Ballyconnoe North ruin
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 3:37 pm
Hello.
I recently visited County Clare (and Ireland) for the first time last month; I loved the land, the history, the people, the food, everything! Now I am trying to identify the ruins in the attached pictures taken in or near Ballyconnoe North. Based on what I found on your website I wonder if it may have been a chapel or a home? I quote from the links listed below:
“In the Townland of Ballyconnoe in this Parish is shewn the ruins of the house of O’Connoe or O’Conway More, after whom this Townland was named, and who, as tradition avers, used to hold a market near this house while he flourished. In the Caithreim Thoirdhealbhaigh or Wars of Torlogh O’Brien, written by John, the son of Rory Magrath in the year 1459, this family is called O’Conduibh.
There is a modern Roman Catholic Chapel situated in this Townland of Ballyconnoe, called the Chapel of Tuath Mhachaire, because Tuath Mhachaire, which is the name of an ancient Territory comprising the Parishes of Kilmoone and Killeaney, is now a Roman Catholic Parish belonging to this Chapel.
There is no ruin of a Castle in this Parish, and the only remains of antiquity now visible there besides the old Church just described,…”
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... 002---.htm
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... s_well.htm
Thank you for considering my request.
Kind regards,
Glenda Massey
Texas
USA
I recently visited County Clare (and Ireland) for the first time last month; I loved the land, the history, the people, the food, everything! Now I am trying to identify the ruins in the attached pictures taken in or near Ballyconnoe North. Based on what I found on your website I wonder if it may have been a chapel or a home? I quote from the links listed below:
“In the Townland of Ballyconnoe in this Parish is shewn the ruins of the house of O’Connoe or O’Conway More, after whom this Townland was named, and who, as tradition avers, used to hold a market near this house while he flourished. In the Caithreim Thoirdhealbhaigh or Wars of Torlogh O’Brien, written by John, the son of Rory Magrath in the year 1459, this family is called O’Conduibh.
There is a modern Roman Catholic Chapel situated in this Townland of Ballyconnoe, called the Chapel of Tuath Mhachaire, because Tuath Mhachaire, which is the name of an ancient Territory comprising the Parishes of Kilmoone and Killeaney, is now a Roman Catholic Parish belonging to this Chapel.
There is no ruin of a Castle in this Parish, and the only remains of antiquity now visible there besides the old Church just described,…”
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... 002---.htm
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... s_well.htm
Thank you for considering my request.
Kind regards,
Glenda Massey
Texas
USA