaph erected executed famine father Fenian Fianna Fáil Frank O'Connor Gaelic Gaelic League Glasnevin gravestone graveyard grounds Gweedore hanged headstone Henry Hill inscribed inscription Irish island James John Kilkenny killed King land later Limerick lived Lord Lough Mary mausoleum memorial Michael miles monument murder Newgrange Norman O'Brien Patrick plaque plot poem poet President of Ireland priest rebellion remains returned to Ireland ruined Saint Sean ship Sinn Féin Skibbereen slab St Patrick's St Patrick's Cathedral stone story Thomas tomb tombstone Ulster United Irishmen vault victims wall Waterford Wexford Wicklow wife William wrote Yeats young