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P. Brosnahan · Post by **P. Brosnahan** » Sun Mar 29, 1998 3:30 pm

: The First Issue of The O'Beirne Family Journal is now on the Web. Visit it and send a BIG IRISH Thank You to the Site Designer, Vincent (Vinny) Beirne, a true descendant son of FrenchparkSomeone on the O'Beirne web page was looking for Dangan Castle and other place names and info. This may help. It's from book Heart of Ireland, by P.A. Sharkey (not copyrighted). Hope file is not too long! ..The Castle of Tulsk was built in 1406 by O'Conor Roe. In 1409 Brian O'Conor, Sligo, and the McDonoughs attacked and destroyed O'Conor Roe's Castle at Tulsk. In 1438 Tulsk Castle was retaken by Cathal Dhew, son of O'Conor Roe. In 1467 the Island in Lough Cairgin at Ardakillen was taken by "O'Conor Don" from "Connor Roe." The parish priest of Kilcooly was Randal O'Downey in 1616 A.D. He was succeeded in 1633 by Maurice Griffiths, and in 1640 William Dunivill held this living. 258 THE HEART OF IRELAND A fine canoe of bog Oak was dug up at Carton lakelet in this parish and is now in an English Museum. The first Church at Kiltrustan was founded by St. Assicus, patron of Elphin. The present ruin presents the appearance of an eleventh century building. It is thirteen feet broad and sixty-six feet long, and there are portions of the east window remaining. It was here the Processional Cross of Cong was smelted. The O'Conor Roe family had a strong castle near the church, and there are the remains of Kilorton or Killorglin church in the townland of Mullaghcreigha on the Cashlan's hills near the old Windmill. There is an oratory of later date than the church in Kiltrustan graveyard. Urney Vesnoy Church, which was built in 1236 and consecrated by G. O'Duffy, was built on the site of an earlier pagan structure as shown by a carving on the reveal of the window. It was formerly on an island, but drainage has taken away the surrounding water, and in doing so a fine Sheila-na-gig, probably from the castle at Strokestown, which belonged to O'Conor Roe, and a piscina and stone flagon were unearthed. There were also many gold ornaments got near here whilst making a drain. The O'Conor Roes worshipped in Urney or Urnaidhe, meaning a prayer house, and their castle and round tower were standing in 1683 at Strokestown. The Mahons took them down to build Bawn. WALTER A. JONES in The Strokestown Democrat. O'Donovan writes:- AUGHRIM. Bellanamullia or Strokestown, August 12th, Saturday, 1837. Dear Sir, I traversed the parish of Aughrim and visited the old churchyard yesterday, but there is nothing in it to interest the antiquarian excepting a graveyard called Aughrim and the ruins of a small building called now Beech Abbey, but anciently Kill Ceanuran. Does Colgan or the Calendar mention this? Of the old church of Aughrim not a vestige remains, nor is there a single curious tombstone or other monument in the churchyard. The name Aughrim is written in Irish by the Four Masters, EACHDHRUIM, which is the same as if one said in English Horsehill, and the shortening of it to Aughrim would resemble Horsill for horse-hill. In translating Eachdhruim, the celebrated place in the county of Galway, Colgan renders it Equi mons vel Collis, but I fear he was wrong in rendering Druim by Mons, as I never met a Drum that could be called Mons, the word always meaning a low ridge, and as I am told that the Aughrim in the county of Galway is not a Mons. Halliday, in his ancient map of Ireland, spells the Aughrim in Galway AGHCHRUIM, but this is a mere guess, and every Irish authority is against him, they all making TIR-BRIUIN 259 it Each-Dhruim or Horse-hill (Equi Collis). This Aughrim near Elphin is not a Mons, but it is a beautiful Druin or dorsum which commands a pleasing view of Cul-na-hinse Lough, of the steeple of the Cathedral of Elphin, of the Bishop's little palace (it is not very little but is a pig-stye to Lord Lorton's), and of a very lovely tract of the country of Tir-Briuin. The Four Masters call this the Church of Eachdhruim Mac-n-Aodha, which means the Aughrim. of Mac Kee or Mac Hugh, the name of a family still existing in the country, who were, of course, the ancient herenachs of the people. The patron saint of the parish is now forgotten, and there is no record or monument of who he or she was, but a it-ell in the townland Of Lios-na-n-iubhran called Tobar Brighde, from which it can with some safety be inferred that St. Brigid was the patroness, while the Irish believed in such mediators. In the townland of Toomore in this parish are the ruins of a Bauvoon or Bawn, which, of course, belonged to O'Beirne during the time of Creaghs and incursions, but tradition preserves nothing about its history. I have written every other remark which I thought necessary into the field name books. I shall soon be, done in this Co., and the Lord knows it is time. Your obedient servant, J. O'Donovan KILMORE Alfin, August 8th, 1837. Dear Sir, I travelled yesterday through Tir-Briain,"that sweet countrie" lying between Alfin and the Shannon, and ascertained the very boundaries of it. It is a very beautiful district, interspersed with lakes and turlaghs, and all its drums command a view of the blue range of Slieve-in-Ierin, which adds much to the sublimity of the scenery. Indeed, it is a district very well worth fighting for, and I am not surprised that the 0'Beirnes made such a mighty exertion to wrest it from the O'Monahans. MUINTIR BHERN CRODHA AN CATH-FHAL AN MHACAIBH O'MANNACHAN TRE Ghleo, TRE Brigh, TRE Bhagar! AS LEO TIR A DTANGADAR. -Shane More O'Dugan, Olive of Hy-Many, 1870. Tir-Briuin comprehends the parishes of Aughrim, Kilmore and Clooncraff; it is divided from Too-Hanley by a chain of lakes, now called Muckanagh, and separating the parish of Kilglass from those of Kilmore and Clooncraff. It was divided from Coreachlan by the River Uar, or Owen Oor. Caradh na dTuath, i.e., the dam (Tuadam) of the Tuathas, now a bridge on an arm 260 THE HEART OF IRELAND of the Shannon and on the road from Rooskey to Drumsna, divided O'Beirne from O'Hanley; and the ford of Bel-a-nagrange, now spanned by a bridge on the road from Strokestovvn to Drumsna, is the point at which the three Tuathas (NA TEORA TUATHA) met. This is the tradition now current in the country, and it is fully borne out by the ancient documents now to be quoted. "A.D. 1251. The rain fell in such torrents in Hy-Briuin na Sionna that a large boat might sail through the Baile (town) of Kilmore na Sionna."-Four Masters. "1398. A party of the MacDermots proceeded to Aughrim Mae Aodh, in Tir-Briuin na Sionna."-Four Masters. "1451. The three sons of Melaghlin O'Beirne were slain at Cluain Creamha by the MacRannals and Donnell Beirne." -Four Masters. From these passages it can be inferred that the three parishes of Kilmore, Aughrim and Clooncraff were in Tir-Briuin na Sionna, or O'Beirne's country, and that the tradition in the country concerning its extent as given above is correct. The O'Monaghans were the ancient chiefs not only of this Tuath, called TIR-UA RIUIN, but of the three Tuathas (as we learn from MacFirbis, page 195), and from him Tir-Briuin, i.e., terrabriani, received its appellation. "Connell of the Black Knee, son of Brian, son of Eochy Moyvahaine, was the ancestor of the O'Monaghans, chief of the three Tuathas (TAISIGH NA D'TRI D-TUATH)."- MacFirbis, I abstract the following Annals from the Four Masters to show when the O'Monaghans lost this territory: "A.D. 866. Flam, the son of Conaing, lord of all Bregia, was killed in the battle of Killoneery by Monaghan, lord of Hy-Briuin na Sionna, on which occasion a bard sung: "'How great was Monaghan's sway, How great his glory on that clay, When he cut off proud Conaing's head, And bore it off in triumph as it bled I In his red right hand, &c., &c. ' " This Mannachan was the ancestor of all the O'Monaghans, who are now numerously scattered throughout this country. "1145. The people of Carbury O'Keary made a plundering incursion into Hy-Briuin, on which occasion they burned Daingean Bona Cuilinn, destroyed three large vessels, and carried away many cows." This Daingean Bona Cuilinn is the present Dangan Castle, where there is a fair held Yearly on the 25th of May. In the Inquisitions tempore Eliza. it is called Dangen-I-Birne, or O'Beirne's fastness or stronghold; and an Inquisition tempore TIR-BRIUIN 261 Jac. 1 finds "that Donogh O'Birne is seized as of fee of the castle and half quarter of Dangen-O'Birne." 1145, same year, Morogh O'Melaghlin entered Tir-Briuin with a predatory force, but was repulsed by the HY-Briuins. Same year. "The Hy-Briuin, with the party of Connacians, made an attack on the fleets of the Sil-Murray, and of the Tuathas, on which occasion Morogh O'Mulrenin, chief of the Clan-Conor, and Donogh O'Monaghan, lord of Hy-Briuin na Sionna, were slain." The aggressors here were the Hy-Briuin, of Breifny, on the O'Rourkes and their correlatives. "1159. Murray O'Monaghan, lord of Hy-Briuin, of the Shannon, was killed at the battle of Ardee, which was fought between Roderic O'Conor and Maurice MacLoughlin, Monarch of Ireland. " "1196. Iodhnaighe, or Ignatius O'Monaghan, Lord of Hy-Briuin, of the Shannon, died." "1218. The English of Meath made an eruption into Hy-Briuin na Sionna, but were repulsed and defeated by the Hy-Briuins." "1232. The church of Kilmore, in Hy-Briuin na Sionna, was consecrated by Donogh O'Conor, Bp. of Elphin." "1249. Teige O'Monaghan, lord of Hy-Briuin na Sionna, died on the 16th of June, and was interred at Kilmore na Sionna. " "1342. Hugh, the son of Felim O'Conor, and Donogh O'BEIRNE, chief of Tir-Briuin na Sionna, drove Torlogh O'Conor into the church of Elphin, when he went thither to obtain pledges for the reparation of the prey which O'Beirne's people had carried away from Rubert Burke." This is the first mention of O'Beirne as lord of Tir-Briuine of the Shannon, but henceforward O'Beirne, and not O'Monaghan, is spoken of by the Annalists as chief of this territory. Inquisition temp. Jac I finds "that Brian MacConnor O'Birne, of Gloonteane, is seized of fee of Shannoghcorm, Moyglass 1 cartron in TIREROWNE." Some of the Shanacies here think that the name of this territory is TIR A RUIN, which they translate the lovely country; but others will have it TIR THAR ABHAIN, i.e., the country at the other side of the river. But this is all folly, for they pronounce it TIR UA RIUIM, which is evidently a corruption, and not a very great one, of TIR UA BHRIUIN, the country of the Hy-Briuins, i.e., the Monaghans. O'Beirne is not of the Hi-Briuin, but of the SilMurray. Briuin is frequently made the genitive form of Brian. Of the situation of the church called CLUAIN CREAMHA, Archdall's blunder about this church has been clearly seen by Dr. Lanigan, who, however, was not able to correct him fully. He observes:- "Archdall calls Cluain Cairpthe Clooncraff, and places it in the barony of Athlone. This is a mistake, for Dr. Beaufort, a very good authority on those subjects (Memoir of a 262 THE HEART OF IRELAND Map of lreland, Topogr. Vc.) has it tinder the name of Cloncraft in that of Roscommon " (Vc. Lanigan 11, p. 323, V. sequen.). This is very fine; but Cluain Cairpthe is neither Clooncraff nor Cloncraft! Archdall is wrong in every way; Cluain Cairpthe is not Clooncraff, and (2) Clooncraff is not in the barony of Athlone! Beaufort is wrong in calling the parish in the barony of Roscommon CloncraFT, and Lanigan is wrong in supposing that the CloncraFT of Beaufort is in the Cluain Cair pthe of the writer of the life of St. Borach. It was crafty in Beaufort to add a t to Make it look like Cairpthe, but it is a forgery, and must be rejected with disdain. "Spectatum, admissi risum teneatis amici? Blockheads! The situation of Cluain Cairpthe I will show in a letter from Strokestown, and will now keep it completely out of sight. Colgan places a Cluain Cremha, or Clooncraff, in Meath of which it St. Mellanus was patron, and that he is, correct in so doing I have no reason to doubt; but the Clooncraff in the barony of Roscommon, and which is now called, in Irish, Cluain Creamh, i.e., the cloon of the wild garlic, is the Cluain Creamha of the Irish Annalists and has nothing to do with Cluain Cairpthe. "A.D. 748. Osbran, anchorite and Bishop of Cluain Creainha, died." This may be the Cluain Cremha in Meath. "810. Cluain Cremha was plundered and people wounded in it by the men of Breifny and Sil-Cathail." "1451. The three sons of Melaghlin O'Beirne-Teige, William Lind Donogh- were slain at Cluain. Creamha by the descendants of Melaghlin MacRannall and Donnell, the son of Brian O'Beirne. "1488. A great plague raged in Maghery, Connaught, of which died Aengus 0'Reachiadhain, Coarb of St. Finnan at Cluain Creamha. "- Four Masters. This is not the CloonCRAFF (not Craft) lying in O'Beirne's or Tir-Ua-Riuin. Tradition does not remember the Patron saint, but supposes that St. Patrick was the original founder of tile old church. Does Colgan mention it in the Life of St. Finian? The O'Ractagains, who are set down by MacFirbis as one of the five principal families of Kinch-Dofa, are still numerous in the county, but the anglicise their name RHATIGAN (PATISOV). I saw it spelled "Raghtigan" over a door in Granard. O'Bruachain, another famous family of the Kinel-Dofa, are beginning to anglicise their ugly name to the equally ugIy one of Brougham! Brian Greighan is now Bernard Graham! and Giolla-Brighde O'Breen is Gilbert Brune, because a Colonel Brune lived in Boyle Where is Cluain Cairpthe? I know it well, but will not anticipiate here what requires great research and some reasoning prove! I was able yesterday to identify the places mentioned TIR-BRlUIN 263 in the following passage from the Annals:- "A.D. 1415. Tomaltach, the son of Teige O'Beirne, was slain in a nocturnal aggression by Farrell, the son of Dermot MacRannal, at Cluain Sithe, in Baile Eile, in the house of Mac-an-Donnanaigh (now Denneny), where, also the daughter of Loughlin O'Hanley was burned. The Cluain Sithe here mentioned is Cloonshee, a townland in the parish of Clooncraff, and lying between Lough O'Doonra, Lough O'Connellan and the Clooncraff River. The name Baile Eile does not exist, but it must have been the name of a Baile Biatach, of which Cloonshee was a sub-division. The Healys are still numerous here, and Lough Eile is the name of a large lake on the borders of the townlands of Lecarrow, Cloonglasny, Cloongarvan and Curry. The name-books of this district are very incorrect as far as regards the spelling of minor names, so much so that I find it difficult to believe the natives when they tell me the real names. Innumerable errors have been committed by the person who transcribed those names. For example, he has transcribed Lough Killeen for Lough Ely. Ballyraughan for Ballyvaughan (vahan); Liss-na-Bilarig for Lissabituny, an English square fort in Clooncusker, called after the English family of Byton, and has committed countless other blunders. I also observe that many of the descriptive remarks have been set down from looking at the plans and not on the ground, which I conceive to be a very wrong mode of proceeding. I make those remarks with the fond hope that those name-books will be drawn up for the future with more care and greater attention to correctness, for in many instances they do not give me "the shadow of a shade of the true name," and the descriptions are often so vague that I cannot make my way to the spot nor tell anyone what feature it is I am looking for! Look at the name books of Elphin and Clooncraff. I am sick to death's door of lochawns, and it pains me to the very soul to have to make these remarks; but what can I do when I cannot make the usual progress? Here I am stuck in the mud in the middle of loughs, turlaghs. lahaghs and curraghs, the names of many of which are onlv known to a few old men in their immediate neighbourbood, and I cannot give many of them utterance from the manner in which they are spelled. I was wrong in identifying Cluain na hoidhch, the ancient seat of the O'Mulconrys, olives of Sil-Murray, with a place of that name in the parish of Kilteevan, and it gives me much pleasure to find that I was wrong, for the place is still in the occupation of O'Mulconry, who, as well as his brother bard, O'Daly, of Dunsandal, has raised himself to the rank of an esquire or gentleman of landed property. An intermarriage with the family of King and a change of religion enabled the O'Mulconry to retain Cluain na Hoidliche, 264 THE HEART OF IRELAND which he originally held by right of his oliveship, a situation under the King of Connaught somewhat similar to what Southey holds at present in England. The Four Masters have preserved a good deal of their history:- "A.D. 1231. Durnin O'Mulconry olive of Sil-Murray, died. 1400. Gregory, the son of Tany O'Mulconry, a man thoroughly skilled in his hereditary profession. the worthy successor to the oliveship of Sil-Murray, was accidentally killed while in disguise, by one cast (throw) of a lance from the hand of William Garve. One hundred and twenty cows were given as an cric or mulct for his death. 1404. Donogh Bane O'Mulconry, olive of Sil-Murray in history and music, died. 1441. O'Mulconry (Mailin, the son of Tany, who was the son of Paidin), olive of Sil-Murray, the most highly respected and honoured of all the poets in Ireland in his time, died on the 13th of February and was interred with honours in the church of Cluain Cairpthe " (not Clooncraff). "1468. Torna O'Mulconry, olive of Sil-Murray in history and poetry, died in his own house at Lis-Fearbain, shortly after Patrick's Day, and was interred at Elphin. Erard O'Mulconry then assumed the oliveship of SilMurray. 1487. Sheegry O'Mulconry, olive of Sil-Murray, soul of the cheerfulness and jocularity of the men of Ireland, died, and two heads of the tribe were set up in his place, viz., Donnell, and Mulconry the son of Torna. 1489. Donnell, the son of Torna O'Mulconry, intended olive of Sil-Murray, died of the plague. 1495. Donnell O'Mulconry, olive of Sil-Murray, died, and two O'Mulconrys were set up in his place, viz., John, the son of Torna, and Donogh, the son of Athairne. 1519. Mailin, the son of Torna O'Mulconry, olive of Sil-Murray, an affluent and learned man, who had been selected by the Geraldines and the English to be their olive in preference to all the Arch-poets of Ireland, and who bad obtained jewels and riches from all of whom he asked them, died at Maini8ter Derg (Abbeyderg), in Teffia." The tradition connected with Kilmore, in Tir-Briuin, is that it was founded by St. Patrick for St. Colmaun, but I have no distinct reference to the saint of it from any Irish writers to prove this tradition. The Tripartite Life of St. Patrick makes mention of it in the following words:- St. Patrick, coming afterwards to a place situated not far from thence ( ), commonly called Magh glais, raised a. church from the foundation on-a spot bestowed him by the pious devotion of the faithful (believers), which church, taking its name from the reality, was commonly called Kell-mor, Cella magna-Great church. He committed the care of this church to two of his disciples." Their names are not given. In a note to this passage Colgan writes:- "This seems to be the church, formerly a monastery, lying in the territory of Tir-Briuin in Connaught." TIR-BRUIN 265 The Magh glais here mentioned is the present townland of Moyglass in this parish, which was, of course, a Baile Biatach, and comprised the present division called Kilmore, from the church. The name Moyglass, then, is as old as the time of St. Patrick. Inquisition temp. Jac. 1 finds it in the occupation of Brian Mac Connor O'Beirne, and in the territory of Tirerowne. This corroborates Colgan's opinion that the church erected by St. Patrick at Mag-glass and called Cell mor was the church of that name in Tir-Briuin. Archdall, referring us to Colgan, says of this very place:- "Kilmore. In this village on the banks of LOUGH REE, situated six miles north-west of Athlone, are the remains of a priory "-(there are only the remains of a castle there-J. O'D.)- "and Abbey, which last was built by St. Patrick, and is now," says Colgan (Tr. Thau., p. 176), "a parish church in the Diocese of Elphin. Almost every word of this is wrong I First, the village of Kilmore is not on the banks of Lough Ree, nor within 17 miles of any part of the expanse of the Shannon, so called; and, secondly, the village of Kilmore is a little more than 6 miles from Athlone. It is 6 x 6 miles from it! But the fact is that Archdall, who knew nothing about the extent or situation of TirBriuin, confounded the Kill-mor (Cella magna) placed in that territory by Colgan, with Coill-mor (Sylva magna) near St. John's, in the barony of Athlone. From this it will plainly appear that it is of importance to Irish history to have the boundaries of Tir-Briuin na Sionna accurately pointed out. It is now done, and if it were neglected for ten other years, it would be out of the power of any investigator to lay it down on a map. Where does Lanigan place Kilmore Dithreabh Colgan said, in one place, that it was Kilmore in Breifny, but corrects him self again and places it in Connaught. Let me have his words and also Lanigan's. Where do they place Snamhluthair? Let me also have the notices of Snamh in redaigh and Snamh da can, and all the Snamhs on the Shannon, to see which of them the present Drumsna (DRUIM SNAMHA) may be. The Tripartite certainly mentions Snamh da can. The extracts which I have at present from that work are too abrupt, and I cannot see the relative situation of the territories from them. Besides Kilmore, there are two other old churches in that parish, viz., Kilbride, or Church of St. Brigid, and Kilcock, or the Church of the Virgin Cocha, the same old lady to whom Kilcock, in Leinster, was dedicated; but of the two latter ruins I have no record. They seem to have been chapels of ease dedicated to these virgins, but not founded by them. I have at last identified the Killunechair of Colgan, of which Archdall speaks as follows:- "Killukin. Four miles north of Elphin, in the Barony of Boyle. St. Lunechairia, who was born before 266 THE HEART OF IRELAND A.D. 637, is honoured in Killunechair (Acta SS., p. 780). This is now a parish church in the Diocese of Elphin." Archdall says this positively, as if there could be no doubt entertained on the identity or equipollentity of Killukin and Kill-Lunechair. But they are two distinct names applied to two distinct, but not distant, places. Colgan, speaking of the virgin St. Lunechairia, observes in a note:- "This saint seems to be she whom the catalogues of the Churches of the Diocese of Alfinn calls Lunecharia and states to be venerated on the 7th of June in a certain chapel of the same diocese called Kill-Lunechair, which lies near the Episcopal Seat " (AA. SS., p. 792, col. 1). Kill-Luneachair is the present ruin in the townland of Killynagh-more, which is called KIlynagher in an Inquisition temp. Jac. 1. In the name-book of Elphin (1-34) the remains in this townland is called ruins of an Abbey, but it never was an Abbey, nor anything but a chapel of ease belonging to the parish of Elphin. The natives of this part of the country are in the habit of calling any remains of a church or chapel " ruins of an ould Abbey or friary," but they, are not to be depended upon unless when their traditions are corroborated by written documents. In the parish of Elphin, besides the Cathedral church and Killoynagher were also- (I) Cloonroughan, a chapel or cell belonging to friars of the Third Order of St. Francis; (2) Templemoyle, in the townland of Kilnanooan, which is a ruin of a small chapel called an abbey in the name-book; and (3) Laghtcausk,* another ruin of a chapel. The name of Imleach-Ona, which was that of Elphin in pagan times, is still preserved in Emlagh, a townland not far from the town. This name Imleach-Ona must have been originally that of a Baile Biatach, or one-thirtieth part, of a Triocha Chead, or Barony, and must have comprised Elphin and several of the present Carrows and Cartrons. There is no townland at present larger than a quarter of an original Baile Biatach, and the greater number of them are only Lecarrows and Cartrons. If the topographer does not bear this in mind, he will often fall into mistakes. The Castle of Elphin stood where the pound is at present, and the field lying to the east of it is called the Castle Garden in all the leases granted by the Bishops to the farmers who held and hold it. The site of this castle and the name of its garden might be marked on the map. The Dominican Abbey stood not far to the north of it in the land now called Abbey Cartron; but after careful inquiry I found that there is no evidence to point out the very spot on which it stood. J. O'D · St. Assisus is said to have had a fall from his horse on the site of this Abbey. TIR-BRIUIN 267 KILMORE Elphin, August 9th, 1837. Dear Sir, I have just arrived here, after another long journey through the sweet country of Tir-Briuin of the Shannon. I visited the Church of Kilmore, near which I read a long proclamation from the Queen, from which I have learned that I must work on Sunday no more. Hitherto it has been my principal day of business, and as I cannot pray all day, I intend still to work on the same day, but so privately in a garret room that it will be very difficult for anyone to know whether I am making holes in the floor with my knees or working at natural magic. I found at the Church of Kilmore a stone with an inscription which no one has ever read. Dr. Mooty (he who amputated Nelson's leg) has given it up. The parson of the parish has given it up; and a young, gentleman, who knows all the ancient and modern languages of Europe, and the greater number of those of the East, has, wonderful to say given it up as inexplicable. It has been seriously under examination these fifteen Years; the cleverest men in Connaught-Ministers, Priests and Doctorseven Tom Maguire, have examined it carefully, and they have all declared it inexplicable, as being in the occult Druidical hieroglyphics, the key to which has been lost these rnany centuries. It is, however, supposed that one parish priest, who ago had some skill in magic, read it some years ago, and discovered from it that the Kilmore family would soon become, extinct! It was facsimilied and published in the Gentleman's Almanac fifteen years ago, but all to no purpose; no one can now or ever will be able to read it. But if anyone could be found capable of explaining it, he would be well rewarded by the gentry of the neighbourhood and by the parson of the parish. I wish Sir William Betham would attempt to prove it Phoenician, or at least Dan' Danish, as he has the stone at Jonesborough, near Kilslevy, in the County of Armagh! It must be a curious monument, of the learning of the Irish Druids, who had a pagan temple at Kill Mor before Patrick the First visited that place in the second century, and it will be a great acquisition to the Phoenician scholar to have a copy of it. I therefore send a facsimile of it here, and hope that you will have it copied and sent him (Sir William) as soon as possible:- A:D: M: CCC. Anno Domini, M:CCC. L: VII 1: vii., i.e., 1357. EATHEAN Eathean GI:INGEAN gi:-ingean, i.e filia. Al. BRANA. Mic Branan. ME FECIT Me fecit. The rest effaced, and a great part of the stone broken. 268 THE HEART OF IRELAND It means simply that Edioina (a lady's name most common amongst the aristocratic Irish in ancient times), the daughter of MacBranan, caused this stone to be erected in the year 1357. About one half of it is destroyed. The letters are very well and beautifully cut, and are evidently Saxon characters of the fourteenth century, as can be proved from various other inscriptions of the same age in the possession of Mr. Petrie. It requires no very great learning, research, or skill to decipher this inscription, and still see how much it has puzzled the literati or rather the illiterati of Connaught. The old man who minds the church laughed at the idea of my attempting to decipher it, and I laughed at him and called all the literati whom he enumerated as having examined it blockheads, fools, and boobies! I am becoming a Pinkerton for scolding and ridiculing! O'Monaghan lived at Lissadurn, the residence of the present Mr. Balf, who rose from a very humble station to be a very wealthy man. Tradition says that O'Beirne killed O'Monaghan in the fort (on the site of which this house is built) with a blow of his fist unde nomen-LIOS A DUIRN (fort of the fist). Tradition says that O'Flanigan's country was the tract at present called the Lahagh Riabhach, but of this I shall speak more clearly to-morrow. I am now very fatigued after having travelled seventeen miles to-day through the country of O'Beirne and it is now a quarter after one o'clock at night, so that I must hasten to a close. I fear that they will fail in opening Mioscaun Mavy. I am almost sure they will, but it is certainly very enthusiastic and patriotic in Mr. Walker to attempt exploring it. It may throw some light up on history, but I fear they have not sufficient powe
 
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Jo Korhn · Post by **Jo Korhn** » Tue Jun 09, 1998 9:35 pm

: : : The First Issue of The O'Beirne Family Journal is now on the Web. Visit it and send a BIG IRISH Thank You to the Site Designer, Vincent (Vinny) Beirne, a true descendant son of FrenchparkJohn, can you please help me. I believe my father was of Irish decendants. His name was Harry Jane Korhn DOB 7-7-1895. Born in Louisville Kentucky I believe. Fathers name was William Korhn. Mothers name was Jessie (Jane or Marie) Reid. I think he also had a sister Marie Korhn. 
 
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Jo Korhn · Post by **Jo Korhn** » Tue Jun 09, 1998 9:37 pm

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