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WEDDING BELLS
Richard Kelly and Isabella Eliza Vallancey were married in the Chapel of Ease (CI), Kinvarra, Galway on 22 Jan 1852, prior to their departure for Sydney
A HARMONIUM FOR SEAMOUNT
From the Kentucky Irish American November 24 1900
Dr. Moran, of Gort, has presented a useful harmonium to the Sisters of Mercy at Kinvarra for the benefit of the district schools.
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In 1842/1843 Tomas L Cooke rambled around Kinvara, Co. Galway and published accounts of his travels in the Galway Vindicator. Dunguaire Castle was one of the sites he visited, which he describes as…
a square building in the fashion of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, and of several stories in height, standing some distance outside the town upon a small elevated peninsula, surrounded by the sea, with the exception of one low and narrow isthmus, that connects it with the main land. A strong and high wall built along the verge of the declivity encloses the court-yard, or bawn. The outer gateway is large, and has an embattled wall with embrazures overhead. It is flanked on the right by a small quadrangular bastion, or tower, which commands it and the outward wall on two sides. In the sides of the tower, just mentioned, there are set in masonry some large stones, perforated with round holes of five or six inches in diameter, apparently intended for exposing the muzzles of small ordnance.
These defences were sorely tested. In Mr Cooke’s words...
The Castle of Kinvarra was, until very recently, used as a Barrack by a military detachment quartered here. The walls circumscribing the bawn, have, in former days been shattered in two of the angles, apparently by the fire of artillery from a sod battery thrown up about two or three hundred yards off, in the direction of Tubbermacduach. The platform of this ancient battery is still visible, and on it are placed at intervals some very large rocks, which, in all probability, served as shelter to the gunners against the fire of matchlocks or other small arms from the castle. It is not very likely that the besieged were altogether inactive or without using fire-arms, during the investment of the place…
Dunguaire Castle – built to last the test of time – and conflict.
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Truthful Tombstone in Kinvara Church
The most remarkable object within the town is the old church and burial place. It is particularly worthy of the antiquary’s especial notice, that the gable-end of the ruinous ecclesiastical edifice, just mentioned, which fronts the neighbouring castle, presents in that direction a round aperture, apparently designed for a clock. In the burial ground, surrounding the ancient house of worship, there are some comical monumental inscriptions to be met with. Amongst them are the following. On one tomb-stone is the pious couplet,
“James O’ Farrell lies under this stone; Pray for him, Christians – to sin he was prone.”
On another stone we find,
” Pray for the soul of Father Patrick Neilan, who
Dyed in ye year 1753,
Who lies under this stone,
He that feared but God alone.”
Of those departed persons, whose names are thus attempted to be perpetuated in doggrel verse at Kinvarra, it may be said with Grey,
” Their names, their years
spelt by th’ unletter’d muse
The place of fame and elegy supply.”
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Cooke: 1842/1843
Kinvarra was granted by the Crown the 16th of June, on the 21st year of Charles the Second’s (A.D.1681) reign, at a rent of £1 03 3d, by the name of Kinvara along with Durus, and many neighbouring lands, to Col. Cary Dillon. O’Flaherty, who in the Ogygia spells the name Kinnmbeara, says that it was the Belgians who gave it that name.
RODERIC O’FLAHERTY
Roderic O’Flaherty wrote the Ogygia in Latin in 1685. It was translated by the Rev James Hely AB in 1793). A brief exploration suggests that Kinnmbeara may have been misspelt by Cooke – Rinnmbeara could be the correct spelling – the typeface and/or printing quality may have led to some confusion.
Whatever the case – it appears Kinvara’s been in the EU for centuries….
OGYGIA – Roderic O’Flaherty, (1629-1718)
Part III. Vol: II
Befides we are told, that the Belgians gave names
to thofe places in the environs of Galway, Lougb-
Kime * , Rinntamuin, in Medrigia f ; Lough-
cutra, Rinnmbeara, Molinn ami Carnconuil, in Aidh-
ny J; alfo, in Weft-Meath, Loughhuair ;
Moynafuil ; alfo Moymoen ; and, in Thomond,
Mpyadhoir.
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Credit also to O’Flaherty and Hely for the titles of their publications…
O G Y G I A, OR, A CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF IRISH EVENTS: Collected from very ANCIENT DOCUMENTS, faithfully compared with each other, and supported by the GENEALOGICAL and CHRONOLOGICAL Aid of the SACRED AND PROPHANE WRITINGS OF THE FIRST NATIONS OF THE GLOBE.
WRITTEN ORIGINALLY IN LATIN BY
RODERIC O’FLAHERTY,
TRANSLATED BY THE REV”. JAMES HELY, A. B.
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KINVARRA
“Within a long recess there lies a Bay,
An island shades it from the rolling sea,
And forms a port secure for boats to ride.”
Dryd. Virg.
Such is the geographical position of the harbour of Kinvarra, situate on the south east extremity of the bay of Galway. The entrance to Kinvarra bay is a moderately narrow one, lying between Durus head land on the west, and a point of Drumacoe parish on the east. Opposite to the mouth of this narrow channel is Eddy Island, which forms a natural breakwater protecting the little Delta of a bay within, from the rough seas that are occasionally reverberated from off the southern face of Kilcolgan point.
The village of Kinvarra is built on a gentle acclivity at the bottom of the bay, bearing the same name.
– The appellation seems to be derived from the Irish Ceann, the end or limit, and Mara, of the sea. –
This village is about five miles distant from New Quay, and is situate in the barony of Kiltarton, and county of Galway. Fairs are held here the 18th of May, and 17th of October annually. Kinvarra also is the name of the parish in which the village is situate, being a Vicarage in the Diocese of Kilmaduach.
This little town is the property of Mr. Gregory, of Coole, and has been much improved of late years. Many good houses have been erected – an excellent quay, wall and pier, have been built, and some good shops have been opened. Amongst the latter is an Apothecary’s establishment, kept by Dr. Hines where the infirm are supplied, on moderate terms, with medicine, and all meet with that attention and humanity, which is ever grateful to the invalid. There are several streets here, and the population is much employed in traffic. The market, is principally, remarkable for the sale of corn, bought up to be exported from hence. Adjoining the quay are temporary stocks, on which a superior class of sea boats are built.”
Edward Hicks (1780 –1849
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(1852-1935)
Crowell, NY, 1899
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CONNAUGHT.
Getaway. — Paul Bourget, the French writer, will soon have published a novel, the scene of which is laid in Ireland. Bourgot went to that country to search out his ideal scene. He found a quaint old castellated building known as Neptune Yale, in the heart of a singularly romantic region on the southern shore of Galway Bay, and within a few miles of Kinvara.
It was built by a Frenchman, once the Mayor of Bordeaux, who was obliged to fly from France at the time of the French Revolution. He inherited a large property in the neighbourhood of Kinvara by his marriage with a Miss Ffrench, heiress and representative of one of the Galway tribes, After his death the property passed through several hands, but apparently remained always in the family. The traditions of the house and region- are interwoven artistically into the tale. A correspondent of the Freeman’s Journal of Dublin, writing about Bourgot and his book, said; — ‘M. Bourgot, the famous writer, and his highly accomplished wife, Madame Bourgot., spent their holidays last summer in the immediate neighbourhood of ‘Neptune Vale,’ the guests of Count de Basterot, the descendant of ‘ The Mayor of Bordeaux,’ founder of ‘ Neptune Vale’ Castle. Similarity of tastes has made Count de Bastorot and M, Bourgot intimate friends for yoars, as Count do Bastorot is himself a man of singularly cultured mind and the author of some well-known works on travel. During thoir stay at ‘Neptune Vale Castle’ Madame and Paul Bourgot expressed themselves no less delighted with the wild and romantic scenery of the district than they were pleased with the demeanour and characteristics of the people. It may not be out of place to add that the distinguished visitors greatly edified the people of the place by their unassuming manner and practical Catholicity.’
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Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose – W.B.Yeats
London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd – 1927
THE TWISTING OF THE ROPE.
Hanrahan was walking the roads one time near Kinvara at the fall of day,and he heard the sound of a fiddle from a house a little way off the roadside. He turned up the path to it, for he never had the habit of passing by any place where there was music or dancing or good company, without going in.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 297, 10 January 1879, Page 17
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It is nearly eight years since the Most Rev. Dr. M’Evilly, Lord Bishop of Galway, impressed upon the people of the diocese and of the diocese of Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora, of which his Lordship is Apostolic Administrator, the propriety of closing public houses on Sundays and his Lordship was almost implicitly obeyed.
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Two, or at most three, obscure public houses were kept open on Sunday in Galway, and these were frequented by a straggling lot of persons. It is a remarkable thing abont Galway that when the bill for Sunday closing was before Parliament a petition was sent forward from the vintners of Galway in favour of that measure. There are about 120 public-house-keeepers in the county of the town of Galway, and over 100 signed the petition some of the others were absent at the time. But, as I have said, nearly all obeyed the Lord Bishop, so that virtually the operation of the Sunday-doting Act will make very little change in the City of the Tribes.
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Connollys – drink@connollyskinvara.com The Quay, Kinvara.
Keoghs – keoghskinvara@gmail.com The Square, Kinvara.
Pier Head – thepierhead@eircom.net The Quay, Kinvara.
Conoles – The Square, Kinvara.
Flatleys – Main Street, Kinvara.
Greens – Main Street, Kinvara.
Merriman Hotel – Main Street, Kinvara.
Sextons – Main Street, Kinvara.
Travellers Inn – Nogra, Kinvara.
Tullys – Main Street, Kinvara.
IRELAND
(From Our Own Correspondent)
DUBLIN, Tuesday Morning.
THE TIMES – NOVEMBER 10TH, 1848 – RESISTANCE TO THE POOR-RATE.
The following statement from the Galway Vindicator is a foretaste of the movement which promises to afford ample employment during the winter to the military, police and all others engaged in the preservation of the peace:-
“We are informed that on Wednesday last a force of military and police, greatly superior to those that had been previously called out upon that service, and attended by artillery to be used against barricades, &c., proceeded for the fourth time to distrain for poor-rate in the neighbourhood of Gort and Kinvarra. The people were as usual collected in large numbers to resist them, but this time, aware of the presence of artillery, they had recourse to a new rase de guerre. Accordingly, when the military came, directed, we are told, by a special stipendiary magistrate, to the place where they expected, as usual to find barricades, they found them not, nor aught else that their great guns could batter, but only a trench something like an Alpine ravine, about 20 feet broad and scarcely less deep. Here, then was of necessity a halt and a council of war, in consequence of which messengers were despatched in search of planks and other material to overlay the chasm. They might as well have sent for Xerxes’ bridge of boats, at least for any use that could be made of either for that day, as night began to close upon the impeded army before their scouts had returned. ‘Right about face’ was therefore the word and tramp they went back, but not with the trophies of war and victory.”
That such a force should have been foiled by such an obstacle says little for the military skill of those in command.
The Burren and Beyond 