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04/20/2003 |
On the S. side of the town, in Abbey St, are remains (E. and N. walls of chancel, belltower, part of N. nave arcade, etc.) of the church of a Franciscan friary founded before 1477. Maol-Ruanaigh na Feasoige O Carroll of Eile and his wife, Bebhinn O Dempsey, may have built a new church in 1490; O Carroll was buried in the church, 1523. The greater part of the ruins were demolished about 1800 by the builders of the adjacent parish church; some ornamental fragments are preserved at Birchgrove House. The surviving ruin serves as gateway to the parish church, a Gothic Revival building commenced in 1844 to the design of Dane Butler, but not completed - because of the Great Famine - until after 1866, when the work was entrusted to J. J. Mc Carthy. Facing the W. door is a block of stone with weathered figure- and other carvings. Thought by some to be the shaft of a High Cross, it was brought here from Timoney (Tuaim Domnic) Park, i.e. from the church site of Garravaun, 5 m. SE.
3 1/2 m. N., in Ballybritt, Co. Offaly, are the remains of an O Carroll of Eile castle. 1 3/4 m. NNW. is Leap Castle (Leim Ui Bhanain, "O Bannon's leap"), burned down in 1922; the mansion incorporated an important O Carroll castle of various dates. From the Letterluna branch of the O Carrolls were descended the celebrated Carrolls of Carrollton, to whom James II assigned vast estates in Maryland, in recompense for lands lost in Eile at the Cromwellian settlement.
1 1/4 m.. E., at Birchgrove House, are some Romanesque and Gothic fragments; the latter came from the Franciscan friary in Roscrea. 1 1/2 m. SE. are Monahincha bog and a tiny lake, relics of historic Loch Cre, which was drained away about 1730. The bog is named after the former island (inis, "inch"), Inis na mBeo, Island of the Living, which was one of the Wonders of pre-Norman Ireland, the belief being that the dead could not decay there. There was a cele De (p. 27) community on the island, of which Hilary, the anchorite and scribe who died in 807, was a famous member. In time the community was joined by Arroasian Canons, the remains of whose little Priory of the Virgin Mary are known as Inchnameo Abbey (Nat. Mon.). They comprise a small stone cross, the ruins of a beautiful little Romanesque church (Urnes Style details), and a two-storey annexe of uncertain date. The W. door of the church is in three orders framed by pilasters; the S. pilaster had an inscription beginning !
OR[OIT] DO T ... ("A prayer for T . . ."). Much of the original work of the jambs and of the third arch is missing or defaced. One original window survives in the S. wall of the nave, beside a pair of 13th cent. insertions; a 15th cent. cusped light has been inserted in the W. window. The fine chancel arch is also in three orders. The S. window of the chancel is original; the E. window is a 13th cent. replacement. The chancel has external coign shafts or pilasters. The stone cross (12th? cent.) bears traces of interlaced ornament, as well as a weathered figure of Christ Crucified (robed). The traditional patron of the place was an unknown St Colum, whose feast fell on 15 May; but the earliest saint associated with it of whom anything is known is St Cainneach of Aghaboe (q.v.), who used to resort to it for solitary penitential exercises and who there wrote a gospel book, Glas Cainnigh.
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| 08/08/2009 16:54 - Boland | | I would like to get the searchable data base website for the Carrick on Suir census for 1799. Most likely the Boland family would be in it. |
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| 04/14/2009 11:29 - geedy | There is a complete census for Carrick on Suir for 1799. It was compiled from the lists kept by each household following the insurrection of 1798 by the commander of the garrison in the town. William Morton Pitt and Patrick Lynch It contains details of the members of 10,907 people who lived in the town, their ocrelationship to the head of the household and their occupations. . 800 officers and men in the garrison were not included. This census is now on a searchable data base.
Michael Coady ,poet. has included many of those inhabitants in a long poem'All Souls' which unites past and present on All souls night. |
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| 07/31/2006 11:18 - Happypixie | Thank you for your index I have been looking for any info at all with my families name and my goodness you had it!!!
The Birracree Family (US spelling)
Other Spellings are
Berracree
Biracree
Berkery
and several other spellings
So again your work has been a great and wonderful find for my family and I.
Rebecca from the US |
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