Aug 11, 2021
Huntington Castle has always had an otherworldly ambience. Just over a hundred years ago, a meteorite fell to earth and landed near the avenue. The story takes in Franciscan monks, Tudor bigamists, American pioneers, ghosts a-plenty and a cellar devoted to devoted to...
Aug 11, 2021
An epic and sweeping saga of Stone Age genius, Normans warriors, Georgia gentlemen and noble revolutionaries in the Wicklow Mountains, homing in on the Ryves, Pennefather and O’Flynn families. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas,...
Aug 11, 2021
The story of one of County Carlow’s oldest mansions, a Browne-Clayton house, and its connection to Sir Edward Crosbie, executed in 1798. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas, €12/year...
Aug 11, 2021
A history of the central Dublin street from its origins as a playground for citizens during the Tudor age through its development by families such as Molesworth, Rosse, Dawson and Hamilton, to its gentrification in the 19th century and its reemergence as an urban...
Aug 11, 2021
BALLINTEMPLE: DARK KNIGHTS, BLUE BELLS Major Piers Butler had been living in America for close on 20 years when he embarked on his first return trip to his Irish homeland in the summer of 1785. Life on the 41-year-old Carlow man’s plantations in South Carolina had...
