Tag: Curse of Emigration
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Will you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife?
Traveling from Macroom to Killarney one day, just on the borders of the two counties, I came across this beautiful little village named Gougane Barra. The name Gougane Barra comes from Saint Finbarr, who is said to have built a monastery on an island in the lake nearby during the 6th century. Sure enough, after
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A Bridge linking two Towns. One in Tipperary and the other in Clare
On my travels, I came across this beautiful ancient bridge that had a single road linking two towns. Ballina in County Tipperary and Killaloe in County Clare. Hence, the name Ballina-Killaloe. The earliest record of a bridge between Ballina and Killaloe dates back to 1013 in a reference to a wooden bridge spanning the River
Author Brian Kermode 