May 15, 2024
The Founder of Tillystown Tillystown is named for Benjamin Tilly, who lived at Chantilly on Ballybride Road. In about 1860, he laid out the streets of a new village on 20 hectares he held in the townland of Shanganagh, just west of this station.[1] He then invited...
May 15, 2024
See here for more stories of County Wicklow The Black Castle In 1176, the land on which the Black Castle stands was granted to the Maurice FitzGerald, one of the first Cambro-Norman mercenaries to come to Ireland. It was part of a considerable land grant by...
May 7, 2024
See also Booterstown and Monkstown. The Diver’s Baths The nearby Blackrock Baths were once Ireland’s most fashionable place to go for dip, drawing summer crowds of almost 3,000 people a day at their peak.[1] The original large gentlemen’s bath was provided by the...
May 3, 2024
See here for more stories from County Limerick. The First Lady’s Cousins Richard Nixon was one of the most controversial US presidents in recent times. In 1940, he married Patricia ‘Pat’ Ryan. Her grandfather Patrick Sarsfield Ryan is believed to have been born in a...
Apr 27, 2024
Notable historical links to Longford including James Kirkland, the Potsdam Giants; the codebreaker Alan Turing; Frank McCoppin, the first Irish-born mayor of San Francisco; Annie Oakley’s gun-slinging husband Frank Butler; the poet Pádraic Colum, as well as Jasper...
