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Dunmore Cave (from Irish Dún Mór 'great fort') is a limestone solutional cave in Ballyfoyle, County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is formed in Lower Carboniferous ( Viséan ) limestone of the Clogrenan Formation. [ 2 ]
Northern Ireland. 5 9 A mass shooting by the UDA. 1993, 25 March Castlerock killings: Castlerock, Northern Ireland 4 1 A mass shooting by the UDA 1993, 23 October Shankill Road bombing: Belfast, Northern Ireland: 10 57 A mass bombing by the IRA in a protestant area that killed mostly civilians. Part of "the Troubles". 1993, 30 October Greysteel ...
Dunmore (Irish: Dún Mór, meaning 'big fort') [2] is a town in County Galway, Ireland. It is located on the N83 national secondary road at its junction with the R328 and R360 regional roads . The town is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.
The deepest cave in Ireland is Reyfad Pot in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, 193 metres (633 ft) deep. The longest cave system in Ireland is Pollnagollum–Poulelva in County Clare , Republic of Ireland, with at least 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) of passageways.
Dunmore Caves – Ballyfoyle, County Kilkenny – limestone cave, site of Viking massacre in 928. Dwyer McAllister Cottage – Derrynamuck, County Wicklow – a traditional whitewashed cottage historically linked with the 1798 Rebellion. Emo Court – Emo, County Laois – a neo-classical house with extensive parklands
A historical reference to the cave is to be found in the Triads of Ireland, dating from the 14th to the 19th century, where "Úam Chnogba, Úam Slángæ and Dearc Fearna" are listed under the heading, "the three darkest places in Ireland". [10] The last, meaning the 'Cave of the Alders', is generally thought to be the present Dunmore Cave, [11 ...
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Brian Boru (d.1014), future High King of Ireland is thought to have been born in 926 or in 941. 927. Death of Sigtrygg Caech (or Sihtric), a Norse-Gael King of Dublin who later reigned as king of York. His epithet means the 'Squinty'. He belonged to the Uí Ímair kindred. 928. Viking massacre of native Irish in Dunmore Caves in County Kilkenny.