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The sword and mace of the mayor of Cashel, as well as the coach of the bishop, were captured. The plunder was accompanied by acts of iconoclasm against Christian art, with statues smashed and pictures defaced. The deserted town of Cashel was also torched.
On 27 September 1647, [5] in the Sack of Cashel, during the Irish Confederate Wars Fr. Stapleton sought sanctuary inside St. Patrick's Cathedral upon the Rock of Cashel, County Tipperary, where he was captured by Parliamentarian soldiers under the command of Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, and, with six other priests, he was put to death on the spot. [6]
The Rock of Cashel (Irish: Carraig Phádraig [ˈkaɾˠəɟ ˈfˠaːd̪ˠɾˠəɟ]), also known as Cashel of the Kings and St. Patrick's Rock, is a historical site located dramatically above a plain at Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland.
Cashel (/ ˈ k æ ʃ əl /; Irish: Caiseal, meaning 'stone ringfort') [5] is a town in County Tipperary in Ireland. Its population was 4,422 in the 2016 census. [1] The town gives its name to the ecclesiastical province of Cashel.
It is presumed that he abdicated in 922, being followed as king by Lorcán mac Coinlígáin of the Cashel branch of the Eóganachta. [10] The Annals of the Four Masters state that he went upon pilgrimage. [11] In 923 Flaithbertach was captured near Roscrea by Vikings from Limerick, although evidently later released. [12]
The Kingdom of Munster (Irish: Ríocht Mhumhain) was a kingdom of Gaelic Ireland which existed in the south-west of the island from at least the 1st century BC until 1118. . According to traditional Irish history found in the Annals of the Four Masters, the kingdom originated as the territory of the Clanna Dedad (sometimes known as the Dáirine), an Érainn tribe of Irish Gae
Senchas Fagbála Caisil "The Story of the Finding of Cashel" is an early medieval Irish text which relates, in two variants, the origin legend of the kingship of Cashel. Myles Dillon has dated the first variant (§§ 1-3) to the 8th century, and the second (§§ 4-8) tentatively to the 10th century.
According to genealogies, he was a member of the Eóganacht Chaisil, the Cashel branch of the clan. This kin group was important, but Cormac came from a very minor branch. He was considered to be an eleventh-generation descendant of Óengus mac Nad Froích and none of his ancestors since Óengus were counted as kings of Cashel. Cormac, as well ...