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Killiney Castle, also known as Mount Malpas, [3] Rocksborough, [3] or Loftus Hill, and now known as Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel, is an 18th-century manor house near Killiney in County Dublin, Ireland. Subsequently converted into a hotel , [ 4 ] it has operated as one since 1971.
To the north is a hotel, Fitzpatrick's Castle Hotel since 1971, [1] and beyond that a small shopping centre established in the 1970s, [2] and nearer Ballybrack some further retail facilities. Between the hotel and the café are two churches, one Church of Ireland, and one a secondary Catholic church or chapel, open briefly weekly.
Kilkea Castle is located 5 km (3.1 mi) northwest of Castledermot, County Kildare, Ireland near the village of Kilkea on the R418 regional road from Athy to Tullow. It was a medieval stronghold , for over 700 years, of the Fitzgeralds , earls of Kildare .
Christ Church Cathedral (exterior) Siege of Dublin, 1535. The Earl of Kildare's attempt to seize control of Ireland reignited English interest in the island. After the Anglo-Normans taking of Dublin in 1171, many of the city's Norse inhabitants left the old city, which was on the south side of the river Liffey and built their own settlement on the north side, known as Ostmantown or "Oxmantown".
The townland of Shankill was originally located on lands further northwest at Puck's Castle but today the area of Shankill is usually understood to lie towards the coast, [citation needed] while the inland reaches form Rathmichael (historically Shankill was absorbed into Rathmichael civil parish), with an area of around 6.5 square kilometres (1,600 acres).
Category A: "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic; or fine, little-altered examples of some particular period, style or building type." [1] Category B: "buildings of regional or more than local importance; or major examples of some particular period, style or building type, which may have been ...
Ballyfin Demesne is a 600-acre estate that was successively home to the O'Mores, the Crosbys, the Poles, the Wellesley-Poles and the Cootes.Over the years, several houses have stood on the site.
Conor Clune (Irish name Conchobhair Mac Clúin; [1] 26 July 1893 – 21 November 1920) was one of three men along with Dick McKee and Peadar Clancy killed in controversial circumstances in Dublin Castle on Bloody Sunday, 1920, a day that also saw the killing of a network of British intelligence agents by the "Squad" unit of the Irish Republican Army and the killing of 14 people in Croke Park ...
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