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Fair Hill
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52.06, -9.50435latitude, longitude
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| 1650c |
i gcroich Chnocáin na gCaorach
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| 1653 |
colliculo ovium
sustulerunt, virum tota Ibernia ob urbanitatem, hospitalitatem, liberalitatem, animi magnitudinem, singularem linguae Anglicae atque Ibernicae facundiam, aliasque eximias nobilis ingenii et nobiliter exculti dotes valde nominatum, et poetam utraque lingua, praesertim Ibernica, insignem.
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Comm. Rin. V 165
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| 1937/38 |
Fair Hill
Above the Fair Hill there is the railway goods section. from the milestones across to the present Railway Hotel - thence along the Eastern wall of the market back again was a very distinct village: property deeds of 1751 identify the Cork Road section at Harnetts Row. There were seventy cottages. It was in the "goats commonage" facing this that the martyrs were hanged. The site is still identifiable.
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BNS 0455, 212
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| 1938 |
er Cnucán na gCaerach a gCíl Áirne
"’Se sin an scéal céana ag Piaras é, mar do thit se a mblá óige, agus a dtosach a shael do crochach é ar Cnucán na gCaereach a gCíl Áirne. Do crochach sagart agus easpog cráifeach diaguithe a n-aonacht leis. … … Do bhí iníon Pradaistiúnaig tímpal Oileáin Ciaraí … Do thug sí scéala do Phiaras chuin í phósa, ach b’éigeant do an diúltamh do thúirt di. Deirtear, gur b’in í a dhearabhuig air, agus gur b’í cúis a chrochta í an lá brónach úd a gCíl Áirne." (lgh. 38–39).
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